Invisible

Marie - 1

A/N - Hi! Each chapter is from the POV of the person's name. So, this chapter is from the view of Marie :) If you want to read this on google docs (sometimes I go back and edit previous chapters but don't change it on here so it may make more sense if you read it on google docs) here is the viewers only link https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WxPTpglUKZII_-dlmGM_DPgRvIZ8JUWg5d5a8FkoKzA/edit?usp=sharing . I hope you enjoy <3

It all started when Carlotta's mum turned up. I said bye and all that stuff. Then I made my way back to the bus stop, with my skinny-little- shrimp of a brother tugging onto my hand, moaning about how he had run out of his orange juice. Like, that's not my issue. Well thanks to Annoying Alex, (My name for him ... since his name is Alex and he is annoying... well you get it? ) I'm in the state I am in. Well, this sketchy man in a coal-black van drove past, stopped, unlocked his door and snatched Alex.

Screaming. That's what I heard. Then Alex's cries for help. It all happened in a split second.

Well, now, you may think that I love my brother, but if you go back to the first paragraph, fourth line and eleventh word, you will understand that I don't. I don't care what my mum says about how we actually love each other and all that crap. We don't. Alex would say the same thing... that's if he knew what it meant.

Anyways, back to my story.

He snatched Alex. So I did the next logical thing. I snatched him back as easily as taking candy from a baby. Haw haw haw. I'm so funny. I then saw the man's jumper hood fall down. Revealing his face. The face of a psycho. I didn't notice too much of it, except that he had the bluest eyes. They were like the ocean on a tropical island. The blue was so light, like little droplets of rain. Eyes frosty blue, like a winter sea that is made bright, not warm, by the sun. They were, and I must admit, beautiful.

I took hold of my younger brother's small, red, chubby hand and shot back to my school. The sad thing is, I saw the bus speed past the stop... without us. UGH!

I walked into the school's office, panting like a dog. The secretary must have been kinda peeved of Alex's howling (I mean, you'd have to be deaf to not to be annoyed). She asked us why we were here and if we were waiting for our parents.

"Well, some guy -gasp- tried to -gasp- kidnap my brother - gasp- ," I told her. If at the time Alex hadn't almost been abducted (that sounds more like aliens stole him ... bet Carlotta would like that) the secretary's face would have been hilarious. She was so shocked it was like someone had been setting off Bonfire Night fireworks in the room. No seriously it did look like that.

She called my parents and I told Alex to cut it out or I wont give him a lollipop. Bribery. At least I'm good at one thing.

My mum dropped my brother off at my house and asked me to stay inside our car. It didn't help that it was a surprisingly hot day and I started to feel sweat trickle down my scarlet red cheek. I was losing my patience. Well to be honest, I've never had patience so that didn't help. I was starting to get slightly irritated. Then, after what felt like hours, my mum closed the front door shut and walked down our freshly cut front garden. It looked so perfect and clean. Unlike everything happening in my house. I don't call it home. That just sounds too sentimental and it just doesn't feel like home. It feels like a prison.

My mum started up the car and I jumped slightly in my chair. The music turned on and it blasted her favourite song, so I didn't get a chance to ask her where we were going. Later as I'm writing this, I still don't feel guilty for thinking this but I was annoyed that my mum seemed so happy and untroubled whilst I was the most scared and worried I have ever been. I was surprised I hadn't had a panic attack yet.

The song finished. As it was playing, I was planning my question. The question I wanted to ask but didn't want to ask. The question that I didn't really want an answer to, but need to know. If you know what I mean. The song finished ever so quickly. Quicker than I hoped. Longer than it felt.

"Mum," I muttered.

"Yes, what is it, Marie?" She replied, eyes focused on the road.

"Well... I just wanted to know where we are going..." I said looking at my feet. I don't understand why I was so scared to ask. So worried about my answer.

"Don't worry honey, I just want to go to the police station to talk about what happened earlier. Then as a treat, let's go to get ice cream," she smiled. Ah, that poor woman. She really did not get anything. I was just happy about the ice cream, which was probably the reaction she was hoping for.

We parked alongside the dirty busy road. I've been to this police station before. With Carlotta. I shouldn't have been there but wanted to stay at her house a bit longer and didn't realise I had to go. Carlotta looked really worried and kept apologising about everything. It was just a month since her parents had split up. She had to go to the station so her mum could report something. Carlotta hates police and police stations. I don't really know why. I think they are cool and if my acting career doesn't work out, I'll maybe try out to be a police officer.

We walked in and my mum explained what had happened to this pale officer with an egg shaped head. It was also as smooth as an egg. His body was also the shape of an egg. It was as if he was an egg. Now, that just sounds strange.

He took out a notepad and a blue biro. He wrote everything down in small little letters and then asked me what happened. I explained. I explained how he had taken Alex and everything had happened like the speed of light. How I heard Alex crying and people around us filming, running after us and shouting. Like a war scene. I felt like I was going to die. My life was flashing before me. I've heard people say that before and that it really does happen when you're about to die. But I forgot to tell them about the face. That ugly, angry face.

The egg-looking-officer and my small plain mum gasped at me like two goldfishes who have just encountered the cat that will eat them up and kill them. I placed my hand over my mouth. I had just said that all out loud.