Red Circles

7

12:00 pm
It's been a good 20 minutes and we still haven't found the boys. Once we hit the 10 minute mark, Ever started shaking again. She's now walking hand in hand between me and Micayla while we pretend to be joined at the hip hunting for Ryan and Arlin. We've checked everywhere. We searched the field all the way. Maybe a bit too thoroughly in my opinion, we also searched the playground, along the edge of the hedges, and by all the benches and basketball court. They're nowhere. We only have one last place to check, the place we've all been dreading. The abandoned school. Of course that's where they're going to hide, the one most creepy place where they knew we would check last.

As we walk up to the front doors, everyone takes a deep breath, and we walk in. Micayla goes first, her determined complexion letting no one in her way. Ever hides behind Micayla and I take up the rear. We don't think they would have gone to the 2nd floor since it's most likely unstable. I pray Ryan has even an ounce of human sense left and hasn't tried climbing up in the gym rafters. We start with the first floor hall. So many lockers line the walls and we have to check every one incase they are there. The lockers are definitely large enough for Arlin to fit. We've seen him slide in and out of our school lockers before. But Ryan wont fit in them. We know that because he also tried getting in the school lockers before. Getting in wasn't the problem for him. It took our custodian and 2 firefighters 3 classes to cut him out, but I also wouldn't put it past him to climb into one tonight. There are too many lockers to check all together.