I Am A Spy

Chapter 2

The door creaked as l opened it. It was evidence enough that no one had entered my parents' room in ages. As soon as l opened the curtains to get some light, dust particles flew around me and l immediately sneezed. My parents' framed pictures had a little dust on them too. I looked at their pictures with a willow smile as l realized how much l really missed them and would give anything to embrace them again. My eyes started to swell up with tears and l immediately started blinking fast to stop myself from balling my eyes out. It felt as if crying would mean l was accepting that they were gone for good. So l wasn't going to cry, l was going to wait for them. I had to believe they had to be still alive out there somewhere. There was no need to cry right now when l knew there was that possibility.

I turned around to look back into their room as l was heading for the door to exit. All the memories still lingered in their room, the smiles, the laughs and the warmth they had always provided. Flashbacks to the days when l was young started to flood my mind. I used to have nightmares and always come to them for comfort. I remembered when they would sing along to their favorite song and l would join in dancing and jumping on their bed. I could still feel their love and the happiness we had shared that had now turned into a hollow space that l couldn't fill. A weary smile formed on my face. The corners of my cheeks were immediately met with streams of tears that had already started to roll out of my eyes.

For the first time since they went missing, l felt overwhelming sorrow and l couldn't hold back my tears. I immediately fell on my knees and covered my face as l whimpered calmly on the red velvet carpet that had also became a part of this ghostly looking room that used to be my comfort place. It wasn't fair. They didn't deserve to have gone missing. I didn't have to go through this at such a young age. I was not just sad, l was angry. I was furious!! Who could have taken them? Who could have done such a thing to my lovely parents? The SSA should be able to reopen the case right? If l pleaded , they had to right? I couldn't just go and hide at my grandparents' house. I had to stay here and wait!! All these thoughts crammed my head and l quickly tried to get up. Thud!! I fell back on the floor as l tripped on my own feet. Strangely though, a clatter sound from below the floor followed just as my body touched the ground. I kept listening quietly for a minute or two, hoping to hear something else, but that was it. I couldn't have possibly misheard that right? I carefully lifted my body from the ground, and decided to remove the carpet and check it out.

I felt a bit stupid and embarrassed as l started ripping the carpet off cause it made me believe there was possibility of finding a secret basement which my parents had hidden away from me all this time. And you could wonder how exactly this would make me feel stupid or embarrassed, and honestly it's two things. One, thinking l would find a secret basement and end up not finding one would make me feel like l was a bit delusional, for having believed that l could be like one of those main characters in a cliche action film scene. I would be embarrassed from such a realization. Two, if there was actually a secret basement, l would feel stupid because how in the world would l have not noticed it all my 18 years of living here considering how many times l had walked, tumbled and even danced around in this very room all these years. Could l have been that ignorant or maybe stupid considering how l had even been taking spy lessons behind their back and still not have figured that out.

Either way, it was all the same. As l ripped off the last part of the carpet, l prepared myself for anything. Finding a secret basement wouldn't be so bad l thought. I could find some of their other stuff, or maybe secret information on their last mission. It's could be a good find. I started to feel excitement fill up inside me as l thought of how finding a secret basement could create a possibility of clues that the SSA could use to find my parents. I used all my strength to lift off the remains of the carpet from the spot l had tripped on. As soon as l looked back at the spot, I could not believe my eyes. I kept a staring down, stuck for a minute or two. I guess you all know now what l might had found........