Hollow

Chapter 14

"Do we have to leave now?" I ask.

I'm not the type to beg, but this time I really needed to. I could never see this girl again, and meeting friends for me, is VERY rare. Why? Because other than Timmy, this was my first friend, and this couldn't screw up too.

"The park is closing," Miss Toledo said. "I know you guys are having fun but I gave you guys plenty of extra time and you know how I hate driving in the dark." She pointed outside, "Look how dark it is, you can see all the stars."

I could tell in Miss Toledo's tone that she was not happy about telling me we had to leave. She didn't say we had to leave in that commanding tone, she let me know in a very nice and calm tone.

"Here, I'll give you some extra minutes here to find Timmy, I have no idea where he is."

I turned to Harley, Who was gorging on a bag of chips. "Wanna help me?"

She looked at me with her eyes widened, but not from embarrassment with crumbs all over her clothes and her face, but with excitement.

She turned to her sister Paisley with a big smile on her face.

Paisley looked at her in a nice genuine way, "Sure, kiddo."

Her boyfriend then put his arm around her.

He had long brown hair tied up in a manbun, and he was pretty muscular. He also had on a very shiny black jacket with red blingy shoes, that caught my eye in an instant.

The couple amazed me. Paisley was dressed so casually, and on the other hand, this dude was dressed like he was going to a fashion show.

"Where do you think he went?" She asked me with her mouth stuffed.

We started walking.

"I don't know.. I have never been here before," I answered.

We walked to the foam pit.

"Hey," I said looking in the foam pit, "Thanks for helping me, you guys are wasting time here when your mom is probably expecting you."

"She is." She took a deep breath as she looked in the kids playhouse, "But I would rather spend as much time I can with you as possible, you said you live three hours away?" She followed up.

"Yea." I looked in the ball pit as she followed me. " My area sucks, it's a big lump of trees everywhere. The supermarket is twenty minutes away." I scoffed.

I took a look around the park and paused. Now I started freaking out a little. The place had no more people except us and the whole park was quiet, and the only thing we could hear is the distant sounds of Miss Toledo, Paisley and her boyfriend talking, and the sounds of footsteps from the staff members who were cleaning up. Where could Timmy be?

"Why did you stop?" She asked.

I looked at her with worry, "Where haven't we checked?"

"Uhm... we haven't looked near the rock climbing area yet."

I ran to the rock climbing area and that's where I started to yell, "Timmy!"

I felt that lump in my stomach I always get when I'm anxious. We literally looked everywhere. If Timmy wasn't in the park, where else could he be?

She catches up to me taking in deep breaths, in and out of the running. "H-He's not he-here?" She panted.

She glanced at me, "Hey" She put her hand on my shoulder and said with confort. "You said to yourself, he could be anywhere.. Do you think he went outside?"

A thought instantly came to mind, "We never checked the bathroom!" I said with relief. "He has to be in there."

I started to run towards there, but she stopped me, "My sister's boyfriend is going in there, lets see if Timmy comes out with him."

We stood there staring at the boys bathroom for a good thirty seconds.

Every second we waited I was anxious to see Timmy come out of the bathroom. He had to be in there.

I turned away for a second, looking at the foam pit.

"Hollow," Harley nudged me a little.

I turned in an instant to see her boyfriend come out of the bathroom shaking his head, and the only other person I could then look at, was Miss Toledo, with a sheer terror look on her face.

The entrance door was our only option, that was the next thing my eyes instantly went to.

The door opened, and it was Paisley giving the same head shake, "No" her boyfriend gave.

The lump in my stomach began to swell up and my head started to hurt, because there was only one more thing to believe,

Timmy was missing.