"Ok! Ok! Settle down everyone, Ms. and Mr. Roth are already having a hard time!" Officer Dale says as he stuffs a donut into his mouth, you can barely see his eyes under that hat. I'm watching from my bike across the street from his house with Trinity. "You think he would run away?" Trinity asks in a worrisome voice "Nicky wouldn't, I mean where else would he run." but I look to the Peterson house instead of riding away, "his house has boards covering any escape route." I say somewhat on a lead, a detective lead.. "Enzo.." Trinity says like I'm gonna have to get over it. "Am I?" "Nicky's probably trapped in that basement thinking no ones going to save him!" Trinity is about to talk again but I interrupt, "Maritza didn't even show up, Because of some stupid drama with Nicky!" But before I try to say anything else Trinity starts to say "Fine then" she says in a mad, or disappointed voice and rides away on her bike in the direction of her house, "Wait, Trinity!" I yell but to no response, I go home and enter the front door where I ignore dinner and my dad's greeting. But I know he understands as much as and Maritza when I make it upstairs I see Maritza lying on her bed playing on my gameboy, I would probably take it from her and tell her to play with her other "Girly toys" but I'm just not feeling in the mood, I enter my room and lay on my bed to and start to fall asleep. I dream about Aaron and Nicky. I'm walking with Nicky in the park while we talk about video games and school, but then suddenly the sky quickly turns gray and a big lightning bolt hits Nicky who is right beside me. But all that is is one of his shoes and a missing poster... When I look in front of me I see Aaron. "Aaron!?" I yell but it starts to rain making it hard to yell, but when Aaron finally speaks somehow I hear as clear as day "You failed me Enzo, you abandoned me just like you did with Nicky" "No, Aaron I d-" But he cuts me off mid sentence "Now you will pay the price!" I wake up screaming. It's morning and the bright sun glare across my face. I put on my glasses and get up to change into my clothes when my dad walks in, "Boy, Enzo You're quite the sleeper!" "ugh what time is it?" I reply back to him, "Eleven O clock!" he says "I'm gonna be late!" I start to say in a frantic voice "Don't worry its saturday come downstairs, and eat up my breakfast, at the table I glare at the milk carton and see a missing poster of Nicky on the back, there's a caption on the top that says missing, in a middle it says have you seen me? And some information about his weight and his height but then Maritza walks into the room and sees the milk carton. And she's looking at the back of it. "Maritza I- '' but Maritza cuts me off just like Trinity did with me. But Instead she starts running to the bathroom, What the? She closed the door behind her. I started to believe her seeing that milk carton made her actually sick! and I leave my house before this situation starts to make myself sick, I grab my camera and I step outside and jump onto my bike, and ride to the direction of Mr. Peterson's house on the way I start to hear clicking sounds, "What the?.." I say but then I look over to some of the houses to my right. It's a bird creature, and he looks like a forest protector... "No, Enzo you've lost it." Out of the bush emerges a gigantic bird and smoke starts to leak from its mouth, I slowly start to lift up my camera but before the bird starts to lunge towards me at alarming speed, "Gahh!'' I shriek as I drop my camera and peddle really fast. But not fast enough, the bird lunges in front of my bike making swerve into the side, "AAAH!" I shriek as I tumble onto the sidewalk. "Dammit!" I yell as I slowly get up, but when I lift myself onto my legs I see Mr. Peterson's house in front of me. But I quickly tuck into the nearby bushes because I hear the back basement door rattle open, and I get my camera out. He steps out of the back of his house holding something... "That's Nicky!" I whisper , he's holding him by his mouth but Nicky looks very messed up, he has huge bags under his eyes with messy hair and looks dirty, his shirt and pants are extremely ripped and he's missing his hat.when Mr. Peterson starts to drag practically drag Nicky into his house I snap a picture, a good one to it has Nicky in a good view with Mr. Peterson holding him by his mouth, face first to the street. But what wasn't so good is that a giant flash of light emitted from my camera, "oh no!" but M.r Peterson is running AT ME I quickly climb out of the bush and climb onto my bike and peddle as fast as I can, all the way back to my house, the houses going past me look almost like a maze, and it looks like a rainbow how fast I'm going. When I finally reach my home I step on the steps and open the door, but I'm so tired to tell Maritza for some reason so I end up going up the steps to my room and head to bed. "I dream about Nicky, but this time I'm fighting with him, like last christmas, but this time I'm so mad at him we start to get a little physical, Nicky shoves me and then I shove him, and then a basement looking door shows up behind him and slowly opens... I'm trying to tell Nicky but I can't, I seem to be too angry so I end up pushing him into the basement. "Nicky!" I shout, but it's no use, Nicky would be falling into the basement never being able to see the light and day again... "GAH!" I scream as I wake up, I go look over to my alarm clock, and it's seven in the morning and I hear dad cooking up breakfast downstairs. I sniff, oh its eggs again I slowly get myself up and get dressed before I get downstairs, "Hey kiddo!" My dad says, "Hey dad," I say but suddenly I realize that I have that picture of Nicky, "Oh uh sorry dad I gotta go to Trinity's," I say as I quickly pick up an egg and gobble it down fast, "oh ok Enzo.." I get on my bike and Head down to Trinity's, when I knock on Trinity's door Trinity answers but looks at me mad, "Trinity I have something to tell you, and it's really important!" I say just a little too desperate, "Listen Enzo we need a break, we can just go our separate ways for now" Trinity says with some remorse in her voice, "no, it's not that... It's Nicky." I say "What do you mean?" Trinity says confused, "c'mon, just follow me"' I tell her as I grab her hand, on the way to my house the walk is fairly quiet, "you sure it was Nicky?" Trinity asks, "I'm quite sure, if it wasn't I would've been crazy!" I reply back to her, but Trinity isn't looking at me like it was a joke... I think she might even believe that I'm crazy myself, "Listen, Trinity I'm not crazy ok?" I open my front door and bring Trinity up the stairs to my room. "I swear it's somewhere in here..." I say as I search through my desk, "A-Ha! Found it!" I pick up the camera and check the photos with Trinity on the bed, "it should be somewhere here..." but I come to a sudden terrified stop, "It's not here... How!?" I start to stammer. But before I know it Trinity is out of my room, I run down the stairs to the front door but it's too late, Trinity has already left my house... and I'm alone again. The next morning I struggled to get up, "I hate school.." I mutter to my dad, who keeps on vacuuming in my room. This year I'm in the ninth grade so I guess I'm officially a high schooler now. I even moved schools, and this is the second week, "Alright, alright, I'll get up..." I say to my father who is now unplugging the vacuum. I get up and go to my dresser, where I grab a red sweater and exit my room, and go down stairs for breakfast, Maritza is eating some cereal while looking down at the bowl like she already finished a while ago, Maritza is in the eights grade now and for some reason I still have to walk her to shcool, "There's a lot of creeps out there" My dad always says, so I guess thats why I still have to walk her over "C'mon Maritza, I gotta walk you" I tell her "Okay" Maritza replys to me with barely any emotion at all, she puts her empty cereal bowl in the sink. We walk a few blocks until I reach the Raven Brooks middle school, after I drop Maritza off I make my way to my new high school, The high school is actually pretty close to the middle school so once again I walk a few more blocks and reach my destination, Raven Brooks high school. Instead of the last school, this one's red and smaller and there's a few new kids that are in my class, Ivin, Finch and Delroy. Ivin is probably the most simmaler one to me, and my new best friend. Finch is one of the girl scouts but kinda rude, I think the only reason she likes me is because I bought some of her cookies, and then there's Delroy and he's kinda the new bully, there's some rumors going on that he's had a pretty rough life, and preys on the smaller kids like Ivan, he even got Rueben in the hospital. The school day isnt much. Theres the average teacher, like the ones who always prey on the troubled students and favour the good students, and then those who are just a lottle bit to nice. At the end of the day I visit the inventors club, a new after school club that I joined because why not, I somehow got Maritza to lie that I walked her home when instead I was at school throwing tin cans lids at water lemons, "I heard if we reduce the velocity on the exploratory device we can modify the speed, to be able to get a better shot!" The new kid Ivan explains, which I don't even really know what he said.. wasn't really because I wasn't paying attention. More because he's talking a nerdy, for me to understand. "Y-Y-yeah.. cool." I say brushing off his statement, like brushing cheese puff dust off my shirt after a long game night. Ivan doesn't say anything. He just stares, in a weird way almost like a daze or maybe confusuin. Suddenly the awkward silence is broken by Delroy kicking the door open. "What's going, ladies?" Then, suddenly Ivan's confused of blank face immediately switches like a cog in a machine, to an angry face. did you just call me..?!" Ivan said in anger. "You heard me. Why don't you repeat it nerd?" Delroy says while crossing his arms with a smug look to his face. Ivan walks up to Delroy in even more anger than before. And for a moment, it looks like he's about to explode, like in the game I have, Mortal Snake Wizard. And is it even possible for someone to explode..? I mean I understand that he's angry but. I don't think it's possible. "You're gonna pay for that!" I quickly run in front of Ivan and try my best to explain to Delroy and Ivan that I'm sure they didn't mean what they did to eachother. It doesn't help that I need to do this all by myself.. especially that I had Trinity with me most of the time in these situations, and now even she, left me. Do I need to be this much of a loser? Do I have to have people mess up my life like this? First, Seth and Rueben. And then Trinity, and now Delroy. "Whatever why did I even decide to sign up?" Delroy agrues just to annoy Ivan even more. On the way back from school. I glare at the Peterson house before I reach my house. I stare at the old blue painted wood, the run down curtains. I'm staring at the Peterson house for so long, looking for clues, answers, Nicky.. but I know I won't find anything, I know I won't find Nicky, or Aaron. I will never get Trintiy back, nor my freedom from bullies. And now I'm alone. No one is here to belive me. I wake up to the sound of my alarm blaring. My head aches like fire, and if I would to say I'm exited for the day, I'm not.
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Hello Neighbor: search and rescue (NEW CHAPTER COMING SOON)
AdventureAn alternative situation in the hello neighbor universe that takes place after the third Hello Neighbor book "Buried Secrets" the book is about Nickys friends after he went missing. who go and decide to save him.