Vanessa was preparing for work, she neatly tied her hair into a ponytail and put on some red lipstick. Since her hair wasn't that long, it made her look like she had even less hair and almost bald... She picked up her fanny pack and walks to Juliet's room. It was locked, so Ness knocked on the door a few times.
"Hey Juuls, have you gotten ready for school yet?"
There was no answer. Vanessa lightly tapped on the doorknob and it was open. Juliet wasn't in her room and the window was open. Ness looked down the window to see a rope made of blankets leading to the outside. The thing was, the house only had a single floor. If Juuls was going to sneak out she didn't have to make a rope.
Vanessa suddenly got worried and tried to call Juliet. For the first few times, her little sister didn't pick up the phone. Ness dialed and redialed over and over again for 30 minutes until Juuls finally picked up.
"Juliet ! Where are you? Why didn't you pick them up ? You got me dead worried"
Vanessa heard heavy breathing from the phone, it was clearly Juuls.
"1. I couldn't find my phone 2. I'm at my friend's house"
"Why didn't you tell me that you were going there? And what's with the weird bedsheet rope thing? It's all dirty now, and I don't have any time to clean it."
"What are you talking about Vee, you literally drove me here!"
Juliet hung up the phone. Vanessa picked up the bedsheets very carefully, she realized that she couldn't recognize a single blanket from the bunch. It also didn't have any dirt or mud on it, there were dark stains all over it. Ness untied them to see that they were pretty small for both Vanessa and Juliet. These clearly belong to a very young child. Ness decided to throw them all out. When she was about to walk out of the room, she realized that there were lots of bloodied up baby teeth over the floor. It was very clear that they had fallen from the blankets.
Vanessa was driving to work, until she was stopped by a couple of people standing in the middle of the road. Ness honked at them, they didn't seem to care. Their chanting got louder and louder, they finally started walking, but not to the side of the road. They surrounded Vanessa's car. Ness realized that one of them was staring directly at her. They walked to the car and knocked on Vanessa's windows and started gesturing something. She rolled down the windows, to have a word with the stranger.
"What the fuck is this?" Ness locked her doors just in case.
"You must be Vanessa Monroe? Or was it Vanessa Anderson? We've heard so much about you."
Vanessa freaked out. Even so she was trying to stay calm. "Nope! This is the wrong person. Again, what the actual fuck is this? I'm late for work. How about you guys get out of my way or calling the cops"
"Oh my sweet summer child." They sighed. "Let's go my people, she doesn't know yet."
Ness quickly drove off, until suddenly her phone started ringing. She gently pulled her phone out of the pocket of her cardigan and held it between her shoulder and ear.
"Hey Ness it's me Luis! A little birdie told me that you were back in town."
"Yeah, I am back in town. I even got a new job on my first week" Vanessa giggled, she almost dropped her phone, but she quickly put it back.
"Oh cool, let uncle Luis guess.. Is the new job another security gig?"
Ness almost chocked on her spit. "Of course not! I'm not even capable of holding a flashlight correctly without blinding everyone around me like the dumbass I am. Instead, I got hired as a concept artist."
