Missing Peices (Raura)-editing

Bottled Messages and Tree house memories- Chapter #11

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Ryland's POV-
I woke up to the sound of soft music playing. I look on the ground to see my earbuds feel off when I was sleepingband the music is still playing out of them from my phone.
I turn the music off and look around. it's weird not wake up to Ross. Yeah it's been three years but it's still weird. It feels so empty. I guess that's what you get after sharing a room with someone for 17 years. Ever since he left I get the feeling that I'm gonna wake up and Ross will be sleeping across from me and everything will go back to normal.
I sigh knowing that it's just my fantasizes ,but sometimes you just can't help but miss him.
I finally get out of bed and walk into the bathroom.
I take a shower and then get dressed.
When I finally make it down stairs I see everyone is in the living room sitting around in circle in chairs.
"Oh good your up we can start now," my mom said. I gave her the "I'm now confused and please tell me what's going on" look.
"Sit and we'll explain," Riker says.
I walk into the room and sit down on the couch next to Rocky.
"So what we are going to the beach to look the next clue. We are going to split into Pairs. So the pairs are:
•Rocky and Ryland
•Riker and Rydel
•Me and your dad.
Any questions?"
We all shook our heads and got ready for the beach. We make it to the beach and hop out of the car and split into our groups. There aren't a lot of people here yet, but that's probably because it's only 9. No one shows up at the beach at 9am.

Rocky and I took off down the left side of the beach.
The sky is kind of cloudy today leaving the beach a gloomy kind of feel.
"Where could he of possibly put the damn thing?" Rocky says after a few minutes.
"I dunno. I'm not Ross." I reply and we keep looking.
Three whole hours have passed and I'm just about done.

"Why is this so difficult?" I sigh in frustration running my hands through my hair.

"We've been here for hours and I tired. Also in case you haven't noticed we still haven't found anything!" Rocky whines.

"Do want to find him or not?" I snapped at him. Now you shut up? I thought to myself. We walked a little further down, when all of a sudden I felt my feet leave the floor. Next thing I knew my face was in the sand. I looked behind me to find rocky laughing his head off. I looked around to see what caused my fall. I probably tripped over something.

"Oww" I grown and sit up. Rocky extended an arm, still smiling. i glared at him as I got to my feet.
"You ok?" He asks.
"Yeah I just tripped on something," I say.

"I was more like "help me I'm single and don't have anything to make out with, let me kiss the sand." he joked using all sorts of really stupid hand movements.

"Shut the-"I started but was cut off by Rocky.

"I found a magic bottle!!!!" Rocky yelled excitedly like a five year old," Fairy god mother sent me directions to escape you and horrid ways."

"What?" i asked, slightly confused. God how stupid does he get?

"What's inside?" I asked trying to ignore the fact that brother literally thought his imaginary fairy god mother was coming to save him.

"I don't know. That's a good question," he says., "Why didn't I think of that?"

Dumb ass. I thought to myself. I took the bottle from him and looked down inside to see a piece of what looked like parchment paper rolled up inside the glass bottle. Hmm. I pick it up and start to exam it. Its got a rolled up piece of paper in it.

"It's a message in a bottle!!!" Rocky says like a little kid opening presents.
I shake my head at his childish actions.

"Way to state the obvious," I dead panned and pull out the piece of paper from the bottle.

"What's it say" he ask.

STUPID!

I unfold the note and read:
"Dear Ryland,
I remembered how you've always said and liked the idea of getting a message in a bottle. So I decided to give you one. Don't worry you were getting your clue ;) I'm not that mean. I mean this probably wasn't that easy to find.

You think? I thought.

Anyways the next place you're going to look is somewhere where the grass is always green. A place where royalty still exists and the guards still guard the gates. A place where the clouds can cry and sun can shine. The moment when I look out over the eye to the city lights. Okay one more hint Harry Potter was mostly filmed there and theory have those really neat telephone booths.

Hey Ryland make the most of everything that comes your way and live in the moment. :) See you at the end.

~Ross <3

I close the note and look at Rocky.
"Hmmmmm I wonder where this is," I say looking back at the clues.
"Let me read it," Rocky says. I hand him the note and stand there thinking. Where could he possibly want us to go? I think to myself.
"Wait Harry Potter was filmed in London,England," Rocky says. And I look at him. "You sure read the rest of the clues," I say. Just to make sure. I don't want to go to the wrong place.
"WE FOUND THE CLUE!!!!" Rocky and I shout together in chorus. Everybody runs over to us.
"Can we read it?" My mom asks.
"Sure," I say and hand the note to her.
After a minute she looks up and says, "Looks like we're going to London," she says.
Another crazy adventure. I don't care how long this takes as long we find Ross in the end.

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Vanessa's POV-
After walking the dog yesterday, when I got home my mom had a huge smile on her face. I wonder what on earth she could of been so happy about. Then she showed me the clue and told me about the bird. I was amazed. She actually wanted us to find her.
I mean I would do anything to see her agian. So I though about the clue. Where did Laura used to think a lot.
Hmmmmmm.......
"OH THE OLD TREE HOUSE!!!!" I shout super loud. Both my parents look at me weird.
"Tree house?" My dad questions.
"Yeah when Laura was you get she always used to hide in this old tree house to think ." I say. I'm quite proud of myself for doing that. :) I must admit.
"So what are we waiting for??!!" My mom says. "Let's go!"
We all run out of the House and down the side walk. After a few blocks we make it to the wood. I've only been here a few field with Laura. I hope this tree house is still there.
I look up at the trees as we walk towering over us like giant sun umbrellas. The ground is soft and moist. I look up ahead and see a small corner of what looks like a house poking out from behind done trees.
"Hey I found it," I announce. "Follow me." I say. With my parents close behind I dart through the forest. Pushing away all the branches and vines.. When we finally reach the tree house I'm out of breathe. I literally just sprinted over here. I take a second to catch my breathe before climbing up the giant rope ladder.
When I reach the top I find a bird sitting on top of a small box. It had a heart shaped key laying next to it and the bird just eyes me.
I look at the box to find it's got ingravings on it. I wonder what they mean. The bird hops off the box and sits on the window sill. I grab the key and open the box up. Inside contains letter and another photograph. I pick up the photograph And look at it. It's a picture of her holding up a sheet of numbers. 3,7,4,9,8 and it had my name in it.
I stare at it maybe it's an address. I look at the letter and unfold it.
Dear Vanessa,
I'm guessing mom and dad declared that they where to told to climb up the ladder? Anyways, the picture you revived with the numbers is an address and one of free numbers isn't suppose to be there. Another thing this bird will give you all the clues and each clue is connected to a memory.so your clue Is;
You do something the first time and for the last time. A smile is the shortest distance between two people. Where was the last place I smiled?
~Laura
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I fold up the letter and photo and but then bake and the box and bring everything down with me.
"Well looks like we have another mystery to solve," i say.
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Okay sorry this chapter sucks. Anyways the next one is better and hopefully we will not be waiting so long.
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~Hailey