The Mystery of Never St

Chapter 3: The Father

Hey guys it looks like I got to update early. Enjoy! I don't think this title has much to do with the chapter but who cares really?

It's been three days since I got the letter and only one day left until Tuesday. I'm scared, what will happen if this plan backfires? I can't go in with backup, I have to go alone. If I don't survive this, nobody will know what happened to me, my mother would be scared, but I will be with my father, the one who has been there all of the time.

I walk up to Starbucks and have my last Frappe I will probably ever have. It's so sad. After that I head up to the station and when I enter my mum is there. "What do you want mum?" I ask, she replies with, "WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN? IT'S BEEN THREE DAYS AND YOU HAVEN'T CALLED?" I stare at her angrily. She just said, I mean yelled, that in front of everyone. I was coming in to say that I'm moving and won't come back, but after that, I don't want to see her ever again. "SHUT UP DEB! YOU DON'T CONTROL ME! I WASN'T HERE BECAUSE I WAS PACKING!" I yell, a day ago I would never have done that, but now that I'm leaving, I don't really care. "Packing? Where are you going?" she asks in a different tone, I reply with, "I'm moving away to-to Scotland, I want to be a police over there." There, that should work.

She looks at me and then turns away letting out a small sob, I feel really uncomfortable around people who cry. At my father's funeral I ran away to our special tree, it was in a meadow alone, isolated, it was an oak tree, my favourite.... I blink away tears and leave the station.

I check my watch-10:00pm- great, another long 12hours until my doom, or maybe my new life. I run to the only place I feel safe, the oak tree. I climb to the highest branch and look around all of Chicago. It is a pretty sight, too bad I won't last long to see it change. I look beneath me to see a little girl and her father sitting next to the tree trunk, I soon realise it was my dad and I. Why me? Why does it always have to be me? I've lost too many people in my life to even have one.

I slowly climb down and run to my apartment to only find another letter, but this time it wasn't sealed in an envelope but it did have an 'N' in the top left corner. It read;

I see you are going to come to me

But do you see what will happen if you find me?

You will surely die and maybe even seize to exist

You will most likely end up like your friend.... Ruby

So here is one thing I need

I need you to write a letter for me to prove to me that you are worth taking

That you are no longer needed in this cruel world

I have put another piece of paper in a box in your apartment

Remember...

The most selfless person is the bravest

I look up. That was something my father always said.

I enter my apartment and find a red box on the counter and I open it, there is a black feather pen, blue ink and the piece of paper. I pick up the pen, dip it in ink and start writing.

Thank you so much for reading, this is my first book and I enjoy your support!