Missing

 

 Chapter 1

 

            “Nicole!” Chelsea Heathernall cried “Where the hell did you go?” She screamed. “Guys, come on, help me find her!” She said. Tori Puerskia followed close behind, scared as hell, after came Crista McJore and lastly Brittany Mouh.

 

            “Where is she?” Brittany asked

 

            “If I knew, do you think I would be screaming her name and looking for her?” Chelsea retorted.

 

            “Guys, cool down. We’ve had a long day and we’re all worried. Let’s just go back inside and relax. She’ll definitely come back in. What is she going to stay out her all night?” Brittany suggested. She pushed a long caramel colored piece of hair out of her face and behind her ears.

 

            Tori butted in, “Yeah guys, I agree with Brittany. These woods are freakin’ scary and we should go back inside. If Nicole is sane, she’ll come back in and soon.”

 

They had all been playing manhunt not too long ago. Tori and Chelsea vs. Nicole and Brittany. Nicole and Brittany had been hiding. They had found Brittany, but they never found Nicole. They’d been looking for at least an hour and it was getting late and cold.

 

            They all piled inside, worried and frantic. They sat on Nicole’s suede couch silent. It felt weird being in Nicole’s house with, you know, no Nicole. All of them kept picturing in their minds that in any second, Nicole would burst through the door and say “Haha I got you! I win!” Knowing her, this is exactly what she would do to win. She is so competitive. Everyone was still silent, when Tori finally spoke “What if she never comes back?” She whispered, so quietly everyone else almost couldn’t hear them. Chelsea hugged her. “She will.” She add just as quietly “I promise”

 

 

 

            But she never did. The whole night, they waited, all too afraid to fall asleep. Days past, she never showed up. Each day, Chelsea, Tori, and Brittany grew closer and closer. Their friendship bonded over Nicole’s disappearance. Nicole’s mom had become so sad and withdrawn. She didn’t have a husband and no kids besides Nicole so she was all alone. She filed a missing persons report with the police, who weren’t much help. They questioned each of the girls. He asked them each the same stupid questions that ultimately got them nowhere. Nicole was gone. Then there was that thought that had crossed each of their minds, but each girl pushed it right out, because it was too horrible to consider. Is Nicole dead?

 

They felt like they were in a Pretty Little Liars book. But this was real. Nicole could be dead, and she may never come back. Just that thought made them all tense up. And someone would have to calm them down. Especially Tori, she needed to be calmed down, a lot. After a week, they’ve all cried a lot together and spent almost every second together. The only times they were separated was when they had to pee or shower. That was basically it. None of them could stand the thought that Nicole was gone. It had been a week since she was gone, there was still hope. She could be found.

 

            They looked through old pictures of themselves when they were little. They had been best friends since birth. All of their parent’s had worked together so, well, you know how that goes.

 

            To think that this was supposed to be the best summer ever. They were supposed to go to Nicole’s beach house in Miami and spend the whole summer there. But when Nicole went missing, they all had no choice but to go home. It was too weird to be there without her. Nicole Daniels was so full of life. She always knew how to cheer the girls up. They could really use her now more than ever. Their new favorite activity, instead of taking pictures of themselves, or having lame fashion shows, was now crying in their rooms together. It was sad, it really, really was. Their best friend was gone.

 

 

 

They were all at Chelsea’s house, looking at pictures again. It cheered them up; it was like Nicole was still there, with them. They could feel her practically. Yeah I know that sounds creepy, but deep down inside, they knew, they just knew that Nicole was not dead. She couldn’t be! There were so many pictures it took them hours to go through them all. Occasionally, they would glance up at each other and just fall into each other’s arms. It was like they were lost without her. They weren’t complete. There was just no explanation for why she was gone. Nothing.

 

 Finally Chelsea stood up.

 

“Guys, what the hell are we doing?”

 

“What do you mean?” Brittany asked

 

“We can’t just sit around and feel sorry for ourselves! Ok, Nicole is gone. I miss her too, but sitting here and doing nothing isn’t going to bring her back or find her, or find out what happened to her or-or-do anything! We have to get off our sorry butts and get out there and find out what the hell happened to her!”

 

Tori was in the corner of the room in a fetal-ish position. Brittany stood up, but then stopped, she was scared. She hates to admit that, even to herself, she’s always so fearless, but she was. Finally after looking at Tori laying on the floor, she brought herself together and said

 

“Tori, get up.” Brittany demanded “She’s right”

 

“But we could get hurt! We could be next!” She retorted

 

“Shut up. Stop worrying, we’ll be fine. What happened to Nicole was some freak thing. It isn’t going to happen again. Don’t you want to find out what happened to Nicole?” Brittany lectured

 

 

 

 

 

The saddest part of all was that Tori was right.