"Hello?" Demi asked slowly opening the door to Haley's house. She knocked for about two minutes and then tried turning the door knob.
Demi's mom was in the car waiting so she could take the girls to her sisters dance studio. Sometimes she wasn't a very patient lady. Especially since her eldest daughter had a cheer clinic outside the city at four and it was already quarter to two.
"Just a second." Hayley yelled her voice breaking a bit. "I'm in my room, you can come in."
"Hey." Demi said walking in to the room. "Is your mom not home?" She asked. No one had answered while she rang the doorbell. Demi did remember though that Haley's mom hardly left her room.
Hayley rubbed her head. Demi just noticed how stressed she looked. Hayley had her phone against her ear and was pacing back and forth.
"No, and neither is Mae." Haley's voice cracked. Demi then noticed the tears running down the cheeks of the girl next to her. Demi heard Haley's phone dialling then head to voice mail.
"Well is her car gone?" Demi asked. Haley threw her phone roughly on her bed while continuing to pace around the room.
"We don't have a car." Haley said with a shaky voice. "I don't know where she could've gone?" Haley cried. Demi never noticed Haley's mom didn't have a car. No wonder they walked everywhere.
Haley was panting due to her nervousness. "Here let's sit for a second. Okay?" Demi said.
Haley listened to her friend and dropped to her bum in the middle of pacing.
Haley really was trying to calm herself down but her whole body was shaking. She looked like she had taken steroids. Her fingers were involuntarily shaking while her breaths came out jagged.
"When did you notice they were gone?" Demi asked while rubbing circles on Haley's back. Demi's mom did that to calm her down and it often worked.
"Mae told me she was hungry and refused to eat anything we had in the house." Haley started speaking her voice still shaking.
Someone delivered groceries to their home every couple of weeks. Haley had no idea who and her mom would never answer her. This had been going on for two years.
She reached back and grabbed her phone from the bed. Haley gently played with her phone flipping it open and closed.
"I walked to the McDonald's just a few minutes away from our school so I could buy Mae a kids meal."
She ran her thumb through the bumpy keypad and fiddled with the power button while speaking.
"I was only gone for fifteen minutes." She said crying.
"When did you get back?" Demi asked.
"Half an hour ago?"
"I tried calling my mom's cell but she left it here. I heard it ring in her room." Haley cried.
The two girls sitting in the room felt the ground move. Someone was in the house. Haley shot up from the ground expecting to see her mother and baby sister.
She pushed opened the already ajar bedroom door and walked down the hallway to her living room.
She wasn't faced by Mae or her mom but Dianna.
"What are you girls doing? I've been waiting in the car for five minutes." She said annoyed.
Her expression changed when she was Haley's red eyes and sniffling nose.
Demi came up behind Haley.
"Umm." Haley said swallowing so her voice wouldn't crack. "Sorry to keep you waiting. I can't go today. I'm sorry." Haley said.
"Oh Sweetheart, what's going on?" Dianna asked.
Haley just ignored her and walked past Demi's mother to the front door. She had no shoes on but still she stepped onto the hot cement outside her house and looked around.
Dianna's mom was right behind Haley. Her arm was now gripping Haley's shoulder
"I can't find my mom or Mae." Haley said.
"Mom never leaves the house and Mae-" Haley cried while starting to pace again in her house.
"Where could they be?" Haley asked frustrated.
"Do you have family close by?" Dianna asked. "Or maybe a friend of your mother's?"
Dianna had noticed that Haley's mother maybe wasn't the best parent. She also realized she couldn't judge her without knowing her full story. As a parent she should still put her kids first no matter what she was going through instead of making them worry for her safety.
"I don't know?" Haley sighed. "I can't think." She cried subconsciously scratching her arms making them turn bright red.
Demi noticed and grabbed Haley's hands.
"One time when you were over for dinner Mae said you used to go see your dad." Demi said. Curiosity got the better of her. She's been wondering why their dad was absent for a long time.
"Mae's only seen him a couple of times and he's my father not hers." Haley said.
Dianna looked confused.
"We have different dads." Said Haley.
"Oh" Dianna mouthed. It's a wonder she didn't question it before. Mae had bright blue eyes and pin straight bleach blonde hair while Haley had curly brown hair and brown eyes.
"Maybe they went out looking for you." Dianna said.
"I told Mae I was leaving." Haley said. "Urghh I should've brought her with me." She continued. "I never leave the house without her! What was I thinking?" She cried.
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