MISSING-----Kathrine Clark
Hair- Blond Eyes- Brown
Height- 5"9 Skin- Pale
That's what the Missing poster for my best friend said. Right before she went missing, she looked scared, like she knew something terrifying. She probably just found out that her parents are dead.
We live in an orphanage, 10 miles away from the closest town. No one has ever gotten adopted. We are not crowded though. When we turn 14 we get sent away to a different orphanage. Most get adopted after they move. Or that's what we always say, because they never write back when we send them letters.
I'm turning 14 in two days. Hopefully I'm not the only one who doesn't get adopted. Kathrine would be turning 14 today, I mean she did turn 14 today. She's not dead. She probably just ran away. That's a lie. I know she's dead, I can feel it.
No one ever visits, who would. No one ever adopts directly, who would want us. We got to school at the orphanage, we eat here, live here, play here, and stay here. When I came here I was only 4, when any of us come here, were only 4. That's how it works. When an orphan turns 4 they got to a spacial orphanage, school type, until were 14. For 10 years we learn, play, eat, live, and stay. At least that's what our mother tells us. She's not really our mother but she asks us to call her that. No one remembers their parents dying. We just remember them then we remember here. Atty's House, that's the name of the orphanage.
I'm turning 14 in one day, tomorrow. Tomorrow is November Fifth. 11/05/1995. I was asked to clean up my belongings today and put them in my bag, that was provided. Tomorrow I'll be leaving to find a new family. Katherine ran away, hopefully, 5 days ago. She took all her things, that means she ran away. If you were kidnapped, the kidnapper wouldn't take your things, would they?
I have a bad feeling about tonight. I have to leave at 12:00 am, right when I turn 14. She says its a tradition. I don't argue, but I don't have a good feeling about it either...
20 minutes till midnight. I'll be 14 in 20 minutes. I'll be on my way to have a family in 20 minutes. Miss Atty came and got me. Shes talking to me strangely, almost creepy. I start to protest after 5 minutes of walking. I wouldn't ever protest Miss Atty, but shes heading towards the back of the house, not the front were the car is...
She leads me outside, and I see a car. Oh, maybe there's a road out here that leads to a different city and were going to that city. That's what I tell my self. But that's not what happens.
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I wake up with my hand and feet tied. Before I can react and scream, Miss Atty says no one will hear me. But she calls me a different name, she calls me Milly. My names not Milly, it's Catiline. Catiline Nightshade. Why would she call me Milly? That's when I see them Bones, human bones. And corpses. And then I see here, Kathrine. Lying dead on the floor. She doesn't look nice. she looks rotted. 5 days of rotted....
Oh poor Kathrine, says Miss Atty. I didn't know she was watching me, looking were I was looking. I notice shes still talking, so I listen to what she says. Miss Atty says that If only Kathrine waited her turn, didn't go snooping around, then she would of been killed on her birthday, not before it. What does she mean snooping around. I finally notice my mouth isn't gaged. So I ask what she means by snooping around?
She tells me that Kathrine found out her secret. I ask what secret. Miss Atty says that she stole things, important things. I wonder what was so important that she had to kill Kathrine. She smiles wickedly, that's when I realized what she stole. She stole us. Were not even orphans she tells us. She just wanted little sisters. but she didn't want them to grow up and leave her. that's why she took them here on there fourteenth birthday.
I realize that there's a clock in the room we're in. It says 11:59, one minute till my birthday. Miss Atty seems to notice too. Because she walks up to me and puts a knife under my neck. Poor Milly, she says, if only you hadn't grown up. Who's Milly? She pulls the knife back and stabs it through me. It feels like my heart just exploded. And that's because it did. She stabbed me right through me heart. But that's when I piece everything together, as I'm dying from blood lose and a heart trying to beat when it cannot.
-Miss Atty has a sister. Her name is Milly. Milly grew up and got married, she died in child birth. Miss Atty told us that. Miss Atty is 48, She kidnaps girls when their 4, then she kills them at exactly 11:59. Because 12:00 means you are 14, not 13. She doesn't want Milly to grow up again. All the girls look alike. We are all Blond, brown eyed, and pale. All close enough to 5"8. Milly was blond, brown eyed, and pale. And around 5"8.-
She's standing there next to me, laughing, say now I'll never grow up and get married, and die. I'll stay with her forever. That's when I realise its 12:03am. I've stayed alive for 4 minutes. She didn't hit my heart. My lung or something else. But not my heart. I realised that I was breathing very short breaths with long pauses. Like I'm sleeping. She must think I'm dead. I hear the knife hit the ground next to me. She's going to pick me and put me with the rest of the girls, she tells me. I grab the knife and with the last of my life I hold. I stab her in the Leg. She falls.
She doesn't get up. Or grab the knife. Nothing. She lays there. I realise what must of happened. For the only logical explanation. I stabbed her artery in her leg, that explains the blood flow around us. But she would still be alive. She must of had a brain aneurysm when she fell. That's the only rational thing that could have happened.But my slow beating heart tells my mind, that's not what happened.
I lie there, only for 10 more seconds before I die. But before I did, I heard Kathrine voice. I don't know what she said. But it was just a figment of my imagination, right?
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--HAVEN HAROLD--
Today the Haven Police Department found the body of Miss Atty Knight, a suspected kidnapper, murdered. The cause of death is still unknown, but she is suspected to have died of multiple stab wound. The police also found over 100 corpses, most of them suspected to be her kidnapped victims. She would steal the girls away at a very young age and raise them, brain washing them to think that they lived in an orphanage. Police later found this "orphanage" and rescued over 40 young girls. Haven PD has begun to match the surviving girls to missing persons reports, but we have word that it is proving difficult because the girls all look so similar. We still haven't found Knights reason for kidnapping the girls, but one could only guess. We do know that her latest victims, 14 year old Katherine Clark and 14 year old Catiline Nightshade,, are missing. They have no evidence supporting whether or not the two missing girls are alive or dead. We all hope that the two girls are alive, after everything they have been through.
- S. L. Nightshade
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