Chapter 5: Disappearing Children

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It had been three days since what happened. I kept going to check on Kelley every day.
The doctors said she would be fine, but she may have brief blackouts but they should stop over time. As for her dad, he hadn't been seen since that night, even the police didn't know where he was and he's the Commissioner. As for me, I kept going to school normal and I started to drop in grades due to distraction. I couldn't stop thinking about what He said before things got bad. What's an eleven? How am I one of them?

it was January second. Just after the holidays I had returned to class and noticed something odd. Two of the five boys where weren't there. This was very unusual seeing as the two boys that were missing would fight over getting here first and getting the highest grades, in fact even if they were sick they would come. Sure they would be sent home but they would still show up and fight every day. I wasn't the only one who picked up on this. I was able to hear the other students talking about it, whispering to each other. The whispering broke as the teacher walked in the room.
"take your seats everyone, I have some important and quite alarming news. As of new year, two of our class mates Jonathan and Michael have gone missing"
suddenly the class was in a panic, I was crazy how loud it was for only 7 people. A girl was curled in a ball saying "their coming, their coming, their coming" over and over. Another girls started to scream. Some of the remaining boys where playing rock, paper, scissors to see who gets "them" first. I was so confused, so panicked, I stood up and yelled at the top of my lungs.
"WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?"
Everyone stopped dead and stared at me as if I had killed a man or something. One of the boys, who had been sitting in the corner by himself reading a book looked and me and spoke.
"there are rumors going around of men finding and taking kids from THIS school, and this one only."
for some reason, as sick as it sounds, I found this funny.
"rumors must form fast around here seeing as only two people disappeared in the last 2 months."
"luke, you started class early November, their where 16 people NOT including you that started in September with the rest of us"
he said that and I was rushed with feelings and thoughts, I wanted to know all that I could about this.
"w-wait, did they do anything? Did any of them have something in common before they disappeared?"
the girl who had been screaming threw her hand up as if I was a teacher. I pointed at her and she answered.
"well, um, they went to other schools during the afternoon."
"what?"
"y-yeah, they would talk about how they walked by schools and how people they haven't seen in years would point them out, they seem so happy to see their friends again and a week later they would stop coming to school"
she had back down and her desk and started to play with her fingers.
"the weirdest thing about all of them, is they said they didn't recognize them, and their old friends called them by a different name, but they all had some sort of way to show them they weren't lying."
my head started to hurt again, I fell to the floor and over and over I keep seeing kelley's room , her dad, the year book. All these thing rushing through my head like wild fire. When I got up again, all I could hear was the teacher yelling "get back to your seats! We need to start class"

that night when I went to bed I had another dream. But this time. I hear a new voice.
"OUR JOB IS TO KILL THEM SO WHY ARE YOU TRYING TO STABLEIZE HIM!"
I started to see another man In the background, next to the doctors, was a man in a beaten up brown coat, rectangular glasses, brown hair and a mustache. But his right hand and part of the arm was gone with the sleeve of the coat tied tight so he wouldn't lose blood.
"YOU DUMB-ASSES, I SAID KILL HIM!"
"Harold get back, where the doctors where trying to work"
the man left the room for a few seconds. I started to hear a siren and the room became red from what looked like an emergency light.
"SOMETHING'S WRONG! HE'S COMING BACK!"
"UP THE POWER, WE'RE TOO CLOSE TO LOSE HIM NOW!".
"I WANT HIM FUCKING DEAD!!"
I darted up again like the many times before, but this time I was crying, I was scared, but most of all, I was starting to think this wasn't just a dream anymore.

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