Missing on their 4th

chapter one: Graces POV

I'm still new at writing books so please bear with me. I would love any constructed criticism!
- - - 2006- - - -

    The day Hannah Went missing was depressing. My brother and I were 3.His name is Dylan, and we are twins. It was Hannah's 4th birthday and we were just setting up for her party. All the decorations were hung and the cake was frosted. It was all me and my brother could do the keep our fingers out of it. We were sitting on the couch watching our favorite show, The sqirkles. The sqirkles was a show about a floating cloud who changed colours with his mood and always had a temper. We were waiting for Hannah to get home from school and eating a big bag of cheesz-its. Her class ended at 3:30 and she usally gor home arround 4. We saw the bus pull onto our street and we watched every kid get off. Except hannah. She wasnt there.  My mother grabbed the phone and called the school.

   "my child didnt get off the bus."

   "im sorry ma'am. All the kids were accounted for when leaving the school. Its not in our hands anymore."

   "your saying that my child went missing on your watch but you arent going to do anything?!"

     "ma'am theres nothing we can do."

   My mother slammed the phone back into the hook and sat down at the table with her head in her hands. My father comes downstairs and looks at the clock.

   "Shouldnt she be home be now? its already 4:30." He states

   "honey, she didnt get off the bus."

   "What?! Are you serious?"

   "yes, dear."

   That night my parrents went out to search for her. Our aunt came and stayed with Dylan and I and she didnt leave untill we had already fallen asleep. We got up the next morning and Mother, Father, Auntie, And 2 police officers were sitting at our kitchen table. My mother sent us back up to our rooms to go play, but we could still hear them talking.

"do you have any idea where she might be?" mother asked.

"listen, this has been happening all over town lately. How old was she?" the police replied.

"it was her 4th birthday."

"so that was actually the case for the others too. ma'am we are doing all that we can and working with all our might to find all the kids that have gone missing."

"thank you, sir."

   I was still listening when Dylan got bored and went to sit with his Legos.

    "when do you think Hannah will be back?" I asked him.

   "I dunno. Maybe she just needed a vacation. "