April

Chapter One: The Disappearance of April Underwood

1. The Disappearance of April Underwood

"Bye, see you at home!" Hazel said, hugging her sister and pretending to cry. The shorter girl squirmed her way out of Hazel's embrace and looked away in embarrassment. "Hazelll! I'm eleven! Don't hug me in public!" She whined, sounding more like a six year old than the eleven year old she claimed to be.

Hazel simply laughed, gazing proudly at the girl before her. April was never allowed to go anywhere or do anything on her own, but today was different. Today, Hazel wouldn't be accompanying April on her Target trip, because the younger girl had finally put her foot down and told her mother she didn't need her fifteen year old sister with her at all times.

Though Hazel and their mother had shared a look and laughed at this sudden declaration, their mother agreed to give it a try.

"Don't be gone too long," Hazel said sternly, raising her eyebrows and taking a single step away from her sister. "I won't!" April exclaimed, turning away and running to the target doors screaming, "there are cheese its to be purchased!" As loud as she could. After watching April until she couldn't be seen, Hazel laughed again and began to head home, leaving her sister at the store alone for the first time since she could remember.

It made her sad, really, to see that April no longer wanted her company. The two had always been close, but now Hazel felt like this was the beginning of the end. Now the siblings would split ways and never do things together again. But Hazel is an over thinker. She worried too much about her younger sister, and this caused her to walk as slowly as she possibly could.

April, though loving her freedom, had to admit that going to Target was much more fun with the company of her sister. She had so much to say and no one to say it to, so it was really no surprise when the girl began to talk to herself.

"Hazel loves extra toasted cheese its, and even though she embarrassed me outside, I'm going to buy them for her anyways!" She said, not noticing the strange looks she received from other nearby shoppers. "Yes, April, that's a great idea!" She went on, pretending she was Hazel. When she found the aisle for the cheese its, April came to a realization. She was too short to reach the box.  It took three jumps, but eventually she managed to get the box down.

With her jumping, April hasn't noticed the sudden lack of people in the store, and she definitely didn't see the dark figure coming towards her. It only took a moment, before a cheese it box was dropped from the air and the figure was gone.

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Hazel lay in bed, listening to music playing from her earbuds and watching the fish in her tank swim lazily through the water.  She checked the time, and fear began to prickle at her mind. It had been a while since she left April at Target, and surely she should have returned.

But April was known to take time and she was probably just petting some poor sap's service dog or gazing wistfully at a laptop she couldn't afford. Thinking these thoughts helped Hazel relax a bit, and before she knew it, she was asleep, unknowing that her sister wasn't petting a dog or looking at a laptop. She was gone.

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Just so you know, this chapter was extremely short ON PURPOSE. its supposed to leave you wondering!
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