Peter Pan {Watty Awards 2k13}

Chapter Seven

"What's that noise?!" Mr Taylor said angrily. "Does that girl know that there's people in this house who needs sleep?!".

He sat up in bed and checked the clock 11:48 pm. Mr Taylor wanted to sleep early so he could get in work early and apologize to his boss for what had happened at the party. But seemed like he was going to get no sleep in.

"Blake! Now you're the one making noise" Mrs Taylor groaned. "It'll die down soon. Don't go to her room, do you think she wants in there after what happened tonight?".

"I don't care. That troublesome girl never listens to me! I am supposed to have order in this house" he yelled at her.

"Don't yell at me!" Mrs Taylor said as she sat up in her bed. "You've never once listened to her or what she has to say. You always ignore her! What happened at the party wasn't really all her fault. Some boy was getting his flithy hands all over her, so she had to do something".

"I do not always ignore her, I just find some of the things she says irrevalent" Mr Taylor said whilst getting out of bed. He went into his closet and got his robe and headed for the bedroom door. Mrs Taylor quickly got out of bed and blocked the doorway.

"Don't even think about going to her room" Mrs Taylor said.

"See? This is the reason why she thinks she could do whatever she wants. Its all beacause of you! You need to teach her some discipline" .

"Do you love her, Blake?" Mrs Taylor asked suddenly.

Mr Taylor was shocked by that question. How could his own wife ask him that kind of question? Of course he loved her. Angelique was his daughter, his own flesh and blood. He loved her more than anything in the world.

"Blake. I'm going to ask you only one more time." she paused for only a moment. "Do you love Angelique?".

"Of course I do" he said quickly.

"I can tell when you're lying, Blake" Mrs Taylor as she stepped away from the door. "I just can't... Why?".

"Honey I-" Mr Taylor was interupted by a banging noise. "Do you hear that?".

"Blake. Don't change the subject--"

"Listen closely. Don't you hear it?"

They both listened to the house closey. For a moment it was a quiet but then there was another banging noise. Mr Taylor quickly opened the bedroom door and rushed up the stairs along with Mrs Taylor. They quickly opened Angelique's door. Her room was a total mess.

"AAH!" Mrs Taylor screamed. "Blake look! A dead crow!".

In the corner of her room lied a dead crow. "Disgusting. Where's Angelique?".

They noticed the window to the balcony was left open. A cold breeze came through, sending goosebumps down Mr Taylor's shoulders. Mrs Taylor quickly ran towards the balcony and looked around but there was no sign of Angelique. "She's not out here".

"Then where could she be?".

Suddenly, Dimitri and Victoria rushed up the stairs breathless.

"What is it?" Mr Taylor demanded to know.

They didn't say anything for a moment then Victoria said, "Brittney and Jason they're gone. We went to check on them to see if they were alright, but when we got to their rooms they were gone".

Mr and Mrs Taylor looked at each other wide-eyed and rushed past them both to Jason and Brittney's room. They swung open the door and saw that their beds were empty. Mrs Taylor checked the closet and the bathrooms.