The Dark Secret

Chapter Eight: Lost

Days pass and the 4 siblings started to trust more and more, but then, one day the 4 siblings went out to play, but... But only the 3 oldest came running home, yelling and crying, the family came running outside, the 3 oldest were out of breath, but Aiden cried out, "Ava! Ava! We can't find Ava!" The family mouth dropped.

The police arrived just moments after Molly called them, a huge search party went into action, the 3 oldest siblings told everyone they were playing in the woods, when they turned around and Ava was nowhere in sight!
Everyone looked long and hard for little Ava, but it was like she disappeared! The 3 oldest were crying! They blamed themselves, "how could we have let her out of our sight?" Cried Aiden, "children, it isn't your fault" said Larry, "yes it is!" Said Aiden loudly, "she's our baby sister!" Cried Chloe, "we were supposed to take care of her!" "But instead, we lost her" cried Dawn, the 3 oldest hugged and cried, thinking of so many things that could have happened, might have happened, what could have happened?

That night the 3 oldest did not sleep, everyone was still looking, Molly and Larry told their kids to watch the 3 oldest of the 4 siblings, so they could go out and hopefully find little Ava.

The next morning the 3 oldest siblings ran out and ran back into the woods, in hope they would find Ava!
"AVA!" Shouted her siblings, "AVA! WHERE ARE YOU?!" Shouted Chloe, "AVA!" The kids searched for hours and hours, but no luck... They started walking out of the woods but stopped when they felt like someone was near, they walked towards a ditch, there, they found... AVA! Her siblings ran down the ditch to get her! She was unconscious but alive! She had loss of cuts, bruises, scraps, but her siblings were just happy she was alive! They ran out of the woods and shouted, "WE FOUND HER! WE FOUND HER!" Everyone came running! Their family hugged them, Ava was took to the hospital, the family went to, the doctor said she should be fine! The family were relief, but not as much as her siblings!

For the next few weeks the family went to visit Ava in the hospital, she was still unconscious, the doctor said she slipped into a coma... He said, "its hard to know how she fell into the ditch or if someone put her there, we are still doing some test, we will let you know how she is doing, but I think she'll be fine" "thank you doctor" said Molly, Molly and Larry hugged the 3 oldest, "she'll be fine"  said Molly, "we are happy we found her, and alive at that, but, we should have never lost her, she should have never been in this state" Aiden whipped tears, the family hugged the 3 oldest siblings, "we promise.

Later that night Ava's siblings thought about her, and hoped she would be okay, then they started praying, they held hands, closed their eyes, and Aiden started "dear Lord, we ask you to please help our sister, she really needs a miracle, we are sorry for letting this happen to her, but we ask for your guidance, thank you, Amen" "Amen" said Chloe and Dawn.

The next day Ava's siblings hurried to visit Ava, and were amazed to see.... Ava awake and starring out the window, her siblings smiled, "Ava, said Aiden quietly, Ava spun around and smiled, Ava then ran into Aiden's arms, and Chloe and Dawn hugged her as well, then the doctor came in, "oh my goodness! Ava! You're awake!" The doctor smiled, then their family came, and once they seen Ava, then ran to her and hugged her, later on, the doctors did more test, but it looked like Ava was pretty well healed, the doctors couldn't explain it! But Ava's siblings knew good well, Ava was then allowed to come home.

At home the 4 siblings went to their room, held hands, closed their eyes, and started praying, "thank you Lord for your miracle, we are grateful to you!" Aiden said, "we are so happy you granted our payer to save our sister, we are relieved she is here and okay" said Chloe, "we thank you Lord, um, we are forever in your debt" said Dawn, "Amen" they said.