The Big Lie

Chapter I - How It All Started

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It was quite a normal day. I, Dylan Temple had just woken up and wanted to start my morning routine before going to school that day. I also happened to be late, and my Discipline Master hates it when a student is late. My dad, Matthew Temple, or just Matt was doing his best job in getting me ready before he left for work. He was fixing a sandwich for my breakfast, he was getting my school uniform out of my closet. He was in such a hurry because he was late too! 

I successfully managed to leave home just about twenty minutes late. I managed to eat the sandwich that my dad made for me. After I finally reached school, we had a lesson on kidnapping and crime, and they showed images of children being kidnapped and the bad state that the kids returned in, which was gruesome. I could not imagine what the kids must be going through day in and day out.

My friend Asher was there too! He was my best friend in the world and nothing could set the two of us apart. He had a very nice family, both of his parent's love each other, and I don't even have a mom, I lost her when she gave birth to me, something I feel very guilty for every single day. Back to Asher, he is the nicest and the most loving guy ever! He would be there for me whenever I needed him. This guy was the most special guy on the planet, he was blind in one eye and deaf in one ear. The school day was normal too, except one thing, we were let out of school an hour early, hence why I got back home early.

My dad wasn't home, as usual, I always brought a house key with me to school every day and today was no different, quickly, I pulled out my keys and opened the door, got into the house, did what I usually do after getting home, which includes taking a shower and having a little something to eat. When I walked into my dad's room, which I do sometimes because, sometimes he would be in there, plugged in with headphones, hence why he couldn't hear the doorbell. Something I also wanted to mention is that I was feeling incredibly lucky today, not sure why.

Today, my dad's mobile phone was left on the table, which he had never done before, he probably left it in the hurry he was in the morning to get to work. He had always instructed me never to touch his phone, and I didn't know the password anyway, or did I?

I didn't know the password but every day I will try to key in random numbers to see if, by any chance, that would be the right password. Every day I tried, and every day I failed. However, remember when I said I was feeling lucky today? Today was special, I tried it one more time with the random passcode, 8920, and to my absolute surprise, IT WORKED! 

Suddenly I felt like the world was in my hands and that I could do everything, I actually never got around to having my own mobile phone, but I did own electronic tablets. This phone worked exactly like my tablet and I started to browse a ton of stuff. There were two new icons on the screen which wasn't there on my tablet. It read - phone and messages. I quickly checked both. The phone, I knew was to make calls, which my dad does all the time, for work but this whole messages thing was new. I promptly checked it. Just as I was about to quit the application, this little 'ding' sound came and from the top, this little white bar appeared, which really surprised me. 

It had that weird thing called messages at the top of it, and it read "Matt, come to the Lake Train Station at 9:30 tonight, we have found a girl. For one, I was extremely confused, for two, I was extremely confused! A girl? What girl? I didn't have a sister... Why Lake Station, Why 9:30? These were just a few of the million questions I had running through my mind. I was too scared to read the message properly, so I put the phone down and went to my bathroom to take a shower. 

In the shower, as you would imagine, all the questions came back into my head. I couldn't think of any possible reason of this happening. No matter how hard I thought, I just couldn't think of anything. Lots of things were running through my mind and the thoughts would come, last a second and go away. There were two thoughts which managed to stay in my head for a while. One was PARTY and the other was KIDNAPPING. My dad wasn't capable of kidnapping, so it must have been a party, which he would do sometimes after I went to bed. 

My dad was a very secretive person, he never shared his personal life with me. Should there be a reason I wanted to know something about him, something he would not tell me, I would have to extract it myself, by my own means. I decided that I would take a shower as quick as I can because I wanted to see what other secrets he was hiding. I went back to his phone and the next application I went into was notes. The first note had no title, hence looked the most suspicious, suspicious enough to click it, almost as it was a reflex action. The list comprised of many people, kids mostly with their names, a place which is probably where they were from and the third bit was what completely baffled me. The notes looked like this... 

It had a huge number on it! What could that mean? The party thing didn't need a number, especially in dollars. Which means there was only one thing left in my mind... KIDNAPPING. My dad said he worked in I.T; but did he? Or did he just suit up in formal wear and drive to his base where there were a ton of kids stuck and screaming for help? The next question that came to my mind was...

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---THE SECOND PART IS WAITING FOR YOU NOW!! FIND OUT WHAT DYLAN WAS THINKING, WHAT HAPPENS WHEN HIS DAD COMES HOME AND HIS GENIUS PLAN! I AM PRITHVI NARAYAN AND I WILL SEE Y'ALL NEXT WEEK, GOODBYE---