The Disappearance of Annie Leonhardt

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"Armin! Armin is she with you?!" His father's voice boomed his ears, and shock him awake.

His father thrown off his covers, seemed to be looking for something.

Or someone.

"Dad...what's going on?" Armin asked, rubbing his eyes. His dad looked at him.

"Annie! Is she with you?" He asked his one and only son.

"N-no, she's at home-" Armin stopped, and looked at his father. "She is at home...right?" His father raced out of his room, Armin followed him out still in his pajamas.

When he reached the living room he found both of Annie's parents, along with his and his grandfather.

From the way they were dress, they just gotten home from the Inn.

"Oh, Armin." Annie's mother said. She went up to him. "Please, tell me that our daughter is up there in your room. Please tell me she is in your room, sleeping." She begged.

Armin was hesitant.

He didn't even know what was going on.

"What's going on...where's....I..." He stammered.

"Armin honey, Annie didn't come home. Please tell me she is in your room sleeping." said her mother.

Armin froze.

Her faced flashed in his mind.

Annie?

"Armin!" She cried. Armin blinked.

"If she was in my room, I'll tell you...but she's not." Armin finally said.

He watched as her mother, that was once filled with hope, go into her husbands arms.

"Did you walk her home?" He asked.

Armin looked at everyone, they seemed tired, scared, worried.

Her father then went up to him. "Did you walk her home?" He pushed. Armin bowed his head.

"Only halfway." He muttered.

"Armin?" Her father asked. Armin looked up at him, scared.

"I....she....I only walked her halfway..."

"Why halfway!" He pushed. Armin froze, and snatched his phone.

Checking for messages, or calls, or texts. Nothing.

"She confidence me to stop walking her home. Just to trust her. She told me she would be fine, and I tried so hard to go with her, but she got into my head and I agreed with her. She promised me she'll text me once she gets home." Armin told her father. "I'm sorry...."

Her father dropped to his knees, in front of the scared blonde boy.

"Yes daddy, there's no need to worry."

"W-where are the cops...w-why aren't they searching?" Armin asked, now looking at his father.

"We called them, and they said that they won't start searching until she's been missing for 24 hours." He replied.

Armin opened his mouth.

"That's stupid!" He said.

"W-where were you, when you walked her halfway home?" Asked Annie's mother.

"Just down the block." Armin said. "That's where I last seen her."

"She couldn't have just disappeared like this." His grandfather said.