Short Horror Stories.

Part 3

The next morning Wyatt's mother Katie was out looking for him since he didn't come home. She found one of his friends Peter and asked him where her son was. She knew they were close because they were always together. Always since Wyatt was five and Peter came to his birthday party. A few years later Lewis joined their posse. Then when a new boy moved to town they let him join. His name was Jordan.

Peter told Katie a shameful story.

"Wyatt told me last night we were no longer friends anymore and then he laughed in my face and ran off into the woods"

Katie didn't believe Peter so she went to find Lewis and Jordan.

Lewis and Jordan repeated Peter's story. They had told each other it over and over again to make it believable. Katie became worried. What had happened to her little boy? Why did he run off into the woods alone? Was he okay?  All thoughts were going through her mind. Her main issue was Why didn't he come home?

Katie went to find the sheriff, She told him Peter's story and Jordan and Lewis said the same thing so sheriff Dan went to investigate.

 As it got dark Katie paced at the door and before Dan could knock again she flung the door open.

"Have you found him, is he okay?"

Dan took his hat off and Katie fell to the floor sobbing and screaming. Dan didn't say anything She just knew. Call it a mothers intuition.

The search party including the boys found Wyatt's blood in the well but there was no body. Dan went inside the well but all he found was Wyatt's blood and his left shoe that Katie identified as Wyatt's.

As a sign of sympathy the town held a funeral for Wyatt and they buried his soaking wet shoe instead of a body.