Silent Sister

Chapter 8: Missing or Taken?

        

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"She's what?" I ask not understanding.

"Alex, she's gone." My mother replies in a serious tone.

"What do you mean she's gone? You mean like ran away...?"

"No Alex, as in taken unwillingly. Stolen." She says her gaze faltering from the road.

"And what does this have to do with me?" I ask with my arms folded.

She stares hard on the road as her gaze flickers to her watch before answering.

"Alex you wouldn't understand if I told you. Sweetheart there are secrets, secrets I have tried to keep from you so you'd be-"

"No mom, what I don't understand is why you would come and get me from the middle of class just because of Lancey's absence." I say with a huff. This whole "didn't tell me for my own good was getting on my last nerve.

"Alex, dear I need you to listen to me." She says as she meets my gaze.

"There are things in this world that if I told you about, you would call me crazy and have me admitted to an asylum."

"Ok, well what does any of this have to do with Lancey missing?" I ask my attention going to my phone.

"Oh, it has everything to do with Lancey. Look, Alex I need you to be open minded. We're leaving and it is going to be very dangerous- Ugh! Alex are you even listening?" She says in a clearly upset tone. My attention turns back to my mother as her words register in my head.

"What do you mean we're leaving?!" I yell making her jump.

"Alex  your sister is far, far away from home. The only way she can come home is if we go and rescue her." She says all at once and turns to look at me.

"Mom you're not making any sense. Where is she? Why can't you get her yourself?" I say not understanding.

 "Alex I'll explain everything else later, but right now we need to go in and get packed." She says in a dismissive tone as I look out the windshield to see our house. 

         Mom stops the car not bothering to turn of the engine, and gets out. Weird. I unbuckle my seat-belt and follow after her. As she approaches the door with her keys she notices it's slightly ajar. She slowly opens the doors and cautiously walks in. 

"Mom, you need to tell me what is going on." I say as she walks through the door. She seems suspicious, yet oblivious as to what I am saying to her as she silences me with a swift motion to her lips. I noticed this and quietly followed behind her. She walks around the living room searching through several misplaced items. 

"They've been here." She's frantic as she peers around the misplaced room.

As if realization crosses her mind she quickly runs toward the television and drops to the floor beside the lamp. She then rummages through a cabinet beneath the television and throws the objects it contained onto the floor, retrieving a small box, a plain gray, with black wording on it, in a language that was unfamiliar to me. Relieved, she lets out a small sigh.

        "They're near." She says, clutching the small gray box to her chest. I eye her strangely as she dismisses my look and frantically sets the box down onto the coffee table. "Alex we need to go. Now, pack only what you need." She says as the seriousness of her tone settles into the air, as if an aura of panic was coming off of her.