Deception

Part 3

*beep beep*

Ugh, school. I check my phone, seeing if I could manage hitting the snooze button. I think I can work with it. I click ' snooze' on my phone and role over to try to get comfy.

"Ahhh"

"What what is it?!"

I open my eyes to see Emma starting right at me.

" Sorry... I..." I stop and rub my face, trying to put all my energy into making a basic sentence. " I" *yawn* " I forgot you were here."

"Ahhhh"

Casey has just woken up and had the same reaction as both me and Emma. "Wow I completely forgot about me being here, how does our minds just forget things like that, like maybe my body..."

"Casey. I'm too tired to listen to your rambles right now. Ivy, can you please move over, if I don't get breakfast now, you might not be so fond of me."

"Well I'm coming with you" At this point, our is distracting us too much to realise why we are sleeping in the same room, but that doesn't mean we want to remember anyway.

As I walk down the stairs, I see the shards of the vase I dropped last night. The memories came back to haunt me, and I could see by the expressions on Emma and Casey's face that it did for them too.

Emma speaks up, saying almost exactly what I was thinking in my head. "Can we just get breakfast first?, I can't talk about this yet"

I walk to the kitchen, being sure not to step on a piece of glass that had managed to bounce away from the hall.

It was only till we had finished eating that someone spoke.

"So, what are we actually meant to do. I don't know how I am meant to feel, or how I should be reacting right now, but I think that we should be doing something that isn't just sitting at a table. How about we get ready for school?"

Me and Casey glare at Emma, giving her the 'really' face.

"Ok ok, I made a mistake. Why don't we try to figure out what the heck happened last night, and why they took all of out parents. How about we start making a journal, of everything we know?"

"A journal, we aren't detectives Emma, we'll just go down to the police station and report them missing. Then they'll find them and we can stop worrying."

Now it was Emma giving the judgy face.

"The police haven't figured out one of the missing persons cases. I know they're professionals, but I can't just sit back and wait for them to figure it out. I'm writing down what we know, whether you like it or not, and I am not letting you down to that police station."

When Emma has her mind set on something, there isn't much changing her mind.

" Well I have an old book I was given in a stationary set I never used, why don't we use that? It may be a little... unique, but it'll do the job.

Emma lifts her eyebrows, most likely wondering what I meant by unique, but nodded anyway. "Be quick, and don't forget a pen"

I run over to one of the drawers, and pull out a light up, fluffy, glittery, pink book, and drop it on the table right in front of Emma's face.

"Oh and I almost forgot."

I give an awkward laugh and set the pen down too.

Casey touches the fluff on it, and it starts singing a crackly version of 'you don't know your beautiful'

"Wow, it sings as well. Very...cool"

Emma opens the book, hiding the disaster of a cover for everyone's sake.

Time: 5:34 am

She draws a line under her only fact and looks up.

"Is that really all we know?"

Casey points at the page. "don't forget about the light. It might be important."

Emma scribbles down ' white bright light', and continues her sentence as if she never stopped speaking.

" Come on, we must know something else."

I look around the room, thinking maybe their might be a clue. Just as I thought, nothing.

"Well how about we check my parents room, try to see if there is anything I missed."

Once Emma made the final decision, we walked up and stood outside their door.

"Now I'm just warning you that I checked last time and nothing was different."

I twisted the handle and peeked into the room, suspecting it would be exactly the same. What I saw was definitely not that. " um guys, I think we found another clue."

I pushed open the door fully, so Emma and Casey could see what I saw.

A giant red cloak was floating right in the centre of the room, somehow glowing but still managing to make the room feel dark.

Emma picked up the pen and threw at the cloak, not know what else to do. As soon as it touched the fabric, it disappeared, no trace of it left behind.

"Um...I think I need another pen to write that down"

"You think!? A massive coat just ate your pen!
I think we can write it down later!"

Emma nods, still with a look of confusion on her face.

I walk through them and into the room to get a better look.

"Ivy don't touch it."

Now way I didn't think of that after I just saw a pen vanishing in thin air. Not answering her, I inspect the cloak closely, trying to take in every detail incase it disappears. It is rimmed with a reflective gold strip, that looks like metal but seems to be bending like a fabric. Purple dots are randomly placed all down the back, and an unfamiliar symbol is sown onto the front, where the pocket usually goes. It also is definitely not made for a human, as the bottom comes down to a point, and the waist comes out as two other points, as if someone had stuck two ice cream cones as the side.

"*achoo*, sorry guys, it's the cat, she makes my allergies work up."

"Casey, stop her, don't let her get her the coat!"

Before Casey can grab her, it ran up to the cloak and started to rub against it. I look away, not wanting to have to see my cat vanish too.

"Is it over?"

"I don't know what to say"

"Emma, what is she talking about"

I turn around, and see that my cat is growing twice in size, three times, four times.

I run over and pull her away, before she can get any bigger.

"Is this a dream? Did I just see that?"

Emma and Casey are giving me the same look I'm giving them.

"Um, I think this is a good time to start adding to our journal."

And with that, we wrote down everything we saw, it felt like a proper case now, we have found out more then the police have in over a year.