Weeks went by without a word. If a girl like Tiffany who was well-liked can just go missing in the mall what else could happen? People were starting to stay at home and shop online. Resturants were some of the only places, not suffering, the police had publicly classified Tiffany a runaway but the sheer number of people who didn't buy that story and went online discussing it had made what once was a private matter in a small town into a national story. Media from all over sick of reporting on the Tweets coming out of the oval office had latched on to this story sensing it had actual meat and the people were starving for a real story.
Why would a pretty popular teen from a small town run away when she had been going out looking for things for the school homecoming? Her own homecoming committee said that Tiffany was more the type of girl to go out with a general theme in mind and that she kept records of everything in duplicate one in her school locker and one in her purse. She was just that serious about everything she did. This was the girl local police wanted the town and now the nation to believe would just choose to run away? Runaways also took more than the clothes on their backs. Also, they were seen leaving the mall.
The more the people questioned the hader the media pushed for answers. None of that was good for the Mayor or the Chief of Police. The Mayor thought it would all die down if he said nothing. He also had the perfect fall guy in the Chief of Police. After all, he was only was as good as the men who reported to him. The resignation of the chief left the mayor and the mayor alone responsible for the Red File Unit. The paper the chief and mayor were the only three that knew about its existence and what it hid in this small town. His two conspirators having moved far away. His Honor was the one holding the bag and he didn't want to ride this out alone. So he turned on his shredder and started getting rid of calenders and private files. His Wife and his Secretary were so pleased to see him throwing out his old papers. They had secretly begun worrying about his keeping his old files and that he was starting to hoard. Looking back they should have gone through those papes before worrying about something as simple as hoarding.
But now the Mayor hummed to himself as he watched those papers going through his crosscut shredder no one was going to blame him for what happened to that young girl. Even the most carefully kept secrets in the world can be overheard by someone somewhere. Never underestimate the most common of common men
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The Missing
Mistério / SuspenseA Highschool girl goes missing from a mall. It's a small town so one girl is worrying enough. But the cops have been keeping a massive secret from the town. If this girl isn't found soon the secret will have to come out.
