Chapter 1- The backstory of Mable

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The dark and gloomy sky says it all. I just wanted a bit of fresh air from this putrid smell of this 100 year old house! There's nothing at all to do at this boring, bland and banal house. My heads in a constant state of fog, all I can think about right now is my sister. You must be wondering why.. well my sister (who was 7 at the time), had went to her best friends house who she had known since she was 3. They were just having a normal play date, well that's what we all thought...
We went to go pick her up from Stella's house but when we got there, Stella's mother had told us she went on a walk with Stella, but they hadn't returned yet. So we waited at Stella's house for Mable (my little sister) and Stella to come home. Minutes turned to hours, and we started to suspect something bad had happened. Suddenly... *BOOM* the door smashes open, Stella on the other side sweating like a pig, tears trickling down her face, breathlessly trying to speak she just managed to say "M-M-Mable...." wondering what she meant by that Stella's mother asked her "what about Mable dear?" Stella's face turned as white as a ghost, as she said "t-taken..." I was only 8 at the time all this had happened and I was clueless about what Stella had just said. Mother crying vigorously, bolts out the door in search of Mable, while father, holding back tears he was calling 911. Hearing my Mother ever so slightly, in the distance yelling "MABLE!? MABLE PLEASE COME HOME!" It then hit me.. my sister wasn't safe anymore.. she was... TAKEN..
What had this meant for my family? What were we going to do?
The police then showed up to Stella's house and everyone in that house (not including me) had to be questioned by the police. Stella looked like she had just seen a ghost, her face was very pale and she seemed to be shaking uncontrollably. I didn't understand why she got questioned by the police but I didn't, it seemed kind of unfair because Mable was MY little sister after all.. not Stella's little sister! But that wasn't even the worst thing on my mind, I just couldn't stop thinking about if Mable was going to be okay. The police were talking to my mother and father using big adult words, I only understood a couple of words they were saying. From what I understood they said "missing child case" after that was just humongous, boring and very confusing adult words.
The police had finally left and I had time to go talk to my mother, I asked her where Mable was and when she would be coming home because I wanted to play tea party with her. My mother replied saying "I'm not sure sweetie.." and then she just exploded with tears. Did that mean Mable was never coming home?!
About a week later the police called my father and told him that they had found Mable! I got so excited that I went and ran out to the backyard and had set up our tea party! I ran inside and yelled "MOTHER IS MABLE HOME YET?" Well I was about to say that but mid sentence I paused and got a shiver down my spine. I saw my father and mother hugging each other and crying, I asked them "what's wrong?" At that very moment was the moment I was told Mable was gone... she had flown to heaven and is safer now. I was confused by this sentence, how did she fly? Can I fly and visit her? And then it hit me.
"Heaven" I thought to myself. "S-shes gone.." I had broke down and ran up the stairs and slammed Mable's bedroom door, I sat on her bed and had thought about all the fun times we had. Sobbing softly, I walked back downstairs accepting the fact that Mable was gone and I had to stay positive...
To this day, we still don't know what happened to poor Mable, the mystery will be revealed eventually, we just need to keep searching.

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