Gone

Haley Raelyn Crider was best friends with Mason Joseph Lee. She was 9, he was 10.
One day at their secret spot, Mason goes to retrieve a ball. After he doesn't return for a while, Haley runs home and tells his mother she went for a ball and never returned.
Police searched for weeks, but finally realized their searching was going nowhere.

Years later, Haley is now 16 and in high school. She never stopped missing Mason and was so hurt from losing him, that now she is too scared to become friends with anybody else. Everybody else does not know about Mason. She goes to high school and everybody thinks she is an insecure freak.
For some reason though, they can never go near her if they have mean intentions, like bullying. It is as if she has a force field around her.

She didn't want to be friends with anybody else anyway. She wanted Mason back.

Will she find him? If she found him, would he remember her? Would she recognize him?