Chapter 12

Alexa

James was not back when we left Emma’s house so we locked the door and left the key under a flower pot for him. We bagged a pecan pie into a paper bag and took along with us to give Ava’s parents when we got there and a couple of apples and a slice of sandwich for the long road. Em noticed the weird looks sooner than I did on my way here. She asked me if I noticed it.

“Yes,” I said. I had forgotten to tell her about them. The looks were more intense and openly sinister now.

“What do you think they think we did?”She asked.

“That we came home without a friend and refused to look for her.”

Emma sighed, “That's true but these looks are too intense for that.”

Em was right people had gone missing and the anonymity towards their friends were this open or unveiled something else that we don't know must be happening. We walked on in silence, the food in our arms as people went out of our way on the sidewalks like we carried a plague. They removed their babies and strollers from us like