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2022-08-02 15:09:35When I was a little girl, my friends and I would play in the woods behind my house. One day around six-thirty, we were playing hide and seek. I hid in the bush, which wasn’t my usual hiding spot. I waited there crouched down, but no one found me, and I never found them. I was alone in the dark, and it was so quiet that all I heard was the soft rustling of the wind in the trees.
“Sarah Tyler, Brad, Katie?!” I looked around. “Where are you guys?”The bush in front of me started to shake. I was scared. Then a hand touched my shoulder. I screamed.“It’s okay Mandy,” My Dad picked me up. I was eight years old then.“Daddy, I can’t find Sarah, Tyler, Brad, or Katie.” I wrapped my chubby arms around his neck.“It’s alright. I’m sure their parents have found them already.” He turned and started to walk away. I saw a man come out of the bushes. I open my mouth to scream, but he put his finger to his lips, and I stayed silent.Daddy took me inside; we sat down at the table for dinner. Mommy put carrots on my plate. I hate carrots; I ate everything but the carrots.“Amanda, eat your carrots,” Mommy said.“But I don’t like carrots.” I scrunched up my nose.“I don’t care, eat them.” Mommy gave me her stern look.I put a carrot in my mouth. It was gross. I opened my mouth to spit I back on my plate.“Don’t you even think about it.”The phone rang. Mommy went to answer it. As she walked to the phone, I gave my carrots to Daddy; he likes carrots.“Hello? Oh, Hi Mrs. Barber… No, I have not seen Sarah…. No Amanda’s right here. The kids didn’t come in with her… OH MY GOD… Tyler, Brad, and Katie are gone too? .... well, of course, I’ll help…. That’s strange…Amanda, what were you guys doing in the woods?”“Playing hide and seek,” I said.“Well, maybe they got lost. I’m coming right now. Daniel will stay home. Just in case something is wrong. Alright, be right there.” Mommy hung up the phone.Mommy went upstairs, grabbed a robe, and two flashlights. She came back downstairs and kissed Daddy and me on the cheek. The Mommies and Daddies of Sarah, Tyler, Brad, and Katie went out that night and every night. But they never found them each day they would go a little farther in the woods and come up short. By the next week, the police joined the search, and the week after that, the whole neighborhood was up day and night looking for them. No one could ever think that something like this would happen in our small town of Foxburg, Pennsylvania.
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It’s been months since I have seen Amanda. I know I should have stayed with her in that house. I was so stupid. Who knows what the man has been doing to her. Why was I so dumb? She left a trail, but it ended in an open meadow and then it stopped.“Do you have any leads at all?” I asked Josh. “All we know is that his name is Jonathan Pantelli.” Josh responded, “Have you gotten a hold of his wife?” “No, we have been focusing on finding Amanda.” “Don’t you think talking to his wife would get you closer to finding Amanda?” “It doesn’t’ seem as though she would be helpful, so we didn’t talk to her.” “Amanda was right you guys are idiots.” I walked away from them.” I found Pantelli’s wife online. I asked her to meet with me at noon at the café on seventh. She responded with sure. I guess if you want something done you must do it yourself. I left Mrs. Thompson’s house and walked to the café. It was a twenty minute walk. Mrs. Pantelli was sitting outside in the sitting ar
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It was just me and Tyler, we had lost the others. Whatever was chasing us wasn’t too far behind. We turned the corner I don’t know how long we have been running but it feels like it’s been hours. “Do you even know what’s chasing us?” I asked Tyler out of breath. “I don’t know but I’d rather it not catches up with us.” I bent down and took the throwing knife at my ankle and handed it to Tyler.“Why are you giving this to me?” “If you see whatever is chasing us, stab it.” “Alright.” We kept running. We turned another corner and bumped into Sarah, Brad, and Katie “How are we going to get out of here?” Sarah asked. “We aren’t,” Katie said. “Don’t think that way,” I said. “Why not we have been in this maze forever,” Katie said. “We should follow the sun,” I said. “What good will that do?” Brad asked. The ground started shaking. “It will keep whatever that is away from us. Here.” I handed each of them a knife. I kept my two daggers strapped to my arm and my butte
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He set the house on fire and it’s moving toward the back where my room is. I dialed 911. “911 what’s your emergency.” “My name is Amanda Amara Thompson. I am 18 years old and my parents were killed by the man who kidnapped those four children ten years ago, and now he has set my house on fire to draw me out. By the time dispatch will get to my house the man will have me and my house will be nothing but rubble. Please find me. I’ll try to leave a trail to follow. Find Dr. Oliver Valero and tell him what happened. Send him and the rest of the family I have left away from this place.” “Ma’am we can help you. Dispatch will be there in five minutes.” “It’s too late.” I hung up. I haven’t thrown any of my knives and I’m pretty sure he doesn’t know that I’m proficient in knife throwing and fighting with knives. I put on my boots and a sweatshirt to cover the daggers on my arms and the throwing knives at my ankles. I take a breath. I can’t kill him, yet I must save the others if
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He set the house on fire and it’s moving toward the back where my room is. I dialed 911. “911 what’s your emergency.” “My name is Amanda Amara Thompson. I am 18 years old and my parents were killed by the man who kidnapped those four children ten years ago, and now he has set my house on fire to draw me out. By the time dispatch will get to my house the man will have me and my house will be nothing but rubble. Please find me. I’ll try to leave a trail to follow. Find Dr. Oliver Valero and tell him what happened. Send him and the rest of the family I have left away from this place.” “Ma’am we can help you. Dispatch will be there in five minutes.” “It’s too late.” I hung up. I haven’t thrown any of my knives and I’m pretty sure he doesn’t know that I’m proficient in knife throwing and fighting with knives. I put on my boots and a sweatshirt to cover the daggers on my arms and the throwing knives at my ankles. I take a breath. I can’t kill him, yet I must save the others if
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