Until I Disappeared Novels & Stories

“Clara! This is all a misunderstanding!” At that moment, the police arrived. One officer looked at Jason and said in a serious tone, “Mr. Jason, we’ve been investigating your disappearance, but there is no record of you leaving the country. Can you explain where you were?” Jason tried to argue, but before he could, I took out my phone and played a video I had just recorded on the back staircase. “Jason, this time, it’s your turn to feel the torment I went through.”

After saying those words, Elizabeth walked away without looking back. Ember's whole world collapsed at her feet. How would she accept that her whole existence had been all a lie?

"This isn't the time nor the place for this, and you know it. You even said it yourself, you don't need any distractions." Dis smiled as he nodded slightly. "I need to get back home before all hell breaks loose, literally, and there's no earth for you to exist on. Besides, it feels really gross being around all this new love energy that's going on here. But I promise you, this isn't over." Dis then winked at me right before he snapped his fingers and disappeared. "I hate to say it, but maybe everything that Timophy and Chantel did worked in our favor," Izzy said as she walked up to me.

I couldn’t escape this pain. Anna, Anna, Anna! The world suddenly started shaking around me. What was going on? What was happening now? I looked around at the sea of faces. I watched in shock as, one by one, they began to disappear. Their voices faded from a roaring chorus to a gentle murmur. That sound only softened further as they continued to vanish into the darkness. Eventually, only one of them was left. Who was he though? I couldn’t tell. He wasn't Jack, or Victor, or Arthur. He wasn’t anyone, honestly. Instead, he was… everyone.

the words escape my lips, even when I don't remember moving them. "No idea, but you know what's more shocking?" The girl shakes her head like she's about to reveal unbelievable information. I shake my head slowly, signaling that I have no idea. "Three months after she called it off, she disappeared," the girl says frantically. "Like, literally disappeared. Poof! No news, and suddenly she was gone, like vanishing into thin air." She's so good at making it sounds so gripping that it even sends chills through my body. Maybe she should become a storyteller.

However, I didn't dare scratch myself and pulled out my phone to call for an Uber. Unfortunately, Roseland Manor was too remote, and no drivers accepted my ride request. After waiting about ten minutes, a driver finally agreed to come, but less than a minute later, he canceled the order. That moment broke me, and I wondered why I'd been given hope only for it to be yanked away. The Uber driver did so, and so did Colleen. My eyes welled up as I crouched down, hugging my shoulders. I figured I must have looked absolutely ridiculous in that moment, crying while scratching all over like a pathetic fool.

My stomach burned from hunger until it stopped burning and just felt numb. I had screamed until my voice died. I had cried until I had no tears left. Now all I could do was breathe slowly and hope my mind wouldn’t fall apart. I leaned my head against the wall. My vision blurred. Everything spun. Maybe this was how people disappeared— not with a gunshot, not with blood, just with silence. But even when I no longer believed in being saved… even when I knew no one could hear me… I still opened my mouth. “L… Luca…”

“Yeah. You disappeared, then suddenly you walked in here with everything we needed. What happened?” I took a shaky breath, feeling the weight of their eyes. For so long, I hadn’t trusted myself to speak. But now? Now I wanted them to know. “It was the fall,” I said softly. “This morning, I hit the ground, it was like pieces of me shattered. But when I stood up, the pieces weren’t gone. They came back. Memories. His threats. His schemes. Even the passwords I’d forgotten. It all came back to me.” ………….

So I kept going. “I disappeared because I was taken. That night we had dinner…” I paused, swallowing hard. “Black masks. A dark van. I didn’t know who they were. They kept me away from you until you disappeared and when they released me they warned me not to ever show my face or else they would kill me.” Her lips parted slightly, and her brows stood up. “I was gone for months,” I said, my voice shaking. “And when I came back… everything had changed. You were gone. I tried to didn’t try to search for that time because I was very confused, scared and I didn’t even know where to start.”

He just let me fall apart. When the tears finally slowed I stayed pressed against him, breathing in his smell. “I feel like I’m disappearing,” I whispered. “Every day another piece of me is gone. The girl who used to believe in love. The girl who thought if she was just quiet enough she could make Adrian happy. The girl who still believed her father was perfect. She’s gone. And I don’t know who’s left.”