• Where's Ashley?

    It was a cold morning of December. I couldn't see no one coming down the road, but I knew it couldn't be true. She can't be gone. I never thought this would happen. Finally I reached the school. No one even knew who Ashley was. I wasn't crying on the outside, but I knew, just on the inside, I wanted to cry so much. Me and Ashley had been friends since we weren't even able to walk yet. "No....She had such a good life......She said she would never ever leave, She said she loved being with us.......So after everything she said, why would she ever leave?" I thought to myself. My face turned red, My eyes turned pink, and a tear fell from my eye.

    I approached my classroom, and walked in. "Ms.Stipp, you are late." Said Ms.Monteguer. "Sorry, I couldn't get any earlier......" Mrs.Monteguer interrupted, "No excuses"
    "O.K Ms.Monteguer." I sat in the back of the class and gazed out the window. I waited. Waited for Ashley.

    I never thought it would be her. The floor was icy white. There were fresh footprints on the floor. I knew it wasn't her's though. I put my head down, and cried. No one noticed, and no one cared. It might feel like nothing to them, it was everything to me. I knew Ashley. I knew she wouldn't do this.

    "Ms.Stipp, is there something wrong?" Asked Ms.Monteguer. "Something you would like to talk about?" "Yes. Yes, Ms.Monteguer I would like to say something." I responded. I reached into my backpack and pulled out a paper. "Good morning everyone. As you may not know, my best friend, Ashley, has gone missing. Police are on the case, but they are probably not going to find her. That's why I'm telling you. Have any of you seen her?" I showed them the paper. It was a picture of her. No one responded. I looked down sadly. More tears fell down.

    Instead of going straight home, like I usually do, I dropped my backpack on the sidewalk and ran as fast as I can. The breeze blew my blonde hair and tears backward. And my eyes started burning, but I kept running. Running until I didn't know where I was. My eyes stopped burning, and I saw where I was. I was near a car tunnel. It was dark under. As I looked around, I saw something very weird. I saw something leaned closly against the wall of the tunnel, as I got closer, I saw red hair. Just like Ashley's. Brown eyes, just like Ashley's. As I approached it, it had a dark blue jacket, skinny blue jeans, and blue Nike shoes, just like the clothes she was wearing before she went missing.

    "It couldn't be her!" I mumbled to myself. I kept saying "No" but in my head I knew it was her. I turned back around and ran back to where I dropped my backpack. I couldn't believe it was still there. I grabbed it and ran all the way back to the car tunnel. I grabbed my cell phone. Until a shadow fell over my body. I looked up. It was a man with black clothing on. I screamed. "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" My screams were shut off. Everything went black. Next thing I knew, Ashley turned and looked at me, and said, "Why did you come?" "I knew you weren't dead" I responded. "You have no clue where you are right?" Then there was a long moment of silence. Then I knew where I was. "Am I........dead?" I asked. "Bingo." She said. I heard so much laughter. "OH NO!"