Finding Shey

By Nicky

   

I am Raelee Kay Daines; I have sandy blonde hair and grey-blue eyes. I live in Maraeus, Michigan. It is a suburban town and heavily wooded. My story begins on May 23.              

Something has happened to my little sister, Shey. I should’ve noticed the signs earlier. She hadn't been acting like herself since my parent’s big fight. Divorce wasn’t an option for them but I don’t think Shey knew that. These past few days she has been reserved, she didn’t talk or eat much. I confronted her about this but she just shrugged and went to her room. I didn’t think she would take it as far as she did.
           The next morning I got up, did the usual, and walked downstairs for breakfast. I was puzzled by Shey’s absence because she has never missed breakfast before and didn’t have anything going on that day or she would have told me where she was. I go upstairs to see if she is still asleep only to see her bed made and her gone. I look around for a note. None. I go outside to check if she might be out there. I don’t see her but I do see my neighbor, Jace.

Jace and I have never really gotten along well. He has shaggy brown hair, bright green eyes and is the hot, popular, star football quarterback and with me being far away from popularity; I think now you can see why we don’t get along. Well, anyway, I saw Jace across the fence and went over to talk to him.

“Hey Jace have you seen Shey at all today?”

He replied with “No, why did you lose her?”

“Haha, very funny.” I growled at him and stormed back inside my house.

I decided to call my mom and ask her if she knew where Shey was. She said that she didn’t know where she was but that I shouldn’t worry. Well, I did worry because I knew something was up with Shey. But I told my mom that I wouldn’t worry, told her I loved her and hung up. I was left with the question: where was Shey?

I made the decision to go looking for Shey. I left a note so my parents wouldn’t worry. I went outside and saw Jace still standing there. I went up to him because I was so desperate.

I asked him, “Could you drive me around town to look for Shey?”

He asked,”Why do you need to find her?”

    I replied, “Because I think she’s done something stupid.”

Jace sighed, “Give me one good reason why I should help, she probably just went somewhere with her friends.”

    “You don’t understand, Shey tells me everything so why wouldn’t she tell me where she was going?”

“Fine, but I will stay in the car so people don’t see me with you.”  Jace  grumbled.

Jerk, I mumbled to myself. “ “Well let’s get going then.”

We got in his car which was a bright red camaro and took off. We stopped everywhere I could think of that Shey might be. I was exhausted by the time I got home. I thanked Jace for the ride and went into the house feeling very depressed that we hadn’t found Shey.

           “Where were you!!!?”  my mom cried, “First this morning I get a call from you saying Shey’s gone and then when I got home you were also gone!”
           “I’m sorry mom, didn’t you see the note I left on the counter?”

“No I didn’t see anything on the counter!”  my mother exclaimed.

“ Oh, it must have have floated off when you walked by.”  

“Do you think Shey will come back soon? I asked Mom.

“I sure hope so” my mother sighed, “ When your Father gets home we’ll see what we can do.”

I went to my room to think about ways I could find Shey. I noticed my shade was pulled down which was odd because I don’t usually have it down. and I don’t recall pulling it down today so I  went over to check it out and when I pulled it up I saw a note taped to my window.

iF yOu eVeR waNT to SeeE yOur SisTer aLIve aGaiN

I suGGesT You kEep yoUr nOsE ouT Of my bUisNEss.

I screamed and felt myself getting dizzy and suddenly all I could see was black.

I woke up to see Jace standing over me with the note in his hand with a confused and shocked look on his face.

“What’s going on? I heard a scream.”  Jace asked me.

I just started to cry and ran to Jace and cried in his arms. He was shocked at first but then put his arms around me and held me till I was done.

“Whatever is going on I will be there for you.” Jace said tenderly. I fell asleep knowing that whatever we were going to go through to find Shey, Jace was going to be by my side.