My Sister is Missing by Carissa Ann Lynch

Author:Carissa Ann Lynch
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780008324483
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2018-10-25T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

By the time I made it back, the officers were packing up their kits and Paul was furious with me. ‘I didn’t know where you’d gone.’ The other officers were watching us again, playful smiles on their faces. For some reason, their cheeriness pissed me off. My sister is missing, dammit!

‘Don’t mind me, I was just doing your jobs for you!’ I shouted back. Their smiles faded away, and Paul looked stricken. ‘Someone was watching her from those woods.’ I pointed, wildly. ‘It looks like someone was sitting out there, watching my sister, all the while having a snack. You need to do DNA testing. And … you also need to drag that lake. Maybe she fought back, and whoever took her got hurt before he drove off in her Jeep. That could be the killer’s blood on the headrest. And the water … there’s a body of water in those woods, in case you guys didn’t know.’ I aimed these last words at the young officers. They probably knew nothing about those woods, but Paul did.

‘Please. I need to know if she’s in there,’ I cried, desperate.

Paul, no longer caring what his fellow officers thought, wrapped me in his arms and pulled me close. Much to my dismay, I started sobbing into his chest.

‘Do you remember that girl who disappeared when we were kids?’ I mumbled.

‘What?’ He pushed back on my shoulders and gave me a look I couldn’t define. ‘Sarah Goins. How could I forget it?’

‘They dragged that lake down there when she went missing. They can do it again,’ I told him.

Paul nodded. ‘That was when I was a kid, too, so I don’t remember exactly how it went down … but I’m pretty sure they’ll have to bring in specialized divers for that.’

‘So, what are you saying – they won’t do it?’

‘They will, if it comes to that. Boys, stop loading up. We need to go down to the woods to collect more evidence.’

I stood at the kitchen window, the same window that some creep had probably watched my sister from his perch in the woods. Watching the officers disappear between the trees, all I could feel was impending doom. Was there a chance that my sister could still be alive?

I hadn’t eaten all day, but I wasn’t hungry. I opened and closed my sister’s refrigerator, staring at Ben’s drawings of Five Nights at Freddy’s and Shelley’s drawings of swirly pink and purple clouds and tiny yellow hearts. I wondered what they were doing right now. Were they worried about their mother? Shelley seemed so young and resilient, but Ben was fragile. I could imagine him right now, rocking back and forth at Starla’s house, his entire routine thrown off even more than it already had been.

There was a loaf of bread and a bruised bunch of bananas. I pulled a slice off the loaf and chewed it, not tasting the food. From here, I could see shadowy figures moving through the woods – the officers were searching.

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