Summers within

Moontight

SORRY THIS TOOK SO LONG! i've just been kinda stuck?? Anywho enjoy Triple A for this chapter!!!

(April POV)

After we got back from the forest we all sat in the living room of our usual hangout place. Bags of snacks left out on the coffee table. A movie playing The 'Burbs which gave the room quiet sounds. They were out cold, curled up like kids at a sleepover, the glow of the screen dancing over their faces.

Allen and I on the other hand were at the kitchen island. Elbows resting on the polished wood. Thinking about anything, nothing, our families, what happens next. The black book in the middle of us, taunting us. Neither of us could touch it.

"Are you guys just going to keep staring at it?" Aryan said suddenly emerging from the dark.

Allen shot him a glance. Telling him to Fuck off with his eyes

"what you're freaking me out" Aryan proceeded to go in the fridge then drink straight out of the milk carton

"oh come on man you're fucking nasty" Allen called out

"I mean what are we supposed to do?"
I asked
"Burn it? Write in it? Maybe write a letter and send it off." Aryan said pushing me aside
"You can read? thought you forgot how, you're like sixty."
"Shut up."
"You're literally so fu-"

"Let's read it." Allen said suddenly.
"Why should we sit around? We might be in danger? April you told us about those kids who went missing. That could be us soon ..." He paused for a second "Or them." He said motioning towards The other 3 cuddling up on the couch

We open the book to the random page.

December 2nd. 1930

Today. they came for my daughter.
Betty-May. Only just turned eighteen.

Of all the winters I have weathered in this place, this one bites the deepest. It is not just the wind there is something colder in the air now. Something watching. Something taking.

I must leave. I must disappear. If you're reading this, then perhaps I am already gone.
But please... don't let this vanish with me. Help uncover what's being done to these children. The truth is buried under layers of silence and fear.

I swear on all I have left, I will do everything in my power to make sure someone knows.
Even if it costs me my life.

Let them remember we tried.

2AM

"Uhh, guys, what do i need to do if i pee? PSHH over," Allen said over the walkie talkie
"Shut the fuck up Allen."  Aryan scolded
"Where's the PSHH over?"
"We're not even out of the car yet"
"Uhh, suck it. PSHH over"
"I'll fucking mur-"
"Guys, calm down".
"Uhh shut up PSHH- " I took Allen's walkie talkie  from him.

We all discussed our plan in the car The 2 boys were sitting in the front. Me in the back because i'm a girl. and apparently "have cooties"
"Let's just get to the forest and find this out." I said passing the devices over
"We can spit up now because of the walkie talkies, but only when needed."

We all got out of the car, following closely to each other, We reached the forest.
"Alright me and Mave went this way." i said pointing northeast
"Once i find a spot i don't remember then we split up."
We all walked into the forest. Our surroundings  getting darker with each step.

We made our way through the woods. Every crunch of the leaves making me flinch

"What's that?" I heard Allen say. And there it was, the trap door.
"I'll go first. i know where we need to go."

2:28 AM

"Guys i might actually piss myself" Allen said with a deep sense of worry on his skinny face. I looked at him. "Maybe i should go alone" i thought "Shut up Allen" Aryan said "It's okay... We will figure this out and tell adults."

We followed each other down the stairs, creaking noises with each step. We entered the familiar library. Allen cringing at the smell.
"Alright it was one of these books" i said moving my fingers along the bookshelf.

*click*

The bookshelf was moving again
All 3 of us stumbled into the room. It looks the same. "Let's see what we can find.. " i said Then get out. This place is giving me the creeps"

We all searched for a little while finding nothing.
"This old guy seems really into Sam" Allen said looking through papers scattered on the desk
"Small town boy missing" "Disappeared from the face of the earth." he read the papers out loud

Then he paused.

"What if they sent him to the mental hospital because he had a relationship with Sam, and then went crazy once he went missing" Allen suggested. Aryan hit him in response

"Dude i doubt he likes kids"
"Not that, look at this." Allen said holding up a piece of paper It's a letter saying something about how 'we'll be together soon' and 'We have the son we've always wanted' Maybe him and someone else were trying to find him? So they can like adopt him"

I paused "That actually makes sense.." Allen was making sense? The same guy who believed that chocolate milk came from brown cows, and sugar came from heaven was making sense?

I thought about the times where my older brother and him would hangout after school.
"Sam rarely ever went home.. And my older brother never went to his house."

Then we heard creaking down the steps. "Shit does Mave know where this place is?" Aryan hissed panic rising in his voice

"No, she was looking back the entire time we were on the way here."

*click*

"fuck."

We all scattered around the room. diving in the darkness

Old man perry walked in. I squeezed my eyes shut. praying to whoever would listen
"please don't let him notice" i thought

"Oh Sammy.. you fell again" The old man said to himself He picked up the old picture. Silence.

"Who's in here."

We're screwed.