Missing

Chapter one

People in New York were going missing and all I could think about was how unfair my dad was and how much I hated him for not letting me go to the big Halloween blow out bash that everyone was going to, everyone except me that is.

“Please dad!” I tried for the third time since I had come home from school where my friend told me about the party. But my dad just stared back at me from his seat on the couch.

“No.” He said for the third time since I asked him ten minutes ago.

“What, why not?” I shouted, I hadn’t meant to shout at him but I was getting restless. This would be the first time I’d been invited to a party since junior high, and even back then I hadn’t been invited it was just my mother telling Roman to drag me along with him. And after years of not being invited to anything there was no way in hell I was going to be missing out on this one.

“Because I said so Mimi, there are people going missing and you still have school to worry about.” My dad was surprisingly calm when he spoke though he was still giving me that “look” he always gave me when he was upset with me and Roman over anything.

“Dad, c’mon I bet if Roman asked to go you’d let him.” I pleaded shouting again.

“Remy I just said no...and if Roman asked me I would say no to him too.” I could tell by his voice that my dad was getting irritated with me. He still wasn’t used to living with me and Roman without mom here to help him out.

“What’s all the noise about?” Elizabeth called from the kitchen; Elizabeth is my dad’s new girl friend who lives with us. They’ve been dating for almost a year; she’s only lived with us for a few months but she’s already trying to replace my mother...as if she ever could.

I rolled my eyes; I hated Elizabeth, She wasn’t my mother but she was always trying to act as though she was. My mother was missing…maybe even dead, rotting in a cold ditch somewhere but the one thing she wasn’t was Elizabeth.

“Remy wants to go to a Halloween party on the seventeenth. What do you think?” My dad said turning on the T.V and I wished he hadn’t told her, I hate it when Elizabeth gets involved when me and my dad aren’t seeing eye-to-eye, she always took my dad’s side and then tried to act like the world was conspiring against her.  

After my dad told Elizabeth the truth the apartment seemed to go quiet and for a long time it felt like the three of us were kind of holding our breath and waiting for someone to break the silence before anyone said anything or did anything.

“Well isnt that in a few days? That's pretty last minute Mimi....I don’t think you should go.” Elizabeth said leaving the kitchen to shoot me a gross look.

“Yeah it is last minute...seventeenth is only a few days away. Well there you have it Remy; two people who don’t think you should go.” My dad said turning his attention back to me then to the T.V, he looked so tired and worn out as he watched the news feed for the millionth time. My dad is a cop and because of all of the people going missing he hasn’t been home much lately even though I know he really wants to be.  

I almost feel bad about bothering him so much about going to that stupid party but before I can stop myself I’m asking him again.

“Remy that’s the end of this. You’re not going, so don’t ask again!” My dad yelled finally fed up with me I suppose though of course I don’t blame him, after all he has been pretty stressed out with all of the work he’s been putting in trying to find these missing people.

I fix my lips to say a “but” but my dad stops me before my brain even forms the word to leave my lips.

“Don’t even I’ve put up with this long enough Remy…now you have two choices either you stay here with Liz and me or you go to your room.” My dad said issuing me one of his infamous ultimatums that he’s used to providing criminals, my brother, and now me.

“No offense but I’d rather not hang out here watching the news with you and Elizabeth…I’ll be in my room if you need me.” I answered; there was no way I was going to spend the rest of my day watching the news with my dad and his bimbo blonde girlfriend Elizabeth. 

 

My room wasn’t that big, a small slate grey box; it used to be a pretty big room until Elizabeth came along and told my dad that she needed more space, so we switched rooms. At first I was a bit ticked off but now I don’t care much.

I sat on my bed and stared out the window. We lived on the fifth floor of an apartment in the East village where all of the bars and clubs were.

I watched as a few people walk by, big groups of giggling girls, fresh from the bars and loud douche bag guys wearing sunglasses at eight at night. I had been looking out the window to see Roman, I knew he was at Rayna’s house; Rayna was his girlfriend a cute little Russian American girl who just moved here from Maine A few months ago. I had been waiting for Roman to come back home, I couldn’t wait to talk to someone in the house who wasn’t dad or Elizabeth.

But then I saw him. He was standing outside across the street from my building and he seemed like he were waiting for something maybe looking for something, but that did nothing to explain the cold feeling in my gut, like someone watching me. Was he watching me? My phone rang.

I dug my phone out of the pocket of my jeans as fast as I could. I could already tell by the ringer who it was with out looking at the caller I.D.

“Hey Jay.” I said answering my phone. Jay or Jared was my best friend; we’ve known each other since elementary school. We tell each other everything like how he told me that he was a shifter, something that he’s only told me and Roman not that I mind or anything I always thought it was kind of cool, he was like a superhero to me or something but he’d rather use his animal charm to pick up chicks. He tried it on me once or twice but I guess I’m just immune to him or something.

I took a peek out of the window but the guy was gone, though part of me really wished that he hadn’t been.

“That was weird…” I mumbled into the phone, but it wasn’t weird at all. So what if a guy stopped in front of my building and left no big deal right?

“What? …No it was nothing just something I saw outside…what no I’m not spying on people again!” I laughed.

“Am I going to the party? Ummm huh oh I have to go Jared…yeah, yeah I’ll tell you what he said tomorrow. Yeah okay I’ll tell him you said hi, yeah bye Jay.” I said looking out the window again, I don’t know why but part of me actually expected him to be there.  

After I got off of the phone with Jared I couldn’t help but feel kind of shitty for lying to him about having to get off of the phone, I just didn’t want to have to tell him that I couldn’t go to the big party, I knew how he would react and I knew I wouldn’t like it.

 

Roman came home at eleven smelling like sweat and something else gross and I didn’t need to think hard about what he had been doing. It was funny all I wanted was for Roman to come back home so I could talk to him but now that he was all I could do was keep staring out the window, I wanted to go outside and walk around but I knew my dad would give me grief about the people going missing and wouldn’t even let me touch the front doorknob.

Roman was home but it hadn’t even seemed like it he spent most of the time since he came home in the shower and in his room on the phone with Rayna,  so it didn’t even matter that I was “star gazing” out the window instead of talking to my older brother.