"Come to me, my pretty," a voice said unto me. It rattled my insides with its slither, and iced my insides with it's rasp...
"I know what you want. Come to me! Your sisters don't care about you. All they care about is finding your parents, so you can go back to a normal life in the woods. You don't want that, my dear. Oh, no. Follow me, come to me, and I will give you what you want. I mansion in Paris, a condo in the suburbs. A cabin in Norway. I will give you fame. Glory. The love of thousands of fans screaming your name!"
The mysterious voice continued to rise, as did the tension.
"I... I want it..." I mumbled, all in a daze.
"I will follow you, master."
"Yes. Yes! Come unto me, dearest Alexandria!"
I could feel myself walking into a darkness. I was being pulled in. I couldn't it stop it! I tried to scream, no voice came out.
"AUGHHHHHH!"
My eyes flipped open. I found myself asleep on a park bench, drenched in sweat.
"Awkward..." I muttered to myself, as I sat up.
And then I realized something.
Something was wrong.
Where were my sisters?
I raced around the park, "No! No!" I shouted.
"Carter?! Rikki?! Haliey, Bailey?! Kaileeeeeeee?!" No reply. I then followed my first instinct: I sat down on the bottom of the kiddy slide and wept.
"How could this be?" I moaned.
Why?!
My sobbing was abruptly stopped by a hand on my shoulder.
"Alex?"
I looked up. Rikki!
I turned around and gave her a hug.
"Oh, Rikki, I was so afraid! I thought I was lost, or y'all were lost, and, and, I'm just so glad everything's OK!"
"Alex!" Rikki yelled.
"What?" I asked, obviously in sheer confusion.
"It's not OK. Nothing is OK!"
"Huh? Wait, what do you mean?"
"They're gone. Hailey, Kailee, Bailey. Disappeared. And do you know how worried sick your poor sister Carter has been? Our three little sisters were just kidnapped, and you just lay there, sleeping, like it's all fine, just fine. And then you finally snap out of dream-land, you can't find your sisters, and what do you do? Huh? You sat there and CRIED! CRIED! If we're going to find our parents, you're going to need to step it up. You're dragging us all down! You're a baby, your'e a drama queen, I knew you should've just stayed home and babysat the girls. Maybe then we could have done something..."
"What? Rikki, I'm sorry. I didn't know!"
"Of course you didn't know!" She yelled. Now everybody was staring.
"Rikki, you're drawing attention..."
"DRAWING ATTENTION?! IS THIS WHAT THIS IS ALL ABOUT?! HUH?! ALEX, YOU ARE UNBELIEVABLE, YOU, YOU LITTLE... LITTLE..."
I didn't understand! Rikki may be tough, but she is one of the kindest people I know. The only time I had heard her voice this loud was when she was showing up to the punk who was making fun of Kailee. She had always loved her sisters, she had never gotten this mad at us before!
Then the really unbelievable happened.
Rikki sat down and sobbed.
"Rikki, aw, no, Rikki, it's OK. You are right, this is all my fault. Aw, Rikki."
She snapped up. She pulled something out from behind her, aimed it at my face, and before I knew it, I could feel myself get tired. Really tired. I saw before me, a girl, a girl jumping out of a suit. She ripped off a mask, showing her true identity.
"Haha, maybe he was right, you are the gullible one."
That was all I saw before I fell into a deep, dark, slumber.
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