There once was a girl name Trisha. Trisha was only 12 but had the worst experience of her life. One night Trista was getting ready to go to bed, when she herd a very loud scream when she was brushing her teeth. So she hurried up to see what the scream was all about and sure enough her mom and dad were gone. She had know Idea what to do so she went upstairs, locked her door and hid under her bed until morning. When Trisha woke up the next morning, She got dressed and went to her neighbors house to see if they saw anything. When she knocked on the front door of the house, her best friend Max was standing there in tears.

She asked, "What the matter Max?" she asked "My mom and dad are missing and I don't know where they are." he said with a tear running down his face. "Mine are too, I wanted to see if you guys saw anything suspicious last night." Trisha said. "Lets go see if we can find them." Max said with a loud, determined voice. So Max and Trisha walked up and down the street asking every house if they saw anything, but no one did. After hours of walking and hours of talking, Max said " I am very tired and I want to stop looking for today. Maybe we can meet up tomorrow again and see if we can find anything more. So they both walked home and went to bed.

The next morning Max and Trisha woke up and went to eat some breakfast. Neither of them were hungry but had to eat to have energy for the long day ahead. After eating Max asked, " You ready" "Almost, just let me get my shoes on." she said. They walked up and down the street one more time to make sure that they did not miss anything, but while they were walking Trisha noticed a lot of footprints in the muddy grass on the edge of the woods. She said "Hey Max, come look at this," "What," said Max. "I think I found where they might have gone." "Really" said Max "Lets go down there and see what evidence we can find." So they started to walk down there and right away they saw a piece of shirt on the ground.

"Hey, that's my dad's shirt on the ground," said Max. "Lets just keep following the footsteps and see where it leads us." Trisha said while out of breath from running. So they continued to run down the trail until they saw a little house in front of them. "The windows are covered in wood and the door too," said Trisha "That seems a little suspicious, don't you think," asked Max. "Why don't we get some rest and come back tomorrow and see what is in it, because I can grab my dad's hammer and remove all the nails and so we could go inside. So they turned around and walked back to their house. In the morning Max grabbed his backpack, made some fresh sandwiches, and his bb gun he got for his 10th Birthday. On the other hand, Trisha put on a army costume

and some army boots from her closet. When she was done with that she grabbed her dad's hammer like she said she would. When Max was done he went over to Trisha's house and knocked on the door. "Hello, Trisha you home," "Be right out," she said.

10 seconds later Trisha walked out with her army outfit on and said, "Lets go," So the two of them walked down the trail that they went down yesterday. When they got there, Trisha grabbed the hammer and undid all the nails on the wood so they could open the door. After about 10 minutes of trying to get the nails off they got the door open and was looking inside for their parents. While they were looking, they heard something coming from the cellar. Trisha whispered