First day of the summer break,

I am just chilling in my room, what do i do now? I mean, school is over, all the other kids will go to some luxurious hotel to have some good time, but me, i was here, waiting for something to happen. I won't expect to do anything for a while, my sisters are all going on summer camps, and my parents didn't managed to get breaks for the start of the summer, so yeah...

All i have to do is read fantasy books, and play video games. So summer break is pretty much an extended weekend for me. But i won't complain, at least, i won't have to hear annoying voice for at least two months, so it's at least that. If only i could talk to someone, I think that's what bothers me the most in all that. I don't have my friends (which goes to a total of a whole two!) since they are both going somewhere. Tom goes to London, for two weeks, and Marthy is gone to California for the whole summer.

- Nick ! Come downstair and answer the door !

Before i continue forward, let's introduce myself, my name is Nick Landon, i am fourteen years old, in good ol'New York City. Yeah, i know, really short introduction, but i never liked talking about myself anyway. You just have to know that, and, oh, that i am really geeky and never been really that great in sport ? But i am sure am great at trivia games, it counts for something, right ?

When i said there was no one i could talk to earlier, well i kinda lied... there is one girl, and it is the girl that is screaming that i go down to let her enter.

- Right, right, I'm coming ! * I said, as i was walking down the stairs*

I live in a appartment in New-York, it's not a five stars hotel to say the least, there is cockroaches, rats, ants. Damn, i'm surprised there is not SNAKES in the cave, the only times i go in the cave, is when i help my parents do the laundry, otherwise, i prefer to stay away from there, just a bad feeling i guess. The stories i heard from the neighbour about the family that disappeared ten years ago. First the father, then the boy, then the mother and the sisters. I didn't really believed those stories, because, come on, who can disappear in their OWN appartment ? It would be like be lost in my own pockets, you have to be pretty stupid or have a really bad sense of orientation.

But let's get back to the story, i open the door, after the 1000th knock, and as i open it, a ten year old girl punches me in the face. Yeah, what a way to start off a day. I step back after the punch, holding my jaw that received the most of the impact.

- What took you so long ? You know, it's really impolite to make girls waiting.

I was looking at her, for a ten year old, she was a lot more tsundere than i could think. She was looking me, with authority and anger ?

- I told you i was coming, and you know me, i'm not the fastest man alive. Or even the smartest.

She tossed her blonde hair a bit and looked at me and just said.

- Soooo, what do you wanna do ?

I think, what could a fourteen year-old boy do with a ten year-old girl ? All that was illegal was obviously out of the question. The idea, she got it first before i could of anything that would not put me on future watchlist.

- Do you want to see a movie ?

- Yeah why not, but what kind of movie, this is not like we could see a R-rated movie.

Aaannnddd that's how i ended up watching an animated kids movie, it wasn't half bad, but i would rather be watching something else. When it ended, i didn't know if I got smarter or dumber. But at least, it wasted some of the time where I would had juste being laying around on my bed. So in the end, I think it has been worthwhile.

Lucy( yes, that's her name) thanks me for having spent that time with her (for once that she thanks me for something), then we went our separate ways. In some manner, I'm happy that i saw her today, she can be annoying sometime, but she's my friend, so i look foward to see her more this summer. Maybe this summer will not be all that boring.

Well, I think I just jinxed it... Because the first thing i see when i get home is maybe two or three black cars in front of the appartment block, it couldn't be good. I try to make myself the more silent possible, i climb up the stairs and i hear a lot of noise on the upper flors, that's unusual. Usually, they are more silent because most of the people live on the lower floors. All of sudden, when turning on a corner, he saw one of his neighbor miss. Sarah, crying, when she saw me, she took me by the shoulders, and said to me panicked.

- Go hide ! These men... they are looking for your parents... and probably by association you...they're killing people ! They'll probably kill you too!

Suddenly, the sound I heard earlier on the upper floors stopped, and shortly after, footsteps could be heard in the staircase. Ms. Sarah heard them too and looked at me with a serious look.

- Listen, i'll hold them there, go hide, i want you to live, you don't have a lot of time, go...NOW !

I don't need to be told again, after that, i begin to run, run faster than I ever ran. This is litteraly for my life, for god's sake. I don't know what my parents had done to piss those guys off, but it had to be major, cause now they want to KILL us! I open the door to the apartment, and I begin to panick, what do i do ? Do I call my parents ? There's no time. Do I run away ? There's no escape. My only option is to hide, but where ? Where wouldn't they search ? Strangely, the first place my mind goes to is the laundry, the laundry? Where would i hide ? Then in the distance, i hear a gunshot in the hallway,, time's was up for , and it would be over for me soon if I don't find a place to save my skin.

I followed what my instinc first told me and went into the basement, i looked around me and didn't see a lot of place to hide

- Great * I said to myself * I caught myself in a trap, i doomed myself to death.

But after i said that, i sensed something strange and unsual, i tried to feel where it was coming from, when i heard a loud nose coming from upstairs. They had entered they apartment, i had to hurry. Then i saw it, there was an old air duct grate, i feel like there was some sound coming out of it. I'm sure that if i open it, i can fit in. Because i have no other plan, this is what i begin to do. I hear the footsteps, they are searching for my parents, and potentially for me. I gotta go fast, the sounds are more distinct and i can now feel wind now, strangely, because there is no windows close. I finish to open the gate when i hear the footsteps approching the door leading to the basement. When suddenly, i feel sucked into the air duct grate, and the last thing i hear is the door opening, when everything went dark.