Conrad Graham held up his videocamera. His friend Luke had his final soccer match for the season, and the game was getting intense. School had been canceled, and nearly the entire school was at the game. Along with the mob of people, it was humid. But Conrad had promised Luke that he would videotape him. He knew the sound quality was nothing to boast about because a lady held a crying toddler, which was infecting the sound.

"Hey," Conrad's friend Mike smiled.

"Hey, Mike." Conrad replied concentrating on the camera.

"I checked out my first R rated horror film today!" Mike said cheerily. "And a CD with a parental warning, all in the same day! Without parents knowing."

Conrad nodded. "That's great. I got a date with a hot chick." he teased.

"You don't got a girl, Conny." Mike laughed. "You're too good."

"Shut up, man!" Conrad barked.

"Shut up isn't a nice thing to say." a septuagenarian man behind Conrad chastised. "And watching R rated horror films is not good for your mind."

Mike cursed, then turned to the game.

The score was tied.

"Way to go, Luke!" Conrad screamed.

Mike yelled, "Come on Luke!"

Luke swung his leg to hit the soccer ball. In an instant, Luke disappeared. The screaming baby was no longer audible. The toddler in front of Conrad disappeared. Her hair ribbon and dress were laying on the bleachers on top of her sandals; all at the same time.

Mike screamed. Luke's blue braces laid on the ground with Luke's soccer uniform.

The young lady who had the screaming baby stared at the baby's clothes and diaper.

Conrad looked back only to see an old man's glasses, hearing aids, and clothes. On the man's shirt, was a cross necklace and a Bible. On the floor was his shoes and socks.

Conrad stared in horror turning the videocamera off.

What was happening? What happened to Luke, and the baby? And the toddler? Where were they? Were more people going to vanish? A few piles of clothes, braces, jewelry, hearing aids, anything you could physically put on was lying motionless on the ground. Flesh and bone, gone.

"This soccer game, has come to an end!" Conrad heard a man say.

What just happened? Conrad touched the man's clothes as if they would bite him. Luckily for him, they didn't. The cross, it had the words 'John 3:16' on it. Conrad carefully picked up the Bible. It took him a few minutes, but he managed to find John 3:16. "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have eternal life." What was that supposed to mean?

"Conrad!" Trace Graham, his brother called turning on the television. "It's on the news!"

"People have disappeared all over the world!" news reporter Cameron "Buck" Williams said.

"Today Maddie is giving birth!" a man on TV smiled broadly.

A sweaty women smiled in a turquoise gown. "Grace Noel Phillips!"

"This is-" the man started before the smiling nurse disappeared. The mans scream pierced the air as the camera turned to his wife, who was also missing.

The next shot was of the soccer game. There was Luke, kicking the ball and vanishing. A photographer was taking pictures of a toddler, the toddler disappeared right out of her clothes; leaving her hair bow, dress, diaper, socks, shoes and bracelet. Five more videos showed people disappearing. All young children vanished, that was clear. A fair amount of adults and teenagers also vanished.

Only one question remained in Conrad's head: Why?