A Touch Of Hope

Chapter 1- Never give up hope

Abi's POV

'Hey, abs!' I hear a cheerful voice say. I look up to find my best friend, Sophia Smith skipping over to me with a breakfast bowl in her hands. I smile widely as she takes the seat opposite me in the canteen of our care home.

Me and Sophia have been living together ever since I can remember. We live in a care home in the middle of Boston with other teenagers that dont have contact with their parents. I don't really know why me and Sophia have been living here. People say its because our parents left us out on the street when we were little but I'm not sure I believe that.

Sophia never talks about her parents to anyone. Not even me. She doesnt remember them, or so she says. She's a sixteen year old girl who doesn't really know whats what. Lets just say Sophia is the... rebellious one of the two of us. She's always wanting to do new things and go on 'adventures.' She gets us both into trouble a lot of the time. But hey, that's why I love her.

'Haaappy Birthdaaay!' Sophia bounces up and down in her chair, nearly knocking over her bowl of CoCo Pops as she goes under the table to reach for her bag. I nibbled on my toast as I waited for her to reappear.

'Okay..' She says as she comes back up. 'I managed to get you something. I couldnt really think about what I was getting you because I couldnt sneak out for long enough and you know what the people are like here whenever they get an idea that one of us have sneaked of they call in the bloody army and fire fighters but that doesnt matter I wanted to get you something amazing but like I said I couldnt shop for long because of how busy the shops were! Do you know how many bloody old women go shopping on a Monday?! Hundreds! They were like flies around-'

'Soph..' I laugh. Sophia always blabbles on with herself. She doesnt even know shes doing it sometimes. She's just a very talkative kind of girl. Thats what I loved about her, you could never get bored when you were with her.

'Sorry.' She blushes. 'Anyway, its not much.' She passes me a small box with a purple bow in the corner. I open the box to find a small silver necklace which said 'best' engraved into it.

'Soph, its beautiful.' I smile down at the necklace.
'I've got the other half.' Sophia says. She did. She had the same necklace but with 'friends.' engraved onto it. 'It has a rose quartz on it.' She points to a small pink stone neck to the letters. It was so beautiful.

I got the necklace out of the box and easily clipped it around my neck. 'Thank you so much, Soph!'

'I'll get you something bigger next year for your sixteenth but I thought for your fifteenth a necklace would be nice! Anyway, you excited for the trip?' Sophia asks as she stuffs a spoonfull of Coco Pops.

'Yeah! Going on a trip out of time can't be that bad for the weekend.'
'Imagine all the stuff we can do though! We could go to... wait, where are we going?'
I giggle at her gormlessness. She's beautiful, but simple. 'Morganville. We're going Morganville.'
'Yeah, thats it. We could go to.. whats in Morganville again?'

'I dunno.' I shrug. 'We cant do anything on our own anyway, we're going on a trip which means there is no way in hell we can go out of site of the others.'

'Theres always a way, little Abigail.' Sophia giggles.
'Please dont tell me you've got some troublemaking plan?'
'Only a little one! We could just... sneak of for a bit. Not long! Just a few hours so we can really see whats going on!'

'You're going to get us so done!' I couldnt help but laugh. Sophia was dangerous. She was amazingly fun to be around but sometimes she takes things just a little too far.

'LISTEN UP PEOPLE!' A sharp vocie says from the end of the canteen hall. It was Luke, the guy who run the place. He was awesome, he really was. He wasnt like the other people here. He took things easy and calmly. He actually talked to us like we were worth talking to!

'We're leaving for the airport in five minutes so get your suitcases and get to the coach! Thanks guys.' Luke then walked out of the canteen and out towards where the coach was parked.

'Come on!' Sophia squeels as she drags me up from the table, making me drop my toast in the process. We both run to our dorm room and get our suitcases and make our way to the coach. It was the start of what I could tell was a very interesting week in Morganville.

Justin's POV

Ten years. Ten years since I've seen my daughter. The pain was too much to handle. The heartbreak was undiscribable. Why do the bad things happen to the people who have never done anything bad in their life?

She was only five. Five years old when she was taken away from us. Anything could have happened to my baby girl. I dont dare to think what, but anything could have happened. Any kind of physco could have taken her and Abi from our garden 10 years ago.

Trying to deal with the fact that our daughter could be dead makes mine and Alyssa's hearts throb. What sort of maniac would take two innocent little girls out of a garden in the daytime?

A lot has happened in the past 10 years. Firstly, I've become a vampire. It happened about two years after Sophia and Abi went missing. It hurt, but not as much as the pain of loosing my daughter. Thats all thats been on my mind since the minute Alyssa ran into the kitchen telling me the girls weren't in the garden.

Alyssa made up with Shane. They sorted things out about 5 months after what happened. Shane an Claire were devistated about what happened. Shane apologised about everything the minute he found out but Alyssa was so angry at everything and everyone that she didn't want to talk to him for 6 months. Then she gave up, she needed her dad. She needed someone to hug. She needs not only me, but her family.

Eve and Michael are horrified about what happened too. At first, I think they blamed us for not looking after them properly but they then got to terms with it.

We're all still completely horrified about the situation but together, I know we can all get through this. Mine and Alyssa's son, Louis is now nine years old. We tell him that he has a beautiful sister who one day he will be best friends with. We tell him that now she will be around the age of sixteen.

He constantly tells me and Alyssa that he wants to meet his sister and he asks why he cant. We never have an answer for him. What are we supposed to say? She was kidnapped when she was five and now she could be dead in a ditch somewhere? I couldnt even say that to myself, let alone my son.

But like I said, we're coping. Slowly. I know one day I will see my baby again. Whether it be in heaven in a thousand years time or on the street someday. There's always hope. And I never give up hope that my daughter is alive and well.

I love Sophia so much and I am determind to find out what has happened to her.

Sorry if this is a boring first chapter, but aren't all first chapters boring in some way? What do you thinks going to happen now Sophia and Abi are going on a trip to Morganville?! Please review! xxxx