Disclaimer: I do NOT own the Charlie Bone books they rightfully belong to Jenny Nimmo.

Trinity Star –

Prologue:

2 weeks.

2 weeks have pasted since he went missing.

At first I just thought he had gone on holiday or away for the weekend, money was never a problem in his family, in fact I'd say he was loaded, so it was never a concern. But that idea was blown out of the water when I received a phone call from his father 2 days later on Sunday.

He asked me if I'd seen him at all. Of cause I told him the last time I'd seen him was on Friday, when we were walking home together from school, just like we always did. He carried on going up towards his house, while I went left to mine. He was supposed to come round to mine on the Saturday and then we were going to go down to pet's café to meet up with the others there. But he never showed up, so I rang his mobile and hit his answer phone telling me to leave a message. I never did, that's when I thought he was away for the weekend.

Although apparently he wasn't, that's what Mr. Torsson told me anyway. He told me he had never even come home on the Friday, and Mr. Torsson had thought he was round mine so hadn't bothered phoning him because he usually came round to mine anyway, so he wasn't concerned. He then asked me to tell him if I saw him to ring him and let him know he was okay, I said I would, he thanked me and hung up.

That was around the time I started to panic, he hadn't gone home on Friday, what the hell was he playing at.

I remember when I went to pet's café on my own I told the other that he had probably gone away for the weekend and they laughed and said that was just like him. At the time it had put my mind at rest and I didn't think about it again until I got the phone call from his dad frantic with worry.

And that was when I realised Tancred Torsson had gone M I S S I N G.