Dark room of nightmare
A/N 1: I don't own either Nancy Drew or the Hardy boys.
A/N 2: Unless you can tell me where the incorrect grammar or spelling mistake is. I'll just ignore that comment, I don't have English as my native language and have never pretended to be very good at it and I promise you that all mistakes that I can find myself is already corrected when I publish. I will also ignore it if the word is spelled right in British English but wrong in American English
(Sjeherazade)
Fools day?
It was a warm summer day and the mother in the family decided to take a walk with her two boys 9 and 8 years old.
They had walked to the ice cream bar to buy ice cream and outside the building, the younger boy's shoelace made him stumble. He bent down to tie them at the same time as his mother and brother walked inside.
Then their mother noticed that he was missing. She ran out again and looked in every direction. He wasn't there.
Now the older boy came out too, he knew from his mother's worried face that something was wrong and he wanted to know. When he couldn't see his little brother anywhere he too started looking for him everywhere. Then he discovered his cap in the bushes. He ran over to it and crawled in to the green. His brother wasn't there.
"And that is the full history!" Frank finished his story. He had just got a new case to solve and was sitting around Chet's table, trying to convince him, Biff, Nancy, Callie, George and Iola. His brother Joe hadn't showed up yet, he had been given detention in school and would arrive later.
Suddenly Chet had got enough, he began to laugh and one second later Biff and the girls laughed too. After pulling herself together, Nancy decided to ask one question.
"You mean that the Police have found a child, tied up in a car and she says that she has not been kidnapped…? Frank Hardy, you're nuts!"
"No I'm not. Listen I know how it sounds…"
"It sounds like an April fool's joke!" Biff interrupted him with a sneer.
"It's 6th July!" Frank said and glared back at him. Chet walked over to the wall calendar and looked at it for a while.
"Oh yes! He is right!" then everyone started to laugh again.
"Shut up, haven't we been through crazy things before…"
"Yes" Callie agreed. "But still, you have to agree that this sounds very unreal, I'm sorry, but I think it's some kind of April joke too!" Then Joe came in, muttering.
"Damned humour cleared teachers…" Everyone was still laughing. "What's so funny?!" Biff rose and patted Frank on his back.
"Your big brother here got a strange letter from some police who thought it was time to play a trick on him and he thinks it's real."
"It has the real police's seal on the envelope anyway" Frank muttered.
"Anyway, it says that they have found a girl tied up in a car. She had wounds all over her body and tells everyone that she has not has been kidnapped, except from that she refuses to say anything to anyone. Except for the first time she meets a new person, this time she also says Dark room of… Dark room of what? That's what I want to know. I'll say that… Joe?
Joe hadn't laughed at the strange story. His face had turned chalk white and his eyes had lost all their lustre.
"Joe?"
Joe suddenly fell down on the floor, he had fainted …