Six years.

It's been six years.

Six years today, since my baby brother was kidnapped. On my own watch. It's been a burden I've been carrying on my shoulders for six years. There's not one day where I don't think about him.

Alex.

His full name was Alexander Kendall Moon. Better name than mine, that's for sure. Who names their kid Austin Monica Moon? Apparently mine, I guess. But whatever, enough about middle names.

He was so young, naive, innocent...

Why did I leave him there, all over this girl that I liked, Ally...and now I'm married to her. Such an idiot, thinking I could marry her to get my head away from the thought of my little brother. That was two years ago, when her and I were 19.

It's been four years, Austin. Alex is gone. He's not coming back you need to realize that. That's what I told myself as I saw the love of my life walking down the aisle, her father with his arm linked with hers. It worked for a little while, until that anniversary. I woke up, and I sobbed. Not even my best friend, Dez could get me out of my bed that day.

All I did was play that day in my head, on repeat. Thinking, why didn't I do this, or why didn't I do that?

I looked through all of my old pictures of me and Alex, that I kept in this little metal box. I looked through them, over and over. And I sobbed, over and over. I even cuddled the box close to me muttering and choking on Alex's name as I gently whimpered it quietly to myself.

Hoping that I would be able to see Alex, one more time, before I ever died.

Just once.

6 years earlier...

Austin~~Age 15

Alex~~ Age nine

I decided to take Alex to the park for the afternoon with his friends, for a award on making straight A's on his report card for the semester. I was watching him play around the fountain with his best friends, Jacob and...Dylan I believe it was. All three of them splashing me a few times in the process. Then they ran off to the playground, looking like they were playing an interesting round of hide & seek from where I was sitting.

I was about 15 minutes into watching my little brother run around like a crazy person around the jungle gym, that was when she walked by. Ally Dawson. That was when I've only known Ally for just a few months, my singing career nearly off the ground. I had started to like her by that point in time. So of course, being the teenage boy that I am, I decided to go over there and do a little bit of my flirting skills on her.

I turned towards the small group of nine year old boys, watching Dylan leaning against a wooden post counting to 50, and Jacob and Alex taking off in different directions I smiled gently, before getting up from my place on the edge of the fountain and making my way over to Ally, who was sitting on a bench not too far from where I was sitting, writing in her songbook.

"Alex will be fine," I thought to myself as I sat down next to her. Even if I did loose him, I'd find him in a heartbeat. I mean, we have the same face. The only three differences is our hair length, height, and the pitches of our voice.

"Heyyy Allyyy," I drug out he several Y's in that phrase as I plopped myself right next to her. She looked up, startled, causing me to smirk. She narrowed her eyes into a glare, punching me pretty forceful on the side of my arm.

"Austin! You jerk! You gave me a heart attack," she hissed to me, causing me to let out a chuckle.

"I know, that was the goal," I retorted back to her, and that made me receive another hard punch to the arm. "Owww!"

"You deserve that."

"I know..."

We both stared at each other, and then busted into fits of laughter. It took us about 3 minutes to calm down, before we could even breath properly again. Then we started talking for a little while until Dylan and Jacob ran up to me, yelling my name.

"Austin! Austin!" they cried as they grabbed onto both of my arms, pulling me to my feet. "Whoa, boys! Boys! What's wrong? Where's Alex?"

"Austin, something's wrong-," They didn't even get to finish their sentence before I heard a distant scream.

"AUSTIN! AUSTIN! SOMEONE! PLEASE HELP ME," my eyes widened."AUUUSSSTTTINNN!"

"Alex...both of you stay here!" I took off into the woods that surrounded the park, dodging dangling branches and other nature-y things that were in the way, trying so hard to follow the sound of my baby brother's screaming. I crashed through the trees and onto the main road, perfect timing to see Alex, my poor, helpless baby brother being shoved into the back of a car. "Hey...hey! LET HIM GO NOW," I screamed, watching the mysterious man look at me before sliding over the trunk of the car and hopping into the front seat of the car.

I shook my head. No, there's no way I'll let this man take my brother. Quickly I hurried over to the window, and my heart nearly crushed into pieces as I saw his innocent little frame pressing against the window, his cheeks covered in tears. "Austin," I managed to hear his muffled voice through the glass.

"I'm gonna get you out Alex, I promise..I promise," I yelled back to him, looking down at the car's knob. I groaned in frustration. The old type of knobs. Ugh.

"It's for Alex...it's for Alex..," I muttered to myself, preparing myself to open the complicated door, that was until I heard a click. I looked up into the window, my eyes widened.

That bastard locked the fucking door!

Alex looked at me with a terrified look in his eyes. 'Pull it up,' I mouthed to him and he nodded, trying to grab onto the small bit that was barely poking out of the small hole into his hands, but he couldn't get a good grip onto it, and it kept slipping from in between his fingers. My eyes widened as the car started to life, pulling backwards from it's parked state, causing myself to fly backwards, landing on the hard concrete. I groaned in pain, but immediately hopped back up to my feet, standing in the path of the car as it started to speed upwards, towards me.

I started smirk, knowing that they would have no choice but to stop, but that smirk started to wither away as he didn't slow down. He decided to speed up instead. Then, I had no choice but to hop back to the side of the road, the car just inches away from my torso.

"AUSTIIIIIIIIIN," I saw Alex press his frame into the back window staring at me, with hopelessness in his eyes.

"ALEX," I screamed back, I wanted to run after the car, but my legs wouldn't move, because I knew I would never catch up to the car, no matter how fast I ran. Our gaze on each other never broke apart, that is until the car turned harshly onto a corner, our eyes broke apart...

And that was the last time I ever saw my baby brother, that look in his eyes would never be removed from my brain.

I swore to myself I'd do anything, absolutely anything to save Alexander Kendall Moon and bring him back into my arms again.

Absolutely anything.