"Cabreena! Get down here! You're going to be late for class!"

Lacy was always the first on up in the household, and her adopted sister, Cabreena, was always the last. But this day was different, and something wasn't right. Bree wasn't coming down, and it had already been an hour after Lacy got up.

Lacy stomped upstairs to grab her sister. "Bree! Would you please just…"

Lacy stood in the doorway of her sisters room, and saw nothing but a bedroom with no one in it.

"Bree?" Lacy started to worry. She searched the room, looking for Bree. See, Bree had always loved to play tricks on her sister and parents, and Lacy thought that maybe she was just playing yet another trick on her.

"Come on Bree. This isn't funny. We're gonna be late again, and I don't feel like waiting any longer. Get your ass out here."

Silence. Lacy looked around, waiting for someone to be there. But there wasn't.

"Mom! Dad!" Lacy ran downstairs. "Bree has gone missing!"

Lacy's mother and father came rushing into the living room.

"Are you sure? Did you look everywhere?" Her mother panicked.

"Yes. I searched everywhere, but she not to be found!"

Her father butted in at a calm state.

"You just run along to class now. We'll find your sister, and she'll be in big trouble."

Lacy wanted to say something, but figured that now wasn't a good time to say much. She exited the room and went out the door, all along, hopping that they could find Bree. She wondered if anything bad had happened.

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"Bree! Wait up!" Kendra yelled at her friend. "Hey there girlfriend. What's up?" Kendra was always a happy enthusiastic girl. She loved to have fun and believed that being a girl was all about having fun.

Bree sighed. "Oh, nothing much. I just only "ran away" from home to go search for my real family, who nobody knows."

"Nothing, eh? That sure sounds like a lot to me." Kendra laughed. "Why? How will you find him? How will you not get caught? How do you suppose…"

"Okay, okay. Enough with the questions." The two girls giggled. "First, I left because I'm tired of knowing that my family is really out there, and I can't be with them. Second," She paused for a while. "I don't know how I will find them." Kendra shook her head and smiled. "And third, I wont get caught because I'm staying on the outskirts of the land."

"Sure. But if your adopted family finds you, you're dead."

"Yeah, that's why I left early." Bree looked at the ground, and then back at her friend. "And I have to say goodbye to you."

"What? No. Don't say that. I'm your only friend. Who will you have to watch your back?"

"Desperate are we to come along?"

Kendra nodded her head and gave a puppy-dog face.

"Ugh. Fine, you can come. But you'll have to come up with a damn good story to tell your family." Kendra smiled. She liked the thought of getting away from home for a while.

"Oh, that's easy. I can just say that I'm off on my own trip for a while."

Bree starred at Kendra bluntly.

"Yeah, my family doesn't always remember that I'm actually there. I can be invisible at times to them I guess."

"You're kidding me?"

"Nope. That's the way it is. And I could come back any time I want."

Bree told Kendra to head off and go say something to her family. But as soon as Kendra turned around to walk off, she turned right back around.

"We know nothing of where your real family is. Where do you suppose we start? It's not like we have anyone who can help us."

Bree gave an evil smile.

"Aye, we do."

Kendra looked confused.

"Who?"

There was a long pause, and then Bree spoke. "Jack."

Kendra's eyes grew wide.

"Not Jack Sp-"

Bree slowly nodded. "I've known him secretly. Now let's go."