Chapter 2

The house was dark. A tap dripped from the kitchen and dust swept across the floor of the musty drawing room as the two strangers kept through the house.

"How many times do I have to say this Adrian, there's no one here, why would there be?" whispered Christian, a tall muscular man around the age of nineteen. His hair was short and jet black, slightly spiky in places. The other man, Adrian, was slightly shorter, more slender and about a year or two older. His hair was light brown, quite short and slightly ruffled.

Adrian switched on a small table lamp, illuminating only part of the vast drawing room. "How long has it been since we were here last?" asked Christian running a finger along the dusty fireplace. Adrian's brow furrowed. "Hmm... not that long ago, probably about thirty five years if I remember correctly," he mused.

Suddenly the two men straightened up, frozen. A group of rowdy kids skipped along the pavement outside laughing and talking. Christian wrinkled his nose and rubbed his eyes. "Come on, let's eat," said Adrian and they left the house.

Meanwhile, not far away, in the same town Mina sat in her bedroom with Ashley and Kate sharing pizza while watching TV.

"Did you catch up with Heather today?" she asked. "Yeah, she texted me asking if we all wanted to go to this bar in town with her tomorrow night. She was invited by that guy she went hiking with," replied Ashley. "You wanna go?" she asked. "Why not, I'll bring Spencer along," said Kate before Mina could reply. Then she looked at Mina meaningfully and said "Don't try and find a way out of this, you're coming and that's that." Mina rolled her eyes and groaned. "Okay, okay, I'll go, just don't try and hook me up with anyone okay?" "We won't," said Kate, holding her hands up.

"Hey, did you two hear that there's a new guy starting school on Monday?" asked Ashley excitedly practically jumping on the bed where she sat, legs crossed. "No, is he cute? Have you seen him?" Kate started flooding the questions in and Ashley was more than willing to answer them all.

Meanwhile Mina watched TV. The news reported that a young girl, around fifteen years old, had been reported missing from town.