At lunchtime Jack, Lois and Mickey still weren't back. Everyone was at the table apart from Ben, Abi and Mika.
"Lolly can you go and find your brother please?" her Dad asked her.
"Ben," Lolly called from the bottom of the stairs.
Usually she would have gotten a response, even if Ben was in a mood. She made her way upstairs calling to Ben as she headed to the office where he'd been playing on the computer. She pushed the door open but the screen saver was on the screen and Ben wasn't there.
"Ben?" Lolly called as she checked all the other rooms.
"Hi Lolly," Mika smiled as she caught up with her on the top landing.
"Have you seen my brother Mika?" Lolly asked her.
"No," Mika replied sweetly, "why?"
"Doesn't matter, come on lunch is ready, where's Abi?" Lolly asked as they headed downstairs.
Mikayla simply shrugged her shoulder before running to the next set of stairs.
"Slowly Mikayla," Lolly warned, hoping the youngster would be careful.
When she reached the bottom she noticed the front door was slightly open and she wondered why but closed it, dismissing it. Lolly checked downstairs for Ben and Abi but they both seemed to be gone.
"Gwen did Abi and Ben go in the garden?" Lolly asked as she re-entered the kitchen just as Mika was sitting down at the table next to her parents.
"No, I wouldn't let them go outside," Gwen said as she took a tray of drinks to the table.
"Well they aren't upstairs," Lolly informed her.
"Well they must be," Gwen said, her voice suddenly panicky.
"You said you wouldn't let them outside," Lolly said, suddenly recalling what she'd seen minutes earlier, "I just closed the front door."
Lolly ran to the front door, unlocked it and ran outside to the road, looking every way she could but there was no sign of Ben or Abi. Slowly everyone got up from the table and followed her, there were all standing in the front garden, Martha had Neil in her arms, Rose had her arms protectively around Mika in case she went wandering off.
"They can't have gone far," Jaz said hopefully.
"Where was the one place Ben said he wanted to go?" Lolly asked everyone.
"The game shop," Martha remembered.
"So where d'you bet they've gone?" Lolly said, glad she'd worked it out.
"There are two a few streets away, there are two different ways to get there, we should split up," Gwen suggested.
"I'll stay here," Rose offered.
"Can you look after Neil?" Martha asked her.
"Sure," she smiled and Rose took Mika and Neil back inside.
"Right, Gwen, Doctor, Martha, Mum you take the quickest way and me, Rhys and Dad will go the other way." Lolly ordered.
"Ok," Gwen agreed before running off with the others and Lolly took the others in the opposite direction.
You'll want to keep reading to the next chapter!! I'll give a slight spoiler, impending doom is hanging over one character, which one???!!! Pleassseee review!!