It was three days left, until the holiday would end. My mom called my name and said that Vlad was in the telephone and he wanted to talk to me. I ran to the telephone. "It's Maddie!" I said out in the air. My parents looked puzzled on me, probably because I hadn't told them about the nickname. "Hello, you there..?" I said again in the phone. No one answered. But for some reasons I knew he was there in the other end of the line. "It's nice of you to call me. I really missed talking to you… are you exited of the first school day? It's pretty soon! I don't know how you feel about it, but I think its strange moving up to 1th grade. Don't you think so?" The next following answer was dood, dood, dood, dood. Like a backing truck. I didn't know why he did it, but it made me really sad and angry. I just sat down in my room again, and trying to paint Pinata, to think more about her instead, but the horse always got a little curly hair, that pointed upwards… Why did he just ignore me? Didn't he want to talk?

The clock was about 4 when I finally realized, that I couldn't sleep. I had used all my time, only looking at the ceiling. I needed to talk to Vlad, needed to know why he didn't answer me. I took my cloth on, and walked out of the door without my parents realized it. They were too deep in sleep. Then I actually ran away, to try finding Vlad's house. Try to remember what direction the car took the way home. But after I ran about an hour, I realized that I was lost. I was scared about new places, and now that I were alone, it was really bad with my braveness. I walked around in circles and didn't know what to do. I thought about asking someone in one of the houses, but they would probably just call my parents. Then they will come and pick me up and I wouldn't talk to Vlad.

Then there were this strange man. He had a long coat, and long beard, and black sunglasses so I couldn't see his eyes. His shoes were long too, and he had a hat on. He walked over to me, and asked what I were looking after. "I am just trying to find my friend." I said quietly. That man made me sort of scared. "What is his name, young lady?" I looked down at the ground. Even that he had sunglasses on, it felled like his eyes were burning into me. "His name is Vlad Masters… why do you want to know?" The old man patted my head while he was grinning. "I know where that boy is… follow me, and I'll show you were he is." He really freaked me out. Normally I wasn't scared of strangers, but I really didn't like this man. "My mom always tells me, that I may not walk with strangers… I can find the way by myself, thank you." Then he picked me up. It felled like my heart were in my throat. "Don't be so afraid of me. I am not as dangerous as I look like." He said, and started to walk in the left direction. I suddenly felled like I were exploding. Why couldn't he understand, that a no was a no? I screamed no, right up in his face, smacked him, and jumped out of his arms. Then I was running in the right direction and I ran and I ran, until I saw the house I knew. The Masters house.

Fast as lighting I runned over to his door, and start to knock it, nearly aggressive. When they didn't open the first thirty seconds, I walked in anyway and closed the door behind me. I sat down by the door, gasping and still shaking. "Oh… hey Maddie. What are you doing here this early?" I faced Vlad. He looked pretty surprised, nearly terrified. He was still in his pajamas and fluffy slippers. "Why…" I gasped."Why didn't you answer me yesterday Vlad..?" he walked over and sat down beside me and put his hand softly on my shoulder. "Our phone did break. I could hear you, but it listened like you couldn't hear me. All I could do was listening to your voice, until it didn't work either. I tried to call you again, but I couldn't." I looked at him. All that time I were afraid that he didn't wanted to be my friends anymore… then it just was the phone, there was problems with, not our relationship. I sighed happily, and lay my head tired on his shoulder. "I thought you hated me, and didn't want to answer." There was quite for awhile, until he hugged me. The only persons that have hugged me before, was my parents and my grandmother, before she died. It was sort of strange in the start, but I fast started to like it, and hugged him back. "If I just had knew you earlier." I was thinking to myself. It was so good to have a real friend and with all my heart, I just wished now that I would keep him forever.