A/N: A funny thing; I hate cliff-hangers more than anything else, almost, and my last chapter had the master cliffy! The mater EVIL cliffy!
Fnick's POV:
I woke with a start. I could have sworn I'd heard a sort of "fwump"-ish sound. I sat up in my bed and went to look out my window. Liyla and I had long-since gotten our own rooms, but right then I was wishing that we still shared one.
After seeing nothing out my window, I walked into the hall to face my sister's bedroom just as she walked out of it.
"What are you doing awake?" I asked her.
"I heard something outside, and I was planning to investigate. What are you doing awake?" she asked.
"Well, honestly, I also heard something outside. I was going to wake you up so we could both see what it was," I said. "Should we wake up Mom and Dad?"
Liyla thought for a minute.
"Yeah, they might want to help, just in case there's a burglar."
I nodded, and we headed toward our parents' room. Liyla pressed her ear against the door and knocked softly, at first. She got a troubled look on her face and knocked again, slightly harder this time. Her expression went from troubled, to worried, to scared in rapid-progression. She cracked the door open to peer in, and then opened the door all the way. The room was empty.
"They're gone," Liyla whispered. "They left without a word, on our birthday!"
"They probably just went out flying," I said, hearing the hopelessness in my own voice. "Or maybe they're in the kitchen," I added with slightly more hope.
"Yeah," Liyla said glumly. "Or maybe they left a good-bye note."
I ignored her comment, not wanting her to see that I thought a good-bye note was more likely then anything else.
We got into the kitchen, and all hopes of our parents coming home soon were crushed when we saw the note.
"They did leave us! Fnick, why would they do this to us?! Don't they love as at all?!?" Liyla cried, started to get hysterical.
"Liyla, chill! First off, Dad wrote that if we found this letter, he and Mom were probably in trouble or something, which means that he'd been planning to throw this note away. So something must have happened to them," I said, trying to figure out what could have possibly happened to make my parents unable to get home.
A/N: FINALLY! I've been writing this one chapter on my computer for, like, a week! And, if you'll notice, it's not exactly long... I'll type the rest of the chapters pretty quickly since they're really the ones that make my story pick up pace. Please review and enjoy!