Chapter Eleven - Gone

Everything was thrown back into focus at once and I practically fell forward. People around me were starting to move again, which meant the bird was gone. "Alice? Cary? Joe?" People started to look at me as I tried to find them. I must have gone all the way around the school when she finally found me right back in front of the lunch room.

She had a hard face and looked totally emotionless. "Where are the other two?"

She looks at me and shakes her head. "It took them too"

We stand in silence. "What are we going to do?" I ask after a while.

"Find it and then save the boys."

"By ourselves?" I ask. "We have Preston (if he will) and… we'll have to find someone else." Ally answers back. Then we walk back into the lunch room and see everyone crowed around the doors that were broken. People were whispering about it, already making rumors.

"Where are the boy's?"

"Probably chasing after it."

"They are so hot!"

Ally and I both roll our eyes at their comments. Nobody really drooled over Alice, since she and Joe were dating, and boys didn't really think of her as a hero – just the one that needed the saving. Now it was the boy's turn to get saved.

"Who is going to help us? Hopefully not a super fan girl… our one at all"

"Don't worry, I have someone that can help us" Alice says to me. I nod and she turns and scans the lunch room. Off to the side, a girl looked at the hole in the doors, pale and grim. She had black, straight hair, and a hot pink shirt and skirt. "Yo, 'Nessa!" Alice yells and waves. The girl looks over with round eyes and races over. "No way, it didn't take you!" She is suddenly perky and bouncy. She takes a look at me. "Are you that new girl?"

"Yes. I am that new girl. And you are?" She throws out a hand and I shake it as she says; "Vanessa Cleary, but you can call me 'Nessa."

"Anna Wells, now can we get on with this?" Alice nods. "Right. We need one more person."

"Who?" Vanessa and I ask in unison.

"Hey, Pyro!" Alice yells at a girl in the halls at the end of the day. They let us go early on account of the missing kids, so the end of the day was about twenty minutes later. "Pyro?" I ask as the girl turns around. She has dark brown hair and sky blue eyes. She wore a purple shirt that showed both her shoulders and it was tight on her medium-figure. She had on plain dark jeans and shoes.

"Yeah?" She had an Australian accent. It was nice to know I wasn't alone in the accented world. "We need your help"

"I thought you may have come and asked me. Need your friends?" She scans over me and 'Nessa. "How is it that you go to this school and I don't know either of you?" She asks us.

"I was thinking the same thing" Says 'Nessa.

"I wasn't" I answer in return. "I'm Anna"

"And I'm 'Nessa"

"Right. I'm Pyro. The name is self-explanatory. My real name is Arial."

"Hey, Arial" I say, smiling. With a serious expression, she answers; "It's Pyro."

"So, are we ready to find these bitches?" Pyro asks. We all nod in return and agree to meet at my house. I'm not sure why, but I guess Alice said she liked my house and so she deemed it the new place to hang out.

Ha, ha, Aunt Sandy! I told you I had girlfriends!