Hermionie put down the letter, why does Cho want to have coffee with me, I don't even like coffee! Oh well. Hermionie walked out of her room , down the hall and into the dining room were her mum was sitting down at the table holding the phone in her hand.
"Mum I was wondering….". Hermionies mum turned around to look at her, her eyes were full of tears. "mummy, whats wrong" she said as she pulled a chair up beside her mums and sat down.
"Hermionie, honey, something has happened."
"Its ok, mum im sure what ever it is me and dad will help out".
"Hermionie, its your dad."
Hermionie started to understand what her mum was trying to say.
"Mum, what's happened to dad!"
"The police say it was a street gang that killed him."
"killed him!"
Hermionie put her head between her legs to bock out her cries of agony.
Her mum moved closer and hugged Hermionie, "honey, we have to be strong."
"Hermionie cried even harder and looked up .
"Mum what exactly happened! I want to know."
"It's a mystery to the police, they say he was stabbed continuously, but not by a knife…it's the only explanation. They say he tried to fight back but there was just to many of them….to many…" she said as she started to cry again.
"Mum" Hermionie tried to say without sobbing," where did this happen?"
"They don't know, but the found his body in a dried out creek behind an old deserted mansion a couple of blocks away."
Hermionie knew where this mansion was she walked past almost every day when she walks down to the shop to get some milk for her mum.
The mansion is old and made of brick, Hermionie didn't like walking past it, the grass is overgrown, all the windows have been smashed. No one has lived in it for hundreds of years and no one dared to go near it. People say that a 2 ghost children haunt it , a boy and a girl. A long time ago there parents died and they lived in the house alone for a few years without parents, but somehow they managed to survive. No one knew how they died, people say they were murdered and some say they just lost the will to survive.
Hermionie knew what she must do, she must go and investigate, a gang would have killed him, she had an idea that something else happened, someone or something had killed her dad!