A/n: Thank you for all of the wonderful reviews. This chapter is hopefully longer and a lot better.

She was walking home from school when she noticed it. A small boy playing outside the new neighbors house. Ally saw the boy playing alone with a ball. He looked lonely so she went up to him.

Ally: Hey there!

The boy looked up startled.

Boy: Hello

Ally: My name is Ally. What's yours?

The boy looked at her for a minute and then suddenly Ally heard a voice coming from the kitchen of the house. Ally assumed it was this boy's father.

Father: Justin come here for a second your mother wants you

Boy: Coming!

The boy went in so Ally decided to leave. There was something strange about Justin. He seemed so familiar and yet Ally had never seen him in her life. Or at least not that she could remember. She decided to leave it at that and go home. When she got home her mom was in the kitchen talking on the phone. When she saw Ally walked in she said good-bye and hung up.

Mary: (smiling) Ally I have the best news!

Ally: What is it?

Mary: The cops think they may have found Michael.

Ally: What! Is he ok? Is he alive? Where is he?

Mary: Calm down. They think he's alive and well. And they think he's the new next-door neighbors kid.

Ally: What! That's impossible. I, I was just talking to that same boy, Justin. His um father called him in and so he went in.

Mary: Ally listen they think that Michael is that Justin kid. They think the family may have brainwashed him or something into thinking he belongs with them. You are NOT in any circumstance to go over and talk to him or whatever. You understand? The cops have it under control.

Ally: Yes, does dad know?

Mary: Yeah

The next few days were a blur. Ally wanted so badly for that boy to be Michael. She wanted everything to be normal again. Most of all, she wanted to see her baby brother again. The cops seemed to be taking things so slow. They had to match the DNA and the fingerprints and everything. They said it would be at least a month before they knew anything and about 3 months for Michael to be home again, if it really was him. She tried her hardest to keep up in school. She didn't want to go back to her old ways. She was doing well and couldn't let her grades slip. She silently laughed to herself. Before Michael disappeared her grades were fine. They dropped when he was kidnapped. It seemed weird how her now 6-year-old brother seemed to be controlling her grades. It was Saturday now. Only about 2 weeks since her mom had announced that Michael may still be out there. She saw her mom with a police officer. She smiled at the two and then went up to her room. She saw a cassette sitting on her desk and decided to listen to it.

~Cassette~

We here a knocking on a door and feet coming to answer it.

Voice: Who is it?

Ally recognized the voice as Justin's father

Officer: The police! Open up.

Man: Hello, how may I help you?

Officer: We here you have a little boy here.

Man: Yeah my son, Justin why?

Officer: May we come in?

Man: (uncertainly) Sure

The police start asking questions.

Officer: What year was the boy born?

Man: February 7th, 1995

Officer: Where's his birth certificate?

Man: I don't have it. Unfortunately before we moved here our house burned down. We lost everything inside it.

Officer: Sorry to here that. Before this where did you live?

Man: Arizona

Officer: Is Justin home?

Man: Yes would you like to speak to him?

Officer: No thanks. That will be all.

~End Cassette~