It was the officers and with guns pointed in all directions, then they saw them.
"What are you kids doing here this is not a safe place3 to be playing in."
"We know officers but we solved the case of the guys in the black ford and who killed him." Lance said.
Andrew let Lance and Jason tell the officers the whole story while his mind back to Joy.
When Lance and Jason was done telling the story. The first officers spoke.
"Let me get this straight your saying this Mike guy killed Jake O'Connell cause he took the money when he saw it in the ditch and that we buried under his name was not Mike Stine."
That's right officers the guy's name was John Johnson, he was a bum and he has no family and Mike took Joy with him to who knows where." Jason said.
"O.K. kids we'll check into this. Did you guys get the colour or the license plate?" asked the second officer.
Andrew answered "We saw the plate but not the color. The plate is TIG 158."
The officer wrote it down "Thanks it was probably stolen, but we'll check it out. You guys have better go home and have something to eat go to bed and stay at home and don't get into trouble. We'll call you as soon as we find more information."
So they went home, but Andrew did not go home instead he went to the spot where he, Mike and Joy first meet.
It was a lovely place by a pollution free river and a meadow a couple of miles to the left. The birds are out and singing, the ducks and swans are out on the river swimming and having fun and down the river about a feet to his right was a couple with their feet and holding hands.
Andrew looked at them for a minute then went back to the time when he went for a walk with Mike and saw Joy under this tree crying.
"What's the matter Joy?" Mike asked.
Joy looks at him with tear stained cheeks and red eyes as if she has being crying for hours. "H-h-how do you know my name?" she asked through her tears.
"You're in a few of my classes. You're always by your self and not talking to anyone, but you are really good in classes." Mike answered.
"What's yours and your friends name?" she asked.
"Sorry, my name is Mike Stine and this is my best friend Andrew Adams."
"Oh yah, I remember now," she said, "you guys are the nosiest kids in the class."
"We are?" Mike said as he looked at Andrew.
"Well by my aspects."
"Oh, so…um…why were you crying?" Andrew asked.
"Oh, I forgot that I was crying. My parents are getting a divorce and my dad wants me to go with him, but my mom wants me to stay here, and I'm so lost and confused I don't know what to do?" and Joy was crying again as she said this.
"Well then who do you love the most?" Andrew asked.
"I love them both and I really don't have a reason to stay here so I guess I'll go live with dad."
"No you can't" Mike said almost shouting.
"Why not?"
"Cause…" he didn't know how he was going to tell her that he loved her from the moment he saw her when she came to his school in grade five, but he realized he has to tell her now. "I love you. I have been since you came to school in grade five and I have been meaning to ask you out, but I was scared you would look at like I'm some kind of nut and if you stay I was going to ask you out.
Silence then Mike broke the silence "So…"
"So what, Mike?" Joy asked softly.
"Will you go out with me?"
"Yes I will. I guess I found a reason to stay?" she answered. "I guess you did" and he went to give her a hug.

Yeah those were happy days, but now with Joy being captured by Mike. He has no idea if he should go home and do nothing just sit and worry or get everyone together and try to guess where they are going and when they find them what are they going to do when they find they?
While sitting there for a couple of hours he knew what he must do. He got up and started running home.

When he got there he picked the phone and called Joy's best friend Diane. "Call everyone and get over here as soon as possible."

In less then ten minutes everyone was at Andrew's house.
"What's the big deal, Andrew?" Diane asked.
"Yah, what's the big deal. I was watching StarGate SG-1?" Jill asked.
"Well sorry to keep you away from your show Jill, but I figured out how we can find Joy."
"Oh ya, how?"
"By going back to the haunted house and look around for clues and anything else that might be useful."
"Come on Andrew were just teenagers what could we do?" Lance asked.
"Nothing we just sit here and let the police handle this. Right Andrew?" Jason said.
Andrew just ignored Jason. "We could investigate like Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys, but only we are not getting shoot at I hope and like Dana Scully and Fox Mulder only we are not finding aliens or anything that looks alien." Diane said.
"You read and watch to much detective and mystery books and TV" commented Lance.
"Thanks at least I'm not playing that stupid card game."
"Which card game?"
"Asshole."
"I'm not an asshole." Lance yelled.
"Not you, you idiot the card game."
"Oh, so what's the plan?"
"O.K, so we go back to the haunted house and see if there was any signs of where he is going with Joy and get her back before there is any harm alone to her."
"So when are going?" Jason said.
"Well what time is it?" Andrew asked. Jill looked at her watch "its 9:00" she answered.
"In the morning?"
"No in the afternoon."
"Oh, well tomorrow morning, at 7:00. So it's an early morning. But for now lets just go home and come up with plans or just do homework or something so we won't remember till tonight before we go to bed."
Everybody said, "O.K" and was just heading out the door when Andrew said "Don't forget to go to bed early because of the early morning. So in other words no computer Jason, unless it's related to the case like how to find something that's fresh and not old like the. NO PORN!"
"Who are you? My mother?" Jason said almost yelling, "how did you know?"
"I have my ways and anyways I'm not telling. Now go home you guys."
They went home, and Andrew went up to his room.
Andrews room has a bed (of course), a computer, a stove, a phone, television and posters of movies and musicians that he likes, a calendar of all the horror movies on the movies, books but he doesn't read them and pictures of him and Joy for the past two years.
Andrew turned on his radio and put in a CD with a mix of a bunch of Greenday songs and looked at a photo album with pictures of his friends, family and more pictures of him and Joy. When he was done looking through it he looked a his books so he can pass the time and he saw the Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and he remembered Joy saying that the Lord of the Rings trilogy was good and so he started reading it.
He was on book two; chapter 1: Many Meetings when he drifted to sleep. The last thing on his mind was to find Joy.