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.
