It's been a whole year since a little girl named Nina went missing. The day started off like other day. Our neighbor Mrs. Tucker asked Al and myself to watch her daughter Nina and Alexander the dog while she was working a night shift at the bar The Devil's Nest.
"Of course we'll watch Alexander and Nina." Al said. Nina was happy to know we'll be coming over to spend time with her. We're like two older brothers to her and she's like a little sister to us.
That night (around 6) we over to Mrs. Tucker's house, which was a small one story house. Alexander and Nina greeted us as her mother left in a rush. For the first two hours we played at least a couple of board games.
Around eight we watched a movie she picked. I can't remember the name. By the time the movie ended she fell asleep. Since we were still awake we decided to watch the movie Con Air.
Half way through the film Alexander kept growling at the door. "What's up with Alexander?" I asked. Before Al could say anything there a loud tapping on the window next to the front door, which wasn't far from the living room.
"That answers my question…" I stated awkwardly. The loud tapping continued and Alexander didn't stop growling. We didn't pause the movie but we couldn't focus on it either.
"Should go and see who it is?"
"Nah. It's most likely a prankster." We started the movie again, when it ended there was loud banging. It was loud enough to wake up Nina but we didn't know she was down stairs until she shouted, "It's Daddy!"
Alexander started barking. We got up from the couch and ran over to attempt to stop her from opening the door. Mrs. Tucker told us to never let Mr. Tucker in the house. She didn't say why.
Nina opened the door.
Mr. Tucker had a gun
He shot Alexander.
He picked up Nina and ran off.
Al called the police
I ran after him.
He got in his car with Nina and drove off.
After telling Mrs. Tucker what happened, we couldn't face her again. Regardless of everyone telling us "It's not our fault" we stilled blamed ourselves.