Chapter Eleven

~Macey Cameron Goode~

November 21, 2011

Daddy was in his office. He had two desks in there but I don't know why he needs only needs one.

I also don't understand why he needs two pillows. I only use one and he only sleeps on one side of his bed. Cousin Matt who is a year younger than me says that Aunt Macey and Uncle Nick sleep in the same bed and that's why there are two pillows.

I thought Daddy would be so, so mad when he found me at that old house, but he said he was more scared than angry. He also said he loves me, so I shouldn't worry too much. But, now I am so sad.

I'm sitting in the living room, on the piano bench because Daddy says it's his favorite place in the whole house. I don't know why, though, because whenever I see him sit here, he cries. He doesn't know I can see him when he cries, but I do.

I think it's because my Mommy left us.

I've never met my Mommy. Daddy say I could fit in his arm, I was so small, when Mommy left.

I also don't know why we have the piano, because no one in my family knows how.

Earlier at school today, my best friend Eddie-well, his real name is Edward, but all the mean kids call him Ed-wart because they think his name is an old man's name, so I call him Eddie. Eddie is a great drawer, that's how we became friends. Eddie told me that my Mommy was probably just hiding.

That's why I'm so sad, because Mommy wasn't there.

I wandered over to the small table next to the couch and picked up the heavy book that's almost bigger than me, and sat down at the piano bench. My long hair always get caught under my butt when I sit down now, it's so long. I've never had a hair cut before. Daddy says he won't ever cut my hair but I love it when Grandma braids it.

My Daddy's shown me this book so many times before. He likes to point out where my Mommy is in every picture. He would rub his finger over her face to get the dusties off, he says, but he even does it when there's no dusties.

I don't get Daddy sometimes.

Eddie's Daddy is an artist. Eddie doesn't get his Daddy sometimes either.

I turned the pages until I saw my favorite picture of my Mommy. She and Daddy were holding hands and smiling really big at each other. They were looking at each other and they're feet were in the water of the lake. I knew it was the lake outside. Daddy takes me there a lot.

My Momma looks so pretty…Daddy says so. She has the same hair I do, and Daddy says we have the same nose. He says that everything is exactly like Mommy cept' for my green eyes. They're like Daddy's.

I turn the page and see Mommy and Daddy dancing. I see pictures of Mommy with a really big tummy. Daddy says that It was because I was inside her tummy. It confused me because Daddy told me that babies grow from flowers.

I turn the page again and I see the picture of Mommy and Daddy at the old house. Mommy looks happiest there. Daddy said he told Mommy that he loved her then.

But it makes me so sad that she wasn't there yesterday. That I didn't see her.

But Daddy say she is happiest there so she has to be! And Eddie say she was jus' hidin.

So's that's why I went to the closet by the front door and grabbed my blue jacket with Princess Jasmine on it. Princess Jasmine is the best! Eddie say Princess MC is the best.

Silly boys.

I also get my blue scarf and hat. I start to open the door when I run back to the living room and grab the picture book. I take out the picture of Mommy and Daddy on the lake and put it in my pocket.

I open the door slowly so's it doesn't make those scary noises. I don't want Daddy to know. He only say that Mommy's'not there.

I know she is.

She's jus' hiding. Like Eddie says.

It's cold outside and the snow is very deep.

But I know that the old house is just down the street. So's when I got there I tried to open the front door, but it was locked. It wasn't locked yesterday. So's I tried what I do when Uncle Grant's house is locked.

I walk to the side of the house to see if there was a small window like the one at Uncle Grant's.

There was.

It was already open so I put my feet in first. The window always took me to Uncle Grant's basement, so's I knew this was probably a basement too.

Basements are scary.

Just like the monsters in my closet. Or the ones under my bed!

So's, I dropped down and my boots made a loud noise. It was dark in the basement so I couldn't see anythin.

I heard something move. I got scared.

So's that's why I screamed, "MOMMY!"

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"Ughmenuh," a scratchy voice came from right next to me and my eyes widened.

"Mommy! Is that you?" I asked in a whisper. Just in case it wasn't my Mommy.

I hear more noises until I see a lady move into the light of the window.

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But she doesn't look like Mommy.

Her eyes are closed. Her hair looks kinda like Mommy's but it all tangled and dirty lookin. And the lady is skinny. Real skinny. She must've been wrappin present or somethin cause she was all tangled in this rope. Daddy always gets tangled in strings when he tries to wrap presents. She must've been wrappin presents.

"Lady? Do you know where my Mommy is?" I ask in my nicest voice.

She opens her eyes.

"M-Mommy?"

A door slams open.

"Mommy? Now Cammie, don't tell me you've been unfaithful!"

I'm suddenly grabbed off the floor and I see his scary eyes and yellow teeth.

"Now…What to do with you?"

A.N. Yes, it's very short but I'm planning on updating sometime this weekend depending on how many reviews I get.

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What's gonna happen to MC? Where's Zach? Can Cammie pull through?

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~Akira