Snow day for me.


Jake picked Beth up and carried her into his room and placed her on the bed. "Stay here for ten minutes."

"NO! I WANNA GO TO PARK!" She shouted.

"Beth, the longer you keep screaming and acting up, the longer your gonna stay in here. Ten minutes." Jake told her.

He left the room, shutting the door behind him. He was down the hall when he heard the door open again and saw Beth leaving the room. "Beth! Get back in the room!"

"I wanna go to park!" She shouted.

Jake marched back over, picked Beth up, and carried her back into his room and placed her on the bed. "Beth, ten minutes in here. Okay."

"PARK!"

"No park." Jake said as he turned and left. "Just ten minutes."

He left again and by the time he was in the kitchen, he could hear Beth opening the door again. "Beth, you better be back in that room!"

"Potty!" She told him.

Jake followed down the hall watching her go into the bathroom. After about five minutes or so she came out. "Time out over!"

"Oh..that's what you did," Jake said. He picked her up again and carried her into his room, hearing her screaming. "Ten minutes Beth."

"I'm telling Daddy!" She screamed with tears. "I tell Daddy your mean!"

"Beth, you kept screaming at me and spat in my face. Daddy's going to agree that a time-out was needed."

"NO!" Beth yelled as she was placed on the bed. She began throwing her arms around and kicking her legs as her crying and tears came louder. "I WANNA GO TO PARK!"

Jake just left her in there, not speaking a word this time.


For the next hour or so, by 7:30, Beth finally stopped acting up and waited in the room. Jake left the room and began back to the kitchen to start the clean up.

Ten minutes passed. Jake finished wrapping up the counter after he had brought the trash bag out to the garbage.

He headed back into his room and opened it. Beth wasn't in there. He checked under his bed then inside of his closet. Still gone. "Shit, she left the room again."

Jake left his room and checked his Moms room; her closet, under her bed, inside her bathroom. Missing. Jake checked the hallway closet but empty too.

He checked under the couch, but found it bare. Jake began panicking but it wasn't until he checked the living room closet that he went pale.

"Beth?" He called out in a worried tone. "Beth?"

He ran into the kitchen and began opening the bottom cabinets, finding them bare. He ran into the bathroom and found it bare. He ran down the stairs into the basement and looked all over; behind the washer, the dryer, some boxes and a trunk.

All of it empty.

Jake ran up the stairs, pale and sweaty and panicking. His heart was beating quickly as he began questioning and wondering where she was. Soon Puck and Shelby and even Quinn came into his head.

"Oh my god I'm gonna be dead!" Jake yelled. "Where in the hell did Beth go!?"

Jake started walking back and fork thinking until he looked had an idea. He ran back to his room and studied it and saw the window in his room. Since his house was pretty much a one level house, and a basement, it was easy to jump out the window without falling far.

The window was opened. And he knew, by one hundred percent, that he had shut the window when she took a nap earlier.

"Oh shit...THE PARK!" He yelled as he ran out of the house, shutting the door behind him.

He ran all the way to the park, knowing she had to be there. Where else could she of gone? Where else did she want to go all night?

"Keep her safe. Please God, keep her safe!" He yelled the entire run.