T: *laughs evilly* Welcome back my loyal readers… I hope I didn't scare any of you off last time… but for those who are still here we shall continue… in this story we will follow a love starved boy desperate for affection… we will see what happens when he finds a girl he can't get out of his mind

The Girl in the Photograph

Oliver sat at his desk, arm propping his head up as he looked out the window, completely ignoring his teacher as he watched the clouds go by, silently counting to himself the amount of time that was left in the day, that is until he was torn away from his day dreaming

"Oliver" Lilly grabbed his arm "The bell rang a few minutes ago come on Miles is waiting for us" Lilly said before turning to walk out of the class

"Hey wait up" Oliver called after Lilly as he gathered his books before looking out the window one more time as he started to head out, but something caught his eye and made him stop "What the.."

Oliver saw on the ground just outside the window something that didn't belong. It looked like a piece of paper. Normally this wouldn't have caught his eye but for some odd reason he couldn't stop looking at it. He stared at the paper on the ground until he saw other students making their way out of the school, walking by the paper

"Crap" Oliver rushed out of the classroom, past his two best friends that were waiting for him and out of the building to the spot where he saw the paper, very happy it was still there and he eagerly picked it up

Oliver examined the paper, surprised to find that it wasn't a piece of paper at all, but a photo. A photo of a girl around Oliver's age, long red hair, a dark blue dress with some matching dark tights and some white skateboard sneakers, holding up two fingers in a peace sign form with her hand.

"Oh wow" Oliver said as he examined the photo "She's so pretty" he said to himself as he kept looking at the picture, not even noticing Miley and Lilly had come up to him

"Oliver.. Oliver!" Miley yelled as she waved her hand in front of her friend, breaking him out of his trance

"Huh? What?" Oliver said as he regained his senses

"What's up with you today? You've been zoning out a lot lately" Lilly asked with some concern in her voice

"Oh.. I uhh.." Oliver tried to think of something but he just looked at the picture again

"What's that?" Miley asked as she looked at the photo "Oh she's cute.. who is it?"

Oliver shook his head "I don't know… the picture was just laying here on the ground" Oliver showed the picture to Lilly "Do you know her?"

Lilly looked at the photo and shook her head "No, never seen her"

"I've gotta find out who she is" Oliver looked around seeing there were still some students that hadn't left yet so he ran off and started asking anyone he got close to if they knew who the girl was

"That's one love sick puppy" Lilly said as she watched her friend run around

"Yep" Miley replied simply

Oliver eventually made his way home after asking almost everyone at the school who the girl was, but much to his disappointment no one seem to know or have even seen the girl before. He made his way up to his room, putting the picture on his bedside table and flopping onto his bed.

"Man I wish I could figure out who she is" Oliver said to himself as he reached over and looked at the picture one last time before putting it back on the table then turning off his lamp before slowly drifting off to sleep.

Oliver awoke in the middle of the night to the sound of a gentle tapping on his window "Wha.." Oliver sighed as he rubbed his eyes some before turning on his lamp before hearing the tapping again "What is that?"

Oliver got up and slowly walked over to his window, stopping about half way when he heard the sound of a girl giggling "Who's there?" Oliver asked as he got to his window and looked out, seeing nothing but his front lawn, and no longer hearing the tapping or giggling "Hmm.. that's weird" he said to himself before he went back to his bed and laid down, looking at the picture "I'm going to find out who you are" he put the picture back on his nightstand before turning off the lamp and going back to sleep

The next day at school Oliver roamed all over the school, asking anyone he ran into if they knew the girl in the photo, he asked students, teachers, janitors, even the Vice Principal if he knew the girl but no one had even seen the girl before.

"This is crazy someone has to know who she is" Oliver said as he sat down at the lunch table he was sharing with Miley and Lilly

"Oliver don't you think you're going a little over board with this?" Miley asked

"Yea I mean it's just a picture" Lilly added

"Just a picture?" Oliver held up the picture "This girl is the girl of my dreams"

"You don't even know her Oliver" Lilly replied

"I know that… but its just something about her" Oliver looked at the picture "I don't know what but I have to find her, I have to meet her in person"

When Oliver got home he spent some time going around, knocking on his neighbor's doors, asking any of them that would answer if they knew the girl in the picture. But after a few hours of doing so he returned home, again disappointed that no one had seen the girl. He walked into his house, seeing his mom was home and got an idea

Oliver walked up to his mom "Hey mom… have you seen this girl before" he showed her the picture

"No I can't say I have, why?" his mom answered

"Is there any way you could find out? Look up records at work or something?"

"Oliver.. I'm a police officer not a private investigator"

Oliver sighed, "Ok" he said simply before he started towards his room

"Oliver what do you want for dinner?" his mom called out to him as he walked off

"Doesn't matter I'm not hungry" Oliver said as he went to his room

Later that night Oliver was fast asleep, tossing and turning in his bed before he was awoken once again by a tapping noise followed by a girl's giggle

Oliver got up out of his bed and was about to go to his window but he stopped, turning and looking at the picture of the girl, "Maybe" he said simply before he picked the picture up and went to his window and looked out, again seeing nothing but his front lawn but he heard the giggling noise again so he opened his window and climbed out

"Hello?" Oliver called out

He heard the giggle again so he followed the noise, leading him through his front lawn and out into the street in front of his house when he heard the giggle again

"Hey.. I think I have your picture.. where are y.." Oliver never got to finish his sentence as he heard tires screeching

CRASH!

Oliver never had a chance to even turn to look at the car that hit him, killing him instantly.

The driver got out of his car "Oh god" he went around to check on Oliver but his head sunk as he found there was nothing he could do for Oliver

He looked around as he saw some neighbors come out from their homes to see what the noise was, and he lowered his head again, upset that he had just hit and killed someone, but as he looked down his eyes landed on the photo that Oliver still held in his hand. The driver gently took the picture from Oliver and looked at it

"Oh wow" he said as he looked at the girl, somehow not even thinking about what he had just done

All he could find himself to do was just admired the girl in the picture, looking it over. The girl with long red hair, the girl with the dark blue dress and matching dark tight, the girl with white skateboard shoes, the girl with her hand held up…

Holding up three fingers

Well now, that was certainly a very creepy tale… but we have just begun so don't go off running and screaming just yet, we have so much more to do… so until then… stay safe… and don't pick up things off the ground that don't belong to you