Later that morning, Chidon woke up to do his daily routine, exercise for a bit and then check up on Sora before heading to school. But, something about that day had felt different than others, he couldn’t point out exactly what it was, but it was constantly bothering him.

  Right after his exercises, Chidon entered his house and talked to his mother to check out if there was any news of Sora, after all, Chidon felt as if Sora took it especially bad. At first his mom said that Sora didn’t even come down to eat breakfast today and it really worried her.

  Chidon replied to his mom and told her that, “it’s fine, Sora gets up after he gets knocked down, after all, that’s just the type of guy he is.”

  After those words Chidon went to go check up on Sora, as he arrived he knocked on the door to make sure he could come in and there was no response. Chidon knocked again adding on the words, “Sora, are you okay in there?” And there was no response once again.

  At first thought to Chidon, it was normal after all, Sora just lost his parents and just attended their funeral. What could’ve happened?

  And that’s when it clicked, Sora just attended his parents funeral and as he came back in their car from the funeral there was a determined look on Sora’s face as if he was going to do something that would be irredeemable.

  Chidon knocked on the door one final time and said, “I’m coming in…” As soon as those words left Chidons mouth he opened the door slowly and with a somewhat loud creak. As the door opened Chidon realized that there was no movement coming from the bed, it had a lump like that of a human but almost inanimate.

  Chidon instantly realized this and he ran to Sora’s bed, grabbing the bed sheets and removing them as fast as possible, instantly realizing that there was nobody on the bed… No Sora, just blankets and pillows rolled up into a ball hastily made to look like a person

  As Chidon witnessed this in front of his eyes, he broke a cold sweat and instantly called his mother to get to him as fast as possible with the voice of urgency, “Mom! Hurry up, something's wrong!” She then responded with “what is it!?”

  Before Chidon could respond he saw something strange at the corner of his eye as he was shaking. He looked at it and realized it was a letter, he quickly grabbed it and read it to himself…

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  “Hey, Chidon, by the time you’re reading, I will be long gone. I'm grateful to you and your mother for taking care of me these past couple of weeks, you gave me a home to stay in, a place for me to take refuge. But, I’m sorry I have to go… Tell Kuzu I’m sorry and that I’m also grateful to her for telling me how much she cared for me… Do the same for everyone that attended the funeral and especially my friends. All I have to say are these few words and then I’ll be gone… I promise.”

  As Chidon read those words in his mind he ruined up the paper within his hands whether it was due to pure fear, anger, or hopelessness and he quackingly called his mom as he kept on sweating, “MOM CALL THE COPS, SORA’S GONE!”

  In great shock from the kitchen Chidon’s mother said, “WHAT!” and then she pieced it together, “he’s gone…”

  She quickly grabbed the phone and called 911 and filed a missing person report, having police come in only a few minutes after the call and a search party had started for Sora, a kid with darkish brown hair, dark brown eyes, around 5’8, and just 15 years old.

  Soon following that call, Chidon called Tucker, Johnny, Sariah, and so many others to go on the search for Sora, having the last call be the most noticeable one, Kuzu.

  As Chidon talked to Kuzu, it sounded as if all reasoning with Kuzu went out the window and anything that Chidon tried to do or say was considered to be null and void amongst her Kuzu’s Shouting through the phone

  She would say how much of an idiot Chidon was and why couldn’t he do the one stupid job that was just taking care of one person. The argument went back and forth, Chdion argued back saying “I TRIED MY BEST! WHY ARE YOU MAD DOGGING ME?!” And Kuzu talked back angrily with, “CLEARLY YOUR BEST WASN’T ENOUGH!”

  As Chidon was met with those words, all he could do was clench up his left fist as his right hand was on his phone holding it up to his right ear. And with a discouraged voice Chidon responded with, “I’m sorry, but we have no time.”

  Kuzu stayed silent and said only one word, “okay…” And then she instantly hung up. In just 30 minutes after the call, the streets were filled with the name Sora, everyone kept on updating each other in the certain locations they had already checked with their phones. Sirens rang through the streets and police officers kept on going door to door to find Sora.

  Sadly there were no security cameras set up across the neighborhood since it was relatively safe and because of that the search had been hopeless

  Day one of trying to find Sora was out of the question, So they waited till the next day.

  As they searched far and wide from neighborhood to neighborhood and house to house, no one knew the whereabouts of Sora. No one was able to find him, not Chidon, one of his best friends from childhood, and not even Kuzu, the person that stuck by him when he was at his lowest.

  As time passed, Kuzu kept on running and running endlessly to find Sora, but to no avail.

  Days turned into weeks, and weeks into months, and eventually… After six months the search was over and Sora was pronounced dead…