“The Case of a Missing Girl”
by Michaela Williams-Perry, 5th Grade 3rd Place Winner
Why is everyone ignoring me?!? Mom, Dad, Clarrissa, and Cleveland were ignoring me crying with tears on the whole kitchen table. The bus picked us up from our house to go to school. I sat by my sister Clarrissa and my Friend Marteniz on the bus, Clarrissa was still crying showing my friend Martinez a photo on her phone I almost saw but Mr. Buchner told her to put her phone away still crying. I asked her” What is wrong?” and of course she can’t hear me. We pulled up to the school and went inside our math class. My teacher Mrs. Alice took attendance and guess what… SHE MARKED ME ABSENT!!!! My phone will get a notification that I was marked tarted or absent and my phone said absent, I walked up to Mrs. Alice with my hand phone in my hand vibrating didn’t even notice but somehow, she didn’t notice. I put it all up on her face. Nope, she still didn’t see it. I showed it to Liam, Sophia, and Serinity still didn’t see it. (Bell rings) Sophia and I walked to Cheer practice, and you won’t believe what happened. It’s posters up saying I’m missing, last spotted in 937 agricultures lane FL 79089. I stared for a minute and asked myself “Is this a dream?” Is this a prank? Or am I……… dead?” But then if you look down, it says I’m dead. That answered my question. So, I’m a ghost? That explains why my family was crying, that explains why Mrs. Alice marked me Absent, and that is why Everyone is ignoring me. And then I hear this weird echo saying,” You have 24 hours to live…….” I started screaming but then Sophia heard me and said” Come on, let’s not be any later to practice.” When I looked behind me, the poster wasn’t there, the sun got brighter, and my attendance was updated. My 24 hours timer started but suddenly Clarrissa was getting chased by a man covered with blood and holding a knife. I called 911, Mom, and Dad and started saying “Clarrissa come over here” scared shaking my hand. But then the man Stabbed Clarrissa right when the police got there. We took her to the hospital, and she couldn’t take it anymore. I prayed for the rest of my family to live. The next 2 hours, me and Cleveland went over to Sophia and Serinity’s house with our other friends, and we ate ice cream, pizza, and played truth or dare Sophia asked Cleveland Truth or dare, Cleveland picked dare because he knew if he picked truth he would have to reveal his crush. Sophia told him to go to the haunted playground at Sunland Middle School. Cleveland went and never returned. We walked down there, and his head was cut off. We ran and I told Sophia to call the police, but she said no because she would get in trouble if there were boys at her house. Sophia was holding a knife and snapped.
