Missing

A Bad Memory

The final school bell rang loud and clear at the end of the day. The bell marked that the school year had ended and that summer vacation had officially begun. All of the students in the school ran out of the building in a flash. Lory had stopped Kayla at the front entrance though, she had a smirk on her face.

"What do you want, Lory," Kayla asks.

"Oh nothing, just to let you know you're not going to the Vampire's Summer Camp For Creative Writers," Lory says while looking at her nails.

"Why? Everyone knows I'm one of the best writers in the school."

"Because they don't want weak vegan vampires."

"But they didn't know that."

"They do now. And I'll be having all the fun there while you're stuck here," Lory turns around and cackles leaving the school, "Say hell to that mutt, Caleb, for me."

Kayla walks over to her car feeling dejected. She had really hoped to go to that creative writing camp this summer. In her rearview mirror, Kayla sees Caleb running up to her car. He had some great news to tell her. He says that the basketball coach had told him he was the number one choice to attend basketball camp. Kayla behind a small smile.

"That's great Caleb," Kayla says, "When do you leave?"

"Next week," Caleb excitedly says. However, he notices that something's wrong with Kayla, "What the wrong babe. You're my Girl. I hate to see you so down."

"Nothing. Lory just ruined my chances to get into that creative writing camp," she sighs, "I just want to go home."

Caleb then drops the subject and says that he'll be training for the rest of the week for basketball camp.

"Okay. I guess I'll see you at the end of the summer then. Bye Caleb, you're my knight in furry armor."

And so Kayla drives away and heads home. When she pulls into her driveway she decides to text the news to her best girlfriends. All of them were shocked and in a matter of minutes, they had decided to pull a prank on Lory to get back at her.

Late that night all five Girls, from Lia to Maple, sneaked out of their homes. They decided to meet in the backwoods by the park. Maple had known Lory kept a hiding place in the clearing of the forest and would more than likely be there that night. All of them though all had something they had brought with them.

They each carried a stink bomb to throw into Lory's hiding place. Once ready the five of them tip-toed through the dark forest.

"Are you sure this is such a good idea Maple? Lia?" Kayla whispers.

"Yeah, we don't want to hurt her," Camren adds.

"Hey, Lory needs to pay for what she did to Kayla. Now quiet, we're almost there," Maple tells them.

As they reached the hiding place they saw that a light was on the inside. Lia crept over and hid under a window, briefly peering inside to make sure Lory was in there. Lia then gives the okay signal and the other four crept over to the window.

"Alright on the count of three we throw the sink bombs through the window," Lia whispers.

The five of them countdown together.

"1...2...3..." and they all throw the stink bombs through the window. Then they all quickly run and take cover behind a clump of trees nearby. None of them expected what happened next.

A loud and huge explosion lit up the night sky. Everyone gasped at the horror of it. They even heard very faint coughing from the hiding place.

Maple tells them all to run and not to look back until they get out of the forest and out of the park. They do as they're told and run as fast as they can, putting the explosion behind them.

None of them stopped until they got to Kayla's house and climbed into her bedroom window.

Kayla turned on the light showing how frightened she had become.

"What just happened? You said Lory wouldn't hurt Maple. We never should have listened to you."