I'd just pulled into the mall parking lot and was trying to pull myself together when my phone starts to ring. It’s daddy.“You okay Princess?"“Y...ah.”“Don’t lie to me, Shawn called me and told me about your mother.”“I’ll be fine. It shouldn’t have surprised me to be honest.”“Honey where are you right now?” “At the mall” I sigh “I'm hoping a little shopping will help take my mind off of Michelle.” He pauses for what seems to be an eternity“Do you need me to come home? I can reschedule my. After making my selection and paying for it, I was startled to find the large group all looking at me.Talk about a panic attack. I thought I had thrown someone’s telepathic alarm somehow and they had taken over the group to get me. But my empathic senses were picking up a feeling of humor and curiosity, and after turning red from their shifting looks, I walked up to them as asked, “What?”Half of them burst out laughing while a dark-haired girl wearing a cute hat said with a smile, “Your barn. She looked ready for a night on the town.How long had she been gone? She grabbed her cell phone. It was Monday evening. She'd been out less than 24 hours, not nearly long enough for anyone to notice her disappearance. Whoever these people were, they were organized.While checking her phone, she saw she had an unread text message. She looked. It read: "Call 555-4321."Anxiously, she dialed the numbers. The phone didn't even ring before a soft male voice answered: "Glad you called, Cassandra." Who. Soon enough, she asks me to do something I was hoping she'd ask. She told me to kiss her brother. I looked at him and he looked at me. I thought he didn't want to kiss me, so I took the shot for his sake. After a few more rounds, she passes out. He didn't drink anything. He was too good at the game to lose. I told him I want to go to the nearby park to swing. I love swinging. He said that he would take me. We walked to the park and sat on the swing. I looked up at the almost full moon thinking.