I was at my dads house one day when my stepsister Mia asked me a question. She wanted to meet our friends Bina and Bianca and the park. And we had just gotten back from the mall so I declined. She wouldn’t leave me alone until I agreed. The park was on our street but we took our bikes anyway. When we arived we set our bikes down in the grass. Bina and Bianca were already there waiting for us. But they weren’t alone. On the swings was a man and his possibly daughter. It was pretty uncommon for us to see people at this park, but it is a public park so we didn’t think anything of it. The man started asking Bianca questions like were are your parents? And things like that. He was acting all friendly. But it was a little strange. So we decided to leave. But we weren’t as sneaky as we should have been. We huddled up to talk. It was quite obvious what we were doing. Mia said to the man, “We gotta go to dinner now.” But the man didn’t like that. He said to us, “Aww I was going to ask you to come on a bike ride with me and my daughter.” Now keep in mind his so called daughter was like 5. We were all 11 at the time. “RUN!” We all screamed. Mia and I picked up are bikes and peddled until our legs were gonna fall off. We ran up the stairs to my house and caught our breath. We yelled for my Dad and he got in the car and drove down to the park. And when he opened the door my dog got out. We chased her for two blocks before we caught her. And some how across the street from us was the man from the park! But we were only gone for like 5-7 minutes at the most. The man was talking to these extremely sketchy biker guys. And the little girl was gone. And in her place was a large black body bag big enough to fit her in. My Dad went across the street to talk to the man. When he returned he said, “He was just trying to help his daughter make friends.” We didn’t buy it for a second. My Dad put my dog in the car and drove home. The four of us walked instead. We were in shock of what had just happened. Now along with the park there’s a yacht club to. We decided to look at the water and just calm down. Bina and Bianca went down to the water. But I stayed on the street with Mia because she could get her shoes dirty. But in the water I saw something. Something that terrified me to my very core. I saw bubbles. Like the kind that appear when you talk underwater. Or in her case scream underwater I told Mia but she didn’t think much of it. And we went home. It’s been about two years since this happened. I haven’t seen either one them since. Do I think he drowned the little girl, yes. Could I be wrong absolutely. And who knows maybe I’m over thinking this, but I don’t think I am.
Author: Mia