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Emma

Emma sat on the sand next to Noah for a moment, plopping her blue backpack on the sand next to her. She undid her pony tail and began wringing out her hair. "Yeah. I'm going to go home and see if my mom is okay and find my brother. How about you?" She inquired. Her brother was definitely still in school at this hour. She knew he'd come running out if he knew what had just happened. Letting go of her hair, she pulled her backpack between her legs and began digging through it. She finally pulled out her phone. After messing with it for a moment, she sighed. "No signal. Can you check yours?" She glanced over at him, meeting his eyes as his gaze softened. Emma listened to his words and bit her lip. Dang. She really was an open book. People always could tell how she was feeling without even asking her. Her face usually said it all.

"I just hope by some miracle my dad didn't drown out there. It just doesn't make any sense..." She told him quietly. She gathered herself to her feet. "Never mind. Don't try your phone. Let's just go to our houses. We can go to yours first if you really want but make it quick if possible. I'm not feeling these wet clothes. " She grimaced at the heavy feeling of her clothes as she spoke.

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@Mivuli hiii :)

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Alex

“ I know how this sounds, but… I think a plane just crashed.”
Alex looked up from rummaging through his back at the bizarre statement. It was just one weird situation after the other now. How was this not a dream? He followed Selene slowly toward the window and stared outside. Black smoke was billowing up in the sky not too far off.
" We need to go. Like now." She said.
"I'm way ahead of you sister."Alex mumbled, throwing his back over his shoulder. He hastily made his way out the door, not checking back to see who was following him. First, he had to go home and see if his family was okay then he'd check out what the random smoke was about.

Emma

"Good thing my dad taught me." Emma told Ming Hua and made her way over to the controls. She sat down and turned on the motor. She couldn't get the nagging worry that her dad had fell off and drowned off her mind. No one just disappeared. She paled as she clutched the steering wheel, imagining her mom and brother's faces when they heard it was her fault her father was dead. She had abandoned him and left him to die. To top it off, if she had just went to school none of this would had happened.

She swallowed. If he had indeed fallen in, he was dead by now. She bit back tears and drove the boat towards the shore. Once at the dock, she stopped it and hopped off, her wet sneakers noisily pressing against the wood. She tied it up rather hastily and turned to the boy, "That guy that was hollering at us is gone."

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I'll have a post up later today. Sorry school work consumed my life lol

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Been quiet lately, eh?

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Alex

Alex found himself stumbling into a mess of chairs and tables as a few chairs followed him and painfully hit into his torso. He quickly pushed a chair aside and got out of the mess, rubbing his stomach in an attempt to dull the pain. This was getting to be weird to be prank. He glanced at Selene, who seemed to be examining a bruise on her side. "Oh dang... That looks bad." He moved over to his backpack, which was now on the floor amongst some of its contents, and began searching through it. He found a bottle of tylenol and tossed it to Selene. "Here."

He thought of Emma and bit his lip. Where the hell was she? "One moment,"He told everyone in the class and walked out, weaving through the panicking teens toward Emma's classroom. He peered inside. Her classmates were there and looking to each other in confusion. Alex came back to his classroom and began gathering his belongings back in his bag. He should had figured she had cut school.

Emma

Emma helped Ming Hua on board as he spoke and smirked at his words, "Yeah I probably gotta get a haircut sometime soon. Been months." She told him, "Okay. Noah it is." She wrung out her hair on to the deck and sat down to try to process eveything happening.

"Hey!" Emma glanced back to see there was a boy waving to them. "You guys?! Noah? You alright? You don't know what's going on do you? Like, where everyone went?" Everyone? Emma repeated in her head mentally. Her father wasn't the only one who had just vanished then. She paused a minute, trying to process a logical explanation. She waved back to the boy, "What do you mean by where everyone went?"She called back.

"Your father disappeared," Emma returned her gaze to Noah. She recognized him from school. It was a small town so most everyone's faces were familiar to everyone. "Maybe," - if you're really lucky - "he swam back to shore."

Emma raised a brow at his proposal. "Why would my dad randomly jump off a boat and swim to shore and ditch me?" It seemed even Noah knew it was nonsensical. He proposed going back to land and then leaned over the side to scoop up a piece of driftwood, suggesting he tow her along.

"Or-Or... We could just drive the boat back."

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Sorry to hear that Bunnii!! D: Take your time. Will post soon.

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The people disappeared because they were in San Perdido right? I kinda wanna make a new character before things get too settled into the story... I mean, imagine a seventeen year old sitting on a plane that just so happened to fly over San Perdido at the wrong time and boom. No pilot.

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I DONT KNOW WHY THIS MADE ME LAUGH.

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Alex

"Alexander!"
The shrill voice jolted Alex out of his slumber, blue eyes wide and gazing around him rapidly. His gaze finally locked on the older woman in front of his desk, hands on her hips and a none-too-happy expression on her face. It took a few moments for Alex to register what exactly was occurring. He had barely slept last night. His room had been absolutely freezing and he had tossed and turned all night, trying to scavenge as much of the blanket as possible. After a moment of blank staring, he finally discovered he was in his second period history class and Ms. Woods was glaring down at him like he had stolen the Mona Lisa from its museum.

He ran a hair through his blonde hair, clearing his vision and finally gave the woman a cheeky smile. "Hello, Ms. Woods. Can I help you with something?" He politely, yet jokingly inquired. A couple girls giggled and began whispering excitedly. For some reason, this happened often and Alex never knew why. He glanced over at them questioningly and their eyes widened as they turned away hastily, holding back their smiles. He shrugged it off with a sigh.

"Yes, Mr. Remington. You can help me by STAYING. AWAKE. As charming as you are, I have no sympathy for you when you're not paying attention in my class."She emphasized and stalked back to the chalk board, returning to creating irritating sounds with a piece of chalk.

Though he stayed awake for the remainder of the class, he hadn't exactly paid attention. His mind recovered the memories of his day slowly and he finally realized he had rushed out the door this morning without walking Emma to school. Alex hoped she got to school alright this morning. She tended to be a troublemaker whenever she found an opening to be. It was a miracle she hadn't been sent to Coates Academy yet.

The bell rang and Alex hopped out of his seat with a sigh of relief. He rubbed his eyes as he made his way out the door and toward AP Chem, a class he personally dreaded more than the rest of them. With a yawn, he practically fell into his seat in the back of the room and buried his head in his arms. He didn't have to pick his head up to know a girl was picking a fight with Mr. Phillips again. The same brunette girl did it every day. A lecture from the teacher about behavior always followed. Sometimes he forgot this was supposed to be an AP class.

Then all of a sudden, it got silent. Alex picked his head up and stared forward. Mr. Phillips was gone. The girl that was sitting in front of him was gone too along with the boy two seats away from him. They couldn't have all just left in the few seconds he had his face buried in his sleeves. He watched as a girl, who he recalled was named Selene, got to the front of the room and declared, "I am going to have to say that.... school is most likely out now?"

Alex stood up as a surge of energy along with confusion filled him. "Wait... What just happened again?"He inquired. He made his way rapidly over to the door and yanked it open. He glanced up and down the hallways, hoping to see Mr. Phillips and the missing kids there. Instead, he saw a few dozen faces peeking out of doorways as well, matching his expressions of confusion.

"Our teacher just vanished!"One kid exclaimed to another. "Yeah mine too!" A young voice answered from elsewhere.
"A bunch of seniors just disappeared along with them! ... My phone isn't working!"

Alex moved back into the room, letting the door slam as he took out his phone. He began trying to send a text to Emma. "No signal. " He murmured and glanced at Selene. "Was there a senior prank I didn't know about planned? Usually they do these things toward the end of the year, no?"

Emma

Emma sharply inhaled when she felt sudden weight grip her shoulders. The weight wrapped around her and she finally registered this weight as a set of arms that felt surprisingly warm despite the cool water their bodies were submerged in. It suddenly wasn't very hard to keep her head over the surface. She didn't waste her breath on speaking as he swam them over toward the boat. As they neared the boat, he tossed her over the hull and she quickly grabbed on and began pulling herself back on board. Rolling over on her back against the wood, she settled her weight on her elbows and glanced up to find her savior. A boy with dark hair had his arms crossed over the side of the boat. She took an awkward pause to catch her breath, letting him be the first to speak.

"Were you going to look for mermaids, or did you just fall in?" the boy asked between low pants, "Decent-sized fish. Would make a good dinner." He swept his hair out of his eyes and squinted at her, "What's your name?"

Emma stared at him as she began peeling wet strands of hair off her neck and collecting it into a ponytail. She sat up a little and finally answered, "I jumped in. I thought my dad fell in or something but he wasn't in the water." She chose to ignore the fish comment and prioritize other topics, "I'm Emma. Thank you for saving me, I'm really grateful and all but I still don't know where my dad went. One moment he was here and the next..." She drew off, doing one more scope around the boat. "He was gone." Emma sighed stressfully and moved over to the side of the boat to offer him a hand in helping him up. "What's your name?"