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I woke up to no one. Big brother wasn't at the bottom of my bed. l quickly got ready and went downstairs to find big brother. He wasn't downstairs. Was he in Emily's mom's room?  I couldn't check there. I saved him a piece of toast but he never came to eat it. Something was up. Did big brother leave me too? Did he disappear like mommy and daddy? 

I went back to my room to check again. I hoped he would be there. Smiling like a ray of sunshine. Suddenly, my head started to hurt so I turned to the only mirror in my room. A burnt face looked back at me. I touched my face and I could feel a lumpy surface. It reminded me of pineapple skin. I blinked quickly and everything went back to normal.

Whatever that thing was in the mirror made my heart beat out of my chest. I started to think about that image. It was like it was burnt into my mind. Big brother was pushed to the back of my mind. He rushed right to the front, when I sat in the school bus. 

I had never felt that lonely before. I truly didn't have anyone to talk to. I had no friends in the school bus. That was untill Emily sat next to me. 

"Alex is missing, Alex is missing, Alex is missing." I heard her the second time she whispered it into my ears. Before I could question her she ran to sit next to her new friends. They were smiling at me. Why was everyone leaving me?

When I got to school, police cars were in front of the school. One of the police officers waved at me. He had a scary smile and a big beard on his face. Who was he? He walked towards me with a smile on his face.

"Hello james, it's me do you remember me?" I looked at him confused, should know him? I didn't know what to say. Should I say yes or should I be honest? Big brother said it's sometimes ok to lie. Before I could the police man said, "It's been a while, you have grown so much." He reached out his hand to pat my head.

"Yes, I have grown a lot," I replied and thought that I was even taller than big brother.

" You have to be careful and not talk to strangers, My daughter is missing too." He said that with tears in his eyes.

"Okay!" I quickly replied to the policeman.

"Hmmmm." I thought of that stranger with the dead dog.

"There used to be a stranger in front of the school, he was looking for his dog." I told him this not really knowing if this information was inportant. His eyes started sparkling.

"What did he look like?" The policeman took out a notebook and a pen.

"He was wearing glasses, and he had a nice friendly smile. My friend said to stay away from him, because he looked like a peasant."

"Did he have a beard like me?" Asked the policeman

"No, he didn't have a beard like you." Then he ran towards the other police officers. The scene looks so familiar. Why did it look familiar?

My head started to hurt again. Everything looked like It was on fire. The roads, the sidewalk. It looked beautiful like a picture, but I knew that fire burns. My face started to hurt and the world started to spin. I fell to the ground in pain and the world went black.

I started to remember a life with no big brother. The fire that my mommy and daddy died in. I was alone and my face got burnt. I relived the memory, and felt the pain of my face being burnt a second time. Two set of memories came back into my head. Life with big brother and life without big brother. But only the memories of when I was two years old. Who is big brother? Why wasn't he there in the other life?

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looked toward the sound of the scream, it was one of the girls that got kidnapped. I must not be fully awake yet. I closed my eyes and opened them again. Wait a girl in the boy's room. This Cannot be the boy's room. I looked around and found uncle Alex. where was I this is not where I went to sleep. Did I get kidnapped too? 

 I was in a van. The kids around me were all tied up. Their set belts were on, and the windows were tinted.This was new And I didn't know what to do.

Uncle Alex was just sleeping through the screaming. He woke up when the driver started playing some, heavy metal on the loudest possible volume. You couldn't even hear the girl screaming anymore.

I floated to see the drivers face I wasn't surprised. It was that creepy stranger with the creepy smile. How did uncle Alex even get kidnapped? I thought he was smarter than my dad. Well smart enough to not get kidnapped.

Their was another guy sitting in the passengers sit. He had a face of a typical bad guy. Not the nice looking kind. He was the kind of ugly no one would want to look at. He was frowning.

"Why didn't you get the cute brown-haired kid. You got the rich kid everyone would notice and a policeman's daughter. Are you an idiot?" said the ugly man to the creepy guy.

" The rich kid dared to call me a peasant, and the policeman's daughter walked towards me. She told me to stop standing in front of her school, or she would tell her Daddy or a teacher. They were both just asking to get kidnaped. That orphan kid started to ignore me, so I picked easer options ." said the creepy guy while sighing. So he was going to kidnap dad I knew he was a creep.

They turned the music back up after their conversation. The girl stopped screaming, I guess she lost her voice. Then I looked at uncle Alex, he was looking at me too. unlike the girl his mouth was blocked with a cloth and ducktape. I realized why the girl was the only one who had her mouth uncovered. I realized after she sneezed.

" Ewww, she sick" I didn't see it coming and almost had spite go right through me. Even if I probably can't get sick. I don't want her sickness to go through me. That just gross did her dad not teacher her to cover her mouth with her arm, oh yeah she's tied up.

I looked at uncle Alex again his eyes were unnaturally wide. His eyes looked like he needed help.  I smelt some pee and realized what happened. The boy next to uncle Alex had wet himself. The boy was wearing a green shirt and blue shorts. you could see The pee dripping down his legs and into his shoes.The boy looked out the window, and not at uncle Alex. Who had to sit in his pee.

One of the kidnappers smelt the pee and said," why didn't you tell me you had to pee?" Then I think he realized that the kid couldn't tell him. 

Uncle Alex started to cry. The kidnappers stopped the car. When they opened the door I realized that we were in a forest. 

They took the cloth and ducktape off uncle Alex's mouth because he was having trouble breathing while crying. 

"You peasant how dare you pee on me," said uncle Alex's while glaring at the boy. The boy didn't look back at him. the boy kept looking out the window.

Then the kidnappers took uncle Alex and the boy out of the car. The ugly one said "stay put."Then he put them on the muddy ground.  Uncle Alex was to busy staring at the kid, to realize that this was a chance to escape.

I didn't want to carry him because he has pee and mud all over him. I also didn't know if I was strong enough to carry him. I wonder if I should just risk the pee and save uncle Alex. I started to think about all the other kids in the car. Should I save them? 

No, I  am just a kid. They need the police and not me. When I decided to save just uncle Alex. I was too late they had already spray the car with air freshener, and put a black trash bag over the pee. They also put uncle Alex and the boy back in their seats.

While they started driving feather Into the woods,  I wondered why uncle Alex didn't just escape from the rope and run. I didn't understand why because, he taught me how to escape getting out of, ropes when I was a four. 

Was his kidnapped when he was younger the last time? If yes, does that me that, even if I don't do something someone will save him? 

Uncle Alex was shouting at the boy who, wet himself until he realized that he need to pee too. I could see him dancing on his seat uncomfortably. 

" Peasants stop the car I need to pee," uncle had a I look down on you peasant facial expression. The van stopped.

"You want me to help you pee? You know you have no hands right, your tied up." The creepy guy said those words while smiling.