Where's she?

Linda laid in Lily's room. She got up thirsty and was about to go get water from the kitchen. Outstretching her hand to where Lily laid to check on her but then realized that she wasn't there, still feeling sleepy she called out " Lily?Are you there?", and all Linda got was silence. Standing up, she went to the bathroom, knocking lightly " Lily?Are you alright in there?" she asked thinking Lily was probably in there, " Lily?" but there was no response. Lily wasn't in the room. She went out to check if she was probably in the kitchen, " Lily?" with no response, she checked the living room and found no one. Looking at the time, she went to her room hoping her husband hadn't gone hunting yet. She felt a little less tense seeing Manuel was still home " Husband" she called out to him, waking him up from his slumber " Husband, I can't find Lily. She's not in the room nor anywhere". " What!!! What do you mean by she not anywhere? Where could a girl have gone by this time?" he protested, " Did you check properly? Where is she? Didn't you sleep in her room? How could she have gone out without you knowing?". They both searched the entire house all over but there wasn't a trace of their little girl. Linda searched in silence afraid for their children and afraid of her husband. What was strange was that all the doors and windows were locked. How it was possible, they didn't know but one thing was for sure and that was ' Lily isn't in the house'.

Lily ran deeper and deeper into the thick forest not knowing to which direction she was heading, she continued to cry out for help but she wasn't getting any. She became very weary ad tired that she kept on stumbling and falling every now and then, soon she couldn't keep up and hid behind a tree surrounded with bushes. Taking large breathes, her little heart burned in pain by each beat it makes. She coiled herself up in the brushes, she could no longer hear the voices she heard earlier while running. Lily sat quietly pondering on how she got to the forest.

Manuel was in panic, he didn't know what to do, where to go search, how to search or even where to begin. He sat down in the living room lost in thoughts with one of hands below his chin, ' she's just a child he thought'. Linda stood silently next to him too afraid to even utter a word. Manuel decided to wait till the morning, if doesn't show up by then,he would have to seek for help.

Lily tried to remember how she got there knowing full well that that's the only way to get her back. She remembered going to bed with Linda next to her, she remembered sleeping off, but then...at a point she remembered being called by that voice, it called out to her a couple of times. Her body walked towards the door but that was it. She then remembered hearing the voice again but that wasn't the only voice she heard, there were many others. She was so confused ' how is this possible?' she thought ' did I just appear here?'. Suddenly appearing there was the only thing that made the most sense but how? She had no idea. She thought hard in between the moment she stood face front at the door and the voices she heard after. Strangely she thought of the forest her parents died in for a brief moment. ' that's it! I thought of a place and I somehow appeared there' she thought. She gave it a try closing her eyes she thought of the house she lived in with her new parents and when she opened them she was still in the forest. She tried over and over again but it didn't work ' why isn't this working?' she let out a sigh of frustration ' this has to be the way'. The longer she was out there the colder it became, she looked down at her hands, looking to her palm as it began to shiver, she looked up ahead and all she call see was the trees and darkness. ' Hold on! That's it' an idea did come out of the darkness, ' I was her when I appeared here so that means she can also go reappear home, but I don't know how to change to the dark me'. She had no idea how to become dark, the last time she was dark, it was because she was angry and hurting and at this moment she was none of those. She was only nothing but scared. Her hopes of getting back home was crushed, she was helplessly crying streams of water unable to stop even when she wanted to.