Surprise!

Chapter 2: Surprise!

  

          School passed in a blur, which was unusual. Nothing abnormal happened all day, until I got home. The bus got to our stop around 2:30, after all the others were dropped off. As I got off the bus, I noticed the bus driver looked different. I said good-bye to Cameron and walked home as fast as I could without running. When I finally got home, I saw my mother wasn’t there. I looked for the spare front door key fruitlessly and ten minutes of searching later I gave up and went around to the back door. Then I saw something that made me wish that I had been on a different planet, galaxy, and universe. The back door was flung wide open and on the ground by it was a single blood red envelope with my name on it, written in gold ink. Picking it up, I walked through the open door into the kitchen and silently gasped. It was trashed: cabinets and drawers were askew, their contents all over the floor. I stared solemnly at the envelope in my hand and reluctantly opened it. The last thing I saw before I blacked out was black lettering that read:

 

Your mother has been taken and there nothing you can do mortal.