The rain, the unrelenting rain. It fell upon the house like the clouds had burst and their last remnants were now plummeting to Earth in the form of ice cold droplets of rain. The sky's were gray and lightning crackled overhead, as if to foreshadow an event, both in equal parts sinister and baffling. He had just biked back from his friends house after having spent a long, jovial weekend with his peers, blissfully unaware in the midst of the joking, smoke and laughter that it would be the last time he would see them, or any other friendly faces for the rest of his life.
With his bike lumped carelessly in the garage, he proceeded inside through the back door, using his key to enter the house, hopefully unnoticed by his disapproving parents, but, as you may have already surmised, his parents were the least of his worries.
What initially disturbed him was his dogs unusual silence, as whenever he would return from his excursions, his dog would bark happily at his return, rushing to the back door to meet his long time friend, but today... Today the inside of the house was deathly silent and along with an unusual amount of dust, there lay an ominous feeling in the air, a malevolent feeling of emptiness and malice.
And so preoccupied with his feelings of unease and scribbling on a nearby piece of paper, he failed to hear the subtle creak of the floorboards behind him, the disturbance in the air, the shadow out the corner of his eye, or the swish of the bag that fell over his head, obscuring all vision.
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"Essex police are baffled at the sudden disappearance of a local teen-age boy, last seen exiting his friends house in Colchester on Friday the 7th. He was expected to return home later that evening, but when it reached midnight and the boys parents had heard no word from their son, the police were called and a large missing person search was launched in the area of Wivenhoe.
Police are yet to find any clue as to the boys location and have found no evidence about his disappearance, except a cryptic note found at his house the next day, that suggests he might be a runaway.
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"No, I'm not dead. Well, atleast not before now anyway. I guess I kinda got swept in my business you know? But now... Now I wish I had made some time, some time to hang, some time to chat, some time to be around yall and just be silly again, like we used too. But I guess its too late for that now, much too late" - The last Earthly penned words of Mr Zango