We had now told superintendent Liam what I had found, and I must say Andrew was very happy about it, but Kim was still missing and I couldn't help him find her, every lead they had for the past three weeks had been a dead end and they feared it still would be, but Andrew wouldn't lose hope, he had promised, we had asked Andrew if we could spend the night, and he happily allowed us to do so. So we went to bed at around 10 as we wanted to wake up early so that we could drive home early.
I slept next door to Kim's room and my dad in the room opposite to mine, the room I slept in was a replica of Kims room, only difference was that there was no dressing table, I had an uneasy sleep and my dream was a jumble consisting of a crying Andrew, a woman screaming, my dad shouting at me, and my mum telling me how I disappoint her, and the painting, of the eye, it was always there, wanting me to touch it, it was so weird
I awoke at around 9am the next morning after an uneasy sleep. I went downstairs and saw that Andrew was up, eating a bowl of cereal. He saw me and the spoonful of weetabix he was about to take stopped right before it got to his mouth
"Good morning" I greeted
"Uh yeah, morning, uh sorry did I wake you? I was trying to be quiet"
"Oh no, you didn't wake me, I woke up myself, don't worry" I shrugged, he nodded and resumed eating I asked him where the cereal was, and he pointed it out to me. We talked about Kim and the unnerving painting in her room whilst we ate,
"So hey, dad and I are leaving today, but before we go can I ask you something?" I asked, he nodded, "what's with that painting, at the foot of Kim's bed? it gives me the creaps" I shivered
"That painting actually came with the house The old woman?, Colleen?, Her mum painted it, you know, when Kim and her husband James first moved in, we had a little house warming party, with our close friends, Kim wanted to play hide and seek, with a twist, she said she would hide and the five of us would seek, if we don't find her we do her chores for a week, if she loses we get her to do whatever we want, it seemed so easy at the time, but she hid for over an hour, and the rest of us tried to find her, five grown adults couldn't find her, Kim came to us after the hour laughing at us, for being the worst seakers in history" he shook his head at the memory "but shall I tell you what was so weird, when I was searching for her, I went to her bedroom, she wasn't there, but the painting was, right there, at the foot of her bed, after that day I never saw the painting again, I assumed she had gotten rid of it, until, of course, she disappeared, it miraculously appeared again" he shook his head, with tears in his eyes
"Are you saying she's a painting? Super man with a twist?" My dad laughed near the door as he came down to get himself some breakfast, dad was right, it sounded stupid so without another word, we ate.
Dad finished his breakfast first and left, telling us he was going to finish packing. Once Andrew finished he started washing the dishes in the sink.
"So what time are you guys leaving?" He asked as he was washing his bowl
"Around 10?, after dads finished packing, I'm already packed" I shrugged, bringing a spoonful of crunchy nut to my mouth.
"Ok well I'm leaving for work now, could you lock up?, Kim's keys are on the key hanger, next to the door, post them through the letter box once you've locked up" he told me as he dried his hands on a towel before heading towards the front door I nodded as I had food in my mouth
He left after saying bye, when the door slammed shut I gasped, nearly choking on my cereal, I ran to the front door and looked at the key hanger, and true to his word Kim's keys were there. There it was a set of keys with a K keyring the K was pink, with small silver love hearts around it.
I started to move backwards towards the stairs.
"DAD?, DAD, I KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO KIM" I shouted as a theory started to form in my mind, I ran up the stairs straight to my dad's room I opened the door without knocking "dad" I was out of breath, "I know what happened to Kim"
Oooh, clifhanger, sorry the chapter is short, but I wanted to leave a cliff hanger for you guys, do you still love me? 😁.Can you guys guess what's going on? Please comment with your theories, don't forget to vote.