Rewind (Vanish Book Three) by Sonny Daise Page B

“Her name is Allison. I’ll
call her and let her know, and if she says no, I’ll call you. Yeah
her address is—”
    He continued talking, but I
was transfixed by the story on the news. A classroom of students
and the substitute teacher had not been seen or heard from
since… Thursday. I
kept watching, hoping, praying that it wasn’t Sunny Bay High
School, but it was.
    Officials and the principal
tried to get ahold of the families, but they could not reach a
single one. Apparently, it was one of the weirdest things any of
the reporters—and probably the police—had ever heard of. There I go, getting myself into trouble again,
getting all of these people into trouble, and now it’s on the news.
Did I learn nothing the last time?
    “ Dante,” I whispered. I
wasn’t sure if he heard me, it was barely audible. “Dante,” I said
a little louder.
    “ What?”
    “ Remember the first time you
saw me invisible?” I said, without a hint of emotion as I stared
wide-eyed at the TV.
    “ Yeah, at
school….”
    “ You weren’t the only one; a
whole classroom saw.” He turned his gaze toward the TV and
gasped.
    “ What are we going to
do?”
    “ Save them, if we can,” I
muttered.
     
    I sat cross-legged in front of the TV
for hours, watching for updates—updates I knew somewhere in the
back of my mind, would never come. I flipped through the channels,
but it was all the same. Same shocked reporters, same policemen who
had ‘no comment’ on the story. No one knew what was going on, but
they were desperate to find out. Now that I thought about it, I was
glad they were finding nothing more to the story, I couldn’t be
responsible for more people going missing. I thought one was bad,
but now I needed to find an entire class.
    The doorbell rang, and I got
up to answer it. Dante was taking a shower. Rose and Grace were off
putting more highlights in Grace’s hair. She was particularly fond
of our bright-red hair. I was going to offer to just imagine it,
but that was something I rarely did, and I wasn’t sure how much
control I had over that power.
    “ Hello, I’m
Scarlett.”
    “ Hi, I’m Lily. This is
Jackson, and Rachel.”
    “ Nice to meet you,” I said
with a smile.
    Jackson and Rachel both had striking
features, jet-black hair and the bluest of eyes. I had no doubt
that they were brother and sister.
    I looked over to Lily. The
way she stood in the doorway, looking uncomfortable, reminded me of
when I first met her. I didn’t want things to start out rough with
her again; we had just started getting closer when I left. Standing
right next to her, looking just as uncomfortable, was Allison. Out
of the corner of my eye, I could see her staring at me. Her gaze
went from Cooper to me and back and forth from there. I knew she
recognized him; I just wasn’t sure what she would do.
    “ So, where is everyone?”
Cooper asked.
    “ Oh, hey guys come down
here,” I called upstairs.
    Rose and Grace came down the
stairs along with unbearable fumes. Dante was still in the shower.
Everyone introduced themselves; they were all chatting and getting
to know each other, but my mind was elsewhere.
    A few minutes later, I
looked next to me, and Dante was standing there. I wondered how
long he had been there; I hadn’t even noticed.
    “ So when are we leaving?”
Lily asked.
    “ Oh, there’s been a change
of plans, were not going today. We need to get more information,”
Dante answered.
    “ Okay, well, how do you plan
on doing that?” Cooper asked me with curiosity.
    “ I—I don’t know. I’m sorry;
I’ve been a little preoccupied this morning. Something happened the
other day at school, now an entire class is missing.”
    “ All the more reason to
hurry, you believe it was the Alliance, right?” Cooper
wondered.
    “ Yes, I know it was the
Alliance, what else could it be?” I shrugged, and he shrugged
too.
    “ Well, I have good news. I
know someone who used to be in the Alliance. Usually they kill
whoever