CHAPTER 1 DISAPPEARANCE

  Lisa was coming home from shopping. She was panicking because it was getting dark, and she doesn't know if her husband was now home with their daughter who was alone in the house. So she immediately called her husband.

In the dim light of the fading day, Lisa’s voice trembled with worry as she called out her husband.

“Tom?” she murmured, her heart pounding in her chest. 

“Hey, honey?” Tom’s voice crackles and tinges with weariness.

“Are you home?” Lisa asked him. As she looked around with fluttering in her stomache. 

Tom said, "No! I told you earlier that I would be coming home because there are a lot of things that needed to be finished in the office.

" What!” Lisa growled.

 Lisa almost shouted knowing that his husband was still at work, and her daughter was all alone at home.

"Why, what happened? Is there something wrong?”  Tom asked as he rubbed his head in confusion and a bit of worry. 

"Can you come home now?”  Lisa said,she felt something around her.

Lisa’s voice quivered as she continued with tom, her anxiety palpable evern through the phone. “ Are you not gonna come home now?” she asked, a note of desperation in her voice. 

Tom’s response was swift, tinged with concern, “ Why is there something that happened?”

Lisa hurriedly explained the situation. “NO, its just our daughter is left alone. She was asleep when I left, I didn’t realise that it was almost dark. I hope you would reach home in an hour so I will go shopping since there is no food left in the kitchen.”

hen you are on your way home.

Tom said, "Yes, I will do that. Drive safe.

  Lisa ended the phone call, and she was still panicking right now realizing that her daughter was now left alone in the house without any adult supervision.

Lisa said, " I need to go home now as fast as I can. My daughter is all alone at house and my husband is working late today.

  Lisa decided to walk in the dark alley since it is a shortcut on her way home. When she was walking she saw a glowing box.

Lisa said, " What is that?

  Due to her curiosity Lisa decided to walk closely to the box to inspect it closer.

Lisa said, " Why I am feeling like this? It felt that something mysterious is surrounding the box. I just felt something unique and I can't understand this kind of feeling. Why is this happening to me?

  Because of her curiosity, Lisa picked up the box and looked at it.

Lisa said, " Did someone lose this box? It seems valuable since it's glowing in the dark. I felt that it values a lot of money and maybe the owner is finding it. So I think I would return it to the owner rather than letting someone pick up it. Maybe they would not return it to its original owner, and I would feel guilty when that happened. At least I know for sure that I would gonna be able to give this back to the owner of this box.”

  Lisa put the box inside of her box as she decided that she would be the one giving back the box to its original owner. Lisa immediately went home and shouted for her daughter's.

 "Mia!” Lisa murmured. 

Mia huffed around her mother, as Lisa returned home late, and she was waiting for her for hours.

Lisa’s heart ached as she listened to Mia’s sadness, her own guilt weighed heavily upon her. 

“I miss you, honey,” Lisa murmured, caressed her daughter cheek.

“You come home late, mom!” Mia’s voice held a hint of reproach, her disappointment palpable.

“I am sorry, darling. It won’t happen again,” Lisa promised her. 

“ I was all alone, Mom,” mia’s words heart ached as a deep regret within her heart.

" I have a gift for you.” Lisa says to her daughter to cheer her up 

" Where is it, Mommy?”

" So you are not angry anymore?”

" No, when you gave me my gift and candies.“

Lisa picked up her bag to get the candies and gifts that she bought for her daughter. When the box fell out of her bag, a mysterious black smoke began to swallow her.

" Mommy!

" Back out, Mia.” Lisa said panickedly.

" But, mommy.”

" Just stay in there honey.” Lisa try not to scare her daughter. 

  Lisa can see the fear in her daughter's eyes, as she was also clueless about what was happening to her.

Lisa said, " What is happening to me? Why is this black smoke surrounding me? What the hell is happening?

  Lisa was full of questions, but she also doesn't know what to answer to herself.

" Mommy!”

" I love you, honey!” Lisa last three words, ached both mother and daughter heart. 

  The black smoke swallow Lisa, and she was left lifeless on the floor. Her daughter was in the corner shaking in fear. An hour later, her husband come home and find Lisa lifeless.

"Lisa!”Tom tried to shake her wife, but there is no response. He screams trying to wake her up but, there is no help, she is not waking up.

"Lisaaaaaaa!”