Betrayal (Vanish Book Two) by Sonny Daise

happened?” I demanded.
    “Someone came at me, but I didn’t see their
face. They were wearing huge sunglasses and baggy clothes. They had
a hat on, and if they had any hair, it was put up in the hat.”
    “So you don’t have any idea—”
    “No, maybe if I could have gotten a better
look, I would recognize them, assuming it was someone I know.”
    “So what do we do?” I asked as he looked out
the peephole.
    “One of us needs to call Elizabeth, and the
other needs to make sure all the doors and windows are locked.”
    “I’ll get the doors and windows, and you call
Elizabeth and George,” I replied.
    I ran to the back door, making sure each lock
was locked. Then I ran to the windows, locking every last one. By
the time I was finished, Dante was sitting on the couch.
    “No one answered,” he mumbled as he stared
ahead of him.
    “Try again,” I shrieked.
    “I did. I tried five times, Scarlett. No one
answered.”
    “Okay so what do we do?” I cried.
    “I need to go over there,” he declared.
    “No…” I pleaded. “Call again.”
    “There’s no point no one is going to
answer.”
    “Then I’ll go, at least I can be invisible,”
I suggested.
    “No, I’m not letting you go out there. I’ll
be right back.”
    All that was left was a neon blue and green
light and soon nothing. I waited a few minutes. It shouldn’t have
taken him long to stop over there find out everything was alright
and come back. I went invisible and headed out the door. I was
careful to miss tree branches and as many leaves as I could, but I
still wasn’t silent.
    When I reached the house, I noticed the front
door was open. I walked inside; I didn’t see anyone, but they
didn’t go anywhere, so I knew they had to be home.
    I walked back towards Lily and Cooper’s
rooms, as I walked through the kitchen, I stepped on a squeaky
floorboard, and a light turned on.
    “Surprise!” Everyone yelled.
    I had been scared visible. I didn’t know how
it happened, but surely if this became a regular thing, this power
wouldn’t help me much. I was laying on the floor in shock; I
couldn’t even look to see who surrounded me. My eyes were fixed on
Dante standing above me.
    “You knew?” I accused.
    “Well, no, there is a small problem. I should
probably go shut the door. I’ll explain later,” he promised.
     
    When I got a chance to look around the room,
I saw Elizabeth and George standing next to a cake on the counter.
Lily was laughing at me across the room. Cooper—still looking
uncomfortable—avoided eye contact at all costs. Next to him, was a
woman and a girl—the girl from earlier. I knew it wasn’t a dream. I
knew it actually happened, but how? There’s no way I could have
gone as far as I did in a matter of minutes.
    “Scarlett,” Elizabeth said as she came
closer. “God, I can’t believe it, but I think I found your mother.”
My eyes darted between Elizabeth and my mother. “She’s also my
sister, the one I told you about, Violet.” They looked almost
exactly the same, aside from their hair. My mother’s hair was a
less-extreme shade of red, and her eyes were a mix between blue and
green. There was no denying that she looked like me, my only
question now was, where was my father?
    “Nice to meet you,” I choked. “And you,” I
said to Rose. “I saw you earlier today didn’t I? Because I left the
house at eleven thirty, and I got home at eleven thirty.”
    “Yeah, you saw me earlier,” she laughed. “I
didn’t mean to freak you out, but you said you missed a date with
someone, so I rolled back the clock a little.”
    “So you can go back in time?” I asked.
    “Yes,” rose said. “It’s my only power.”
    “Can I have a minute alone with her?” Violet
asked.
    “Of course,” Elizabeth said as she shooed
everyone into the living room.
    “It wasn’t hard to imagine what you would
look like.” She smiled. “All this time, I thought you were
dead.”
    “I didn’t know about you until the