The Hill's Cemetery: A Short Story

The Hill’s Cemetery
“Joe, wait up!” Caleb and Miles cried as they ran through the parking lot. It was a dark autumn night, and three friends were at the Hills Cemetery just after their best friend Amy 's funeral. “I need to find my phone!” Joe cries as a gush of wind hit her face.
Caleb, Miles, Joe, and Amy have been best friends since kindergarten. They experience everything together, but every good thing comes to an end. In late October, Amy was walking home from a long day of school yet she was not alone, and little did she know, she was about to walk into a crime scene.
“Where could it be?” Caleb asks. “It has to be here somewhe…..” as silence fills the room, Mile’s phone lights up. He looks down at his phone, ‘Amber Alert, White SUV, Arlington Tx by Hills Cemetery. Just as he is

“W-What’s going on? he looks around and realizes that they are in an abandoned barn, but not just any barn, there was something weird about this one. There seemed to be a slight smell of iron in the air “Look!” she says as she shows him a chart with a bunch of arrows pointing at different children. “It’s all the missing kids!” “I think we know where they went.” he says worried, pointing at all the x’s on them. All of a sudden, they knew exactly what it meant. ”Oh no, wheres Caleb?!” Suddenly, they hear someone approaching them. “QUICK! HIDE!” Miles whispers. A man approaches the board with the children, and crosses out one of the photographs. Miles and Joe were too far away to see it but they knew exactly who it was. As the man slowly walks away from the board, they exchanged concerned expressions. Realizing it was their only choice, they run out the back door. The man starts to turn around realizing they left, and in the corner of his eye catches a glimpse of them. Without hesitation, he reaches for a gun taking aim, puts his finger to the trigger, and bang. The sound of the gunshot echoed through out barn. “JOE?! JOE, ARE YOU