• Music blasting and the sound of teens talking and partying disturb the calm night. As a couple of teens get on stage, Nick, Sarah, Mike, Tommy, and Ashley, everyone quiets down to see what they’re going to do. “Hey everyone! We’re gonna be playing a couple song’s tonight. Bu before we begin we’re just gonna go back stage and get ready” Mike said. They went back stage to get ready but they never come back.
    A few people go back to see what’s going on. “What happened? What’s taking them so long? Are they gonna play or what?” everyone asked at once when they came back. They replied in disbelief, “They’re gone!”. Everyone started freaking out and panicking. “That’s impossible!” someone shouted out someone else added, “Yeah, they probably just went out the back or something. There’s no way they just disappeared!”. “ You guys are such idiots! There was no way out and there’s nowhere they could be hiding! We checked! They just disappeared!” the guys yelled. Suddenly Mike came from back stage. “Look there’s Mike! See they’re just hiding back there!” everyone shouted out. “They’re not hiding, they’re gone.” Mike said. Everyone screamed at him “What do you mean gone!? That’s impossible!” He replied, “ They’re just gone. I’m the only one who got away.” Before anyone could begin yelling at him or asking him questions Vitto, Kyle, Keegan, Emily, Veronica and Kristin got Mike out of the building and over to Veronica’s house.
    “Do you know what happened to everyone else?” Kristin asked. Mike just nodded, “can you tell us?” Veronica asked. Mike replied, “No, I won’t talk about it. No matter how many times you ask I won’t talk.” “ Because you don’t know what happened or is it because you don’t want your friends to come back? Don’t you care about what happens to them?” Vitto shouted at him. Mike replied, “I do care about my friends but there is nothing we can do but wait and see what happens”. “What do you mean?” Kyle asked, but Mike said nothing.
    Over the next couple of years, Mike kept true to his word and never said a word about it no matter how many times he was asked. No one believed their story but their parents filed a missing persons report and police investigated with no leads. Every year Mike went back to the place where his friends disappeared with Keegan, Kyle, Vitto, Emily, Kristin, and Veronica. Over the years, they also became friends as they helped Mike get away from everyone and their questioning. They also have many questions for him but they don’t try to force him to answer. He always stays at one of their places because they found out he is an orphan and he used to stay at his friends houses instead of his own, also if he goes to his house there is always a mob of people.
    “Guy’s I think I can finally tell you what happened.” Mike said as they were visiting the place they disappeared. Just as he started to say Nick, Sarah, Tommy, and Ashley walked in exactly as they were all those years ago. “Hey guy’s, where’d everyone go?” Sarah asked, “Ya, we go back stage for two minutes and everyone disappears!” Tommy added. Emily manages to say, “Oh my gosh! You guys are finally back!” “ Huh? What do you mean?” Nick asked, “Ya, we’ve only been back stage for like 2 minutes.” Ashley added. “Um, guys hate to break it to you but you’ve been gone for a couple of years.” Vitto said. “WHAT!” they scream, “Ya this is, what the fifth year you’ve been gone? Ya the fifth year.” Emily said. “No way. Th-that’s impossible.” Nick said. When they got back and told everyone that Nick, Sarah, Tommy, and Ashley were back no one believed them, even when they talked to them.
    They have never figured out why or how that happened and Mike is the only one who might have been able to explain but since then he has been mute. Nothing like that ever happened again but they never gave up trying to find the answers. If you have any information or something like this have happened to you or someone you know then E-mail them at strangethings@aol.com or go online to their website www.strangehappenings.com.