**Lily POV**

"Come on come on come on I'm cooooold!" I cry to my sister, wrapping my scarf around me tighter. It's another fall day, bordering on chilly... who am I kidding? I'm freeeeezing! I've always been cold, so I'm most comfortable in summer. My sister runs up, having finally gotten her heavy backpack back on her shoulders.

"Race you!" She calls, her backpack bouncing as she runs past me.

"Hey, no fair!" I yell back, racing to catch up with her.

Breathless minutes later, Autumn beats me to the door. We burst through the door, discarding our scarves and mittens, peeling our coats off as we mount the stairs, heading for the warm kitchen. We smell the food cooking on the stove, and my bright blonde hair fuzzes out from my hat, making Autumn and I giggle. Hot cocoa is waiting for us on the counter, so we grab it gratefully and call out to gran.

"Thanks for the cocoa Gran!" I yell, heading towards the living room where she usually sits, waiting for us to tell her about our day. Autumn reaches the room first, and walks in ahead of me, glancing towards her favorite chair.

"Um... Lily... Where's Gran?" She asks, turning to face me. I shake my head, peeking into her room. Her bed is perfectly made, and the curtains are drawn, as usual.

"Gran? We're ho-ome!" I call again, glancing back at Autumn worriedly. She shakes her head at me, setting a foot on the stairs. As we climb up, I see a shadow stretching out from a doorway.

"Gran?"

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**Wren POV** 

I flipped through channels, bored out of my mind.

"Wren honey, could you turn to the news?" My mom calls, and I flip to our local news channel.

"This just in, parents arrive home to a grandma in a closet and children missing, despite their belongings being already in the house. More on this, after the break." I stare at the TV in dismay. No way.

"Mom!!" I yell, and my little brother walks in.

"Shut up Wren, I'm trying to do homework," He says, going back into his room. I roll my eyes, and my mom comes in from the kitchen.

"What is it?" She asks, hand on her hip.

"They just said children were missing and they showed the house and I think it was Lily's house!" I say, leaping to my feet.

"Wren. Calm down. It wasn't Lily's house, okay?" She says, sitting on the couch and patting next to her. "Sit down"

I wait through a dumb commercial (Hair gained in just 3 easy steps!) and another (the kitchen slicer is the number one blender!) and yet another (Arby's, we have the meats)... and finally the news comes back on.

"Now Sharyl, we were told that two children are missing, where are they missing from?"

"Two kids from the Cherrydale neighborhood, sisters Lily and Autumn Andrews, are missing, and their grandmother, Beatrice Andrews, was found tied in a closet. The two children usually arrive home around 3:30 pm, and their grandmother is usually there to greet them. Beatrice states that she was tied up before then, meaning the children arrived to a seemingly empty house. Their parents, Millicent and Sam Andrews, arrived home around 6:30, to discover their children's belongings home, but the children themselves gone. Beatrice was found tied in their second floor closet, and they immediately reported this to the police."

"M-mom?" I say, looking over at her desperately.

"Oh honey... I'm so sorry..." She says, and reaches out to hug me. I lay there in her arms, crying softly.

"W-what if I never see them again?" I ask.

"You will baby, you will." She says, hugging me tighter.

A loud sound interrupts us, and I turn my head towards the door. "It's probably your dad sweetheart, go ahead and open the door," mom says. But just in case, I look through the window. Yup, that's my dad alright. I open the door, and run into his arms.

"Daddy, Lily and Autumn are missing!" I cry, feeling him hug me back. And suddenly... the coat is wrong. His arms seem to lengthen and thin, and when I look up, his face is all wrong.

"The Queen requires your presence." He says, and the voice that is at first my fathers, then changes into something totally alien. I drew in a breath, staring, unable to look away. And suddenly everything went black. 

ColorKidChloe is making me add POV's so EXCUSE ME WHILE I SPAM ALL OF YOU IM SOORRYYYY