Into the Forest and all the Way Through

by Cynthia Pelayo

Free days from school are days made for magic they are days for friends and sleepovers, and spending hours laughing over one another’s inside jokes, free days from school are for risks, these days are for exploring and adventure, trust that we will be home on time because tomorrow there’s school, of course, and another day, and we did not plan that once we climbed up this bridge and held out our phones and broadcast to the world these images we found beautiful that there would be someone watching, then us watching him watching us, then we turned the phone to him because maybe that would ease our tension, maybe he would go away, but he did not go away, he pointed, and said “Down the bridge” and down the bridge we sure did go, and into a sick place we were taken, down past our route, and down past our lives, and awful things happened there, wrists wrapped, and only each other’s eyes to look into before we knew we were never going back Name: Abigail “Abby” Williams Remains found: Delphi, Indiana Race: White Age at disappearance: 13 Year missing: 2017 Case status: Unsolved Investigating agency: Delphi Indiana Police Department, 765-564-2345 Name: Liberty Rose German Remains found: Delphi, Indiana Race: White Age at disappearance: 14 Year missing: 2017 Case status: Unsolved Investigating agency: