He was gone. His brother, James, sat at the table with his mom getting the perfect photo to put up.

There, that one, James thought staring at it. "Awwww, that’s such a nice photo." His mom calmly said as he showed her. He nodded, putting it in his pocket and walking off to the kitchen. There he grabbed a phew bucks. "I’ll go print more." He told her already bolting out the door.

James put the 3 dollars into the printing machine. As he waited for the copies to be done he noticed a tv that had the news on. It was about his missing brother. His eyes were glued to the tv. Suddenly a man walked across the screen with his brothers hat on. "My brothers hat!" He yelled, everyone started staring at him. James grabbed all the copies and darted out the door.

He grabbed his bike and went to where he saw the person in his brothers hat. No one was there. "What was I thinking, he could be anywhere by now!" He threw his own hat on the ground. James picked it up and peddled off to the police station.

After waiting for about 5 minutes a lady called him into the chiefs office. "What did you see?" The chief asked, having a serious look on his face. "On the news I saw a man walking across the screen with my brothers hat on." The chief typed some stuff onto his computer. "Look, it probably was just another person that had the same hat." It took James under a second to reply. "No, he had a sunflower on his hat since he loves them. It also has a small message on the side from our dad before he passed. It was his hat." The chief stared into his eyes for a bit before answering. "We will investigate tomorrow." James suddenly got irritated by this answer. "It’s 9 A.M. we can start today, the man might run farther away if we wait." "Look kid, we’re the police, we can handle this. Also, there is no we, you are not going and that’s final." Before James could say anything the chief left.

Before leaving James went up to the lady and asked "are you doing anything else today? Besides sitting here?" The lady replied "no, every one here will just be here all day, why?" James ran out, slamming the door behind.

"I’ll go myself then." He threw the copies down, mad.

3 minutes went by and James kept peddling. He looked left and right. Finally he saw it, a man walked into a dark alleyway with his hood up and his brothers hat on. He hoped off his bike, setting it down and carefully following behind. Then man stopped. James stopped too. The man turned around, his face was horrifying, the man had no nose, 5 eyes and one huge mouth. James screamed and the man teleported to him and blindfolded James.

He was sitting in a dark room, there was only dim light. "Where am I?" He called out. James tugged the rope that was tied his hands to a pole. "Otis! Are you there?!?" James cried out for his brother. All of a sudden he heard breathing in his ear. It was his brother, he knew it. "Otis talk to me I’m here." "You…need to get out." Otis replied. James looked over, seeing his brother tied to a pole next to him.

"What happened?" James examined his brothers hurt body. Cuts and bruises were all over him, James was shocked and horrified by this sight. "Him." Otis started to shake badly. James tried to comfort him "shhhhh, it’s ok. I’ll get us out." Otis kept shaking.

They heard doors slamming and yelling in other rooms.

The man teleported into there room grabbing James and teleported into a completely dark room. He yelled while getting punched. His nose started to bleed and he now had a phew cuts. The man teleported him back, leaving.

James showed Otis the knife he had in his hands. "How?" Otis whispered, still shaking. "I grabbed it before coming back." "Now, we have to get out."

James cut his hands free and then Otises. They scurried out, finally making it outside.

No one believed there incident so the brothers decided it was best to leave it a mystery. The chief disappeared a day later. No trace was left behind. The man still remains and is left a mystery.