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Amanda Greene had stumbled across one of the old missing person’s posters for her best friend, Grace Thackery.

It had a picture of Grace, one of the older ones from a few years ago. Amanda had been cropped out of it, but she recognized it from the beads in Grace’s hair. It had been from their last sleepover and they’d just gotten done braiding their hair and putting in ornaments. Grace’s mom had taken their picture and gotten it developed at the local store.

Amanda had the same picture tacked up on her wall.

She smoothed out the wrinkled poster and straightened it out on the bulletin board. It had been two years, but there was still a meager flame of home burning in her chest. Guttering, but still hanging on.

Maybe one day, one of these posters would do something and bring Grace home.

Driving home, Amanda heard her phone notification ping once, but ignored it for the time being. Everyone had seen all of those videos in school where they talked about cell phones and how checking them while driving could cause accidents. The whole thing was dramatized, but she’d seen an accident once and found out later on it had been because the boy had been texting someone and sideswiped another car.

When she got home, she dumped her book bag on her bed and followed it, flopping onto her stomach. There was a little bit of time before dinner, so she pulled out her phone to check her notifications.

What she saw made her heart stop.

Grace Thackery has recently updated their Facebook status.

Amanda, help me!

Posted 31 minutes ago.