People like us we gotta stick together..keep your head up nothing lasts forever. -- December 2016

The girls were supposed to be coming home for the Christmas holiday. We had everything almost set up, we were supposed to be baking when they got home. We always baked before we went over to mum and dad's place. I had everything all ready and Caellum was already with mum and dad. We were waiting for the girls, George was setting the lights up around the house. I walked into the living room where he was on a ladder. " Don't you think they should have been home by now?" I asked him, seeing if I was just being overbearing.

I glanced at the clock when Lenni voiced her concerns.  I had not realized it was that late.  I looked back at my wife.  "Yeah, I would think so," I said, stepping down from the ladder.  "Do you think they just went over to your parents'?  They are teenagers... they probably forgot about baking today or didn't know how to tell us they didn't want to or something."  I tended to think of the less worrisome point of view while Lenni went to being overly worried a lot of the time.  It was probably just due to the fact that I was extremely laid back as a person in general and it easily went into my prenting style.

I pulled my hair back, " I don't think so....mum would have let us know...." I bit my lip. " Should we floo them and ask?" I asked. I know they were teenagers...but not letting us know what was going on isn't like them. I looked to George and sighed, " Am I being to much?" I asked. I don't like to overbearing, but I had this feeling something was wrong.

I smiled at Lenni and put my hands on her shoulders, kissing her forehead.  "You're being a mum," I assured her.  "A mother knows best... if you feel like something could be amiss, then we'll go on your instinct.  I'd never forgive myself if we just brushed it under the rug if there really was something wrong."  I personally did not think there was anything wrong; they were teenaged girls.  This stuff happened.  "They're probably out with guys or something..."  Then it hit me what I just said.  "Yeah... we need to get them home.  I don't want them out with boys."

Smirking, " I figured as much..." I said as I walked over to the fireplace, picking up some powder " GRIMMAULD PLACE" I said as I dropped the powder waiting for someone to show up in the fireplace. Didn't know who it would be, just something telling me something was up. " Hello?"

I heard my daughter's voice coming from the fireplace and walked in from the kitchen.  I smiled at her.  "Hi honey... what's up?" I asked, figuring it would be her telling us that they would be later than expected due to teh girls taking longer to get ready.  Which was fine because Dean told me Stan and Dona were running a little late from visiting at the hospital - which I expected as well.  Ryan was already here as was Caellum and they were playing in the other room with their grandpa, so at least the youngest ones of each household was getting some special time with us.

Smiling seeing my mum, she would understand my worry. " Are the girls there?" I asked hoping that my bad feeling was just something that wouldn't make sense. Just make me seem like a worry wart. " They were supposed to be here an hour ago..." I said figuring traffic or something might have them held up but even then they would let us know. " They haven't told us something was up...they normally do..." I explained.

I furrowed my brow.  That was not like the girls.  "No... they're not here and we haven't heard anything, either.  Were they planning on stopping at Arthur and Molly's before coming home perchance?" I suggested, wanting to check everywhere before we started panicking, though I could definitely understand my daughter's worry.

I shook my head, " No, if they did then Molly would have let us know to make sure we weren't doing what we are doing now...." I told mum. " How's Caellum?" I asked her, our girls are not accounted for and I started to really worry. I started to fidget with my hands.

I had left the room to grab our cloaks when I heard Ember say that hte girls were not there.  I knew what was coming.  I stood in the background waiting for them to finish up while brainstorming about where our daughters could have run off to.  Now that no one had heard from them, I was thinking that it was not something as innocent as sneaking around with boyfriends or something like that.  Even then we would get some lame excuse from them as to why they were running late.

I smiled at Lenni.  "You're son is fine... him and your dad are keeping Ryan from being too surly about the divorce and not having his parents together this Christmas.  You know the three of them get way too carried away sometimes," I assured her, chuckling slightly.  "But we can run the boys to teh hospital so Dean can keep an eye on them and then we can help you guys look for the girls."  I knew that they would need more than just the two of them to hunt Ren and Tori down.

I heard she would help. I just needed to find them now, if anything had happened to them whoever did it would be damned sure they would regret it. I would make sure of it, I shook my head to my mum. "You guys should stay there...just in case they show up. We'll keep you posted. Can you let everyone know to keep an eye out please...and we'll call you every chance we can....give everyone hugs.." I said with a smile as I said good bye to mum. I didn't give her a chance to argue with me. Turning to face George, " Let's go babe."

I had no idea where to even begin.  "You're mum is going to be none too pleased... I bet her and your dad will still go out and do their own search," I said.  I knew how they all were... none of them liked to sit still when something like this was going on.  I handed Elena her cloak and let her lead the way.  "You probably would have a better idea of where our daughters would detour than me..."  Unfortunately that was true.

I nodded, " You're probably right they are to damned stubborn..." I said taking my cloak from him. " I have two ideas, One would be Graham's house and the other is Ben's house..." I said might as well start there to eliminate places off our list.

I really did not want to deal with the boys.  if we found them at eitehr house, I would be relieved, but then I would kill them for not letting us know and for sneaking off with their respective boyfriends.  "I swear... if they're there... I will have such mixed feelings," I grumbled, knowing that Elena had a good idea to at least start ruling places out.