Helanie:
Our eyes widened together before we sped in the direction of the screams. Emmet was faster, so he reached the house before I did. It was a small house near a toy shop, where the screams had come from.
While Emmet started knocking on the door, I began walking around the house to look for any signs of an intruder.
All the windows were boarded up, and no doors were open. There was literally no one around.
By the time I returned to the front of the house, the family had opened the door and let Emmet in. I rushed past them as well, taking in a few things at first glance. We both ran around and checked every window, they were all locked. By the time we returned to the first floor, we had checked every corner and every closet in the house.
Emmet ran outside to look around while I stayed with the family. There were four people living there: a husband and a wife, along with their three children. Two were under eighteen, and only the daughter was nineteen years old.
