CHAPTER 3: THE PARTY

Aliza said that she was going to play a game that was her favorite game.   And, of course, it was going to go on at the party.

“So, this is how you play?” she told me.  “First, you have to put seven cards down.  Next, you put those cards in a pile.  Then, you have to take out four of the cards.  Then, find out if you can make any matches.  If you cannot, then you have to pick from the pile.  And if you run out of cards, you are out of the game.”

I was kind of amazed that I could actually know how to play.   “I liked it, too,” I said to Aliza.

She did, too.

The next day, I wanted to play the game all day.  Plus, the party was going to be in a week.  So, I got my clothes on and ran outside. 

Aliza was looking at me when I got out there.  Then I said that we should practice the game at the park.

I said to her, “Maybe you could get some of the stuff and I will get some of the stuff, too.  But, I want to show you something at my house, but I cannot figure out what it might be.”

“So, you mean that you don’t even know what it is actually?” Aliza says to me.

But all I know is that it looks like my sister, but dead.  And my Mom is not there.  Neither is my Dad.

“Ummm, stay at my house where you are safe.  Then I’ll ask my Mom for some cards and some cookies.  Then we can figure out why your sister or somebody else would get hurt so badly.”

Aliza was kind of scared, but I was kind of scared, too.  A lot, because Aliza’s sister had known where my phone was, because it was missing and she had found it, but had not given it back to me.

Ever since, I asked her about it.