Chapter 1: Motivations & Introductions
Don't be ashamed of your weirdness. It can take you to great lengths in the end. Imagine being the discussion of your town after discovering the shocking and disturbing truth behind the recurring missing person cases at a gas station. Hey, I'm Harvey, and one day, I hope to become a detective. I'm 13 years old, and this event changed life for me and my 2 friends. There has been a weird phenomenon happening at Ms. Rivera's, a gas station located in Ringwood, New Jersey. For the past ten years, people have been going missing in this gas station. These cases share major similarities. Despite all of the missing person cases, this gas station still remains open every day. My ten year old sister Charlotte went missing last summer of August and still hasn't been found. The last place she went was this gas station. Her missing case is the motivation for me and my friends to get to the bottom of this weird phenomenon. The ending results of this mission truly changed the community forever.
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The idea of seeing if we can get to the bottom of discovering the truth behind all those missing person cases at that gas station was proposed to my two best friends, Nick and Violet. My expectation was for them to agree with the decision, which is what they did. It's really no shocker they agreed. They're just like me, a mystery lover that's viewed as weird by everyone at school due to their obsession. I honestly don't understand why we're viewed as weird, to be honest. I think the people who view us as weird are more weird than us. Why do you care what we do? How can you just make a judgment when you aren't familiar with us? I will always view us as ordinary 8th graders having fun with their hobby. There's no point or benefit in judging us. I'll just never understand how others can be so judgemental towards others' hobbies when it's not their business. However in the end we must put all those negative judgements down and do what needs to be done. All that aside, how about I give you a quick introduction about my friends?
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My friend Violet is a 14 year old girl with forest green eyes, long dark brown curly hair, and tan skin. I met her back in 2017. Violet is sassy and intelligent. She is one of the top 30 kids in the school, and she's always on the high honor roll list. Violet constantly says she doesn't feel smart, but I never understand where she's coming from. How could you not feel like a genius with all those accomplishments to your name at such a young age. Despite the fact that Violet can be sassy at times, she isn't mean at all. She just likes to express herself in a very bold and loud kind of way. She tries to be the nicest she can. For example, she has been a huge academic help to many students. Nick is a 13 year old boy with short red hair, freckles, and sky blue eyes. We met back in 2018. Now, Nick is quite the opposite of Violet. He's a very shy teen, and his grades are questionable, to say the least. While Violet and I have other people we interact with in and out of school, Nick doesn't. He just stays to himself. I don’t understand how he doesn't get lonely or bored spending hour after hour by himself the majority of the time. Oh, and more about me. I'm a mixture of Nick and Violet’s qualities. It's amazing how well we suit each other with our personalities. Nick is the opposite of Violet. Violet’s the opposite of Nick, and I carry a combination of both of their personality traits. This was definitely a key in building and shaping our long-lasting friendship. I don't think it will end anytime soon.
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