Not All Heroes Wear Capes Part 2

Part 2 of the story written by User: PAWPatrolFam

## Summary

After the events from Part 1, another crime needs to be solved after Paul's best friend, Annie, suddenly goes missing. Paul was desperate, so he decides to solve the mystery, together with the police. Will they be able to find and save Annie before it's too late?

## Prologue

**Several weeks after the previous events from Part 1...**

It was definitely a crazy adventure back there. Annie and I had moved on from those events that happened all those weeks ago. School hasn't reopened yet and I was very eager to go back to school with my other friends. Although, Annie was one friend who truly understood me as who I really was. In fact, the first time we both met in the first grade, we learned that we had so much in common.

Several years from then, up to the present day, we're now both in 9th grade and still in the same public school that we go to every day. Annie and I were practically inseparable. We did all things together, we hung out at the park every weekends to wind down from the hustle and bustle at school, and the like.

But it was just after this adventure of ours, I felt something towards her. Like, I started liking her more than a friend. We still did our normal things together though, and tried other new things for our little routine together. But I was starting to wonder if Annie felt the same thing towards me, and was dying to confess to me about it.

But then, destiny must've set an opportunity for both of us as we sat down at a park bench that Saturday after having bought hotdogs on a bun for ourselves from a nearby stand.

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2:05PM - Town Park

It was a scorching early afternoon and I was wearing a white sleeveless shirt with some cyan shorts while Annie was wearing a summer dress and leggings. Both of us were wearing Hawaiian-themed flip flops.

"This feels nice as always, am I right?" Annie asked me calmly as she took a bite out of her hotdog.

"Yup. Sure does." I replied just as calmly before taking a bite out of mine.

Then out of the blue, Annie asked me this question; "Hey Paul, how long have we been friends?"

Knowing what answer she was expecting me to give to her, I said, "Since we were first graders. Why?"

"N-nothing..." She stuttered. "I just noticed that this friendship has been going on for so long now. I'm quite surprised to realize that us meeting each other would change our lives this much these past eight years of studying in the same school with you."

"Really?" I smiled at her.

Annie smiled back. "Mhm. Also, there's been a little something that changed since that... you know..." She paused, not wanting to mention what happened to us that time.

"Yes, I get what you're saying." I said comfortingly. "Now, what was that little something again?"

She took a deep breath before saying; "I'm starting to think you're more than a friend to me Paul..."

My eyes widened at this. "R-really?"

Annie blushed and turned away from me. "Yeah yeah, I know. It's stupid for me to even think about it."

I put my hand on her shoulder, which made her turn to face me again. "I know it's kind of embarrassing for you to think that, or stupid as you just said." I paused and took a deep breath as well. "But you know what? I also thought the same way towards you."

"Y-you really mean that?" Annie asked.

"I really do." I said, smiling at her. "Ann... I love you..." My face turned bright red after saying this. Annie had the same expression as I was when I called her that.

I thought she was gonna put me down after that. But to my surprise, she replied back, "I... love you too, Paul..."

She took hold of my hand, which was something we often did, but today was different. We had just confessed our feelings towards each other after they got stronger. Annie then lay herself on my shoulder as she kept munching on her hotdog. I held her tight as I finished mine.

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5:20PM

When we arrived at our neighborhood later that afternoon, we had to go our separate ways as usual.

"That was a fun afternoon." Annie said happily.

"Yeah." I said as I kissed her cheek, which made her face turn bright red. "I'll see you tomorrow, yes?"

"Mm-hmm..." Annie's voice turned nervous.

I noticed this and asked; "You okay? Did you not like that kiss I gave you?" I said jokingly.

"Y-yeah, I'm fine..." She stuttered, putting her hand on the spot on her cheek where I kissed her. "And I kinda liked that kiss. Th-thank you."

"You're welcome Annie." I said calmly before we went inside our houses, which were just next to each other.

\*\*\*\*

7:34PM - At Annie's house

"How was your day, honey?" Ms. Smith asked her adopted daughter as they were eating at the dinner table.

"Just the usual stuff." Annie said casually before finishing her meal and just sat there, still wanting to talk with her foster mother.

"Okay, that's good, honey." Ms. Smith responded calmly. "Do you still wanna talk?"

"I don't know... Do you wanna talk about anything, mom?"

"Not really."

"Well in that case, I'm heading up to my room now. Good night mom." Annie went upstairs to her room. Ms. Smith just sighed happily before fixing the table and washing the dishes.

\*\*\*\*

8:53PM - My room

I settled inside my room. Some stuff were cluttered, for the most part, but it reminded me of how busy i can get sometimes. Ever since that time, Tommy had been going up to my room every night to sleep with me, which was understandable, given that he obviously did not want a repeat of what happened.

As I lay on my bed, I thought of Annie. She was one of the coolest friend I had, and since high school started, I've been keeping her safe from the bullies.

But the one thing that was hard to accept was the fact that Annie was in love with me the whole time. Not that it's a bad thing, but it just shocked the living daylights out of me for a split second. I never admitted it before, but even before our crazy adventure, I had started to develop feelings for her. It had only grown a lot after it happened.

"Are Annie and I officially boyfriend and girlfriend now?" I asked myself excitedly. Although it was for me to jump to conclusions more often than not, this was one of those times where I really had to think things through.

And just frankly speaking, I was so deep in thought that I eventually fell asleep.

## Chapter 1

2:21AM -

I wake up to the sound of... sirens?

And I thought it was my alarm going off. But no, I had my alarm set to play my favorite music when it goes off, not an iPhone like alarm blaring like a tornado siren.

But then again, it wasn't a tornado siren that went off. It was... police sirens?!

I was obviously curious, as I was one of those kids who were pretty much curious of anything and everything around them. I got up from my bed and met with my parents downstairs, who were apparently woken up by the sirens too. Tommy and Fiona were also up, and just walking around the living room. My sister, thankfully, was still sleeping and unfazed.

"Mom... did the sirens wake you guys up, too?" I asked groggily.

"What does it look like, huh?" Mom would shoot back, a little cranky that she got woken up.

"It's coming from Ms. Smith's house." Dad heard the sirens to be coming from the house beside us, where... Annie lived.

"Wonder what happened. And I hope she and Annie are okay." I would think aloud as I looked at the flashing sirens outside.

About an hour later, the sirens subsided and we went back to bed. But something felt off, like there's this tingling feeling where you really wanna go see what's up. But I eventually shook that thought away, just praying that Annie and Ms. Smith was just fine and they just had a small thing to deal with. However, having the police involved in this is something else.

What if it was more than a small thing?

\*\*\*\*

The next day rolled around. I quickly got up first thing in the morning and headed straight for Ms. Smith's house, only to find it blocked off with police tape. One of the front windows were shattered and it looked like a mess when I tried to peek in.

"Dang, what in the world happened here?!" I asked out loud just as mom walked up from behind.

"I'm not sure. But I did hear that Ms. Smith is currently staying at the police station. Apparently, there was a kidnapping that happened in the house." She would explain to me.

When mom finished, it felt like a million bricks had crushed me. If there was a kidnapping, and Ms. Smith was at the station, then-

"Annie was kidnapped?!"

\*\*\*\*

"I'm sorry to say it sweetie, but you're correct..." Ms. Smith would answer, sounding very sorrowful about the current situation.

After the realization hit me earlier, I quickly got my bike and that's how I was now at the station talking to Ms. Smith.

"Th-this is terrible...!" I began to stutter as I felt even more tense about the whole situation. There could be a million possible things that could happen to Annie by this time, the majority, if not all of those possibilities, were anything but good.

Just then, a cop came up to us with some news; "We found some evidence that might be a major lead to Ms. Smith's location"

I sighed in relief from this information. "Where is the location, if I may ask?"

"Our best guess is somewhere outside the town borders. We promise, we will bring her back safely." The cop simply said before walking away.

***(A Work In Progress)***