(1)-Bryson's Research.

Later that night, in a hotel, Clare was sound asleep in bed in a suit-room. Shortly after leaving the library, the CPS worker had checked herself into a hotel for the rest of the day. She had thought about checking into a motel instead, in order to save more money, but given all the criminal activity that was going on world-wide due to the disappearances, she decided not to risk it. Plus she had been paranoid when she'd spent the night in a motel in Chicago and she didn't want to put herself through that again.

As Clare laid sound asleep in bed, her eyes shot open, revealing them to be glowing gold.
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Lincoln High School

In a class-room at Lincoln High School, 13-year old Bryson and other teens were listening to a heavy-set female paranormal investigator talk about her encounters with the paranormal and supernatural. She had black shoulder-length hair and brown eyes.

Bryson, meanwhile, was wearing a red short sleeve shirt, blue pants, and his black sneakers with white trims, and he wore his round ear-rings.

"There's so many theories, i could go on and on. The Madela Effect. I think i could have a whole class about that one. But i think the most interesting evidence or theory, whatever you'd like to call it...of supernatural and paranormal theories...is the Heaven's Kids theory. Now...this is so interesting because...if you look at it one way, it does seem like a coincidence...over hyped by the internet. Now, this is a more recent one. I believe it got popular around four years ago, but it has it's own website and everything." The woman said.

Bryson's ears perked up even more and he felt his stomach swell. He didnt' know what it was, but he had a feeling his teacher was going somewhere with this.

"This theory spans from around 40 years ago, however. All throughout the 50s...60s...70s...80s and now...there have been reports of children who experience supernatural and paranormal events. Such as seeing angels, demons, having supernatural dreams, paranormal nightmares, death experiences of either going to Heaven or Hell-sometimes both-being possessed by demons or being rescued by angels, being haunted by ghosts, living in haunted houses, and many other weird things. Some children have even had dreams about the long predicted Rapture of the church. And perhaps the strangest part is that they all are reported to come back changed for the better. If they were mean when the ordeals started, they would be nice by the end of it. If they were sad when the ordeal started, they would be happy at the end of it. These reports have come from all over the world throughout the years. Now...you can look at this theory for yourself if you want, because it's not too terribly common and i think it deserves more attention. I kinda think it might be something. But of course, it could also be a bunch of nonsense and that the internet just made a big deal out of nothing. But if you wanna look into it, i think you'll be very interesting. The site is called Heaven's . There's all kinds of theories on there, if you wanna check it out." Said the woman.

As the woman talked and talked, Bryson's pencile slowly fell out of his grasp and into his notebook. His mind was racing faster than ever before and he felt the oddest feeling in the pit of his stomach.

He couldn't believe it. How did he not hear about this?

Suddenly, he felt a burst of excitement, joy, curiosity, confusion, one of the biggest whirlwind combinations of emotions he hadn't felt in a long time.

Everything he had just heard.

It was almost identical to what was happening to him.

It suddenly felt like all the answers he had been dying to have since his last day with Tommy had just fell into his lap, and all he had to do now was pick it up and read it off.

The bell then rung.

Class was dismissed and all of the teens, except Bryson, got up, gathered their things, and left.

Bryson was reeling.

It took him a few moments to actually gather himself and stand up and collect his things, but once he did, it was hard to even walk. Byson began making his was way over to where the woman and his male teacher was. He felt like he was shaking with each step he took.

Never before had he been so close to having answers.

"Miss Lillian..." Bryson started, approachung and greeting the woman known as Lillian. "Um...what did you say the name of that site was?"

"Heaven's . I put up a link on my website if you can't find it. Are you interested?" Lillian said.

"Oh, yeah, very much. It's very interesting. Say...uh...what do you think of all of this? Like...what do you think happened to those kids?" Bryson said.

"Personally, i think these kids are either of or have a connection with the paranormal world. But in a good way." Said Lillian.

"Children of the paranormal? Whoa." Said Bryson in amazement. He laughed a little. "Oh, that's interesting. Haha. But, uh...i mean...i guess i can't say anything. My theory's pretty crazy."

"Oh, really? What is it?" Lillian asked.

"It's, uh...it's a bit of a secret." Bryson said before exiting the classroom.

As he walked out of the room, Bryson couldn't help but find a bit of relief in the fact it seemed he was that much closer to getting answers regarding the big horror mystery of what was happening to him.
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Later at home, Bryson was upstairs in his bedroom on his computer, viewing the website of Heaven's .

Bryson was completely and utterly astonished at what he had found when he had returned home to his room.

This Heaven's website...it was just like the paranormal investigator lady had said.

The description of the site was interesting, to say the least.

"Roughly millions of children report to this site each year, having had either a supernatural or paranormal encounters. Some of these children seem to share similar experiences. Unnervingly similar. Almost exact. All over the world, as far back as to 1950, several children have had encounters with the spernatural, and share their stories with us by video and by E-Mailing it to us on this site. Most of these children are said to have had issues prior to their disappearance. Broken home, disability, illness, etc. When the experience is over, all of these children are said to be new and improved kids with improved personalities and a new outlook on life. Almost as if they had been through a religious experience. What happened to these children? What changed them? This is a pattern. There is no such thing as coincidence. We need to get down to the bottom of this phenomenon. #Heaven's ."

Bryson then scrolled down and stopped when he came across a list of children that had been on here, with a year-date by each name. These were obviously the videos the kids had recorded of themselves and submitted for people to see. He scrolled down some more and saw an article about a place called Heaven's Kids Camp and began to read it.

Apparently, this camp had been established in 1950 and was a place for kids who had had supernatural or paranormal experiences, as well as for regular kids, to come and share their stories, as well as spend the summer there. The article also mentioned that kids could record themselves while telling their story and submit it on the website. Bryson wasn't certain yet, but this sounded like the kind of place that could help him with his shadow figure-haunting situation.

He scrolled down some more and saw several different links listed all throughout the webpage, all that directed to articles and reports about the children.

Bryson researched extensively.

His heart was practically beating out of his chest due to how excited and anxious he was to learn all this new information, to truly get to the bottom of this whole mystery of what was happening to him.

Bryson scrolled back up to the list of children and looked for any kid he might know, and as he made his way down the list, none of them looked familiar.

He researched each child obsessively, using every single search engine he could find, reading every article that was pulled up.
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Clare's eyes stopped glowing gold and she sat up in her bed, completely stunned by what just happened. What was that just now? Where did it come from? How did it happen? She didn't know. But she did know that it was something that happened last year. How she knew that, however, was anyone's guess.

Too tired to think about it any further, Clare laid back down, closed her eyes, and went back to sleep.
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