I stood there. Alone atop a grassy hill, next to a cherry blossom tree. The full moon reflected its light off the clear waters of the pond just below. The wind blew gently, pulling some petals off the tree and swirling them around me. In this quiet and calm, I found serenity.

I drop to my knees and stare down at my hands. I couldn't help but wonder, where is she? Where is Blossom?

As I reflect, I utter her name into the stillness. The word seems to hover there, reverberating around me like a phantom in the night. Then my memories drifted to the moment I first met her.

There was an app called Auctor that I had used off and on for a few years before I took an extensive look into its features and found the community challenge. It was there that I met so many great people. We were all writers, James, Adrian, Glen, Natalie, Amy, Marie, Brooklin, Jonathan, Lizzie, Jen, and Mia. But there was one girl who stood out. Blossom.

She was outgoing and bubbly and always encouraged everybody's writing. We were all aspiring writers, and we pushed each other to do better with the challenges each week. We were a family. There were some ups and downs, like the troll who tried to ruin our challenges by trashing our stories, although we have since made up with her (love you, Kayla Spinnet).

One day, though, on August 5th, 2020, she vanished without a trace. She stopped responding to any message on Wattpad and disappeared from Auctor completely. We tried for many days in vain to get in contact with her, but there was no response. I refuse to believe for a second that a girl with such a passion for writing would just quit.

For the past few years, I have tried not to think of the worst possible outcomes, but almost three years later, I'm forced to face the truth. The week she disappeared, there was a massive hurricane called Hurricane Isaias. It killed 6 people on the East Coast, and I'm beginning to think maybe she was one of them. Or that maybe she got kidnapped or killed. Why would she just disappear?

I know my short story turned into a rant, but I have been holding this in three years, and it needed to come out. Please, pray for her (Blossom is probably not her real name, though)