"A flash of white light ... and
then ... nothing."
After a fight with her father over
her future, Kyra makes him stop the car by the side of the road so that she can
get out. She will call her boyfriend Austin to come and pick her up. Kyra runs
and falls on the asphalt. Picking herself up, she brushes the dirt and gravel
from her clothes. Suddenly, all she can see is a blinding, white light. She
hears her father screaming. Kyra feels dizzy and weightless, then, nothing.
Kyra wakes up with her head
pounding, the feel of asphalt at her back and the smell of gasoline in the air.
Realizing that something is hitting her in the head, she opens her eyes to
blinding daylight. She sees a little boy and finds herself at the Gas 'N' Sip.
Not knowing how she got there, Kyra sees that she spent the night behind a
dumpster. She decides to call Austin because he and her parents are probably freaking
out over her disappearance. She is shocked to see that her cell phone says “No
Service.”
She begins to walk the short
distance to her house and has a strange since of déjà vu. Her house looks the
same but also different. The door is locked and the key is gone from over the
doorway. She knocks on the door and a small boy peeks out of the window. Kyra
is confused since she is an only child and her parents dote on her. Finally, an
unfamiliar man opens the door and she is even more confused. The furnishings
are different and the man offers to call for help. Confused, she looks across
the street to Austin's house and notices his mother' car s in the driveway. She
crosses the street and knocks on the back door. Austin answers and Kyra falls
into his arms. Relieved, she hears Mrs. Wahl ask Tyler who is there. She pulls
back to speak to her when Mrs. Wahl drops her coffee mug. Austin tells his mother
that Kyra is there but Kyra notices that something is off about Austin’s voice.
She looks at the arms around her waist; they aren't tan like they should be
since Austin had just completed his lifeguard certification for the summer. She
looks up at Austin's face and he has to catch her for a second time. Kyra isn't
in the arms of her seventeen year old boyfriend Austin’s. She is in the arms of
his younger brother, Tyler, who yesterday was twelve. Now, Tyler looks
seventeen.
Kyra wakes up in Austin's bed. The
general decor hadn't changed but things don't seem lived in. Mrs. Wahl tries
her best to explain that five years have passed since Kyra went missing.
Looking at Tyler, Kyra seems to believe her but when she looks at herself, she
is confused. Kyra is still dressed in her softball uniform from the
championship game, ribbons still woven in her hair from last night. She even
still has the bruise on her leg from the previous night when she wrestled her
best friend Cat for the remote. Mrs. Wahl tells her that her mother is on the
way and hopefully she can explain things better. Kyra is watching out the front
window when Tyler comes up behind her. He comments that things must be weird
for her. Kyra sees her mother is driving a different car. She has the door open
before her mother can knock and is in her arms. Her mother makes her promises
and she asks where her father is. Before her mother can answer, the man who
answered the door at her house comes up to them, with the toddler boy following
along behind. Her mother endearingly calls the man "Grant.' He apologizes
to her mother that he didn't recognize Kyra from the pictures. The little boy
climbs into her mother's arms and says "Mommy!" Kyra immediately
knows that her parents have continued on with their lives, separately, while
she was supposedly missing. Her mother tells her that she didn't want her to
find out this way. Kyra asks for her father. Her mother lets her know that he
is on his way. Kyra goes back inside the Wahl's house, leaving her mother and
new family outside.
Kyra goes back to Austin's bedroom
and Tyler follows. She asks him if there is anything else she needs to know. He
teases her and she wonders why she mistook him for his brother at first. She
asks Tyler if she can call Austin. Tyler sits down beside her on the bed and he
tells her that there is no need. His mother has already called him but she had
to leave a message. She asks him how long her parents have been divorced. Tyler
isn't sure but her father moved out a year after she disappeared. The police
looked into the case, to no avail. Rumors started circulating that her father
had something to do with her disappearance. Kyra is adamant that her father had
nothing to do with it. His father, a policeman, believed that her father was
innocent. Tyler asks; What did happen? Where has she been for the past five
years? Kyra has no answers.
Kyra soon realizes that life has
gone on without her. She is now a legal adult even though she looks the same as
she did five years earlier. Her parents divorced over her father's theories over
her disappearance. Her mother has started a new life and family while her
father has a drinking problem and believes Kyra’s disappearance is because of
alien abduction. Austin has moved on with his life, with her best friend, Cat.
Tyler, who had a crush on Kyra when he was younger, is the one person who she
can count on.
What really happened the night Kyra
disappeared? Where was she for the past five years? Why is she unable to
remember? How come she hasn't aged? What happens when Kyra begins to lean on
Tyler more and sparks begin to fly? Will she ever find out what really
happened? Was Kyra abducted by aliens?
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