Part 1

Staring at the screen, I smiled with joy as mom tuned into my favorite show, Peppa pig. “Get some sleep, no staying up too late or tv goes off.” I nodded my head, not really paying attention to what she was saying, since I was bobbing my head around her body to see my show. Mom chuckled and kissed my cheeks. Reaching out, she combed through my hair with her fingers, giving me a wonderful massage. “Mommy loves you.” She smiled.

Returning her smile “Love you too.” I repeated back. She turned on my nightty light and then got up, disappearing out of my room while leaving my door cracked as she did. Yawning, I stretched and relaxed onto the bed. The tv kept fading in and out, but I shook myself awake, unwilling to look away.

New Peppa Pig episode… starts now!

Ripped from my sleep, I peered up at the screen. New episode? I thought. I know I’ve seen all the Peppa episodes and that there were no more new ones, since I was on… what did mommy call it?… Philo? Scratching my head, whatever it was, I was fully awake now and staring at the title on the screen. “G…Ge..or…ge… G…goes… Mis…Mis…” I furrowed my eyebrows, trying to sound it out, but the title disappeared too quickly. With a huff, I crossed my arms, hating that I couldn’t finish.

A familiar deep British voice came, on a thing mommy called ‘narrador‘… Whatever that was. George Goes Missing. The voice said and then the camera panned to Peppa, who could be seen walking around the house, looking for George. She looked frustrated and upset and was looking under and in everything she could possibly think of, before going to look for him outside. Her expression of anger and irritation turned to desperation and fear. She walked frantically around the neighborhood calling for George.

Suzy then appeared in front of her with a curious glint in her eyes “Hi Peppa.” Suzy waved “What are you doing?” She asked in her British accent.

Peppa looked at her with a very heart wrenching look, that shocked me. My eyes teared up as I watch on as Peppa’s eyes watered and spilled over. “George…” she sobbed. “I~I can’t find George!” She fell to her knees sobbing, while wiping at her eyes. “I was suppose to look after him, mummy and daddy are going to be so mad at me!” She sobbed harder. I could feel her sorrow so much so, that I too, began to cry.

“There… there… Don’t worry, we will find him.” Suzy patted her back. “Let’s do what my mum always told me to do.”

“Oh yeah…” Peppa looked up at Suzy hopefully. “And what is that Suzy?”

“Let’s backtrack.”

“Backtack?”

“Backtrack…” Suzy corrected. “… and I’m not sure…” Suzy said with a frown. “But I suppose It is something you do when going backwards?”

“Suzy!” Peppa shouted in frustration, causing Suzy to wince.

“Okay… ” Suzy put a finger to her mouth trying to think. “Oh!” She said pointing her finger upwards to the sky. “I think we must first figure out what it was that you were doing when George first went missing.”

Peppa paused to think. “Oh!” She said a memory coming to mind. “We were playing hide-and-seek in the back garden.” Peppa responded through sobs.

“Let’s go there and look through the bushes and trees, he probably fell asleep hiding.”

Peppa nodded and got up, taking Suzy’s hand as they walked back to Peppa’s house. “George! George where are you?!” Peppa shouted, her face getting red. “This isn’t funny!”

“They continued searching high and low and yet no George.” The ‘narrador’ said. “Oh dear! Where could George have possibly gone?”

Peppa stopped and fell to the ground crying. Suzy hugged her and tried to comfort her, when Mummy and Daddy pig popped onto the screen. Immediately Peppa got up and hid behind Suzy, shaking.

“Goodness!” The mother pig gasped, “Why are you crying Peppa? What’s wrong?”

“Umm…” Peppa stuttered, her eyes going everywhere at once.

“Suzy?” The daddy pig directed his attention towards her, who also began shaking. “Suzy or Peppa, what is going on?” He looked around the back garden. “And where is George?”

I leaned in close, my heart pounding. Is Peppa going to get in trouble? I thought, my mind racing.

“G…George…is…” Peppa began.

“Is what Peppa?!” Daddy pig shouted, his face going red along with mommy pig.

She gulped “He…He’s missing!” She cried while falling to her knees.

“Oh Dear!” Mommy pig put her hand to her head, fainting as daddy pig caught her mid-fall.

“To where?” Daddy pig asked. And then everything went silent. Peppa stopped sobbing and mommy pig opened her eyes. I leaned closer towards the screen, in anticipation of what was to come next, then I froze. My heart leaped into my throat as their eyes locked onto mines and then the screen went blank.

“No!” I whisper shouted. Sliding off the bed, I rushed over towards the television. Reaching my hand out to slap the television like I had seen the adults do, I stopped mid swing. The television looked really weird, the white and black fuzzies inside the screen crackled and popped out. “Whoah!” I said aloud. Curious, I reached out to touch it. The fuzzies tickled my hand the further I reached inside, making me giggle. It felt weird but it also felt like mum’s massages, which was very relaxing, that was until something grabbed my arm. I grabbed at the tv, trying to pull my arm back but it was way too strong.