When the next 24 hours passed and my parents were still gone, the police got involved, but the investigation was called off very quickly and considered a cold case. The police gave up unusually quickly. When my brother and I heard the news, that our parents were gone... like, really gone, we fell apart. We acted out in school, we lost our friendships, and my brother kept getting into fights... it was a bad time for us, this point is the low point in the story. But all of this bonded us together even more, all we had was each other.