What’s the special occasion?

Keys jingle, "the sound of Jack failing to figure out which key opens the door to our condo has never failed to get a chuckle out of me. I've always wondered how it's so difficult for him to remember the bitting on a key. To me every detail is noticeable near instantly, I guess the detail of Jack being a moron shouldn't come to me as a surprise."

The jingling stops for a moment as I hear a shutter Jack finally gets the door open. "Though I should thank him for being as much of a dumbass as he is, if it weren't for him supporting me I could never live this life style. Being able to freely"

Jack calls out to me "Jason?! Jason are you there?" He stomps over to our room and practically slams whatever papers he was holding into my face "JASON! You need to look at this now! This'll finally be our chance to become known!" He's grinning ear to ear like he just handed me a personal love letter

I grabbed his papers and gave them a quick read, "these 5 children are missing, please contact local authorities immediately" I scoff as I look through the rest of the papers, containing photos of the children "known where? Our neighborhood? Maybe their parents will remember us for life I wouldn't go any farther than that."

Jack retorts with a witty tone in his voice "well, listen to this... apperantly children have been going missing all over the city, if we can find these kids, then maybe we can find the grand scheme of this entire thing!"

While Jack did make a seemingly good point, I can't help but notice he gave me 5 papers with a "go find these kids, here are the photos" summery behind them

I look up at jack "did whoever gave these to you give you any pointers?"

Jack puts his hand to his chin and thinks as hard as I've ever seen him try to "they said... the kids really liked playing in the woods... around the... the... I don't know I was too excited sorry..."

I think I could feel any resemblance of a thought leave his puny skull after giving it his all to remember what he just told me, "so you were given photos of kids and told to go to an unspecified point in the woods too find them?"

Jack thinks for a second and waves his finger at me "yeahhhh.... Yeah I guess so! That sounds kind of dangerous, do you think they were making it up" "well what kinda person did "they" seem like? Though regardless of what they looked like I doubt this could be anything real, I mean there's no way police havent tried searched the woods clean if that's the only thing this mysterious person is letting them know"

Jack cuts in "I don't think... they've talked to the police, they seemed like they wanted ME to go check it out y'know?", I got an idea out of Jacks blabbering tongue "this definitely sounds like a setup if you head there alone I doubt you'd even leave with your clothes on, but if we can catch whoever gave you this hint, I think that could do us a lot more good than finding these made up kids."

Jacks face lights up, he seems so excited you'd think he's the one who just got a good idea that... Howd you think of that! That sounds great when should we head out?" My eyes quickly nod over to my computer screen to check the time "it's 11pm right now, if you got the papers coming back from work these people would probably assume that wed go out either instantly or tomorrow early in the morning"

"Well which do you think it is?", I lean onto my counter "it's a bit of a gamble, if we go now they could pretty easily hide in the tree line and get the jump on us... but if we wait until tomorrow there's a chance they won't show at all. but there's also the fact that they know what you look like."

Jack stares at me confused "me? Why would that matter?" I get up and grab my essentials "Whoever told you about this could just wait and check if your car has left the spot it was parked at and then call his buddies to get ready, that's why we need to throw them off. I'll take your car, spin around the block and wait in some alley where I have a viewpoint of everything around me, and in about 5 minutes you walk out and tell me if you can see anyone suspicious lurking around. Okay?"

I put a flashlight in my pocket and reach my hand out for jacks car keys "do you understand?" Jack hands me his keys "yeah I got it, wait around and check for bad guys" i open the door to our condo "yeah, bad guys. Call me immediately when you see anyone alright?" Jack puts his thump up "alright!"

As I walk down the steps to the parking lot I think to myself, "I really hope Jack finds something wrong, I've never felt the thrill of knowing I'm being set up. A part of me wants to see what to do next." I smile a little, making it to the parking lot I don't see anybody nearby, "they really wouldn't check at all before hand? That's way too stupid."

I drop to my hands and knees, checking under the cars around me, nobody. As I get up the looming thought that someone somehow managed to believe Jack looked trustworthy enough to find their missing kids wasn't wasn't a lie, though on the other hand whoever this is could just be waiting from a distance and checking what cars leave the building.

I ring up jacks phone, sfter beeping for a few seconds jack answers "what? A change of plans?" "A change of plans indeed jack, there's nobody here. By this point there's no purpose in us being separated anymore. Come down so we can drive out together." I hear our door open through jacks mic "got it!" He hangs up

Not even 5 seconds later I can hear his footsteps slamming down the stares as if he was being chased by some big monster, he runs up to me ready to go, I open the door to his car and ask him "you realize people besides us live here right?" Jack huffs and nods his head yes "yeah? Why? Do you think they're working with the person who gave me the papers?"

All that running must've knocked his brain out of place "no, nevermind, let's just head out. We're going straight for the woods now, first signs of something being off and we're gone."

The car starts up and we begin to leave, " yeah. Sounds good, I brought my uh... my.... Uh......."

His voice sounded more distant as I began to concentrate on the matter at hand, I grabbed my phone at the first red light we saw and texted a friend of mine to send the police to our location if I didn't get back to him within an hour of being there"

It feels like I'm about to see something terrible here. But solving detective work is just about all I live for, I'll die getting to the bottom of this if I have too.

A good distance away sat another Jack on a rooftop, staring down at Jacob and jack from a roof top with binoculars, he chuckles at first, then letting it form into a laugh dropping his binoculars to the floor "I hope you love what you see Jacob" this jack smiles "I know Jack will." He picks up his binoculars and begins to walk out of the building from the roof, before he leaves the roof top, he throws out pictures of children to scatter away in the wind.