The “Un” Reliable Alibi

I listened as the officer repeated back the story my friend and I had told him.

"Let me get this straight, you were found vandalizing Mr. Tom's house because of a rumor that his house is haunted? And the "ghost" you had paint the red warnings on Mr. Tom's front door was actually your blonde haired friend named Wayne?"

Joseph, who was sitting next to me laughed, "Wayne... Our friend? The haunting of Mr. Tom's house was just a harmless prank. Wayne wanted to be part of our group, and he does not have blonde hair."

I gasp, "But I'm sure I saw blonde hair after we sent Wayne to the front door of Mr. Tom's house."

Officer Smith looked between us. "Well, now Wayne has been pronounced as missing. So, how do you explain that?"

It had been three days since Joseph and I had dared Wayne to pretend to be a ghost at Mr. Tom's house to scare away the elementary kids from our secret treehouse on Mr. Tom's property, and now Wayne was missing.