The mother went inside and found the window open and a note on 13-year-old Alyssa Brandon's bed. The note said Alyssa was "long gone," and her parents said they think their daughter ran off to meet a boy nearly 900 miles away.

Andrea Brandon gets emotional Thursday as she talks about her missing daughter.

Andrea and Kyle Brandon said Thursday that Alyssa had met a 14-year-old boy from Jerome, Idaho, while using MySpace. They deleted Alyssa's MySpace account before she went missing, but they found out she and the boy had also been calling each other.

"Just to have to make photocopies of your kid's picture and write 'missing' under it is devastating," Andrea Brandon said as she pleaded for help in finding her missing daughter. "There's nothing like it in the world."

The parents said police in Jerome contacted the boy, but he told them that he didn't know anything about Alyssa's disappearance. Bakersfield police are also on the case.

The Brandons blamed MySpace for fueling Alyssa's decision to apparently run away.

Alyssa is described as being 5-foot-4 and 120 pounds with a burn scar on her upper right arm. She was last seen wearing blue jeans and a gray sweatshirt.

Anyone with information on Alyssa's whereabouts is asked to call Bakersfield police at (661) 327-7111.