Chapter 1, Missing
It's 2:14 am and I walk over to the phone, pick it up and hesitate before I dial 911, "911 what's your emergency?" I hear echoing into my right ear, "um, my boyfriend is missing.." I tell the operator, "when was the last time anyones seen him?" The women said back, "around six and a half hours ago, we were supposed to meet up but he never showed.." I say letting my emotions take some control to my tone, "ma'am are you sure he didn't just stand you up?" She said back sounding more relaxed, "He would never do that, besides I'm calling from his trailer right now, his uncle let me in and we've contacted all of his friends, no one's seen him since school ended, please could you get us help." I say while tearing up, "I'm sorry ma'am but I can't send anyone unless the person has been missing for 24 hours or above." She said back clearly wanting to hangup thinking I was over reacting, "BUT YOU'RE 911 YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO HELP PEOPLE IN THESE SITUATIONS!?!" I practically scream down the line, "Is there anything else I can help with?" The operator asked, "No." I say as I hang up the phone. My back hits the wall and I start sliding down to the floor while silently crying, Wayne (Eddie's uncle) Enters the room wondering if I've had any luck, he knelt down beside me as I look at him helplessly, "what if..*sniff* what if we never see him again.." "what if this is like barb.. I can't loose him, he means too much to me.." I sob as he opens his arms gesturing a hug, I hug him and swear I see something run from the window, I shrugged it off as he tried comforting me by saying "y/n it's Eddie we're talking about, he's probably just high somewhere, I bet that in an hour or so he'll come stumbling through that door and apologies for scaring us." I release from the hug, "no.." I mumbled, "why?" He looked at me confused, "I'm not just going to wait here while he's in potential danger, I'm going out to find him." I said expecting him to try and stop me, "I'm coming with you, let me grab my jacket," he said before standing up and going into his room. I get up and search through Eddie's drawers trying to find a pencil, I finally found one and wrote on an old newspaper page, "Eddie this is y/n, Me and your uncle have gone looking for you, if you come home and we're still not back please wait for us inside, I promise I'm not mad at you I'm just worried, love y/n." As we walked out the door I grabbed a stone and placed it on top of the note by the front door, "do you think he'll be able to read that if he's high?" I ask his uncle, "depends on how much weed he's smoked, anyway where should we look first?" He looked at me, "well there's this spot that he likes to go to, it's basically a circle of trees in the woods with a bench in the middle, if he's skipped a lesson or ran off He's almost always there." I say to Wayne feeling a small amount of hope, "let's go then" he says while turning around to face the woods, I run next to him and start leading the way, we don't speak much because I'm busy praying in my head that we find him there unharmed. As we're about ten minutes away from the spot I see a dark figure running away from where we're headed, I chase after him thinking it could be Eddie, "WAIT!!" I call after them, He suddenly stopped and I tripped while trying to break, I looked up at the silhouette, they helped me up and I asked, "have you seen a guy with long dark brown curly hair recently? He's missing we can't find him," I ask the shadow, "we?" He questioned as I looked begind me not seeing Wayne, "shit.." I whisper, I turned back around and he suddenly grabbed my waist with one hand and my ass with his other, "GET OFF OF ME!!" I screamed as I stood back and slapped him across the face, "This boy, is his name Eddie?" He growled into my face, "um..yes.." I responded hesitantly, "give him a message for me." He demanded towering over me, "w-what message.." I ask with fear as he somehow gets closer to me, "This one." He said as he punched me in the face knocking me down, then kicking me in the torso multiple times before stomping on my face, he runs off in the direction he was going before, after spitting on me and naming me a whore. I heard Wayne calling out my name and I rushed to call back to him but my voice fell silent, it felt like I was being stabbed in the side every time I tried to yell back, eventually his voice faded away, so did that tiny portion of hope. I lay there for what felt like hours, even when it started to rain, I was in too much pain to move.. that's when I heard Eddie's voice above me, I looked up but no one was there, I closed my eyes and thought of all the memories we have together, motivating myself to stand up and find him, I was only ten minutes away from my destination but it took me almost an hour to get there, I leaned against a tree while looking around the small area with my eyes, he isn't here.. all that for nothing I thought as I started to cry, I felt a sharp pain in my torso and fell to the floor gripping it as hard I can, I look down and there's blood, a lot of blood.. I look around for something that I could use to help, As my consciousness starts to fade I see Eddie running towards me yelling "I FOUND HER SHE'S OVER HERE!!" He picked me up and I looked at him, "you asshole Eddie.." I whisper while he's looking down at me, "what?" He said not hearing me, I just laughed, "what's so funny?" He looked at me with a teary smile, I tried to smile back but my vision became blurry and I passed out in his arms..
