where'd you go, jeremy heere ~be more chill~

three

        three days. jeremy heere had been missing for three days now. michael was panicking, while rich and jake were worried. the police had been searching for jeremy all over metuchen, but michael knew jeremy wasn't dumb enough to run away somewhere in town. 

        and michael was going to make sure jeremy heere got home safe, and snuggled in his arms. it was saturday, so everyone was off from school. rich and jake usually hang out at jake's house on weekends, so he was going to pick them up. 

        michael strolled up to jake's door, and rang the doorbell. his car was parked in front of the house. jake's house had burned down on halloween, but they were able to get new siding and replace the things in the house. 

        "shit! get your clothes on!" michael heard rich yell from inside. michael smiled from this. rich then opened the door, his hair messy and shirt wrinkly. jake sat in his wheelchair, the same. "we weren't doing anything," rich nervously laughed.

        "i really don't give a shit if you were hooking up with jake or not. we have a bigger problem on our hands. rich grabbed jake's wheelchair and they closed the door behind them, and the three started to walk to michael's car.

        "with what?" jake asked the boy. michael opened the drivers side door.

        "we're going to go find jeremy," michael said, then getting in the car and closing the door. rich and jake shrugged at each other, and then rich helped jake get in the car, followed by rich sitting next to michael on the passenger side. 

***

        "so let me get this straight, we're going to somehow track down jeremy with your  computer? how is that even going to work, it's not like he doesn't have a computer chip in his neck. i mean he did in his brain bu-" rich was cut off by jake.

        "rich, shush," jake huffed. rich sighed. the three of them crowded around michael's computer. 

        "i'm going to try and get in contact with people jeremy knows who lives outside of metuchen. so you can cross jenna, christine, chloe and brooke off the list, because he's obviously not at their house," mike told the couple. 

        "how do you know these people?" jake asked.

        "mr. heere let's me come on visits to people's houses with them because jeremy used to get nervous. i know most of the people, i just don't have their phone numbers." michael explained to the boys. "so i'm going to try and look them up, and then look up where they work to call them from there."

        "what if they don't answer from their job?" rich asks. 

        "then hopefully someone they work with picks up and gives me their number," michael said calmly. 

        "this seems like a lot of work," jake told michael. michael turned to face jake. 

        "listen, jeremy has been my best friend for years. i can't lose him now," michael told him sternly. 

        "or is he more than that," rich winked at him. michael blushed and turned back to do what he was doing. 

        "i have a list of names in the notebook on my desk. all i need you two to do if try and look up where some of the people work. i'll look up some of the names and call the workplaces," michael explained to the two. 

        "sounds good," jake let out. 

        "let's go find tall ass!" rich yelled, as he high fived both jake and michael. 

***

        "mikey, we've been at this for five hours," rich groaned, laying on his back on the floor. michael was still on the computer, trying to find a woman named max mayfield, who was jeremy's mom's old friend.

        "dude, don't you just think we could check his moms?" jake asked him. michael sighed and faced the couple.

        "jermey hates his mom for leaving him and his dad. i doubt he would be there," michael told the two. 

        "why don't we just check," rich piped up. 

        michael rolled his eyes. "fine," he let out.  

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-el