Promise

chapter 31 - he's gone

     A few days go by and there's no news. "We can't just sit around and do nothing." Zayne complained. He was starting to get impatient. "Are you sure they can't find him?" He asked.

     Adrian was sitting on the floor and playing cars with Eli. He sighed, "yes, I'm sure. It'll only take another day or two." Zayne grumbled in response. "You said that two days ago." He continued to complain.

     They had this conversation two days ago too. Zayne sighed and got up, Adrian wasn't going to let him do anything. He walked into the kitchen where Aspen was.

     "Do you think we really can't do anything?" He asked and slumped down onto the table. Aspen shrugged and sat down opposite of him. "I think Adrian's not letting you do anything."

     "He doesn't have to know." Zayne looks up at Aspen and continues. "Can you help me? We can find him ourselves." Aspen hesitated, Adrian definitely wouldn't like this.

     "I don't think we could find him, and even if we did how are we even going to get him arrested." He said, trying to convince Zayne that it was a bad idea. Zayne shook his head, "I have his number, I could call him."

     Aspen frowned. "What? Then what? He's coming after you, you can't just hand yourself over." He said while he shakes his head.

     "No, I can lure him out. We can set him up and get him arrested." Zayne started to formulate a plan. Aspen shook his head again. "What? No, you can't do that." He argued.

     "Why not? It's perfect. I'll call and ask to meet then I can call Noah and tell him to come arrest him." Zayne explained. "But your the one that's going to get arrested, not him." Aspen points out. The police still doesn't know about Zachery.

     "We can..." Zayne paused a while to think before he continued, "we can let him catch me, he probably has a plan right? Then you can call Noah to come save me and arrest him."

     "No, we are not doing anything. He'll kill you and even if he doesn't Adrian will when he finds out, then he'll kill me too." Aspen disagreed while he looked at Zayne wide-eyed. This was a crazy idea.

     "Adrian doesn't even have to know. We can do it in a day." Zayne tried to convince Aspen who shook his head and looked at Zayne like he's gone mad.

     "You could die." Aspen said like it was common sense and all the reason he needs to not go through with the plan. "I'll just get hurt a little bit, it'll be fine." Zayne said to convince Aspen.

     Aspen still wasn't on board. "I'm still going to do it even if you don't help me." Zayne started to guilt-trip Aspen into helping him. "But if you don't help me and I actually die, it'll be your fault."

     Aspen frowned at him. "And Adrian will hate you forever, Astrid would hate you too." Zayne said and pursed his lips. It looks like it's working.

     "You know this is a really really bad idea right?" Aspen asked. Zayne eagerly nods. "Can we at least tell Astrid so she can help?" Aspen gives in.

     "You can go tell her and I'll call Zachery." Zayne said with a wide smile. Aspen sighed then left to tell Astrid. Zayne pulled out his phone and dialed Zachery's number.

     "Zayne? Hey, how have you been?" He picks up after two rings. "Hey! It's been okay." Zayne cleared his throat and replied. It's been a while since he last spoke to Zachery.

     "Why're you calling? Did something happen? Do you need something?" Zachery sounds concerned. "Well, I was kind of wondering if you were free to meet up?"