My Enemies Brother

36. Don't you dare

Tessa's POV:

After class I try texting Melissa to see where she is but she doesn't respond.

Hardin takes my bag as we walk to the lockers. "Tess, love, just give her time I'm sure she's just processing everything," he tells me reassuringly.

His mom called and told him that yes, Melissa is adopted.

He opens his locker to switch out his books. "I know, I'm just worried. Hayden could easily get to her, and I know she can take care of herself but but what if-," I start to ramble.

Hardin closes his locker and turns towards me. "Baby, calm down. I know you're worried but I'm sure Brandon is with her right now," he says reassuringly.

I take a deep breath. "Yeah, I guess you're right."

He wraps his arm around my shoulder and starts walking me to my next class. "I love you for worrying though," he says. I don't respond back, as we get in front of the door.

"I'll see you later, love," he says facing me. He leans down and kisses me. "I love you."

"I love you more." He gives me a small smile and kisses me back. He hands me my bag before walking away.

I walk into the classroom and sit at my desk. As I take my notebook out for this class, my brother walks in. Alarm bells start to ring off in my head.

He sits down in his seat beside me. "Hey," he says casually.

"Hey?" I question. "That's all you have to say." I turn my entire body towards him.

"What do you mean?" He asks. "What's wrong?"

"Have you seriously not talked to Melissa?" I ask him. "I talked to her before school but that's it. Why did something happen to her?" he asks worriedly.

"You didn't-," I start but I stop mid sentence. I clear my throat. "You didn't get the message." He looks confused. "What message?"

Before I can answer the bell rings, and our teacher walks in. "Let's get finished settled please." With that she starts class.

Seeing my worried face, he gets even more worried. "What's wrong T? Tell me," he says in sign language. We learned a couple years back.

I let out a sigh. "We got a message during first period that had a certificate of adoption, it was Melissa's. She went home and talked to her mom about it. Now we don't know where she is." I tell him in ASL.

"Why are we here and not out looking for her then?" he asks. "Mom and T. R. I. S. H. said she just needs to cool off. I wanted to go, but H. A. R. D. I. N. talked me out of it," I tell him. He looks worried for the same reason I am. I give him a tight-lipped smile before turning to the teacher.

School is now over and we still don't know where she is, so we're going to go look for her.

I'm waiting at my locker for Hardin when I see Scarlett and Brandon talking by hers. They're in a pretty intense conversation that's probably been going on for a few minutes.

"Do you know what they're talking about?" I voice I know very well asks. Michael. I turn towards him.

"No, but they're probably talking about Melissa. You know his girlfriend that he loves so much," I tell him. "Why?"

"No reason," he says eyeing them.

Oh my God. "You think she's cheating on you?" I ask him,turning his head to look at me. "Seriously."

"What do you expect me to think. They're bestfriends, they're always together, and always having secret conversations. Now I find out that he took her virginity. " he says.

Am I seriously having this conversation right now? "She took his too you know. You know if you didn't trust her, you could always break up," I tell him. He looks at me like I've grown an extra head. "No, I would never do that," he says.

"So you don't trust her but you'll stay anyway." I can see Hardin walking over.

"Oh come on that's not fair, you thought the same thing with Sam," he says.

Oh so he really wants to go there. "Actually no, I didn't. See me and Hardin have this called communication, he told me he wanted to hang out with Sam and Scarlett to get to know them better." Hardin stands beside me. "Also, Scar stopped sleeping with him so she could have you and he respected that. So don't you dare talk about either of them like that," I rant.

He looks surprised I said that while Hardin is waiting to see what I'll do next. "Look you're my one of my bestfriends and I love you but I won't have you talking about my brother or my sister like that," I tell him seriously. I push myself off my locker. Hardin wraps his arm around my waist and we walk off together.

After a couple hours of searching for Melissa we still can't find her. I have one more place we can look.

It's a place Mel and I would go if we needed to get away for a little bit when we were younger. No one knows about it, so this would be Hardin's first time being there. We're on our way now.

I just hope she's there and safe.

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Is she there?

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