A New Love - A New Timeline

Chapter 15 - Helpless and Hopeless

—————Clover—————

We had been combing almost everything in town and into the woods around it for hours with the help of townspeople. I noticed that not many werewolves joined us, and that many were not in town. Neither was Ryder.

It was past dark so Newt and I went back to their lab.

"I should be able to find Bee with the tracker I have for them." I blinked.

"You have a tracker for Bee?! Are you spying on your brother?" Newt took a deep breath and glanced back at me to respond.

"There's a reason." They shrugged and continued rummaging through drawers and desks.

"And that is?" They didn't look back at me this time.

"A reason is an explanation for an action or thought, it can also mean to bargain or convince." I blinked. This person was just a walking dictionary but they were also my favorite walking dictionary so I didn't want to upset them. Newt was my best friend after all.

"Alright, keep your secrets." I leaned against the wall, waiting for them to find that creepy tracker thing for their brother. Can't they just get life360 or something?!

"Fuck." After a few minutes of searching, Newt exclaimed, panicked.

"What-what's wrong..?" I sighed and pushed myself off the wall in a feline manner.

"The tracker's gone. Fuck." Newt was cursing themself out under their breath while quickly scavenging through a pile of junk on their desk.

"Shit—" I looked around and tried to help despite not knowing what I was even looking for. I don't know what a tracker looks like, why would I? "Well they couldn't have gone far—"

"Yes they could've Clover!" Newt suddenly snapped at me, fear coated their face, they were terrified. "I-I have to go tell Mom."  Newt bolted out of the lab and I stood there confused.

I shrugged and approached the mess they had left on the desk. I organized the papers as best I could before something caught my eye. A drawing. It was of portal. I had never seen a portal before, but the paper was covered in endless diagrams of them. Alongside runes and spells and notes in some language I'd never seen before.

"What the..." I was immediately distracted by the probably vital information by the buzzing of a phone, it was Bee's phone, it looked like it hadn't been touched in a while. I picked it up and the notification was from TikTok? "Oh god, don't tell me..."

I entered the password that they used for literally everything, connormom. I don't know why it's that, but they've had it for years and have never changed it. I opened the notification, it was a comment on something.

"zamn id let you kidnap me anyday 🥵🥵😍😍" I stared. What the fuck?

I opened the TikTok that elicited the comment and watched in absolute horror and disappointment as I watched one of those shitty mafia thirst traps, but it was with Bee, Newt, and Lennon.

"What...the fuck." I rubbed my forehead and figured I should ask Newt about it. What the fuck, and why the fuck, were the questions going through my head.

I sighed and put the phone in my pocket, rubbing my eyes, trying to erase whatever the fuck I just watched. I did not want to retain that memory. I exited the lab and had to stop multiple times just to process what I had just seen. Bee is in for a lot of questions.

I started heading to the bar where Newt's stepmother works. She already knew that Bee was missing, but was hopeful. As I walked over to the bar, I couldn't see Newt down the path so I figured they were inside.