Robin's Story (Black Phone Fanfic)

Chapter 6

Elena POV

It had been a whole week. Seven freaking days. A whole week of pain without Robin. The entire city searched the town door to door but not one clue, nothing to tell us where Robin went.

I laid in the bathtub, staring at the wall. I was a shell at this point, only barely eating so my mom didn't flip. She tried pushing me through, trying to make it sound like Robin was dead but he wasn't. He couldn't be, not when we were having the time of our lives.

I got out of the bath and got ready for school. Another day of students staring at me in pity. Another day of condolences and teachers looking at me like I should be in bed crying my eyes out.

I did that, every night. Every night I stare at my window, waiting for him to go up to it and when it doesn't happen, I cry myself to when I can't even sleep. I just lay there numb.

Today was the assembly to announce Robin's disappearance, but I didn't want to be there for that. So I skipped it. I went to the abandoned train tracks that I promised Robin I wouldn't go to alone, but I couldn't help it. Laying on the tracks and staring at the sky, was therapy to me.

"I miss you. I miss you so fucking much. You never deserved any of this. You were an amazing friend and the love of my life. I'm not going to talk like you're gone forever, baby. You're just waiting to be found. Please, please come back to me."

I cried into my hands, hating whoever took him from me. I hated that he couldn't just let his friends go with him, he never would have been alone and able to be taken.

I walked home, missing the feeling of my boyfriend's hand in mine. Once my mom got home, I sat at the table, pushing my food around my plate to make it look like I was eating. That lasted a few minutes.

"Mi hija, I worry for you. I know this week is hard, incredibly hard for you, but Robin wouldn't want you to be like this. He would want you to at least eat and sleep while we search for him."

"Mama," I felt tears well up as I looked at her, "Do you honestly believe he'll be found?"

The look on her face gave me the answer I didn't want. She thought Robin was dead or gone for good. She held me to her as I sobbed, secretly wishing it wasn't her arms but Robins. She kept whispering how sorry she was and I ran to my room, trying hard to stop the tears as I stared at our bracelet.

It was no longer pink.

My mom came in an hour later, begging me to at least have some juice and I did, but for some reason, that juice put me straight to sleep.

I woke up screaming from a nightmare, screaming for Robin but he wouldn't be coming back to hold me. I looked over at his spot and immediately ran to the bathroom, grabbing his spare cologne he kept here.

I sprayed some on me, trying not to lose it as the familiar scent hit my nose. I slid down next to the tub, just wanting him with me more than anything. There was a knock on my door and I felt anger rush through me when I remembered my mother practically drugged me to sleep last night.

I yanked the door open, but was shocked to see Gwen and Finn. Finn looked like he wasn't getting much sleep but Gwen gasped when she saw me. She immediately hugged me and led to sit down.

"The school wants to plan services for him. An assembly memorial." Finn said and I shook my head, anything to make it seem they care. They didn't care, not one of them had helped in the searches for my boyfriend.

"I want to apologize to you." Finn said, his voice breaking and I looked at him in confusion, "If I hadn't let him go alone, he would still be here. I should have just gone with him or told him to forget snacks. I should've-"

I cut him off by throwing my arms around him so he could cry in my shoulder. "It was never your fault, Finn. Only one to blame is whoever took him from us."

I let him go and Gwen looked close to tears. "I love God. Followed him a lot, but I'm so so mad at him right now." I wiped my eyes, "It's like every day I'm alive but I'm not here. I just want him back."

"He loved you, Elena. A lot. More than anything." Finn said with confidence and that made me tear up again. "He tried so hard playing those games to win those bracelets. I grew up with him and trust me, you were his favorite person on this earth."

"He was mine." I sniffled as I still smelled his cologne. "Everyone thinks he's gone. I refuse to believe it."

"Elena," Gwen said with a sad frown, "He is gone. The boys that are taken, they don't make it back. Whoever took him wouldn't let him go in fear of being told on. Most likely Robin tried fighting and-"

"Stop." It came out harsher than I intended but I didn't want to hear everyone around me tell me that my boyfriend was dead. "Please just stop."

"Please promise us you'll start eating and sleeping more. His heart would break if he saw you in this condition." Finn begged and I nodded. The siblings got up, but before they left, Finn put a paper on my nightstand as they made their way out.

I walked over to it, grabbing a note that had the boys hand writing on it.

That new girl, gorgeous. She's mine. I call dibs

You just met her Robin. What if she's not into you

Then I make it my life's mission to make her mine. Duh, dipshit.

She is pretty, but hasn't Stacy liked you since third grade?

Who the hell cares about her when I have MET my future wife! Elena will be mine and I'll be the luckiest SOB alive.

You're so whipped and all she said was her name. WOW.

I smiled at Robin's thoughts on his first time meeting me. God, I loved him so much. I still do.