𝐇𝐈𝐌 & 𝐈, robin arellano.

𝒙𝒊𝒗. fourteen

༺❦༻

❝ where have you BEEN?
do you know when you're
coming BACK? ! ❞

reflections, the neighbourhood.

"WHAT THE FUCK-?!" jaelin exclaimed as she turned around to face her living room that had a board up with different papers, maps and string lines spread across it. max was studying it as jaelin noticed the coke lines on the living room table.

max turned around and smiled widely, "like what you see? i'm so close to figuring out where the missing boys are, but i just can't seem to grasp it."

maybe it's because your mind's not even in this universe. she scoffed, walking cautiously towards the boards to take a closer look.

"do you work with the detectives?" she asked him, letting her eyes wonder towards the maps and pins at different locations.

"yes..and no. kinda- just, ugh, if only i had my friend bill's projector, i could line up the map with the different locations. this would be way easier than using strings."

her eyes followed all the pins and strings, each leading to a precise location. under each pin, was also a picture of the missing boys.

vance's picture at a random street near the grab n go, griffin's picture on a street near school and lastly, billy's picture, just a couple ways down on this street.

their pictures were enough to make her heart ache. also the fact that she wasn't doing enough or even attempting to try and find them herself made her ashamed and feel useless.

she remembered walking into the grab n go, walking up to the pinball machine by habit, but frowning once she saw it unoccupied. she used to sneak quarters on his machine without him knowing so he could play longer.

she remembered that for a while she couldn't walk down her street, or the street where griffin went missing. the atmosphere and tragedy it held made her shudder at the mere thought of walking even near there.

however, she was still intrigued. she took a step closer and grazed her fingertips over the map, seeing x's and circles on places near the 3 boys' pins.

"what do these mean?"

"well the x's are places that i, or the police, have looked and checked. the circles are potential places that are near all the three disappearance spots." max answered for her and went to sit back on the couch.

she heard him breathing in and immediately knew what he was doing without having to turn around. she grimaced at the fact that her mother let a coke user into her house. or maybe she didn't know.

she scanned over the board again as an idea clicked into her head, "hey max, you don't mind if i make notes of this do you?"

she turned around and saw him with a dazed look, sat back on the couch. he waved her off, "go ahead.." he trailed off before shutting his eyes closed and sighing.

she nodded once before leaving to get a pen and paper. when she went back, max was sound asleep on the couch. she rolled her eyes and made her way to the maps, copying down the addresses of the circled places.