𝐍𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐈 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 [𓊕]

...𝘚𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘺 |6|

ᵂᵒʳᵈ ᶜᵒᵘⁿᵗ 871

˚₊‧꒰ა ☆ ໒꒱ ‧₊˚

'You can't change someone who doesn't see an issue in their actions'

Arriving at the mall Kephla, Najya, Eleanor, Fabiola and I started combing out the entire premises looking for Isa in pairs, the picture that Kephla showed us didn't have a clear view of the store so all we could do was look for things that were similar to the picture hoping to find Isabelle.

"Najya and Kephla will take the south side of the mall while Eleanor and Fabiola take the east side, I will be wandering around asking people if they have seen Isabelle, we will meet up again at the fountain on the third floor in a hour and if you find Isa call everyone immediately with your location!" As everybody nodded and started to spread out I walked towards the escalator making my way to the fifth floor so I could work my way down.

'Where would I go if I were Isa?' First was the convenience store, whenever she was going through something she would stop by a convenience store to buy her favorite instant ramen. She might look like your typical bitchy rich girl but she is as sweet as a white chocolate macadamia cookie.

Entering the store I walked straight to the check out counter asking to speak to a manager. "How can I help you, Karen?" "Karen?" I was a bit offended that the first impression someone had of me when I asked for a manager was to call me a Karen. As I spoke to the manager I showed her a picture of Isabelle hoping that maybe she spotted her around when looking over the camera footage.

Sadly neither did I get access to the camera footage but she also didn't find Isabelle on the footage coming here. Sighing I thanked her and continued on with my search to find Isa. About 20 minutes passed by as I was trying to think like Isabelle, I currently got to the third floor and started to speedrun the stores so I could at least get to the second floor.

Before I could make it to the final store my phone rang, searching my bag I grabbed it and answered it.

"Hey Le- We found her at YoYo on the fourth floor, not the YoYo at the beginning but the one that's close to the sample booth in front of the Asian grocery store!" Sighing in relief I thanked Fabiola and hung up the phone before rushing to the fourth floor.

Huffing like I participated in a marathon I noticed Isa's ginger hair and Kephla's jet black braids. Walking over to them I noticed Jake standing in front of Isabelle. "I never liked you, Isa." Kephla walked away just as the crew and I were getting closer to them, I ran towards Isabelle and hugged her tightly. "Whoa!!!" Isabelle smiled at me as she hugged me back "Leo did you miss me that much?" "Ofcourse I did!!" Pulling away I crossed my arms and looked at her "How could I not miss you after you disappeared for like A full 24 hours?!"

Isa looked baffled as she turned around and faced Jake "Didn't you give the note to Jaimé?" Jake shook his head as he searched his pockets. "I don't even have the note, you told me you gave it to Jaimé." Now it was Isabelle's turn to search her pockets and her bag, pulling out a piece of paper she handed it to me and asked me to read it as she kept searching in her bag.

'REMINDER: GIVE NOTE TO JAIMÉ'

"Isa this is a reminder to give the note to Jaimé." Pulling out her whole notepad she skimmed through it as she ran her hand through her hair. "Well long story short, I dropped my phone in the bathtub yesterday when I was doing my coco mocha latte exfoliation ice mask triple moisturizer violet scented deep cleaning fa-" "She dropped her phone in the bathtub, came to me because you guys were asleep and she didn't want to ask you for a new phone then she forgot to tell you about it and she wrote you a note but didn't want to wake you but Ofcourse she forgot to give it to Jaimé." Jake chimed in as he sat down on a bench with a frozen yogurt in his hand.

"On another note what was Kephla doing here? Didn't she get like expelled from our previous school?" Isabelle sat next to Jake as she put everything back in her bag "Expelled?" Almost forgetting that Fabiola Eleanor and Najya were there I turned towards them and sat them down as we talked about what happened at our previous school and why Kephla and Isabelle were on bad terms.

After telling the story we all ate some frozen yogurt and told some jokes, from the corner of my eye I noticed that Isabelle was smiling, a genuine smile. It was the first time I ever saw her this happy since we came here, I'm glad we found her and I'm sure that Jaimé would love to see her too.

'Your desire to remain as you are is what ultimately limits you'