Secret Admirer | Hosie {finished}

25. The rescue

The twins along with Hope ran out of the tent and were quick to find their father sitting at the office to ask him for help.

"Dad! We need your help. Sebastian has been left behind and he's in danger we need to go and find him!!" Lizzie said with one breath.

"Wait a minute, hold up. You're telling me one of the campers was left behind? I am pretty sure everyone was accounted for when you came back. How is this possible?"

"Yeah, the thing is a lot went on and it was agreed that he would return on foot by himself. I'm sure Jed didn't tell any adults and we all kinda went quiet about this."

"You can't be serious.." Alaric pushed his hands down at the desk looking at one of the maps that was laying across the table, he wasn't familiar with the location but someone else was. Hope pointed a finger at the map and took a wild guess of where Sebastian could be drawing out a trail along the paper with her finger.

"This is our best chance at finding him. If he's not there we can separate and look for him around that area. It's been almost eight hours which means he should have reached the first point."

"Hope, it is getting dark outside. There is no way I'm letting you go back to the forest by yourselves especially when this is somebody else's fault."

"Then why don't you come with us. Your daughter will certainly thank you for this."

"Please dad..."

Hope suggested with an arrogant smile and Alaric agreed shortly after Lizzie gave him her begging eyes. They took some supplies along with a few protective weapons in case they encountered any wild animals scattering around in the night and hopped in one of the jeeps secretly, Alaric and Hope sitting at the front and the twins at the back.

Hope held the map in her hands and guided them in the right direction and the girls were on the look out for Sebastian. After looking around for two hours, they finally saw a beam of light that looked like a flashlight but they couldn't make out who was holding it in the dark. They stopped the car, and the twins got out carefully with their dad shouting from the car.

"Girls be careful! We don't know who it is!"

"Don't worry, I've got it."

Hope jumped out of the car, holding a dagger and tried to catch up with the girls, keeping on Josie's side and swinging the weapon in her hands, ready to attack whoever that man was.

"Liz-- is that you.."

"Oh god, Sebastian!! We found him guys."

"I can't believe you actually came to rescue me."

"It was Hope's idea. My dad is here too. They don't know that we left you behind."

"I thought you'd never find me."

The blonde ran towards the boy and jumped on him giving him the biggest hug and everyone was finally relieved to have found him, especially their dad who was the only adult out of everyone who knew about their situation and felt morally responsible for the boy.

"Looks like they'll get to live their fairytale after all.."

Hope said while side eyeing Josie who got the pun and was not exactly happy about it.

"Anyway, thanks for today..you've been more than helpful with my sister and I appreciate that."

"Well, she doesn't call me devil anymore so we are even."

"Right.."

Hope walked back to the jeep and Josie smiled slightly at her comment, soon everyone was back in the car and Alaric drove them back to the camp. The twins and Sebastian separated as it was curfew time but Hope stayed behind to talk to Alaric.