Every Moment (ZeRoyalMexican)

Part 45 - New Home

~Ze's POV~

"Elaine?" I call out in the apartment and receive absolutely no response. Calm down, Steven, she could just have her headphones on and probably has homework to do on her laptop or something stupid like that. Nothing bad ever happens here after all, we've lived a pretty much perfect like here, it's impossible they would have even figured out about Elaine anyways. Shoving the thoughts away and actually heading forward into the apartment and heading directly towards Elaine's room. The door is closed shut, silently releasing no noise but I know well that if Elaine isn't in her room she probably isn't in the house. Holding up my fist in front of the door I shut my eyes as I knock on the door, unconsciously also holding my breath in front of the door in anticipation of whatever responds me, or doesn't respond me.

The sounds of the knocks echo through the apartment and silently, the house stays completely silent. Immediately I throw my fist on the door violently, making sure if she's wearing her headphones that she would hear it and when I feel like my fist is coming close to bleeding I force the door open. Inside her lights are off, her curtains are shut closed allowing no light in the room at all, not even a gust blowing at the windows giving me hope she just snuck out or something like a real teenager would do. Slowly, I allow the door to glide back to its position and immediately dash through every single room in the apartment. Every single room is empty, unused as if Elaine was never here to begin with and that is the only thing that gives me hope: what if she just went out without telling me?

"Ze? So this is where you live, huh?" Galm's voice suddenly comes into the house, shocking me nearly to death with the sudden voice. Glancing over to the front door I realize I was too panicked to even close the door, leaving it open for whoever to come inside and take whatever. Seeing him enter with Tom holding what look like bags of leftovers it makes it obvious they left as soon as they could after seeing me leave. Sighing, I hold m hand over my eyes as I look away from them and towards the several rooms of the house, nothing but Elaine on my mind. What the hell could she be doing, after all? She could have left, it's true but she also could have been... no it would be messy in the apartment if she was... murdered by the Hidden.

"So was the thing you had to do just standing around in here doing nothing?" Tom asks seeming amused but frowns when he sees my absolute panic, replaced with his eyebrows scrunching together in worry as he tries to understand why exactly I'm like this.

"There's... I have Hidden sensors set up around the house," I begin to explain causing them both to raise their eyebrows as I motion above us, recognizable to Tom since we have them all around the base. "One of them were set off when I was with you guys... which means... well I live with another girl here and she may be.... I don't know where she is," I stumble through my words, unsure what to say which would worry them the least but any way makes my anxiety and worry obvious. Both of them wait a moment before both immediately setting into action, Galm heading forward and going onto my laptop without a word asking for permission while Tom pulls his phone out, turning away from me as he begins to text people.

"What... what are you guys doing?" I demand, reaching out to Tom as if to pull away his phone but he just continues acting as if I'm not doing anything.

"Isn't it obvious? We're trying to help," Galm snaps, seeming irritated I'd even ask before he stops the furious typing as he backs away from the laptop. I blink before stepping forward and pushing him aside on the laptop. He had found something, a hidden file on my laptop which hadn't been there before I left this place. Tom also shows up behind us, peeking over to the screen over our shoulders as he joins in watching the video placed onto my laptop.