Case Of The Grey Eyes

|Chapter 17|

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"So what did you find?" I asked Wally when we got back to the computer.

Wally takes his seat back in front of it, moving a bit so he's not fully covering the screen.

"So, I couldn't find any of their social media accounts, it's like they didn't want their life out there. Not even to document being parents, birthdays, work things, nothing!" He exclaims huffing.

"But what I did find was some people, two to be exact, that seem like they know them. I looked at the files and it did say that your other family members reported you missing. At the very least they would want to see you."

He says pointing at the screen of the person he had pulled up. It was a man, probably around the age of the librarian, maybe a little older. He had dark brownish hair, with stubble on his chin to match, and grey eyes...

"Did you find out how I'm related to him?" I ask, never taking my eyes off the screen.

"No, not yet. But he lives in town. We could try to find and ask him if you want?"

"Yeah. Might as well. Who was the other?"

"I can tell you on the way I'm already printing everything out. We can go ahead now though."

"... I don't know about this anymore Wally, I mean what if he doesn't know me it's gonna be super awkward." I tell him as we are standing outside of some strangers door who might not even know me.

"Too late!" He exclaims ringing the doorbell. I swear I never punched Wally so hard before.

"Ow!"

The door opens and there is a small child standing there, she couldn't have been older than 8 or 9. "Hello! Do you need to talk to my dad? I'll go get him!" She talks fast before running off and pushing the door slightly more open.

Seconds later she's running back towards us dragging the man in the photo right behind her. It was kind of funny watching as he struggled to keep up with her, slightly bending over to match her height. When they got to the door he was finally able to fix himself and stand upright to talk to us.

"Do you need something?" He asked, putting his hands on the little girl's shoulders, turning her and pushing her into the house.

"Okay this is gonna sound crazy, but... This is Zane Solis... His family reported him missing a few years ago and we think, maybe a little, that you're related."

Wally had no idea how badly I wanted to turn and just walk away. But a part of me is also happy that I asked him to come with me, I think if I had gotten this far on my own I would have already been back at the mountain with no answers and back to the way I was, waiting for the others.

The man sighed." Come on in." He pushed open the door and stepped aside, motioning for us to follow. I give Wally a look and he just shrugs and drags me into the house and closes the door.

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"My name is Matthew by the way, or Matt Solis."

"Thank goodness." I say accidently out loud.

"Huh?"

"Um, I didn't mean to say that out loud, I'm just happy that you didn't slam the door in our faces." He chuckles a bit before looking serious again.

"You know, a part of me is happy too. My Mom and Dad, erm, your Aunt and Uncle, were the ones who were looking for you. I had only met you a handful of times, and your parents had you really late in their lives. So I was already graduating and doing my own things."

"How old were they?" I asked.

"Let's see... I was 18 when they had you, so your parents would have been in their mid to late 30s? Hell, they're probably the age for grandkids right now."

"Probably?" Wally questions. We all sat around in the living room. I was sitting on the same sofa next to Matt, and Wally was sitting on a beanbag on the floor, most likely belonging to Matt's daughter.

"They haven't really "socialized" with anyone since Zane disappeared. They all but vanished, they won't even return their own family calls on the off chance someone does reach out."

"So they just cut everyone out after that?" I asked.

"To be fair, they didn't cut us out first, we cut them out first. They were perfectly normal and then one day you vanish without trace, and they say nothing. It took two weeks before anyone noticed, and the first people we blamed were your parents, they didn't even report you missing. Instead their priority was adopting some kid into their family instead of looking for the one they already had, their own blood." He says, his voice raising in volume at the end before he starts to calm himself down.

I hadn't even really thought about how my family would have reacted to me disappearing, how they would've been affected.

"You didn't have to tell me if it was still a touchy subject."

"Heh. Of all people I think you should know. Everyone was heartbroken, after a year or two and we heard nothing, but we never stopped looking, hell last week my Mom called asking if anything came up... What happened Zane?" I give him a dry fake laugh before finding interest in my fingers, and fidgeting with them.

"Um, good question, I don't truly even know. Bits and pieces of my memories are still there, but a good chunk of it was gone. Even my time at Cadmus is kind of, faded." I say, my voice becoming quieter at my last sentence.

"The only people that know what happened are his parents, and we're trying to find them."

"I can give you the address." He says getting up. " Last time anyone checked they still stayed in the same house."

"That won't be necessary Matt, in fact we've been looking for Zane, for them. Although I will say it's nice to see two pairs of those pretty eyes. Thank you for the help by the way." We turned to the voice to see the Mist guy accompanied by someone new, a woman with tan skin, green eyes, and red hair, and the one who spoke, was holding the wrist of Matt's daughter.

"Let's talk shall we."

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[ Almost 5k reads! YOU GUYS ARE INSANE!]

[Also the story is starting to get to the main plot so, I think I'm gonna finish it out and then do a bunch of filler stuff, like relationships, both platonic and romantic, and figure out what to do for the second book]

[If you want some filler stuff mixed in with it just let me know and i'll try to add some. (FYI I already picked out who he's gonna be with, but who knows maybe he'll be poly??? ƪ(˘⌣˘)ʃ )]

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[Sorry if chapters come out late or don't at all, I got into streaming and other stuff to try and make money so I can move and get my own life started somewhere else, so I'm gonna be more involved with that but still writing DON'T WORRY!]