Love & Reason Keep Little Company (Freen x Becky)

Chapter 22

Outside the diner, Irin, Nam and Noey gathered with the girls. Engfa paced back and forth, trying to get through to her mom, while Irin and Nam held Freen, who was close to losing her mind with worry.

Engfa finally got through to her mom and began explaining how Becky was missing after last being seen going after Seng.

"Neither of them are answering their phones, and we found her shoe in the parking lot, Mom-"

"I'm coming right over." Said Michelle, her voice taking on the authoritative tone that came with being the elected sheriff. "I'll send deputies to both their houses. It's going to be okay na. You and your friends just wait for me at the diner."

Engfa hung up the phone and relayed her orders to the others. Freen, eyes red and puffy from crying, shook her head.

"We can't just stand around here and do nothing! What if- What if he's hurting her?"

She knew Seng better than anyone else there. He was unpredictable at the best of times. To have finally snapped like this... Freen didn't want to imagine what he was capable of.

"Freen's right." Nam agreed, her arms wrapped around her shoulders. "He's dangerous. We need to find him, and nong Becky."

"Maybe there is something we can do." Said Irin. She and Noey stood huddled over her phone. "There!" She announced with a triumphant grin, revealing a map with a moving blue dot on her screen.

"The app! Shit, Ririn, you're a genius!" Engfa's eyes lit up.

"App?" Freen frowned. "How is an app going to help us find Becky?"

"It's 'Find My Friend'. It tracks a phone's location through their GPS. We downloaded it to Becky's phone, because she's always running late. It lets us know where she is."

"She's moving." Nam pointed at the screen. "Or her phone is at least."

"What are we waiting for?" Freen demanded, while Engfa got back on the phone to her mom to update her.

"The sheriff." Irin answered, like it should have been obvious. "I get that you're worried, we all are, but we can't go charging after them. What if P'Seng sees you and freaks out? It could push him to do something to her..." Irin made a lot of sense, but that didn't mean Freen had to like it.

She walked away from the group, her hands at the back of her head and elbows locked as she wracked her brain for a plan. Irin had driven them there. Freen had no way to go after them. Even if she did, Irin wasn't about to hand over her phone, and Becky's location.

She took out her own phone in a last ditch effort to contact Seng. She'd already tried twice, and both times he'd let her call go to voicemail. Freen cursed as the same thing happened again. She closed her eyes, trying to focus on just breathing as she felt like her chest was about to explode.

"Seng, I swear to god if you hurt her... I will never forgive you! I will hunt you down and end you! Do you hear me?!" She growled into the phone.

Out of the corner of her eye, she caught sight of Charlotte hovering behind her.

"I don't need you judging me." She snapped at the other girl. "Becky is missing and I can't stand around doing nothing!"

Charlotte winced, holding her hands up in mock surrender. She glanced over her shoulder to see if any of the others were paying them any attention. They weren't.

"I agree. That's why I wanted to show you this." She handed her phone over to Freen, the 'Find My Friend' app up on the screen and showing the same blue dot that represented Becky's phone moving steadily towards the other side of town.