Far Too Young to Date a Teacher

Chapter 29

Millie's POV

School is such a freaking waste of time. I will never need to use stuff like who won this war? Or what special chemical turns this liquid pink? They never prepare you for life's real issues such as what do you do when your two best friends disappear off the face of the earth. Now Billie is gone I am constantly remembering the last time I saw him. The startled look on his face when I told him I didn't like him the way he liked me. How I left him stranded in his living room without even saying goodbye. Guilt washed over me, had I led him to disappear? The scary thing was, I wasn't sure about what I said anymore, that I didn't have feelings for him other than friendship. I'd missed his hugs and our laughs, the movie nights; jeez even his constant fiddling with his hair.

And I missed being able to tell Bronty all of this. Boy trouble, tv show trouble, celebrity trouble, family troubles etc etc. We told each other everything no matter how embarrassing it may be. I have had text messages from both her family and Billie's family asking where they are. I've given them the same response as I have given everyone else. I don't know.

Nonetheless, I am going to school, but not before I go to the police station. I don't care what Mikey says. I will 'waste' the polices' time if it means my friends will be home safe, with or without him. I changed into my usual clothes and pulled a baggy sweater over my shoulders. Winter was clearly on the way. I had breakfast and made my way towards town. School started in an hour, plenty of time to get to the station and inform them on two missing people. I heard footsteps behind me but ignored them I didn't want to make a scene at this time in the morning.

"Millie, where are you going?" Mikey was making his way down the street, hands tucked into his pockets he shivered at the cool breeze.

"Why do you care? I didn't think you cared about anything but the 'polices' time." I scoffed and carried on walking.

"I didn't want you to waste the polices time. Because I know where they are." I stopped dead in my tracks.

"You, you what?" I stuttered.

" I know where they are." he walked closer to me and took my ice cold hands, a sigh of relief escaped my mouth.

"Where are they then?" His gaze changed from my eyes to my lips and back again.

"Well, I don't know exactly where. But they're together. I didn't want to tell you because I knew how confused you would be, and they said they'd only be a few days but I didn't realise they'd be gone this long." He smiled down at me, my reply,

"What do you mean, together?" He released my hands and scratched the back of his neck awkwardly. I suddenly realised what he was talking about. My heart dropped, and my eyes blurred. I felt betrayed, stupid and angry but not just with my friends. "I- uhm- need to go." A single tear escaped my eyes and I turned to run away.

"Wait, don't go! I need to ask you something."

"No Mikey. I need to ask you something." he nodded for me to continue. "HOW LONG HAVE YOU KNOWN? THEY'VE BEEN GONE WEEKS, I'VE BEEN OUT OF MY FREAKING MIND AND YOU DIDNT TELL ME. HOW COULD YOU?"

"I didn't want to hurt you! It wasn't my place to tell you!" he pleaded, his eyes begging mine to let me believe him. I shook my head and ran away from him. Tears streamed down my face with anger from so much trust that had been broken, I rounded a corner and sunk to the floor calling the only person left who I could talk to. Evan.

Mr Sumpter's POV

Okay this is going to seem really weird. And you're probably thinking 'What the fuck are you doing Jezza? Listening to a couple of teens having a disagreement over something' well I'm actually a private detective hired by Donna and Donald. You see, 2 years ago Gerard and Billie were having troubles in school. Gerard with his musical dreams and Mikey with a girl in the year below him. Their relationship was built on his controlling, possessive and stalkerish behaviour and eventually the police became involved.

They gave the Way family 2 weeks to decide whether they were going to move far away from the town or send Mikey to some place to help him. They of course chose to move away and they came here. Donald noticed a relationship looking like it was going to build between his son and their new neighbour, Millie, and wanted someone to keep an eye on things, so here I am. What I didn't expect was for two teenagers to go missing. The only information I have on this is what I'm finding out right now, listening to their conversation. And based on the general things I've picked up on in their school with me being a teacher, I'm finding it hard to believe his story on how the two ran away together. No matter how believable his tale may seem.

You're probably wondering how I knew where they were? A tracking device on Mikeys phone led me to him and I thought it was a tad suspicious that he was walking through the streets at 6am on a school morning. Then I find he's followed Millie here, he is behaving the same as he did 2 years ago. Knowing that he would head straight to school after this meeting I turned in the opposite direction and headed towards the Way house.