Wanted Is Love [BoyxBoy]

Chapter 41

A bright light. It was almost blinding. Not blinding enough though. I could still see by adjusting my positioning. I looked over to the window where the bright light was emanating from. It was morning. I had already been awake though. Staring. Staring at the ceiling while some mainstream song blasted from my iPod radio. I decided to finally sit up. My eyes were covered by my left hand as I started towards the window to close the curtains. Once the light was contained, I turned to the speakers.

Blaring from them was some new Kelly Clarkson song. I had already listened to enough of these songs to recognize the voices. I went to the foreign iPod and paused the song. A song by The Veronicas started playing as I pushed the button. They were already one of my favorites from his iPod. I listened to the one Demi chick as well. She was good too. I also listened to a lot more of P!nk’s songs and this one country artist Carrie Underwood. Who knew mainstream music could be okay?

I stood in front of the speakers for a second. Staring. This time at the iPod. One of the few things I had of his. It had been a little over two weeks. This was the last week before winter break and before the dance Friday night. I definitely wasn’t going. Nobody was. Nobody was doing anything. They did nothing! They weren’t helping at all. My friends would try their best to comfort me. They would try to be understanding, but they didn’t understand. No one did.

A lot of people think that Natalia could be bluffing. She wasn’t. She couldn’t have been. It all makes sense. The day Alec went missing, she was convicted or sent to the crazy house. Whichever. She did something bad. And if it meant hurting me, then she would be fine with owning up to it and with taking whatever punishment she had to endure. Whenever I thought of Natalia, which was a lot recently, I couldn’t help but think of Zach as well. I had a feeling that he could know something; also I haven’t heard from or seen him in a while. Something was up with him. I decided to text him again. I was pretty sure he wouldn’t answer though.

Me: Hey Zach. How have you been?

There were absolutely no signs of Alec at all. Nobody had seen him anywhere. He was never online. His car was missing in action and his phone was off and out of range which really confused me. Anytime one of us would try and call him, it would go to his voicemail. His family though, tried to track the phone and they couldn’t because it was apparently non-existent or out of service or something. There was no way to find him. This is another thing that leads me to believe that Natalia is the ring leader of all of this. She could easily have paid her tech nerds to tamper with the phone to make it untraceable. The only thing I really wonder about is what she did with the car. I can’t think of any way for her to dispose of it without other people seeing.

We tried looking for Alec every day. Amy and I surveyed all of his obvious spots. His parents and Chance checked in the areas near the end of town and we had the rest of our friends check everywhere else. This bitch was good. Where could she have hid him? What could she have done to him? Those questions were left unanswered since nobody was allowed to see Natalia yet. She was still under very heavy watch since she had almost escaped twice. I thought she was stupid and only faked smart. I guess that wasn’t the case.

Nothing made sense anymore. I decided to forget about it. Or at least try to. It was physically impossible to do this actually. I had tried every day for the past two weeks. Alec just popped up in my head every second. The only good… well, not good, but it’s good that I can sort of share my sorrows with someone. This whole thing messed Chance up a lot. His family and I have been in constant contact because we were the ones that cared most about him.

It was nice to be at home though. I was going to stay with them, until this happened. Also, since my mother pretty much kicked my dad out, I would eventually move here. Since Alec went missing though, I was back at home. I had all of my stuff back and I even asked if I could have his iPod. I felt like I needed it. I felt like it was the last thing to fully connect me with him. I was probably going back their soon. They said I could, if something happens with my father. It has been two weeks and I could feel that he was going to make an appearance soon enough.