If You're Not The One - ZeRoyalMexican

The Call That Everyone Was Waiting For

Max's POV -Two days later.

I haven't really spoken to Ze since I told him I was sorry. Even though we're in the same room most of the time, we never really talked about 'us'. We just haven't been alone since Adam finally got out of the motel to look for Chilled. We've practically been over the town at least twice and I even went with  Lieutenant Masters to where they found Chilled's phone. It felt weird to be standing where he was seen last... Well where he could of been. But I'm taking Ze with me again today to have another look around so maybe we can be normal for once. I head on over to Adam who is slumped on the bed. He had a little meltdown last night. I've never seen someone upset this much. I can't blame him though, I'd probably be like that too if this happened to someone I loved. I get to the bed and sit down.

"Adam, we're going out and looking around the town, you wanna come?"

"He doesn't wanna be found... what's the point?" He replies bluntly.

His answer and tone made me instantly angry with him. "Adam, how could you say that?" Has he really given up? His meltdown last night has caused all this negativity.

"He's most likely not even in Oklahoma any more! This is stupid..."

"What the hell happened to wanting to find him and doing anything for him? You're the one who wanted to come all the way out here and now it's like you don't even care!" I raise my voice.

"I'm fucking scared Max! All I can think of is his dead body lying on the side of a road. I have this feeling in my gut that he's not alive any more. I don't want to go looking for a dead body. I want to see Chilled alive! I'm losing hope every hour that goes by. Stuff like this never happens, why is it happening to us?!" He yells back at me.

I can't believe he is saying all this. His eyes are so watery that I don't even know if he can even see out of them. Nothing he is saying is connecting up though. I need to calm down so he will, he can't be thinking of Chilled dead. I need him to be strong. "He's not dead. He can't be. Just because the last lead we had didn't turn out doesn't mean he's dead. I don't believe for a second he's trying not to be found. He got everything he wanted, why would he destroy it as soon as he got it? Besides he was going to visit his family member. None of what you're saying is making any sense. He went to visit his Nan and he got left behind. How is that him trying to make himself disappear?"

"Why would he get rid of his phone though?! This whole thing is doing my head in. So many things don't add up! He was halfway in telling me he loved me and then nothing. His phone all smashed up. No sight of him anywhere. His dad still hasn't seen him. If he's even alive, WHAT THE FUCK IS HE DOING?! The only think I can think of now is that he's gone. He's not here any more. I can't think about anything else..." Adam shoves his face into his pillow.

What can I do? He's going crazy... He's right about some of it though. Even if Chilled is alive, why is he hiding? Is he scared or something? I just don't know what to say... I sit my hand softly on Adam's back.

"Just don't think about him like that..." I softly say.

I hear a cough which makes me turn my body around. Ze's standing by the door ready to go. I get up off the bed and go over to him. He hands me my jacket, I slip my arms in the sleeve and he leans in to me.

"He's not coming then?"

I shake my head as I do up the buttons on my jacket. I gesture Ze to the door and open it for him to walk out. I follow his lead and shut the door behind me. It's very quiet between us but maybe it's cause he heard the conversation me and Adam just had. We end up in the town square again giving everyone who walked passed us a sign of a missing person poster even stopping them to ask as well.