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《Chapter 51》

"She's not anywhere in the house." Luke sighs, out of breath from running all over the house.

I've been thinking about the note that was sitting on their bed when we walked in a second ago.

My baby will not suffer

I brush my fingers over the soiled spots on the paper. Teardrops.

"We need to call her and look for her and..." Michael says, shuffling in and pacing the floor around their bed.

"Okay buddy okayokay." Luke says, patting his back.

"Let's load up in the truck and we'll call her while we drive around."

"Okay let's go." Mikey says abruptly, jumping up from the bed and running downstairs.

He took the stairs instead of the slide.

"Hey guys." I say into the kitchen where Cal, Gen, Candice, Ashley, Ashton, Dyl, and Alex were.

"We're gonna go drive around and look for Hope. You guys stay back in case she calls or comes back."

"I'M COMING!" Ashley shouts with a mouthful of Candice-made cereal. She quickly pulls her hair into a ponytail and slips on some of Hope's flip-flops. At least some of her things are still here.

"Let's go!" Michael shouts.

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"Hope, please answer, please answer, please answer." I mumble into the phone.

"Hello." Hope says from the other end of the phone line.

"HOPE OH MY GAWD WHERE ARe you?!" I shout.

"I- I'm not saying. I just wont be able to bear it if my baby has to suffer."

"Hope... please. Come home wherever you are. Please. We're all freaking out and we need you back."

Tears are forming in my eyes as I run my fingers through my hair.

"I'm sorry..." she says, and I hear the click, ending the conversation.

"Think Syd think." I mumble.

She doesn't want her baby to suffer.

"GUYS! Go to the Women's Health Center! NOW!" I shout.

Michael steps on the gas petal so hard that it jerks all of us back in our seats.

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"HOPE! HOPE HOPE!" We all yell, running into the lobby of the Health Center.

"Guys? GUYS!" someone yells from the waiting room.

"Hope." Michael whimpers, unsteadily running over to where Hope was standing there calling to us.

"Michael!" she cries, running to him.

I cover my mouth with my hand as they crash into a hug. He burries his face in her neck and she does the same to him.

"Take me away from here! I don't want to be here anymore!" she cries. Michael immediatley lifts her up bridal style and runs her out toward the truck.

When we meet them out at the truck Michael was collapsed in the gravel in front of the truck with Hope curled up in his arms. Mikey was rocking her back and forth as they both sobbed.

Luke, Ashley and I slowly walked over and gathered around them.

We all cried too.

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"Hope and Michael are upstairs sleeping." Cal says, plopping down next to Ashley and I on the couch. Ashton and Luke went out for a bit doing who knows what.

Hope nor Michael told us anything.

"Do we still have a baby or were we- were we to late?"