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Chapter 25: Scared

"Good morning, Ace." Talia said, grabbing her phone from the night stand next to her. "Ace...?" Talia said, knowing Ace always responses with 'Good morning, Talia.' even if she's half asleep. Talia usually wakes her up. 

Talia sat up, looking over at the bed three feet away from hers. Ace wasn't in her bed, sleeping or on her phone. "WHAT THE HECK!?" Talia screamed, before seeing Ace's suitcase open- with one beanie missing.

Talia started to freak out. She knew Ace was upset, but why would she leave? It was unlike her. Did something get into Ace?

Talia was about to cry, she was thinking something was done to Ace. Her mood changed last night completely. She knew that Ace was a little depressed, ever since she was fourteen.

Talia was Ace's first friend. They been friend ever since they were ten. Talia never saw Ace sad, or mad. Ace was always a happy, loving soul. She tried everything she could to make people happy, but behind closed doors Ace did everything she could to make herself happy, but nothing worked.

And that's when, Talia introduced Ace to YouTube. They were both thirteen at the time, and after school they would go over to Talia's house and watch videos and do their homework together. Ace didn't have internet at her house, and she didn't want to be rude and invite herself over to Talia's.

But, a month after they discovered YouTube, Ace's parents started to fight. It would start up always when they were eating, and Ace would go to her room and take her food with her. Then, her parents didn't take it out of themselves, they took it out on Ace.

On top of that, Ace was slightly bullied for her acne, and that she wasn't the skinniest girl in the school. Now Ace wasn't that large, but she started to stress eat.  

She would call Talia everyday, to go somewhere. The mall, park, the small café down the street, anywhere far from her house.

Talia knew something was up when for the tenth time in a row, Ace asked if she wanted to go to the park or do homework. So she asked, and Ace had a breakdown, telling Talia what was happening. Ace told Talia that her dream was to make people happy, and not make them down.

Ace was living her dream. She was making a tons of people happy. She still had a little anxiety, little depression, and sleeping problems -doesn't everyone has that, though?-, but that didn't stop her from what she was doing what she loved.  

Talia ran out of her bed, straight to the bathroom. She went though all of Ace's stuff, and found her sleeping pills. Talia let out a deep breath, relieved that they were not even opened.

 But, where could she be? Ace would have told her, because she knows that Talia freaks out.

"KIAN!!" Talia screamed at the top of her lungs, banging her hand against the boy's door. "SAM!!" She screamed once again, hoping that she would wake up the boys. "GUYS!!!" She yelled, before the door opened to a sleepy Kian.

"Good morning," Kian said, giving her  weak smile. "Do you know where Ace is?!" Talia asked, almost shaking. "No...?" Kian said, almost like a question. "Of course you haven't, nobody has, of course." Talia said, pacing in the hallway.

"Wait, she's not sleeping?" Kian said, still half asleep. "Kian, she wasn't in the room when I woke up! I don't know where she is!" Talia said, stopping in from of Kian. Now he was fully awake. "What?! Wait, do you think she...?" Kian gasped.

"No, she couldn't of. All her pill's aren't even open." Talia told him, pushing her hair back. "But do you still think she would of went overboard?" Kian asked, as Talia sighed. "Kian," She said, as he shut the door.