Never Let Go

Chapter 6: A Starry Night

A/N: This is the last major time jump!

May 15th

Max's POV

"Thank you and have a nice day!" the lady says handing me my cup of coffee. "You too," I say smiling as I walk to the lounge area where Patrick and Maarten was sitting. I sit down on a chair next to Patrick as he begins to type on his computer. We all are still trying to recover from Holly's death. "Babe?" Patrick says. "Yes?" I respond back, taking another sip of my coffee. "Can you message the office and tell them they can leave whenever they want? I want to do something with you later tonight," Patrick says looking away from the computer, smiling at me. "Uh, sure," I say curiously. Patrick has been overly obsessed with tracking down Ander. "You do know he is gone, right? It's been a month and I don't think he is coming back," Maarten says, playing with the lid of his coffee. "No. He is going to try and target one of us next. He won't stop til he gets Max!" Patrick says, "but that's not what I'm doing right now!" I lean over to look at his computer but Patrick notices me peeking and immediately closes the computer. "I'm going to go home. I'll be at your house later," Patrick says, getting up and kissing me. I watch Patrick as he leaves the local coffee shop. "That was weird!" Maarten says, taking the interest off of the coffee cup lid to me. "What you mean?" I ask. "He obviously doesn't want you to see what he was doing," Maarten says. "So. Maybe it's private business," I say. "I'm just saying. Do you trust Patrick enough?" Maarten says getting up, as he leaves me with my thoughts. I take a sip of my coffee as I get my phone out and message Patrick. "Hey Patrick?" I sit in the chair and wait for a response. I continue to wait as I wait as I wait and before I knew it a hour had passed and no response. "Could Patrick be hiding something from me?" I whisper to myself.

Patrick's POV

"I'm going to go home. I'll be at your house later," I say getting up and kissing Max. I feel him watching me as I leave NewTown Cafe, which is a local coffee shop. A few minutes after leaving I get a message. "Hey Patrick?" Max texted me. I go to respond but someone pulls up by me and rolls down the window. "Patrick," I hear a guy whisper. I lean down to see the male I have been working with. I get in the car as he drives off. "Did you find him?" I ask. "No," the guy says ashamed. I look down at my phone and delete the message I was going to send to Max and turn off my phone. I look up at him to see him glaring at me. "Chris.... don't worry, we'll find him. I want to thank you for helping me out with this. But no matter what you do, you CAN'T tell Max. He'll be devastated," I say. "Okay. Let's go to the house," Chris says in a more calm tone.

Tiara's POV

I sit in my office and begin to record with Fred, Marie, and Kooper. "Hello girls and guys, my name is PrettyGirl_TT and I'm here playing Capture The Flag on Minecraft with Fred, Marie, and Kooper," I say as I get interrupted with Kooper saying a sarcastic comment. After I finished the video I began to walk around. We have a few new people, some who keep to themselves. There is me, Maarten, Fred, Kooper, Andrew, Quin, and Nick. Patrick has began to work on expanding the office as he has a few more people joining the offices. I walk into Marie's office to see her messing around on Minecraft. "Hey, umm...," I say. Ever since I got to the offices, I have had a crush on Marie and I feel like it's time to confess it to her. "Uh. Hi there Tiara," Marie says with a shade of pink in her cheek. "I came here to tell you something!" I say, trying not to stutter. "Yeah, what's up!?" Marie asks, turning all her focus on to me. I sit down on a chair next to her. "Ever since I've been here... I've had my eyes set on someone and I don't know what they think about me," I say looking down at my hands. "Who?" Marie asks. My heart begins to race as I feel sweat run down my face. "Y-You," I say. Marie's face brightens as she begins to smile. She leans close to my face. "It's okay. I like you too," Marie says. I look up at her face to be greeted by a kiss. She puts her hand on my face as we make out. I begin to feel Marie's other hand touch mine and soon our fingers intertwined.