Daddy Hemmings

Chapter 21

I watched as their expressions changed.

"What's this supposed to mean?" Ashton shouted.

"Calm down, we just have to focus on finding her okay?" I spoke calm trying to get him to do the same.

No such luck.

"Calm? We shouldn't be calm, she's gone! She's gone Michael! She could have done something to herself" This made Luke practically sob at my feet. "Or worse yet she could've been sold or kidnapped or something".

"She's gone?" Cal looked down with tears in his eyes.

"Yea and ya know what lover boy? This is all your fault, she's gone because of you" Ashton shouted at him causing the tears to gently flow from Cal's eyes.

"Hey" I interjected.

"I bet she didn't even like you, she just took pitty on your little poor me face" He continued.

"Hey" I raised my voice a little more.

"I swear if her little heart isn't still beating the next time I see her, you better run boy" Anger surged through his eyes.

"Shut up" I shouted as loud as I could. Everyone was silent. "Thank you. Now you guys should be ashamed of yourself. This is nobody's fault. The stress was getting to everybody which meant that some irrational decisions were made but you know what? They happened. We're in a mess. Life sucks right now. But you know what? We could either sit here and argue, or we could try to fix things, or at least work on it. We could start by finding her and then sort you 2 out. Got it?" I fumed sighing afterwards.

"Whatever, there's a fault to every problem though" Ashton glared at Cal.

"Nope. With that attitude, you're staying here. The last thing we need is for you to be going off at some innocent bystander walking past.

He just gave me a look before retreating back to his room slamming the door behind him.

"Alright guys lets go find her" I spoke with a slight bit of fear laced in my voice.

What if we couldn't find her?

No...We will find her.

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We'd been walking around the neighbourhood trying to find her for hours.

The wind was icy trying to bite us and hold us back.

Pushing ahead we wandered aimlessly clueless to where she may have gone.

"If I was her where would I go" I whispered.

"Somewhere beautiful" Cal spoke first.

"Somewhere fun" I added.

"Somewhere for only me" Luke trailed off.

We all knew he was right. But how to find this beautiful, fun place where only she'd go was beyond me.

We continued to walk further and further away..our hope slowly fading.

Ashley's POV

Shivering as the wind whipped at my hair I pulled my jacket on a little tighter.

The bus had been a warm comfort that I grew to miss the further I got away from it.

The city lights far behind me shimmered as the afternoon grew to evening, and the evening grew into the night.

I was sad...I missed them like crazy.

But it was too late to turn back, plus it was for the best.