Back at the Dumping Ground (Rick Barber) |Book 2|

•Chapter 25: Where's Jeff?

•Chapter 25: Where's Jeff?

Sam's POV

*BANG*

I sit bolt upright at their sound to find that Tee had dropped her phone on the wooden floors.
She grins and says, "Sorry. It slipped from my hands". I waved my hand that it was fine and looked at the clock on the wall. It showed the time as 9:37am. Might as well get up.

It's Saturday and today I agreed to go on a date with Andre. He is taking me to bowling and then out for dinner. I'm kinda excited. I get out of bed and head towards my clothes. I pick out a pair of black high waisted ripped skinnys, a red shirt that said 'I don't trust me either' with a hand pointing up. I also picked out a pair of red boots. I quickly got changed and headed to the mirror. I cringed at my face. I put concealer on the required places, eyeliner and mascara. I finished by putting red lip balm on my lips. I decided to straighten my hair and when my hair is straight it reached down to the bottom of my back. I smile at my appearance and head downstairs. I walk into the kitchen to her a whistle.
"Look at you. Where you going?" Faith said from a stool she was sitting on. I grinned and said, "I have a date". She pulled a face and got up from the stool to put her cup in the sink, "Well. Have fun and make sure you tell me about it after you come back". I nodded at her before getting a drink myself.

I stood leaning on the back of a chair drinking some orange juice when Rick walked in. He stopped for a second, looked at me and continued to walk. He nodded in my direction and I nodded back. He's been quite quiet recently and don't know why. I was pulled out my thoughts when the doorbell rang. I put my cup down and heading towards the door as it should be Andre. As I get in the hallway I hear Mike talking to him.
"Hey guys" I said walking up to them.
"Hey. Wow, you look great" Andre saying looking me up and down. I blush and smile at him. I grab my bag from the sofa by the stairs and put it on my shoulder.
"See ya later Mike" I say heading towards the door with Andre.
"Ok. Call if you need anything" Mike said smiling at me. I nod before shutting the door.

We head to bus stop and wait for the right bus to come along. While we wait we play 20 questions to get to know each other better. I find out he use to live in America before moving here and joining our school. He enjoys football, basketball and tennis. He wants to become an athlete of some sort when he's older and compete in competitions. I find all this out by the time the bus arrives at the bowling alley. We both get off and head inside.

*time skip to end of date*

It turns out that despite him being a sporty person he is rubbish at bowling. I won both games but to be honest I'm not that good either, we got bad scores but it was fun. Afterwards we headed to McDonald's for dinner and then we headed home. It was about 2:30 in the afternoon when I got home. He walked to the door and said, "this was fun".
"Yeah. It was more fun that I thought. Thank you for asking me out".
"No problem. So does this mean we can go out again".
"Yes. I'd love to go out again" I said before unlocking the door and opening the door. I turned round and kissed Andre on the cheek before saying goodbye and heading inside. I shut the door and put my bag on the sofa again before Harry came running at me.

"Hey Harry" I say kneeling down. I stop smiling when I see his tear filled eyes. "Oh Harry. What's wrong?".
"I can't fine Jeff" he said.
"Come on, let's look for him". I took his hand and we went to the quiet room first. We looked there then the office but he wasn't there. We headed towards the living room when Gina told us that a house meeting was happening there. I picked up Harry hurried to the living room.

We walked in to find everyone there, including Olivia. Mike nodded at me and Harry when he saw us.
"Ok. Whoever keeps blocking up the toilet for a joke needs to stop because as soon as I find out who it is then that person will be on bathroom duty for 2 months. Do I make myself clear" he said looking around at us. He looks at Harry and his face changes to worry.
"What's wrong Harry?". This caused Harry to start crying.
"He can't find Jeff" I told Mike for him.
"We will help find him. Won't we" Faith said, glaring at Electra. Everyone nods and get up and start looking.
"See Harry we'll find him" he nods at me. I put him down and Carmen takes him to look in the kitchen. I walk out the room and upstairs to look for Jeff. I check most rooms and as I'm looking in mine Rick walks in.
"Hey, found him?" I ask. He shakes his head and looks in mine and Tees room too. I stood up on my bed and looked on the shelfs just in case someone put him there to be mean.
"How was your date?" Rick asks randomly.
"Good. Great even".
"Ok. Just be careful". At this I turn round and look at him.
"What's meant to mean".
"Just that he hasn't got the best reputation and I don't want you to get hurt".
"I'll be fine"
"Ok"

"Since when do you care" I said turning round and walking to the foot of the bed.
"Doesn't matter".
"No seriously"
"It's just...I've been hurt and don't won't you hurt". I raise an eyebrow at this and jump of the bed. I walk through the door passing Olivia who was smirking as she did. I shook my head and kept walking. I began walking down the stairs when one of them moved. I knelt down and moved it to see the panel had moved. I remove it to find Jeff.

Someone had hid him.

I put the panel back and rush to the kitchen. I see Harry really upset and everyone except Rick and Olivia trying to calm him down.
"Look what I found" I said revealing Jeff to him. He gasped and reached for him.
"Thanks" he said hugging him.
"No problem kiddo".
"Where was he?" Gina asked.
"You know the top step how it always moves" Everyone nodded, "someone had removed it and stuffed him in there". Everyone looked confused at this, "but who would do that" Electra said, even she knew how much Jeff meant to Harry. I shrugged my shoulders bit then Floss said, "I saw Olivia being weird near the steps when I checked around there".

We all looked at each other. She couldn't have done it, could she?