Our missing friend

Chapter 13

I get up early to clean the house, I never have people over so it's not the cleanest.

I then quickly get dressed for school in my usual all black attire, I grab my bag and walk to school.

I walk up the steps of our school and head inside and walk straight towards my locker.

I grab my book and start walking to class but I see something in the corner of my eye that makes me stop.

I walk over to the schools bulletin board, I've never ever really look at it before.

There's all these flyers of what's going on like after school activities or if someone needs a tutor but that not what stopped me.

Right in the center of it is a big picture of Daisy, It's a missing person flyer.

It's a good picture of her it's her Facebook profile.

But now it seems too real, she's actually really missing.

I feel a tear leave my eye, I quickly rub it away not waning anyone to see me cry.

I make a dash to the bathroom before anyone sees me, I open the bathroom stall and lock myself in. I crumble to the ground, trying to control my sobs

I know I haven't talk to her in a long time but she was my best friend for most of my life. I just want to tell her I'm sorry for ignoring her when all she wanted to do was be my friend.

I hear the bathroom door open.

"are you okay?" I hear Ruby voice the last person I want to see me like this

I don't answer her.

"Hazel I know your combat boots from anywhere" she says "open the stall"

I sigh and open it and sit back down,She walks in and looks down at me

"Gross gross gross" she whispers as she sits down on the ground with me

I try not to laugh,

"I saw your face when you saw the bulletin with Daisy photo on it" she says

"It's just didn't seem real until I saw that missing person flyer" I sigh wiping another tear away

"I saw them posted everywhere downtown" she says sadly

"Do you think She just ran away?" I ask

"I hope so" she sighs

"But why what was going on in her life that would make her do that?" I ask really wanting to know

"I don't know but I want to find out"she says determined

"Me too" I nod in agreement "Felix is coming over later to bring the box she gave him and we are going to look through it. Did you want to come over and see?"

"Yeah" she smiles

"Okay" I smile too

"Did you want me to tell Trevor?" She asks

"No I'll tell him"

"We probably should go or we will miss class" she says standing up and putting her hand out

I laugh "yeah wouldn't want to do that" I grab her hand and stand up

Before we walk out of the bathroom, I look over at her.

"Thanks" I smile

"No problem"

"Could you not tell anyone about this" I laugh nervously

"Sure" she laughs and shakes her head