Paper doll

Chapter 5

Ryan's POV

In two days it'll have been a year Chloe's been missing for, I have no idea how I'm supposed to deal with that

I know she wanted me to move on, to be happy, but I can't, I only want her, I'd only ever want her

I guess I'm gonna have to though, I can't just stay single and cry over forever

Then again I really want to just do that because I feel like curling up in a ball and dying, how have I lived for a whole year without the love of my life here?

She's missing and I just dealt with it

My stupid little cousins are here at the moment unfortunately, they're staying with us for a week because their parents went on vacation and just dropped them with us

They come barging into my room like the animals they are and start messing around while I'm sat at my desk

I grin and turn to face them, ones jumping on my bed and I'm not even sure what the other is doing

"Get out of my room" I say harshly, in a rather foul mood in case you couldn't tell

"WE WANNA PLAY!" The one who's jumping on the bed yells

"Yeah well I don't so do me a favour and shut the door on your way out" I spoke coldly to them, I know they just want to hang out with me but I'm just not in the mood right now

But they wouldn't leave and before I knew it the one not bouncing on my best had a ripped up piece of paper in his hand

The paper doll

"WHAT THE HELL HAVE YOU DONE?!" I yelled at him as I snatched the pieces of the paper doll from him

"I'm sorry" he cried but I was so mad

"GET OUT OF MY ROOM, NOW!" I roared at them, making them jump in fright, they both quickly ran out and my mom ran in

"Ryan what's going on?!" She asked, shocked by my behaviour towards them

I threw he pieces of the paper doll on the floor as angry tears filled my eyes

"IT WAS THE LAST TRACE OF HER I HAD! AND HE JUST RIPPED IT UP!" I screamed

My mom looked at the pieces of paper on the floor in disbelief for a moment then immediately walked straight over to me

I stood up and she pulled me into a hug and that was it, I finally let loose everything I'd held bottled up inside for the last year, ally eh pain and the anguish and the self hatred for letting her go

I cried everything out, I was finally letting it all out of my system

I was there for quite a while before I finally sorted myself out and my mom let go

She bent down and picked up the pieces

"It won't be the same, but lets tape it back together anyway" she suggested and I nodded

Then I saw something on one of the pieces as she was about to leave

"Wait" I stopped her, I grabbed he pieces and looked at them

There was an address written on them

"That's what was the inside before, the only place I never thought to look for a clue, what was on the paper she used to make the doll" I muttered to myself

"Let me see" my mom requested so I handed her the paper

She took a look at it and turned to me

"This is in New York" she told me and my eyes went wide

"Why would Chloe have written down a New York address?" I asked rhetorically

"Didn't her dad's family come from New York?" My mom reminded me

"YOURE A GENIUS!" I exclaimed excitedly

Maybe this was it, maybe this was what I'd been looking for this whole time

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Or it could be absolutely nothing at all, to clarify guys, Chloe didn't deliberately leave the paper doll for him to find, she forgot it was there, [Edit: Chloe's dad is 100% dead end of story 😂😂] xoxo