Lexi's P.O.V.
~2 Days After Kale passed~
It's been a couple days since the four of us were at the hospital that morning. I haven't heard from Sammy but I know Grayson is looking after her. I can't imagine how she must feel right now...
"Lexi?" I heard Ethan call, interrupting my train of thought. I cleared my throat.
"Yes?" I answered back, folding a towel from the basket of laundry sitting in front of me on the bed. The rain hit against the window, making it impossible to concentrate.
"Can you come here please?" He asked. I could tell it was something serious, due to the tone in his voice. I picked up Emma, who was asleep on the bed, careful not to wake her up. Well, she apparently wasn't asleep cause when I picked her up, she just let out a little giggle. I smiled. I walked down stairs to see Ethan pacing back and forth, holding his phone.
"What's the matter?" I asked quietly.
Ethan stopped walking and looked at me. "Sit down." He said. I did as he told me. We sat down across from each other at the kitchen table. I put Emma down and she crawled into the living room. She hadn't learned to walk yet, which makes sense, as she's only 8 months old. She should be walking soon.
"I can't get a hold of Grayson or Sam." He said.
"Maybe their phones are dead." I said.
"No, like earlier Grayson called me and said 'I need you and Lexi's help with Sam'. I didn't know what he meant then. But I figured out why he said that..."
"What is it?" I asked, scared of the answer that I was hoping he wouldn't say.
"Sam ran away." He whispered.
"Again?!" I said.
"Yes... that's what Gray meant when he needed help from us. He doesn't know where she is. He can't get a hold of her on her phone either. We don't know where she is, or what she could be doing right now." He explained. I unlocked my phone.
"Babe, what are-" Ethan started to say.
"One second." I said, faking that I was calm, when in reality I wasn't. I went to the "find my iPhone" app. I tried to find Sammy's but it said it was disabled. I sighed. I looked up at Ethan.
"Got a plan?" I asked him. He looked down and after a minute, shook his head.
"I'm sorry." He said. He stood up and walked over to where I was sitting and kissed my head, before walking down the hallway. I heard him walking up the stairs. I sighed and put my head in my hands. After a few minutes, I got up and went to the living room and picked Emma up. I decided to go get the mail, just giving me something to do. I walked to the front door and took the key to the mailbox off the hook next to the door. I turned the door knob and stepped outside into the cool early afternoon air.
"Hi Lexi!" I heard a child's voice to my right. I turned to see our neighbor's 5-year-old daughter, Paisley, waving to me. I smiled and walked over to her.
"Hey Paisley! How are you sweetie?" I asked her, crouching down to her height.
"I'm amazing!" She beamed. Her mom, Anna, was sitting on the porch.
"Hello Anna." I smiled towards her direction.
"Hi hun." She got up and walked over to me. She hugged me.
"How've you been doing?" She asked. She knew about what happened to Kale.
"Better, I guess. Just now we have a new problem...it's fine though. How are you?" I answered.
"Oh no, what happened?" She asked, Paisley hugging her mom's leg.
I shook my head. "Sam ran away. After we were at the hospital and they told us, you know, she ran off."
Anna didn't say a word. "I can help if you need. Just give me a call." She said after a few moments. I nodded.
"Thanks." I smiled as I started to walk across the street to the mail box. I put the key in the keyhole and turned the small piece of metal. Bills, newspapers, flyers. The usual. I closed the mailbox and walked back to the house. I went inside and put Emma down in her play pen in the living room. I sat down at the kitchen table and decided to just go through the mail.
Target and Safeway flyers, water and electricity bills, and...
Wait what is this? I thought to myself as a folded piece of paper slipped out of a folded newspaper. I opened it and held it in my fingers. Written in the middle in familiar handwriting was:
i'm fine. just need time.
I gasped. I stood up and ran up the stairs.
"Ethan!" I said. I looked into the office. He wasn't in there. I peeked into the spare room; no Ethan.
"Eth-" I said, walking into the bedroom, when I saw him sitting on the edge of the bed. He turned to look at me. I sat next to him and wrapped my arms around him. I let go after a minute.
"Are you okay?" I asked.
"I guess..." He shook his head. I put my hand on his face, turning him towards me. I kissed his lips softly. We pulled away and Ethan put his hand on my thigh.
"Ethan...this was in the mail." I said, showing him the note.
"...what does this mean.." He whispered.
"Sam."
---A/N---
Hope you guys liked this chapter. Sorry it took so long, at the beginning I didn't know what to write. :/
I will see y'all beautiful people later!!
-Lexxxxxxxxxx
