Come Home Soon...

Chapter Three

    It was Friday, the boys had been missing for a week. Ever since Wednesday, when they first announced the disappearance, Alex had been watching the news, hoping for an update about them but there never was. He was freaking out, it had been a week since anyone had heard from his boyfriend, the news hadn't said anything other than the initial post, and his dad hadn’t said anything other than that he had been assigned to the case. He didn’t know how much longer he could go without an update. As he was thinking this, the news came back from a commercial break.

    “On Wednesday we told you about the disappearances of teenage boys, Montgomery de la Cruz and Justin Foley. Today we have brought in the parents to talk about their missing sons.”

    “Oh god, if they have Justin’s mom on here this interview will take a turn for the worst. Let’s see how this shitstorm’s gonna go.”

    “We have Amber Foley and Julia de la Cruz here with us. Ladies what are your thoughts on your sons disappearing?” the interviewer asked.

    Julia, Monty’s mom, was obviously crying and wiping her eyes with a tissue. “My son, he would never go anywhere without telling me. He wouldn’t have disappeared for a week without telling me where he was and he always answers my calls and texts, he hasn’t answered any. This isn’t a runaway case, this is kidnapping. Montgomery wouldn’t just leave me like that. I-I need my baby home,” she could barely get the last part out, she was crying too hard.

    The woman turned to Justin’s mom, “Amber, what are your thoughts?”

    “He comes and goes as he pleases, normally he with his friends. It’s not unusual for me to not see him for a week and he never answers his phone.”

    “Liar,” Alex said, “You just don’t care about your son, if he were dead you'd just shrug it off and move on with your day! You didn’t even know he was missing nor did you bother to check on him. Fucking bitch,” he grumbled the last part.

    Monty’s mom looked at her, “how do you not know where your son is? Why do you let him ‘come and go as he pleases’?”

    She shrugged, “it’s always just been this way.”

Julia was speechless, she could not fathom what the woman next to her had said. Her son always let her know where he was, if he was staying over somewhere, if he would be late, or when he would be home. He always let her know. To hear a woman saying that she basically never knows where her son is and that goes weeks without communicating with him was blasphemy! “How? Don’t you ever worry about him?”

“He’s a tough kid, he’ll be fine.”

It was like the women had forgotten they were on live tv by this time, only arguing with each other. “He’s a tough kid? So? Montgomery is too but that’s what gets him in trouble, it doesn’t matter if he’s tough or not, he’s your son, you should care about where he is!”

“Who do you think you are to judge my parenting?” Amber said.

“That’s not parenting. A parent is supposed to care about their child. I’m done with this interview, I’m going to go try and find my son because unlike others, I actually care about him,” she walked off and the camera cut out.

Alex couldn’t stop himself from clapping, Julia just said some of the stuff he’d been wanting to say to Amber since he found out about Justin’s home life. Watching it made him feel like he was watching some reality tv show and that Amber was the person on the show that nobody likes and Julia is the one that everyone loves who always calls Amber out. He laughed at himself before turning his attention to his phone.