Lost (Rilaya)

Chapter 3: Case closed

Riley's P.O.V.

It's been a week since my nightmare, ever since then I've started to wonder whether Maya is really lost or if it's something worse. the police are still searching for her, it's been a little over a month since she went missing. The police also said that they might have to close the investigation soon, because they have not found any sign of her. Nothing, everything in her room was as she left it there was no sign of struggle but there was also no reason or evidence that she might have run away. But they said they will continue looking for another month or so, but if they can't find anything they are going to have to close the investigation.

Everyone around me has just kind of accepted that she's probably dead, but I just can't. I don't understand how everyone else can just accept something like that, how they can just lose hope so quickly. Sometimes I have doubts as well, but I still always have hope that we will find her. I will never lose hope in Maya, and right now that hope is all I have.

I was sitting on the couch, flipping through TV channels mindlessly when there was a knock on the door. 

"Riley can you answer that?" my mom asked from the kitchen, 

"okay." I responded standing up, I walked over to the door and opened it. standing there was a very distraught Katy Hart with tears in her eyes, "oh my gosh, Katy what's wrong?" I said as soon as I saw her. as my mom turned to see who was at the door her face quickly showed concern. she briskly toward the door to see what was going on, as soon as my mother saw the tears in the woman's eyes she pulled Katy into a tight hug. they just stayed in the embrace for a few moments, as I silently watched. finally they pulled away, my mom directed Katy to the couch. as they sat down my mother asked 

"What happened Katy?" Katy took a deep breath to calm herself a little, 

"t-the c-c-cops ca-me ov-over earlier t-to tell me th-at they're c-c-closing M-Maya's case." she stuttered out through her tears. 

"what!" my mom said shooting off her spot on the couch "they can not do this!" my mother stated walking towards the phone.

I watched silently as my mom angrily dialed the detectives office, 

"hello, yes this is Topanga Matthews. I'm calling about the Maya Hart case." she said into the phone with slight anger in her tone, as Katy and I watched from the living room. "what I want to know is why you are closing the case." she said, I could tell she was trying her best not to yell into the phone. my mom talked on the phone for a few more minutes, an then walked back into the living room. "Katy i'm so sorry." she said sitting back down onto the couch, Katy just nodded and said 

"it's okay you did everything you could, thank you." I decided to go to my room, to give them some privacy to talk.

when I got to room I instantly sat in the bay window, trying to hold back my tears. as I started to cry Farkle came through my window, 

"Hey Riley, I was wondering if-" he cut himself off when he saw me "Riley what happened?" he sat next to me in the bay window pulling me into a hug 

"they closed Maya's case." I said him almost a whisper. 

"what, why?" he said in a shocked tone 

"after my mom talked to the detective on the phone, she said that they said there were to many cases to solve and they had to cut some to be able to focus on the most important cases without wasting time." I explained as my tears continued to fall, 

"that's ridicules!" yelled Farkle. 

"It is, but there's nothing we can do about it now." I replied in a sad tone. Farkle opened his mouth to say something, but closed it again looking down at the ground. "Farkle if it's okay with you can I just be alone for awhile?" I asked, 

"Yeah, I'll let you be alone for awhile." he said climbing out the window.

a few hours later I was laying in bed, thinking. Maya is out there, and now we may never find out where or how. it's outrages that they are just dropping her case because they don't think it's 'Important enough' ! I just wish there was something I could do about it, but i'm just another 'unimportant' person in the world. I thought as I slowly drifted off into sleep.

the next morning after I had woken up, I went down to the kitchen to eat breakfast but my family was not there. 

"huh?" I said aloud as I looked around for any sign of my parents or little brother. I saw a note on the fridge it read, '

your father and I went to the doctors with Auggie, there's some fruit in the refrigerator if you get hungry. -Mom' I threw the note away and opened the fridge, as I sat at the table eating I heard two beeps come from my phone, I looked at the screen that said I had two texts, one from Farkle and another form Lucas. I didn't bother looking at the texts instead putting my phone back into my pocket.

Later I was sitting in the bay window thinking, again. I really need to stop thinking so much it just makes me sad, but I can't stop thinking ever since Maya left. but before I could get too lost in my thoughts I heard the front door open as my parents walked in. I got up and walked to the living room 

"hey guy's." I said 

"Riley, guess what!" my little brother said excitedly, 

"What?" I replied mocking his tone 

"The doctor gave me a sucker for being a good boy!" he said excitedly. I gave him a high five and walked into the kitchen with my parents. 

"we got Chinese food." my dad said holding up the bag of takeout.

After we finished dinner, I went back to my room, seeing my phone sitting on the bay window I remembered the texts from my friends. I walked over to the bay window and picked up my phone, the screen lit up. I read the first text from Lucas, asking if I wanted to hang out. Then I went to read Farkle's text, as I read it I dropped my phone.......

Author's note:

I'm soo sorry it took me so long to get this chapter out, but I have been super tired and busy. my cat has been missing for a little over a week, and I also haven't felt good enough to write. but I finally got it done, and I'm sorry this chapter kinda sucks my writing is not very good. I'm going to try to make the next chapter better, and get it out sooner. have a great day! (or night!)

-TruffleKnight