Evelyn

Evelyn - Chapter Nine

"It's a clue, she told me, look." I protested. I had sketched out an almost exact copy of Evelyn's tattoo, but this time I turned the paper round. This made the code 'mnjbnuV' spell out the word 'Anagram'.

"Well it does look pretty similar." Jonah sighed. "I mean, what else could it be?"

"Exactly, but anagram for what?" I pondered.

"What about 'Mansfield pee'? You didnt get anything on that yet did you?" Chloe asked pulling out a note book.

Jonah pulled out a pen and started working. "We did a few weeks on anagrams in ma writin' class, I'll see what I can do." He mentioned.

Whilst Jonah worked his magic I noticed Mitch staring blankly into space, his eyesight focused on the dirty cafeteria table. He made no conversation and his effort to help look for Evelyn was completely absent.

 "I can only find a few, Fee and simple. Fields pee man. Penalised fem, fem short fer female. Per'aps she feels penalised? Maybe she feels the need to be punished for her mothers death?" I looked at the blonde Australian that sat in front of me, his characteristics and looks so similar to Evelyns they could almost be siblings.

"That's brilliant Jonah!!" I exclaimed.

Chloe sat there stiffly and chuckled. Her cold chuckle turned to a hysterical laugh. "You can't be serious?" she asked rhetorically. "You haven't seen it? Oh my god, look, she of course felt some what gulity for her mothers death of course, but this anagram has nothing to do with feeling penalised. It's perfect and extremely clever of her but look..." She took her pen and started scrawling letters on a page. "F. I. N. D. M. E. P. L. E. A. S. E." She folded her arms and grinned triumphantly.

Jonah and myself stared in amazement with both our mouths making small 'o' shapes. Mitch remained zoned out, not taking any notice of our acomplishment.

"She's still alive..." Jonah whispered.

I became speachless, paralyzed. 'She is alive, she has to be!' I thought.

Chloe swiftly rose from her seat and packed her notebook into her bag. "Come one, no lectures for us today, we have a runaway lone wolf for us to find!"

We all followed her actions, bar Mitch. "You coming?" I asked him, he looked dangerously pale.

"No..." I'll stay here for a while. "I have to sort some things out first."

I ignored his selfishness and continued on and followed Chloe and Jonah out of the long dining hall.

***

At 9.15 we got a call from Mitch, a drunken one at that. He rang Chloe's phone and she put it on speaker.

"Chloe babe..." Mitch's muffled voice rang through the speakers. "This party, is crazy, where are you? You should get down here!" He shouted through the device.

"Michael Nathan Smith, you get your sorry ass straight back to my dorm, RIGHT NOW!" she yelled, authority streaming through her voice.

"Babe, c'mon, don't be so harsh!" He protested. "Can't I live a little?"

"No, no you cannot 'live a little' when one of your best friends is missing!!"

"Ohhhh brownies, come on baby they have brownies!!"

I saw Jonah flinch out of the corner of my eyes everytime Mitch refered to Chloe as 'babe' or 'baby'.

"Michael, whos party is this?" She seethed through her teeth.

"She's very angry..." Jonah whispered. "She never calls 'im by 'is real name 'nless she's headin' down the war path!"

"Baby, relax, it's just Jamie Dawson and Willow Lloyds party!!"

"Michael you know that they are both renowned for serving pot brownies when ever they can!" She hung up the phone and threw on her grey coat. We have to get him, he's dangerous when he's drunk and high.

Soon enough we found our selves outside dorm 736, 3 whole blocks from Chloes dorm. Choe knocked quickly and a drunk teenager answered. As soon as he opened the door the smell of cheap alcohol and cannabis filtered through the corridor. Without a word we pushed past the strong looking guy (Whom I assumed was Jamie Dawson) and we entered the scary world of a university party. Exactly 7 minutes later we found our brunette friend, huddeled over an already puke cover toilet. It didn't take us long to find him, because the dorm was relatively small. Chloe got held of his ear and dragged him out of the dorm, resulting in a few 'ohhhhhs' and wolf whistles from attendants. We followed the curly haired girl out of the uncomfortable room and into the corridor.

"Your right, she is on the war path isn't she?" I whispered to Jonah who scurried next to me.

"MICHAEL. HOW DARE YOU GO TO A PARTY, GET DRUNK, AND HIGH, WHILST EVELYN IS OUT THERE, ALONE!" She snapped, her fists clenching into balls.

"Im. Not. High. Babe..." He took her cheeks into his hands and kissed her forehead. "I'm just happy! To have a beautiful girl like you, in my arms!" He grinned widely, but not before Chloe slapped him hard across his pale cheeks. "Woah, fiesty!!" He exclaimed.

"Right, get him back to his room, NOW!!"

Jonah picked up Mitch by his torso as I grabbed his thin legs. We carried him all the way across 2 blocks back to the dorms next to Chloes. She obtained his dorm key from his back pocket on his jeans, and unlocked the door to a messy room, clothes sprawled all over the place. The room was empty, which lead us to assume that his room mate was attending the party aswell. Placing him carefully on his single bed, he started to snore loudly as he tossed and turned in his slumber.

"Come on, lets leave before he awakes." Chloe suggested, obviously irritated by his childish behaviour.

***

4 hours later a knock came from my door. I groggily stumbled to the door and switched on the light. Jonah stirred in his sleep. 'Thank God he's a heavy sleeper' I thought. I procceded to open the door and was surprised to find Chloe standing there in her pyjamas with an unfamiliar face by her side. Tears rolled down her red cheeks as she bit her bare nails.

"It's Mitch, Charlie. He- he did it, he's gone." She was stuttering now.

"What happened?" I questioned with wide eyes.

"Charlie, there were two empty packets and a note. He took them all Charlie, he left us."