Innocently Amber

Lighthearted Lousiness

Harrison awoke to the noise of someone pounding on his door, the feeling of shock hit him first as he looked over to his alarm clock, it wasn't on. He had pulled the plug on it the night before so that he wouldn't be staring at a clock and driving himself insane like the side protagonist in a book or movie. Waking up and standing on his legs, which felt asleep, he approached the end of the hallway as he felt his clothing, he hadn't changed into sleepwear the night before. He rubbed the last ounces of sleep from his eyes before he reached the door handle, looking out the small window he saw Patricia, she had her earbuds in and was tapping the door to whatever song she was listening too. He unlock the deadlock on the door and let her in, she smiled seeing his face,

"Oh thank god you're okay, I was gonna come in and get you if you didn't open up any sooner!" She spoke with a voice that was rather delighted though the tone of worry still lingered,

"Uh, yeah I'm doing fine.." Harrison said sheepishly as he stepped aside and let his girlfriend in, he closed the door behind her momentarily as he looked up at the clock on the wall it wasn't even seven yet. The girl dropped her bag down on the side of the couch before sitting down next to it, she started to open it and pull out a pad of paper, which was covered in notes already, as well as a ring of keys, "What are you doing?"

"Uhh we're gonna find your sister aren't we, it's obviously hurting you and, as you saw yesterday, it's hurting her friend too." The fact that Patricia hadn't made 'friend' plural slightly irked him but, overall he was just glad that Patricia was so down to help,

"Well then what are the keys for, or any of those things?" Harrison had stuck one of his hands into his jeans pocket as he looked at the girl, her smile was becoming a bit more hidden within her facial features as it became apparent that she was just trying to get some sort of happy reaction from him, "Actually, don't bother explaining, I'm just glad you're as down to help as I am and.." He looked over to her notes, quite a few of them were descriptions of Mara that not only included physical features like height and hair color but, also mental features like, her anxiety and athazagoraphobia. The details of her two mental issues were spot on and weren't remotely just observations, Patricia realized him staring at her notes and quickly pushed them back under her bag,

"Yeah.." She began after clearing her throat, "Have any idea where she may be?"

"Uh yeah actually.. Question why didn't you come back over last night after dropping Lillith off at her home?"

"Well uh, you told me to come back today so why would I bother coming back, I have homework and my own responsibilities, I know you're sad and all but can you just let me know where you think she is?" Patricia's voice had grown to have a bit of edge at the beginning, something she had never used when talking to Harrison before, after her sentence she quickly went to kiss him on the cheek and her loving demeanor was back,

"First of all.." Harrison began as he recalled her conversation with Lillith yesterday, "I don't think she'll be in town like you told Lillith yesterday, Mara is a bit blissful but she wouldn't leave school property, she's got common sense enough to know she'd get in trouble for that.." As he began, Patricia started to write a few bullets down on her notes, her face was void of emotion behind her paper.

"So she's on school property.... Wait, then why bother with shutting the security cameras down?"

"Well, I guess it would throw the police off, I mean there were no signs of struggle or else someone would have reported her screaming right..? We have to assume that whomever did this has done it before.." Harrison's thoughts eventually ended and in turn and after a few minutes, so did the sound of Patricia's pen on the paper, Harrison tried to hold confidence in his voice as if he has done this several times before, truthfully, he was just going off of the crime shows he used to watch,