The Moon Will Fall (Moonlight 2)

Chapter 28-Clue

With a yawn, I tiptoed around the others sleeping forms as like a moth drawn to light I moved over towards the window. The sun was just rising over the surrounding buildings. My eyes fell to the city below where people hurried along, whilst others waited for a bus just outside. I let out a long sigh, it was odd, but this reminded me so much of when I had lived here that summer.

Every morning, I'd find myself awake early and look out the apartment window and watch a few people down below as they hurried to get out of the growing heat. My mum usually busied herself in a desk over her work. I can remember that it was my first experience of being an 'only child' and I was used to having at least one brother to argue with. The silence had been unnatural to me.

Part of me yearned for that sort of oddly peaceful moment again. Yet I knew it would never happen. Although I was back here, nothing was what it had been back then. My life had been a lie, perhaps even more so than I'd once thought. I couldn't help but want to see the good in my mother, the way that I had once seen her back then before any of this. I let out a long sigh.

"Morning Luke." A voice spoke, I turned to find Ashton standing beside me, beside me.

"Oh, hey." I spoke slightly startled by his presence as I straightened on the window frame.

"Hmm...why are all these clothes wet?" Ashton frowned, gesturing to Calum and I's damp clothes from last night that were hanging along the windows ledge. We'd put them there last night so that they might dry by the morning, I guess that they hadn't.

"Uh, Cal and I kind of went for a swim..." I spoke, not meeting his gaze.

"Oh, I see... Uh, look you know about last night..." Ashton frowned. "I meant what I said."

I viewed him suspiciously, "What that my mum going missing was suspicious, and that going looking for her is still a terrible idea? I know Ash. You don't need to remind me."

"No, what I'm meaning is, I think we should do it." Ashton nodded at me. "This is important to you, I get it. We just need to convince the others."

I stared at him blankly for a moment, vaguely remembering him mentioning that we should.

"What do we need to be convinced about?" Calum questioned with a raised eyebrow as he appeared from behind us.

"Going to find Luke's mum, we should do it." Ashton repeated to him.

"We talked last night." Calum nodded to me, "and I think so too."

Ashton nodded, "Well in that case I was thinking that perhaps we'd be best to start at Emily's, as it would only take us an hour or so to get there. There might be some scents or clues back there that would help us."

"Yeah, perhaps that might be a start." I agreed, it was the only clue we had right now after what Pip had told us.

"Alright but Mikey's still asleep." Calum frowned, turning back for a moment to Michael's sleeping form, he let out a sigh, "We'll make a plan when he wakes up. In the meantime, I think there's something I should do first."

Ashton and I exchanged confused glances, as Calum moves over to a small bag of items on the other side of the room. He pulls out a small item, pulling out a cord and charger before plugging into the wall. I notice the screen on the object come to life and I come to the realisation that it's his phone.

It buzzes for a few moments, and Calum frowns at it. Before he sucks in a deep breath and begins dialling the numbers hurriedly. I hear the dial tones as Calum puts the phone up to his ear.

"Hello?" I hear the voice on the other end of the line question.

"Hey mum." Calum says, a small smile on his face. I blink stunned, I guess it made sense that he would call her but what was so important about it?