Promise.

Chapter:8

***Nate's POV***

After 4 days with Lexi living with me I unpacked all my stuff and decided to stay. If I was going to try to find Ali I needed time and that meant I had to unpack and start clean.

My mom had a particular hard time understanding but agreed. It was okay mainly because I had a trust fund and a unused scholarship that got turned into more money to help me make it by.

The catch was that if I didn't have a job or a settled home by August then I had to come home. It was barely mid June so I quickly agreed.

***

Lexi got to work quickly and used her phone to try and find Ali.

"What was her full name?"

"Ali louise Williams"

"Ali, god I can't believe you like that name."

"It suits her and its unique."

"Whatever."

***

We were on my couch and Lexi looked trough Twitter, Tumblr, and Instagram while I looked through Facebook.

Mom never told me not to let Lexi use my internet...

 After a surprising amount of searching through people with the name Ali, Lexi found her.

"Instagram! More like Alstagram!"

"What?"

"Nevermind. But you were right Nate shes real pretty."

I put aside my computer and grabbed Lexi's phone looking at the tiny screen and sure enough there Ali was.

About more than half of Ali's pictures were her drawings, her artwork. I knew Ali loved art but wow, all of it was amazing. She really was talented.

The other lesser half of her photos were pictures of her. Pictures of her smiling, trying to look mean, looking silly. Staring at Ali made me want to be there sticking my tongue out with her towards the phone, but when I stared too long I got a terrible wave of guilt stab me like a thousand knives.

I needed to see her, soon.

"Hey! You were 2 profiles away from finding Ali on Facebook!" Lexi cheered taking her phone from my hand and putting the computer in it instead.

I looked at it and saw Ali smiling at me through her profile picture.

Her profile, like her Instagram one were not set on private meaning I could see everything.

Stalker. Add that to the list.

Her name. Place of birth. Date of birth. College.

More photos but all of them only family and friends, along with her. None of them were of her art and most of them were selfies.

I smiled as I found a baby picture of her. Her hair was in a bun and she wore a pink tutu.

I guess Lexi got bored of my sick puppy in love act cause she grabbed the computer and went to her posts.

She had a couple dating from months back to the present, 4 days to be exact. The day of the fight. She posted a thank you to her friend, Violet for inviting her and she added the mall as her location. At leaset I knew her friend's name.

***

After some more stalking Lexi and I found out more about Ali but none of which was what we were looking for... Her address. I guess it was a needle in a haystack type of thing but a guy can dream right?