The Moon Will Fall (Moonlight 2)

Chapter 16-Lost

The three of us waited outside of Lauren and Harry's school a week later. We were still going there to collect them, even though we'd stated going back to school again. Although we'd given up searching for Calum during the day, we'd started going out in the afternoons after we walked the kids home. We'd spent the past weekend visiting nearby towns looking for any sign of Calum, in the hope that it might help Michael sense Calum better. Yet we had found nothing, and Michael had only sensed him for one moment the entire trip. By now, he could be miles away or in another state. We were all getting a little nervous.

Since that first night, the Shadow Wolf hadn't shown up again but the three of us had been stuck together like glue. We'd been moving between Ashton and Michael's place, but a few days ago we'd started hanging around the den as we were coming back so late from looking for Calum. I was always with one of them, so usually the other ended up coming over.

It was also tough adjusting to Michael being Alpha. I think it was difficult for him as well. He'd accidentally forced his will onto us more times than I could count. Generally, it was when one of us wanted to stop searching or do something he wasn't happy with. It made me glad that I could bypass it, but Ashton wasn't so lucky. So, I made sure I had a go at him for anything that he tried to make us do that was unfair.

"What do you mean you don't know where she is!?" Ashton frowned down at his brother, it had been a while since school had finished and so far, he'd been the only one to show up. I looked around, where was Lauren?

Harry shrugged, "I don't know, it's not like I have a tracker on her."

Ashton frowned, his eyes darting around the last trickle of students leaving, some joining the lines to catch buses. Yet Lauren was nowhere to be seen. I could even see one of the teachers closing the gate. I glanced over at Michael who bit his lip and tapped his foot impatiently. He caught me staring and shrugged.

Ashton's eyes suddenly lit up as they fell on one girl, with auburn curly haired and glasses. Without a single word, he marched over to her and questioned. "Alyssa, have you seen my sister?"

The girl frowned at Ashton, and shrugged, "Not since lunch, she wasn't in class either."

Ashton frowned, "That's okay. Thanks."

Ashton re-joined the three of us with a frustrated expression. "She better answer her phone, I swear."

He dialled up the number, I could hear the robotic woman's voice explain that the person he was trying to call could not be reached. He rang a different number, but the phone just rang out. He growled at his phone as he started typing away angrily at the screen.

'You don't think something's happened to her?' I thought to Michael.

'I'm not sure. Though there seems to be a slight scent here, like a werewolf.' He frowned as he replied, 'Look maybe don't say that to Ash just yet.'

I nodded, he was already on edge enough this past week. It had been obvious that he was nervous about something happening to one of his siblings because of the other night. Sure, Michael and I were concerned too, but I'd feared if something did happen how Ashton would react. I sighed, as I looked around us. I wasn't sure what was happening or where Lauren had gone off too but, it was clear from Ashton's expression that one of his worst fears was coming to life.

We waited for another few minutes, Ashton spoke to one of her teachers. All she could tell him was that Lauren hadn't been in her class that afternoon as she'd been with one of the other teachers. She hadn't left early either, so we would've had to see her go out the gate. Ashton quickly mumbled something about having a call, and he made out like she'd rung him. Though I couldn't hear a voice on the other line. I frowned at Michael.