What Love Hasn't Conquered

Seven

All 7 and we'll watch them fall

They stand in the way of love

And we will smoke them all

With an intellect and a savoir-faire

No one in the whole universe

Will ever compare

I am yours now and you are mine

And together we'll love through

All space and time, so don't cry

One day all 7 will die

~Prince

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Alina POV

 Pulling into Josh's driveway I immediately see the house is vacant. Josh's parents are still on vacation but I feel like Josh isn't here either. I hop out of the passenger seat of Oliver's car and walk towards the back of the house with my hand on my gun. Everything is quiet and the only sound I hear is of me crushing dried grass under my feet.

Josh's dad is going to be so angry when he finds that no one has been watering his precious garden. I look to the patch of flowers by the corner of the house. They've wilted and petals lie in the dirt beneath them. I move my hand around in the sort dirt until I come across the a golden painted rock. Across the top of the rock are two stick figures holding hands and above them the words;

Mommy and Josh

I smile and think how she must have felt when her sun brought this home. I lift up the rock and grab the key to the back door that lies underneath it. Setting the rock back into the dirt I go around to the back of the house and over to the rusty white door.

I put the dirty silver key into the rusty lock and watch as the door slowly creeps open. Pulling my gun from my holster, I quietly enter the house through the back door and into the kitchen. Nothing seems amiss in the retro style kitchen so I make my way into the living room. 

As I search the whole house I find it exactly how it was before Josh and I left it. The thought does anything but calm me because now i realize that Josh is somewhere else, but where? I search my mind for anywhere he could be but I'm lost. I leave the house out of the back door, locking it once more and placing the key under the golden rock before heading back to Oliver's car.

"Well?" Oliver ask me when I get in the car.

"He's not there and I don't know where else he could be." Oliver rest his hand over mine and looks on me with comforting eyes,

Stephanie pipes up from the back, "Well, where else would this Grant guy go?"

"I never really tried to get to know him. He was always such an ass that I just stayed away from him."

Xavier clicks his tounge against the roof of his mouth and looks at me in the reflection on the rear view mirror. "I'm not proud of this but I have a slight criminal mindset." The three of us all turn to look at Xavier but he just shrugs his shoulders. "He wouldn't go anywhere public if he was planning to do anything to you or your boyfriend."

The thought of something happening to Josh sends shivers down my spine before filling me with anger.

"And if it's a private place it would be a place he knows well and if anyone saw him he wouldn't have to worry about them taking him down or snitching."

"Do you think he could be at my house?" With everything Xavier is saying the thought of Grant going home seems rational.

Oliver sticks the key in the ignition and cranks the engine, "Only one way to find out." He smiles and then makes a speedy back-up scarring the hell out of everyone in the car. We take off down the road and head towards my house.