The Forest

The New Partner (Clover's P.O.V)

( A/N: This is what Bishop would look like.. )

We all left the park with our hearts and minds racing. We met up with Bishop at Chipotle, so he could help us look. I ran up to him and hugged him, since it had been a few months since we had actually hung out, because of the fact that he graduated last year and moved to Orlando. Delilah must have called him, because she ran to him and he wrapped her in a tight hug and gave her a kiss on the forehead. I looked so confused. I put my head down, and started to walk away, with tears in my eyes. I know that he's not mine, but it hurts so bad, he might as well have been mine and then broke up with me to get with my best friend. I started to cry again, and quickly wiped away my tears. I ran back to the car, probably causing a few people inside the restaurant to stare. I couldn't help it; I loved him, and he loved her. I locked the doors after getting inside the car. I was about to leave and pull out of the parking lot, but then Bishop knocked on my window.

"Roll down the window," he mouthed at me.

"Never," I mouthed back.

"Clover, please. I'm riding with you to go look for Loren's..." He wrote on a piece of paper. He couldn't finish it either.

"FINE!" I mouthed back, as I rolled down the window.

He got in the car, and looked at me and smiled. I quickly turned my head, I didn't want to look at him. He grabbed my chin and ran his thumb across my jawline. I couldn't help but blush. I bit my lip and looked back away. I heard him chuckle; his laugh has always been so comforting. I rolled the windows down, and got back out of the car.

"Well, is everything okay?" Alex said, wrapping me in a tight hug. I shrugged and hugged him back. Delilah looked at me and frowned. I shrugged again.

"Can we just talk about the game plan? Let's find who killed Loren," I said, reminding the group of what we were doing.

"Oh yes," Jinx said, "so what is our plan?"

Delilah took a deep breath and repeated, "So for the second time, we're splitting up into three groups of two. Group A will go search around the cabin. Then the second group, aka Group B, will head to the river bed area in which Loren used to hang around all the time. I know it's a larger area, but she's been known to have a rendezvous or two there. The final group, Group C, will go to the bar that Loren used to go to. The only reason why we would venture there is because guys tried to hit her up there all of the time."

"So who are we partnered with?" Autumn asked curiously.

"Alex and Jinx are together obviously. You and I are partnered together. Which means that Clover and Bishop are partnered together. Alex and Jinx, y'all can pick which one you want to do," Delilah said.

"Alex, sweetie.." Jinx calmly said, "let's go to the river. I know you'd probably much rather go to the bar, however the river was our spot too."

"Whatever you want to do, I'll go with you," Alex assured Jinx.

"So Bishop and Clover are going to the bar. I don't want anyone else to be at that house. It was the last place Loren lived and breathed. I want to cherish that as long as possible, if that's okay with you both," Delilah said, trying to hide her face as she started to cry.

"That's completely okay, DeDe. We all miss her," I said, wrapping my arms around her.

"So," Bishop paused, "let's go catch this mother fucker."

We all divided up according to our groups. I got to my car with Bishop behind me. I didn't realize it until just then that my shirt was a tad bit see through. I felt Bishop's eyes on me, and I couldn't help but blush. I quickly ran to the driver's side of my car and got in before Bishop could look at me, while I was blushing my head off. I turned the key and it started, thankfully. I looked over at him, while he was still staring. He quickly started to blush and looked away, knowing that I noticed he was looking at me.