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Chapter XXI: The Drive

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*TJ's POV*

Two months have passed and still nothing. I'm slowly going insane everyday by the second, and sometimes by the hour. I don't know what to do, how am I supposed to know if she's okay? hell how am I supposed to know if the baby is okay? I can't sleep I can't eat. I wish I knew where she was because I'm worried. I've been worried for two whole months! It's like a mother being worried sick about her child wondering if they're still alive or not. But it's different when the love of your life leaves you thinking that she's a burden. It's different when you're left with a broken heart that needs to be mended. It's hard because I love her to pieces, and I want her back to me in one piece. That's all I'm asking for, and I know I don't ask for much.

Every night for the past few days I've lit a candle in our bedroom to give me a sense of hope that I will find her. It takes away the darkness and gives me light, and it brings me just a little peace. I sit by the window and I just look out into the woods and I just wonder. I wonder what place she's hiding in and why. I feel as if I should know but unfortunately I don't.

"Bella I miss you so much. Please come home." I whispered to myself.

"TJ?"

I turned around seeing Lana standing in my room looking at me with a sad look on her face. I looked down and buried my face as she approached me and placed her hand on my shoulder.

"Are you alright?" he asked.

"No I miss her. I just want her to come home." I said as I wiped a tear away.

"I'm so sorry love. You know I was wondering if you'd like to ride around the city with me and possibly see if we can find her. You never know. It won't hurt to try." She whispered.

I lifted my head up and looked into her eyes for moment. After I gave it some thought I nodded my head and stood up.

"You're right I think we should give it another try. And I do need to get out the house."

She smiled a little as she grabbed a tissue from the tissue-box on my nightstand and wiped my tears away, and she made sure that my face was clean.

"Now that's the spirit. I'm proud of you, and I know you're going through a hard time right now but I promise that you'll have her back."

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It's been two hours since the guys and I had left the house to go on a search for Bella. Lana was right I mean we won't know unless we try, because we can't just depend on the police we have to do more than just put up fliers and make phone calls. At this point she could be anywhere and there's no telling where she could be. We've driven down towards the country and abandoned areas like old broken down houses, and corn fields. There's this one house that we stopped at that was really old and it was a dark brown color. When we went inside, there wasn't any furniture only an old fireplace. The floors creaked and the pipes leaked. Moss was even growing on the side of the house, and everything was covered in dust. The wallpapers were even peeling off the wall as well as the paint.

When I went upstairs there were shards of broken glass all over the hallway. I looked up at the walls and saw that the mirrors that were hanging up were smashed. I slowly walked down hall carefully making sure that a piece of glass didn't go into my foot. After I carefully made my way through the broken glass I walked into a nearby bathroom. I looked around and saw that the tiles on the floor were taken apart and that the walls were stained. I looked over to my right and saw a blood stained bathtub. I shivered as I looked at the sink that was also covered in dried blood. The medicine cabinet mirror was also smashed but the shards weren't in there anymore. After shaking my head believing that I've seen enough I turned around to go through the hallway covered in shards of glass and descended down the stairs.

When I got downstairs Lana, Rusev, and Cesaro were in the kitchen. I walked in there and saw tattered white curtains hanging from the windows, and I looked over in the sink and saw that it too was covered in dried blood. I looked in the refrigerator seeing that it was empty, but it reeked of the smell of mold. I covered my nose and shut the door breathing a final breath from the horrid smell of what seemed like death.

"We need to leave. This place is creeping me out, I can't take anymore." I said.

"Yeah I agree with TJ. This place gives me the chills, and besides I think we're way off. I mean I don't think Bella would even come this far off from the city. If anything she's more than likely within the city, but we're not looking in the right places. We need to think harder, where would she more than likely end up at at? Surely it can't be that difficult. " Cesaro said.

"Well one thing about him she always kept secrets from me even though we talked about not keeping secrets from each other no matter how bad it was. But she just stuck to not telling me anything. Sometimes she would go places and not even say a word, she'd just leave." I replied.

"I used to think she wouldn't be so secretive because, well she always told us everything at least that's what I thought."Rusev said.

"I don't know about you guys but I'm starting to think someone was murdered in this house because when I went upstairs into the bathroom the sink and the tub were stained in blood. I'm not even going to tell you what I saw in the toilet." I said. "And I don't know if you noticed it or not but that sink right there behind you is also stained with blood. And the refrigerator smells as if it hasn't been sanitized in over a year or so. The smell is horrid."

"I agree with you there I mean who would want to live here?" Cesaro replied.

Lana and Rusev looked inside the sink and then looked back at me. They suddenly shuddered, and walked away.

"Well that was unexpected of course." Cesaro said. " But anyway back to Bella . Do you think she's hiding in an alley or something?"

"No I don't think she'd want to stay under filth for this long. I know her enough to say that if she were to go somewhere it would be a quiet place , you know the unexpected. But the thing is I can't think for the life of me where in the hell that would be."

"She probably went to a church you know and maybe she's somewhere in a sanctuary." Lana said.

"I highly doubt it because you know churches have mass and they do have Sunday services. Even if she did I would think someone would've found her by now if that was the case." Cesaro said as he paced around.

"Hmm he has point there I just wish-

Before I could finish my sentence my phone started vibrating in my pocket. I jumped a little when I took it out and looked at it. My heart began racing as I began to recognize the number that appeared on the screen. I quickly answered the call and held the phone to ear.

"Hello?" I shivered.

"Mr.Perkins we have a lead as to the whereabouts of your girlfriend Bella . Officer Warren and I have found her sir. I am going to give you the address so you can meet us here. Do you have a pen and piece of paper to write it down on?" Officer Smith said

"Quick give me a pen somebody." I whispered as I pulled out an old receipt from when I went to the pharmacy.

As Officer Smith started giving the directions to the place where they found Bella I began to frown because I became a little confused because this place sounded a little unusual to me but it sounds familiar. As if I've probably been there but I'm not too sure. When I looked up Rusev, Lana, and Cesaro had the look of hope in their eyes as they glared at me hoping for good news.

" Mr.Perkins I'm going to go ahead and tell you that from the looks of it's not too pretty. Please get here as soon as you can, because I've never in my life seen anything like this."  He said.

My heart dropped a little when he said that and I began to panic.

"Okay okay. We'll be there as soon as we can." I said.

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