CODE RED (Book 1)

Confrontation

I sure hope you two didn't do anything last night. Said Dirrah once I came down the stairs that morning. Now being the time of 6:20Am.

"Mom."Came Alex's voice in disapproval. We did nothing, Gareki's dealing with tough stuff right now.

"Sorry, I would imagine so. Just let yourself know that I'm just concerned about you two." Dirrah said before heading my way up the stairs. She greeted me a good morning with a smile before climbing the rest of the way.

I offered the greeting back to her before continuing down into the kitchen.

Me and Alex both had just gotten done getting prepared for school, today being Thursday in which I couldn't wait for this week to be over. I was done with every ones eyes being on me at school making me wish even more that Saturday was here already. But then again that would make me devastated to expect Monday to come right back around only to return that dreadful feeling of every ones attention on me.

I practically shivered at the thought. But I knew I would need to get my act together considering Alex had unquestionable added my name for The Battle Of The Bands. Was it right for him to think that this was going to clear every ones head from the incident from that party? I hoped so or else I would be stepping all over again into embarrassment and anger.

"Hey". Alex greeted after noticing me come in.

"Hey". I said back with a raised eyebrow. "Does your mom honestly think we did something last night?" I asked plainly in my usual bored tone.

"Yeah, I'm guessing you over heard. Sorry about that. "He said giving me an apologetic smile that I found cute in a way( he was right, I was opening up a lot more from when we first met) He rested his elbows on the marble counter.

I shrugged at his apology giving him the assurance that it was fine. Before pulling my phone out of my pocket. I had just remembered something that now became very important at the moment. I became quiet it lasted for way to long.

Alex noticed my long silence before asking. "What are you doing?"

". . . I'm checking for a missed message from my mom. Just making sure ." I answered distractedly as I scrolled my message history for any recent messages.

"Hmm. You know, I never expected your mom to act like that. Alex started before continuing." Even though me and her haven't even met really, It just surprised me how she yelled at you, she looks like she would be a calm and collected person."

It took me a moment to reply to Alex's statement as I froze in thought at what he had just said. He was right, I hadn't even expected her to yell at me either. She wanted to be alone just because Jared left her for New York for a new line of work ordered by their boss, there was no stopping it. I could understand her grief but that was the thing. If she was in a poor mood now then what would happen if I just left her alone. . .Like I had already done. Oh crap.

I felt a cold sweat wash over me that second and my heart picked up speed in my chest as realization hit. What if she. . .oh no. I was at a lose for words.

I told myself to calm down and for the most part it worked until I got done searching threw my message history in which I had no new message from her which was bad, nor did I have a missed call like I had expected her to call me last night or maybe earlier this morning but there was no trace of anything from her. And just like that the panic rose up inside of me once again not even giving me a second to stop it.

She wouldn't commit suicide right? That was what I was dreading the most. Hell I was trying to keep her alive with my dad around and now wouldn't be any different. I snapped my head up and mistakenly yelled Alex's name thanks to my panic.