If Not Now, When? // Book 1

Chapter 19: Feb 27

Chapter 19: Feb 27

I woke up to a text from Livia.

Livia: Hey I'm going out to the shops, wanna come?

Michaela: Sure, just let me get ready, I'll meet you out front

Michaela: Wait are we skipping school

Michaela: Mum's gonna kill me.

Livia: Oh shit

Michaela: What are we gonna do

Livia: We could lie

Michaela: *gasp* Livia how dare you suggest such a thing

Michaela: Let's do it

Livia: lol but what do we lie about

Michaela: I dunno

Michaela: I'll say something about being sick, and mum's at work all day and she can ring school and say I'm sick but what are you doing?

Livia: I'll figure it out. See you in half an hour.

I don't lie about being sick very often, but we have Mass today and I cannot be fucked going. I managed to convince her and met Livia in front of my house about 10 minutes after Mum left for work.
We walked to the shopping centre, about a 15 minute walk from my place.

I had about $50 on me, so I'll probably just buy something useless, like always.

"Sheldon came over yesterday, all we did was watch Netflix though." I said.

"Mhmm, anything else?" Livia nudged me.

"Possibly..." I winked. "Plus he suggested we sing Ed Sheeran."

"Oh my god, yes, which song?"

"Perfect."

"Yes! My favourite, and it fits you two so well!"

"Thanks... Anyways, have you seen your boyfriend lately? He hasn't texted me nor Shannon in days, and usually our group chat is constantly buzzing. I wonder if somethings wrong?"

"I haven't seen him all week, and he hasn't texted me either, we usually talk everyday... Oooh gods I hope he's okay..."

"I'll call him give me a second." I called Kat's phone, someone answered, but it wasn't Kat...

I put it on speaker so Livia could hear it as well. We drifted off next to a wall, out of the way of fellow shoppers.

~ Hello? Who is this? ~

"Hey, Kat? Are you there?"

~ Answer my question first. Who is this? ~

"This is Michaela. My name is saved on your phone, I know that for a fact."

~ I'm sorry, Kat isn't here right now, what do you want? ~

"I just want to know where he is. Do you know?"

~ Yes. I do, but you don't need to know that. ~

"I may not need to, but I would like to. Where is he?"

~ Why do you need to know? ~

"Because he's my friend, and I haven't seen him at all this week, I'm worried about him."

~ Excuse me, I have to go now. ~

Livia quickly took my phone from me. "Uh, no, tell me where my boyfriend is, or so help me, I- "