Life Is Challenging (RE-MASTERED)

Chapter 18: The Debt

"What do you want Frank?" I ask. Chloe looks at me bewildered.

"My concern isn't with you, Carswell. Chloe, you owe me big, and it's time to pay up." Frank says looking at Chloe.

"I'll pay you when I have the money Frank. I don't have it right now." Chloe says backing up.

Max pulls out Chloes gun and aims it at Frank. "Look missy you don't know what you are doing with that."

*click* Max tried firing it.....

"Give me that, you've sure got balls." He takes the gun from Max, revealing a bracelet on his wrist.

"Where the fuck did you get that?! That's Rachels bracelet!!!" Chloe tries charging Frank as Grant holds her back. I deck Frank and make him drop the gun.

"You remember this Carswell, if I didn't respect you, I'd waste you right here." Frank runs off and I let my breath out.

"Holy shit, you two are badasses." Chloe pulls Max and I into a hug and squeezes us. I hug them both back and then back away.

"Chloe, were you being serious about that bracelet being Rachels?" I ask with a serious look on my face. "If Frank is involved with her disappearance we have to get to the bottom of this. I've worked with Frank before and he never mentioned her at all. This is some serious twisted shit." I look at Chloe who looks down.

"She wouldn't give that bracelet up willingly. We have to see what he knows. This is personal now." Chloe looks at us pleadingly.

"I'm in, I mean for fucks sake, I am your boyfriend. I got your back babe. Anything you need, anywhere you go, I'll follow." She smiles at me and blushes.

"I'm in too Ché, I'm with you too." Chloe smiles more.

I smack Grant in the back of the head as he smacks me back. "I'm in too."

"You bet your ass you are in. You know too much Forla. Time to head back to Arcadia." Chloe gets in her truck and barely waits for us to get in before she takes off. She let's us out at school and then drives back to her house. I look at Grant and Max.

"Did I do something wrong?" I ask as Max looks at me.

"No, she just needs some time alone sometimes. Especially when it's about Rachel." Max says, confirming my fear.

"If for some reason, we do find Rachel, Chloe is gonna leave me for her.... I see the look in her eyes whenever she talks about her." I sigh and lurch my way back to my dorm as Grant follows me.

"Jimmy, don't say that. Chloe loves you, Rachel left Chloe for some reason."

"Max, Rachel didn't leave Chloe, someone has got to know something. I'm putting my money and my pot on Frank knowing something." I shake my head. "He's gotta know something...." I storm off to my dorm and slam the door. I lock it and pack my bong. I clear the entire bowl before someone knocks on my door. I sigh, "Go. Away." I pack another bowl as they knock again. "I said, Go the fuck away!" I light my bowl and smoke a bit before the door unlocks and Chloe walks in. I look at my clock and it's a few hours after she dropped us off.

"Jimmy, we need to talk." She sits on my bed and looks at me, eyes puffy with tears. "Frank had picture of Rachel, horrible pictures. She wasnt the girl i used to know Jimmy." I get up and console her. I wrap my arms around her and let her cry into my shirt. Now I feel like an ass for telling her to go away. I grab my bong and close my door. I relock it.

"How did you learn how to pick locks?" She smiles and looks at me.

"You'd be surprised." She lights up my bong and smokes. We clear the second bowl in no time. "We are breaking in tonight. Into the blackwell files. You, me and Max. We are going to get to the bottom of this. Once it gets dark out, we are sneaking out." I smirk at her,