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(12) Lyra is gone

Zack

April 27th

I go into Lyra's school and look for Grace and after about 15 minutes I find her in one of the mini halls making halls making out with some guy.

I didn't want to do this, but I had to find Lyra. So I separated them. "Grace."

"Zack? What are you doing here?" She asks confussed as she holds the guy at arms length.

"Who the hell are you?!" The guy demands and I try to control my temper.

"Dosent matter!" I huff.

"He's Lyra's boyfriend, go back to the dance. I'll be there in a minute." Grace says staring into his eyes and for a few moments they stare into each others eyes, before the guy looks at me and then back to Grace.

"I'll see you in there." The guy says just before he disappears.

"What are you doing here?" Grace asks after he's out of ear shot.

"Where's Lyra?!" I demand.

"What do you mean where's Lyra? I thought she was with you."

"Well she's not! She said something about a prom, so here I am!" I say frustanly my temper rising.

"Yeah, she was. But she left hours ago."

"Hours ago?!" I raise my eyebrows. "Hours ago?!"

"Calm down. There are cameras. Everywhere." She whispers. "The last I saw Lyra was probably about 3 hours ago. When she freaked out when she saw me and Owen."

I'm guessing Owen is the guy Grace was with.

"Why? Jealously issues? What is Owen like an ex-boyfriend or something?" I ask and Grace just look at me weirdly for a few minutes.

"You obivsly don't know anything about Lyra's love life."

"Exuse me?!"

"Lyra dosen't get jealous and if Lyra's ex-boyfriend showed up there wouldn't be no arguing."

Okay, then. That's good to know. I guess. I still didn't like the fact of the thought of Lyra having a ex-boyfriend though. But before I could say anything, Grace started wondering off. So I followed her.

"She said she needed some air, so my best guess she went in here." Grace opens up a bathroom door and we see that their is wood, toilets, and glass all scattered around the floor. "That's not good."

"What?"

"Lyra's having a meltdown and my best guess is-"

"What?!"

"Calm down would you? I know where Lyra is."

"Well, where is she?!" I'm losing my patience here.

"If I tell you, Lyra will kill me if you know."

"Know what?!"

"But I guess since she's missing and they haven't seen each other in almost a month it makes since."

It's like she was having a conversation with herself.

"Who are we talking about?!" I yell.  "What is going on?!"

"Give me your keys." Grace demands holding up her palm.

"No."

"Look, I know your missing your mate or whatever. But if you want me to help you, you have to give me the keys. I'm the only person that knows where she is." Grace says sympathetically.