Beloved weaknesses

CHAPTER 18- Precious petals

"You love someone, endlessly. That's a very simple sentence, except for it is more meaningful than most sentences. Love, that is endless has no limits, no exceptions, no excuses, no maybe-s, no keeping secrets, no pretending, no 'I need a break' and no lying. It sounds like a joke, I know. But it's actually the most beautiful, calming and emotionally satisfying relationship you could have for yourself. You're luckier than the richest people that walk the earth if you find someone you could endlessly love." I read this paragraph at the end of her English textbook.

I kept browsing through all her stuff. I missed her. I want to be with her. And there's nothing I can do about it. When I read the little paragraph she wrote, I couldn't help but wonder how she could think and write so beautifully. She's amazing, she's the best, and I always hoped that one day she'd me mine... except for she's nowhere right now. I couldn't even hear her voice.

I couldn't sleep I couldn't eat and I couldn't focus on anything after we took that guy to the hospital. If the stalker could smash an innocent person's head on the wall, I can't imagine what damage he could cause Carolina. I didn't want to think of it but I can't possibly avoid the thought.

But it was weird, that guy, Simon, he said was his name, told us that he was in our class. I never heard about him, I don't think I even saw him. And I could tell that he was trying to hide an accent... he was faking the way he spoke to us. I'm not sure he was probably scared. But no idiot would randomly smash someone's goddamned head in a school with CCTV cameras.

I was done thinking. I had to do something. I texted on Dylan, kol, Tristan and mine's group chat.
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NOAH- guys, I think we need to call the cops.

DYLAN- I think we should let her parents do that. What do you guys think?

NOAH- they haven't even realised that she's not here. They would've ran into my house and threatened me long ago if they knew!

KOL- yeah man, I don't think her step-mom gives a rat's ass about her. But Noah, the cops will probably assume you have something to do with this.

TRISTAN- damn right they will. It'll just slow down our process of looking for her.

NOAH- they can find her better you guys don't get it. There is nothing more that we can do. We can only look for her in places we can think of. What if she's in a hotel somewhere what if she's out of the damn country! I can't sit here roaming around the city feeling like a useless fucking idiot!

KOL- you're right. But I think we should still wait for a day and see if Carolina's parents do something, or else we're all in this.

NOAH- I'm not coming to school tomrw then, I don't want to waste a minute. I'll start asking at the diner and go to the other places. Dylan when you go to the grocery store please check the cameras and find that asshole's face. We need it.

DYLAN- I'm coming with you too. And don't worry I'm on it. I've already hacked the store's computer I can access it from my laptop, except for its broken.

TRISTAN- wtf man when did you do that!

DYLAN- the day I saw that bastard following Carolina. I knew we'd need this.

NOAH- come over, use Carolina's laptop.

DYLAN- coming brother.

TRISTAN- kol and I will tag along tomrw with you guys. We're not letting y'all die alone if that son of a bitch stalker is smashing heads left and right.
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Dylan soon reached home and all I had to do was hand him the laptop. He didn't waste a second before he started to type like an obsessed psychopath. I looked at him for about 5 minutes, and then it hit me.

"If you could do this and get the stalker's face before why the fuck on earth did you wait for her to be taken Dylan!" I yelled with annoyance.

"Noah I'm going to be fired after doing this. We didn't know he'd take her. I'm not a professional hacker so no matter what I do Rachel's dad will get a direct notification when I get access to his dumb computer with an IP address that will send him this location. If I knew she was going to get kidnapped I wouldn't wait a second." He explained.

I stared at the laptop screen getting more and more impatient by the second. And all of a sudden there were divisions on the screen, each showing a different part of the store. It was all black at the moment cause it was live footage of the store right now. Dylan types a few more things and then we went back in time.

We saw the stalker a lot of times right behind Carolina, his face still not visible. I was getting madder by second. I couldn't stop blaming myself and Carolina for never letting me do anything. We knew he was there, all of us did. But Carolina refused to even listen to anything we thought of. We stopped at the day Dylan came over to my house and told me someone was stalking Carolina. The guy was outside the store pretending to check magazines, the only thing I noticed was a big scar on his right hand. I was still unable to see his face but I think that scar was enough for me to recognise him. We paused the footage, zoomed in, and I took a picture of it. I forwarded it to the boys.

"That's hard to miss." Dylan commented still staring at the scar.

"We missed it before. I won't now." I replied blatantly.

"You love her, don't you?" He asked looking at me with a small smile.

"I just want her back." I said.

"You didn't answer my question." He taunted.

"I don't love her Dylan just leave this for now." I tried to keep my calm. Who am I even kidding...