Eccedentesiast (Brandon Darrow)

#LovingHim

[#LovingHim]
I look at you, and I just love you, and it terrifies me. It terrifies me for what I would do for you.
–Unknown
*****

"Stinger please, I need help. Brandon," I huffed out as I burst into Stingers place. Rowan and Elisia were there as well.
"Whoa what's going on?" Rowan asked rushing toward me.
"Mr. Empty, he has Brandon," I answered looking at Stinger.
"Hey it'll be okay we'll find him," Elisia said.
"Yeah just uh give me your phone," Stinger said holding out his hand. I gave it to him and took a few gasps of breath as Elisia held onto my hand and Rowan had her arm wrapped around my shoulder.
    "Can you track him with his phone,"I asked. My heart was beating a mile a minute.
    "I can do one better, I'm scanning the metadata on this video right now. They didn't strip the geotag which means it's super easy, almost to easy," he answered.
    "Please tell me you have something?" I said growing impatient.
    "They're at a...taxidermy warehouse?" Stinger answered.
    "I know exactly where that is, let's go," I said and they all followed after me. We all piled into Stingers car as he drove to the warehouse.
    "Hey everything's going to be okay," Elisia said and Rowan nodded.
   "I hope so," I replied and that was the exact moment I realized I did feel something for Brandon. I did love him and I needed to tell him, I needed him back. When we got to the warehouse we rushed in. "Brandon!" I whisper yelled. There was no answer and I began to panic. What if he wasn't here? What if it was to late? What if I lost him?
"Hey calm down it's okay if he's here we'll find him," Rowan said and I latched onto her hand. She squeezed it and we made our way through the warehouse. I pulled out my phone and turned the flashlight on and shone it through the room. On the wall there was something written. Mr.MT 113634. "What does that mean?" Rowan asked as she took a photo.
I was still looking around the room frantically when I spotted something else. Written on the door of a freezer was open me. I tried to open it but there was a lock. "It's not working," I muttered looking around as I saw a pile of bricks. I grabbed one and hit against the lock, and then I hit it again, and again until finally it opened.
I opened the door and used my flashlight to look around. The others followed in after me and that's when I finally saw Brandon. I gasped and dropped my phone as I saw him. His eyelashes were frosted over, lips were blue, and he was bound by his wrists and hanging on the wall. "Brandon!" I yelled rushing over to him. I grabbed his face in my hands and pulled back quickly from how cold he was.
    "Brandon can you hear me, help me," I said turning to the others.
    "Aspen," he whispered just barely and I couldn't help but feel some relief that he was alive.
    "I'm here," I answered grabbing his face once more as the others rushed over to help me get him. When we finally got into the van the others sat further away and I wrapped Brandon in a blanket and held him to me. "Hey Brandon stay with me okay, you can't die, okay, you can't because I...I love you Brandon I do, and you promised no more bodies," I rambled as tears fell from my eyes.
    His eyes opened slightly and he tried to grin, "I did promise didn't I sweetheart." I sobbed quietly as I put my head on his chest. "Shhh don't cry. Hey I love you so much okay," he whispered hoarsely.
    "I love you too," I quietly sobbed into him. When we got back to Stingers I helped carry Brandon inside along with stinger. We sat him down on the couch and we grabbed a bunch of blankets. When he was settled I crawled onto the couch next to him. He didn't look as blue anymore but I still couldn't help but fear for him. Tears kept falling from my eyes and I quickly wiped them away. I scooted closer to Brandon and he looked over at me.
    He lifted his arm and pushed me into him wrapping the blanket around my shoulder. I let my head fall on his shoulder as he placed his head on mine. "I was so scared Brandon, I thought I was going to lose you, that you would never know how I really felt about you," I said into his shoulder.
    "Hey but you didn't Aspen I'm right here and I know," he said kissing the top of my head. Rowan left and then came back with some hot cocoa in her hands. She gave one to Brandon who held it in his hand.
    "Who grabbed you?" Rowan asked perching on the arm of the couch.
    "I never saw him, he put something over my mouth and nose and when I woke up I couldn't move. It was pitch black," he answered. I wrapped my arms around his waist and squeezed him closer to me.
    "I can't get ahold of that chick Alison," Rowan said.
   "Me neither, she was texting me every five minutes and now, nothing," I said shaking my head which just meant I was basically rubbing against Brandon's arm.
   "You think she's in a freezer?" Brandon asked looking at me.
    "Maybe, she did say Mr. Empty knew she talked to me," I said remembering the texts at school.
    "I can confirm there are definitely two different phones sending you guys texts," Stinger said entering the room with Elisia following after them. "Mr. Empty and King Cobra ping off of two totally different cell towers, sometimes in completely different parts of town."
"Great we're officially dealing with two different psychopaths," Rowan said . I stood up and grabbed another blanket before snuggling closer to Brandon.
"What about that guy hawk you guys were telling me about?" Stinger asked.
"I asked him about my test; the one that had the zoo written all over it, but he said it wasn't his hand writing," Elisia shrugged.
"You sure he isn't lying?" I asked nuzzling into Brandon's neck.
"Yeah I think so," Elisia answered and then turned toward stinger, "Will you go to his apartment with me?"
"Sure," he nodded and my eyebrows furrowed.
"Oh does this mean anything to you?" I asked as I nodded to Rowan who held her phone out to show Brandon the graffiti from the Warehouse.
"Mr. Mt, 113634. Trevor and I found this coded message online and it lead us to this locker at a train station. It was locked but the code was six letters," Brandon explained.
"I'll call Trevor and tell him to meet us there," I said and looked at Rowan.
"I'll go with you guys," Rowan said and I nodded. I texted Trevor and then Brandon and I stood up and followed Rowan out of Stingers.

—•—•—