IN CROWD

Chapter XIII

  Excuse all errors.

* 6 hours later *

Lina groans as she looked around the brightly lit room, she got up from the sofa while placing her hand on her head. She had a headache, last night was amazing; she had to share the details with Becca but first she needed to find pain killers and shower, she smelled like beer and weed.
She went to her room, on her night stand she had a bottle of pain killers for time like this.

  She took two and chased it water, then she went to her bathroom where she brushed her teeth and shower, washing away the night events. After her shower she got dressed in something comfortable and decide to take a nap. Her nap turns into a three hours snooze. When she got up she was well rested. She left her room to go look for Becca but she couldn't find her. She wasn't in her room nor was she in the living room, she searched the whole entire house but she couldn't find her.

   She thought to herself Becca must have gone for a walk or something. When she went to the kitchen her brother Eli sat on one of the stools that were place around the kitchen counter eating a ham and cheese sandwich.

"How was the party?" He asked while eating the rest of his sandwich.

"Good, have seen Becca?"she asked him.

"Not since I got up" he says "why?" He asked again.

"She is nowhere in this house"

"Maybe she left to meet a friend or something"he says shrugging.

Friend, Becca didn't really have friends where can she go. She pulled out her phone and dialed her number the call went straight to voicemail. She called again but the call went straight to voicemail again. Lina was worried she hadn't know Becca for long but she knew this wasn't something she would normally do. If she did she would say something. She was pacing back and forth trying to figure out who she should call.

  She called Omar he answered on the third ring "hello" he says.

"Hey it's Lina, have you seen Becca"

"No, I haven't"he says "why is she alright?"

"I don't know haven't seen her since I got up"she says.  "Did you see her at the party?"

"No, I didn't" he says. He tells her to call if she comes home she agrees and hangs up. She sat on a stool and scrolled through Instagram to see if she had posted anything. But she didn't.

Where are you?

The only option she had now was to call her parents, her mom answers on the first ring. "Lina is everything ok, is Becca alright"

She sighs "I don't know she haven't return from last night"

"Where did you guys go she told me she was going to a party"

"We went to a party at a club on Maine Street, I tried calling her but she is not answering I'm worried something might have happen to her" she cries.

" We are going to find her, David and I will be taking the next flight out." She nods and end the call.

 

***

It was Monday and news of Becca's disappearance had spread like wildfire. Becca's mom and dad were back in town and had gotten in contact with the police. There was a full investigation going on, they had two search parties over the weekend but they hadn't found nothing that could lead them to Becca. Lina walked into her class wondering if she should tell the Steele's about the threats she was getting.

"Hey, you" Sammy says breaking her out of her day dream.

Was Becca right, did the in crowd had something to do with the things were happening. Did they get rid of her cause she knew to much. "Earth to Lina, hello" says again waving his hand trying to get her attention.

"Hey" she says weakly, can she really trust him.

"I got to go"she says walking away from him. He just stood there watching her go.

"Is it done" Omar says standing beside him.

"Not yet, Renaldo hasn't call me back, I don't like this one bit" he says complaining.

"I don't either but what are we going to do. You rather the whole school find outs, the whole world finds out what he have done."

"No, I'm just saying. Isn't there some other way to handle this"

"There is no other way, what done is done in a matter of months we are going to graduate and Mora High will be a figment of our imagination." Sammy nods listening to Omar. This was some twisted shit they had found themselves in. Omar looks at the worry lines on his friends face. "In a couple hours it will be all over and we can go back to our lives."

***

Renaldo stood outside Andrea's home, he didn't know why he was there but he had to see for himself if she was okay. He once had a small crush on her but that faded after they hookup at a party. He still cared about her but he just didn't like her no more. She left her house and was now walking down the street. He got out the car and follows her.

" Hey Andie" he calls her by the nickname he gave her when they was cool.

She turns around seeing him catching up to her. "What are you doing here, haven't you done enough"

He put his hands in his pocket just looking at her " I didn't do nothing"

"But she didn't do anything to stop them, you watch them do things to me and laugh while I cried out for them to to stop, they hurt me and to make it even worse they filmed it and posted it"she says she had tears in her eyes just thinking about that day.

"I'm sorry"

"Sorry can't erase the hurt and pain I went through that night, I have nightmares every night"

He didn't say nothing he just stood there watching her wipe her nose on her shirt. "Why are you here?" She asked him again.

"Becca is missing"

Becca, did they came after her. "She knows"

"She knows what?"

"She knows what really happen at that night"