The One Life War

Chapter 18 - Another Kidnapping

Meghan woke up to the sound of a very annoying alarm going off. She slowly opened her eyes, reaching for her phone. Why am I getting up so early? She wondered to herself. She read the name of the alarm. "Get an early start to stopping Joey"

Oh. That's right. Joey. England. Kidnapping. Callum. Scott. Her brain recalled the memories from earlier on. She groaned, turning off the alarm and sitting up, rubbing her eyes. It took her a few minutes to properly wake up.

Once she was awake enough to stand, she carefully stumbled towards the door. She didn't want to accidentally wake up Joey. She peeked in and...

"Oh no!" She exclaimed. He was gone.

She quickly went over to the boys' bed, shaking Callum roughly. "Callum! Scott! Wake up!" She exclaimed.

"Wha-" Callum asked. Meghan moved to start shaking Scott.

"Wake up guys! Joey's gone!"

Callum was most of the way awake now, and Scott was starting to wake up. Callum looked at her dead in the eyes.

"He's gone? Are you sure he's not just in the bathroom?" Callum asked.

Meghan immediately charged to the other room's bathroom. The door to the bathroom was open. The room was empty.

"He's not here!" She said, panicked.

Callum got out of bed to see for himself, and Scott tiredly stumbled after him.

"Maybe he's in the hall?" Callum asked.

"Did he text you anything, Meghan?" Scott suggested. Meghan went back to her bed, grabbing her phone off the nightstand. There was a message she hadn't seen before because she had been so focused on turning off the alarm.

"It's from Joey." She announced, voice full of worry. "Sorry for leaving without you before we had planned. I need to get on with the plans. I'll text you at 7 a location to meet me at."

No one spoke for a good minute.

"What are we going to do?" Meghan asked, voice full of worry.

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Yammy was pulled out of her peaceful sleep by the sound of her phone. She groaned, knowing it was only one of five people to get past her Do Not Disturb mode on her phone. She knew it had to be important, whoever it was.

She reached over and checked the caller ID. Scott. She answered it immediately.

"What?"

"Sorry to wake you, you weren't responding to my text messages."

"What's going on?"

"Joey's gone. We aren't sure where, but he texted Meghan to let her know that they were moving forward with the plan."

"Shoot." Yammy started hitting her husband lightly, trying to get him to wake up. He stirred next to her. "I'll call Joel and let him know. Oh my gosh."

"Yammy, what do you want us to do?"

"I'll tell you in a second. I'll call back once we have an idea of what is going on."

"Alright. I'll talk to you in a minute."

"Bye."

"Bye."

"What's going on, Yammy?"

"Joey is on the loose, and we don't know what he wants."

"I'll call Stacy."

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Joel was pulled out of sleep from the sound of his phone. He had already started the wake up process, as an alarm had gone off a few minutes before. He had wanted to get up early and make Lizzie breakfast. He answered the call, then checked the caller ID.