Forever & Always

A New Friend : 7

JJ's pov:
I couldn't believe what I was reading. Hailey was really John B's sister. I look at John B who is tearing up. I walk back over to my locked bedroom door. I hear sobbing through it. I knock.
"Baby it's JJ. Please open the door." No response just sobs. I sit leaning against the door waiting for Hailey to come out. Everyone comes and sits with me. Hailey's cries quieted eventually but she never came out. Now that I know they are siblings I can now easily point out similarities. I don't know why I didn't put 2 and 2 together.
We wait until 10:00 for her to open the door but she never does. We offered her food and water but she still never responded. We all get up and go outside to drink for a few hours. I walk inside to use the bathroom. I walk out of the bathroom, and hear singing from Hailey and I's bedroom. I smile. I don't grab anyone else I just listen. (See the video above to see which song, its my current favorite)
     She finishes and begins to cry again. I almost knock but I know I won't get an answer, so I don't. I go back outside to everyone. Looks like I'm going to be sleeping on the couch tonight.
     One night turns into four. We've seen Hailey come out of her room once a day. She uses the bathroom, grabs two granola bars, and two water bottles. We try talking to her but she ignores us. She hasn't come out of her room today. I'm starting to get super worried as a thought pops into my head. What if she's self harming? It's happened before.
     That draws the line. It's already been five days. I walk over and knock on the door of our room.
     "Babe please open the door. I need you." I say through the door. The Pogues are at The Wreck right now, but I stayed back incase she came out. I get no answer. "Babe seriously. Can you please talk to me?" No answer. I go to open the door and to my surprise it opens. She must have forgotten to lock it.
     I walk into her room to see that she's not in there. I walk out and look around outside the house. She's not there.
     "Fuck!" I yell. I call everyone and tell them Hailey is gone.

Hailey's pov:
     I snuck out of the house. I don't know where I'm going. I don't run incase something happens to my heart. I just walk and cry a little.
     I end up at the beach of my accident. I just stand and stare at the entrance. I eventually walk onto the beach and sit down. I look out onto the ocean as the sun sets. I think about surfing. I want to go out again but I'm so afraid.
     "Hailey?" I hear from behind me. I whip my head around to see Topper. I don't have the energy to run away and fight with him.
     "Topper." I say turning back to the ocean. He sits down next to me.
     "What are you doing out here all alone? Away from the Pogues."
     "I just need some alone time. This is my happy place." I lie. It used to be my happy place, now I'm not so sure.
     "I gotcha. I came for the same reason. Rafe and Kelce are driving me crazy. Same with my mom." He says looking at the ocean too. "Hey. Why didn't you walk away from me? I mean I know you know what my friends and I have done. So why didn't you leave." He said as he gazed at me. I returned the gaze and said,
     "I don't know. I just felt like I didn't need to... I guess." He smiled lightly.
"Are you okay, you seem kind of off?"
"Yeah I'm okay." I lie looking back to the ocean.
"No your not. I used to date Sarah Cameron. She always said she was okay when she wasn't. I know what it looks like." He was right. There's no point in trying to convince him otherwise.
"Fine I'm not okay. I just don't want to talk right now."
"Then let me bring you to my place. Or back to John B's if y-"
"No! Just take me to your house if it's not any trouble." I say cutting him off.
     "Okay. Come on." He says standing up extending his hand. I take it and he brings me to his truck. We go to his house and he takes me to his room.
     "Hey is it okay if I stay here for a while? Don't feel obligated to say yes, I just don't want to go back to John B's." I ask hopeful.
     "Yeah sure. You can stay in the guest room. On one condition. You tell me what's going on."
     "Okay fine." I say sitting down on his bedroom floor. I tell him about the aortic aneurysm and the surfing accident. I don't tell him about the DNA results though.
     "Wow!" He says. He looks like he's at a loss for words.
     "Yeah. Sorry I just let everything out." I pause and chuckle. "My friends would probably kill me if they knew I was here."
     "Yeah probably." He laughs. "So do you think we can be friends?"
     "Sure Topper." I say and smile.

Sarah's pov:
     We are all super worried. We can't find Hailey anywhere. It's almost midnight. Everyone is non-stop looking for her. They wanted someone to stay here in case she came back, and that someone is me. They looked all over town. I was really hoping she would come back so this would be over.
"We can't fucking find her!" John B said storming into the château. Everyone following behind him. They all look stressed. I sighed.
"For all we know she could be dead!" JJ yelled in frustration.
     "Hey calm down J." Kiara says going to hug him. He hesitates for a second because he was still mad at her. He hugged her back though.
     "I'm sure she's fine. She just needs a little space. We all do sometimes. Where she is? I don't know. None of us do and we can't help that. But all we can do is wait for her to come back. I know Hailey. She'll be back tomorrow." I say sitting down on the couch.

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     It's been another five days. Hailey still hasn't returned. We are getting super worried. We were about to call the cops, but I resisted and came up with one more idea. I'm going to go to Figure 8 and look around. Even if it means talking to Kelce, Topper, and Rafe.

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