AJ's POV:

I sat in my seat at the hospital waiting room, wishing they would return with Lena sometime soon. It was driving me crazy, especially since they had told me to stay behind and wait. I'm really worried, especially since they haven't called us or anything like that to give us info about the search.

Aaron sat across from me, his feet in one seat, his body in another one. Kat sat in a chair by the window, cross-legged, staring out into the rain, muttering to herself.

"So," Aaron said, turning around in his seat so his feet touched the floor. "I heard that you practically killed a seven-year-old girl?"

Just the mention of Katie Beth made me want to leap out of my seat and dig my fingernails into his throat. It took all of my willpower not to strangle the look off his face. I —lost control and got half way across before regaining my composure and sitting back down, which caused him to flinch backwards.

I took a few deep breaths, calming down after a few minutes.

"What did you feel like...?" he looked up at me. "If you don't mind me asking."

"I do mind you asking," I looked up. "But I felt like the entire world had crashed down on my shoulders. I'd lost my everything, my best friend in the world."

He frowned, looking down at his feet.

"Let's picture it this way." I said, leaning forward and resting my elbows on my knees. "Imagine you're holding Zoë as she dies. That's how it felt."

He cringed up at the thought.

After a few minutes of silence as I stared out into the rain, he asked, "Why do you hate me so much?"

"Well..." I said, exhaling. "You were kind of the reason Emma and I broke up."

"Oh." he said, looking surprised. "I didn't mean to try to steal her from you...I was just trying to make Kat jealous." He looked over at her with sad eyes.

We ended up having a conversation about our love lives, which may sound weird to you, but it wasn't actually bad.

When we were in the middle of having a conversation about Katie Beth and how I didn't get her killed, Arianna, Cole, Indie, and Alan walked in, dripping wet.

Aaron and I stood up from our chairs in unison, looking over at them, as Kat made her way over to us.

She looked at Cole hopefully, her eyes lighting up like rainbows.

"No," he said, looking absolutely horrible. "We looked everywhere, but...no luck."

"Wait." Kat says, looking behind them. "Where's Lo?"

Indie bites her lip and frowns. "He wouldn't give up on looking for Lena."

We spent the next few hours just sitting there, mostly everyone else just texting or listening to music on their phones, but I sat and stared into space, wondering how my life ever ended up becoming this messed up.

When the clock struck thirty minutes after midnight, Lo burst through the doors—which was kind of hard to do, considering they were automatic-opening doors—with Lena's limp body thrown over his shoulder. He was soaked and shivering like a wet dog.

Al leaped out of his seat and took her off his shoulder and sat her down in a chair.

"What happened?" I asked, getting out of my chair and stretching my arms behind me.

He took a deep breath, and then said, "I was walking through the woods and came across this big place like a boot camp, I don't even know. I saw a break in the fence and prints in the mud, and I followed them. And I found Lena knocked out against a tree."

"Thank the gods you're back, though!" Kat ran over and started trying to clean up the twigs out of her hair and dabbed a tissue on a scratch on her face.

"Oh...and there's one other thing." he says, looking reluctant to say it.

"What?" Arianna came over to us and looked at him.

"She's also...kind of an illegal immigrant."

Authors Note: Oh my gods, I'm so sorry for taking so long to upgrade this. ;-; The last weeks of school were very hectic, I took like five field trips during them, but I'm finally on summer vacation!:D (I've been on it for like two weeks though, honestly. XD) I know last summer vacation I promised a lot of chapters and only put out a few I truly wrote, but I promise more are coming! I'm gonna finish up my new version of Camp Half Titan, so the people who haven't read it and are reading this aren't confused, I'm working on editing old chapters from Stolen, and I'm working on a new fic possibly some time soon. Read and review, please. c: