A/N:
SORRY. SORRY. SORRY. SORRY. SORRY. It has been forever since I've updated. I feel really bad. I do have an excuse I could use, but its been way to long for me to use it. I hope I didn't drive all of you away because it has been so long. But on the other hand...
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Chapter Two: Undiscovered
|Milton|
23:04:53
I dialed her number as we made our way away from the cop car. It took a few seconds, until Julie picked up her phone.
"Milton?" She asked. I understood why she was confused. It was almost nine o'clock. Even though it is weekend, neither me or Julie stay up late. I knew she was getting ready to go to sleep at the moment. She was invited to the party but she refused to come because she had a project due Monday for AP Chemistry.
"Yeah, it's me. Look, I'm sorry to keep you up Julie, but I need you to do me a favor. It's a big one, and you can't ask any questions. Okay?" I told her. It was hard enough for me to do this knowing it is illegal, but if Julie knew, she would flip out.
"What do you need me to do?" I knew she still hasn't made her mind up about doing the favor. First she would ask what I wanted her to do, then she would decide whether or not she would help. Knowing Julie, it's going to be hard to convince her to do this. I should just give her as little information as possible. The less she knows, the better.
I sighed, knowing that this is long-shot. "I need you to get into the security cameras in the library. Since you work there and you have been working there for a while, I know you have the passwords. And once you get into the cameras, I need you to tell me if all the cameras are blocked."
I put a worried face on, know this is a real long-shot. I was a little bit behind Jack, Eddie, Grace and Kelsey. Everyone was filling Kelsey in on the plan, while I made sure my part- which was, get Julie to cooperate with us. And at this point, I have no clue if Julie will.
"Milton? Why do you need me to get in the library security cameras?" She asked.
"The less you know, the better." Let's just hope she takes that as an answer. I could still hear her breathing, but she didn't say a word. She hesitated before answering, "No."
I stopped in my tracks and watched as everyone else kept walking. I turned my back towards them, so no matter if they notice I wasn't walking behind them, they wouldn't hear our conversation.
"What do you mean no?" I asked.
"I mean no. Come on' Milton. You just can't expect me to do something illegal without a reason? Plus, it depends on the reason. If Jerry was making out with Grace in the library, I'm not going in and deleting the footage."
"Julie, trust me. It's better that you do this knowing it is illegal than knowing the reason why we are doing it."
"Huh?" She said confused.
"Nevermind. Julie, please. You have to do this for me." I begged.
Julie sighed, "I will help you, but it depends on the reason Milton. If you tell me what is going on and I think it is a valid reason, then I will decide whether or not I will do this."
I didn't say anything back. I turned around to see Jack, Eddie, Kelsey and Grace a lot further away from me. "Hold on." I told Julie before running to catch up with everyone. I had my hands covering the speaker area, so Julie couldn't hear our conversation.
"Guys!" I said, loudly, to get their attention.
They all turn around the second I yell. They stopped and waited till I reached them. Once I finally caught up to them, no one said a word. They all waited for me to explain why I yelled for them.
"Julie says she won't hack into the library security cameras unless I tell her what is going on. She won't take my word saying that its better she doesn't know. She said if I give her the reason, she then will decide whether or not if it is a valid reason for her to get in." I explained.
I know no one wants her to worry, but personally- I think it is the best option is to tell her. I mean, she will find out eventually. She should be watching the news soon. And it should be all over the news.
No one responds first, but a few seconds later, all of us are now looking at Jack for the answer.
Jack sighs, before responding. "We don't have time to this. Just tell her. We have to find Kim and Jerry."
I nod back to him- understanding where he is coming from. We all continue to walk towards the library, as I put the phone back up to my ear and sighed, getting ready to tell Julie everything. "Look Julie, I guess it's better you hear this from me instead of watching it on the news. But, tonight at Kim's birthday party, Jerry and Kim were abducted and buried alive."
|Julie|
22:58:42
What?
"D-Did you just say Jerry and Kim are buried alive?"
"Yes."
What the hell is going on?!
"Wait, if Jerry and Kim are buried alive, why do you need me to hack into the security cameras at the library?" I asked, confused as ever. I mean, what has breaking into the library security cameras have to do anything with Jerry and Kim. This is one thing I don't understand.
"Julie! Just do this for me!" Milton yelled.
I jumped back and took the phone a few inches away from my ear. I have never heard Milton like this. Ever. I started the do a quick breathing excercise, so I don't get overwhelmed. I could hear in the background people telling Milton to calm down and that we all know what he is going through, but to not take it out on the people we love. It was Jack, Eddie, Grace and Kelsey who told him that.
Though the phone wasn't right up to my ear, I could hear Milton apologizing over and over again. I gave a weak smile at how apologetic he was.
"Julie, I'm so so so so so so so sorry. I didn't mean to yell at you. It's just that with Jerry and Kim being buried, and only having a little time to find them. I'm so sorry. I just needed you to cooperate and-"
"Milton, I understand. You are under a lot of stress right now. It's okay, just try not to yell at me again. It kind of frightened me." I said in a soft voice, assuring him.
I heard Milton let out a huge sigh before replying, "Okay. I'm so sorry, though. I never meant to yell at you." He sounded so sincere. I felt so bad for him, because of what he is going though. I mean, we are all going through the same thing. But he was so much closer friends with Kim and Jerry. All I was to them was Milton's girlfriend. The only one-on-one I had with either of them was when Kim was getting me and Milton together, and when I had to help Jerry study for a test.
After a few moments of silence, I asked, "Are you close to the library?"
I can just picture Milton's eyes bugging out because I agreed to do such an illegal thing. It's not like me. Hell, it's not like him to ask me to do such a thing. At the moment Milton is in too much of a shock to even reply to me or he is letting everyone else know that I agreed to help them.
Milton finally says, "Yeah. We are just walking up the library. Can you hurry up and disable the alarm?"
I reach over to my laptop and open it. I quickly type in my password to log into my computer. I click on the icon I use to for work. I have to go in and make a list of who hasn't returned their books if I decide to work from home. But thankfully I'm not restricted to just that area on the computer. I quickly disable the alarm.
"Alright. I disabled tha alarm. You should be able to get in without a problem." I tell my boyfriend.
"Thank you, Julie." He said. "Now, can you just tell us if we blocked all security cameras by the computers so I'm able to get into the traffic camera."
I didn't even bother asking why he needed to get in the traffic camera. If I did, it would just create another fight and with Jerry and Kim's life at stake.. It's not worth it. I just keep telling myself that I just need to trust him. That's all I can do.
"No. Just go do what you are doing and I will just delete the footage or disable to camera. I don't know, but you don't need to be wasting anymore time with trying to block every security camera in the Library."
"Are you sure?"
"Yeah. I'm sure. Just go find Jerry and Kim."
And with that, I heard the dial tone fill through my ears.
|Grace|
22:49:58
"We are good to go." Milton told all of us with a nod of his head.
Even though Milton told us that Julie disabled the alarm, we still opened the door slowly just to be safe. We are in enough trouble as it is. I mean, we escaped from a cop car and if we get caught breaking and entering a library to hack into traffic cameras, we might as lock ourselves up for the rest of our life. One question has been bopping around my mind through-out this whole time. What's going happen to us when this is all over?
Before we fully walk into the library, I stop. I turn to Milton and ask "What about the security cameras?"
"Julie said she will either disable to cameras or delete the footage."
I sighed, still not sure with this plan, but nodded 'Okay' in response, before walking into the library with everyone following me. I was going to tell Milton that knowing Julie, I'm not sure if we can trust her enough. But I didn't want to start that fight now.
Even though I know whats at stake, losing my best friend and my boyfriend, I'm not comfortable with this. But who the hell would do such a thing? That's one thing I do not get. How does someone get joy out of this? Or even live with themself knowing what they have done! Once we get Jerry and Kim back, I know for sure I'm going after this bastard.
We were all standing around Milton who was just opening the security cameras and was getting ready to hack into them. I turned my head a little to see jack pacing back and forth mumbling something to himself. I walk towards him and put a hand on his shoulder to get him to stop pacing. He turns and looks at me.
"Jack. We will find them." I told him with emphasis on 'Will'.
He runs his hand through his hair. "What if we don't? What if they are already dead? What if he really hurt them and they are suffering from some bad injuries?"
I drop my hand from his shoulder. "Do you realize that everything you said to me began with 'What if'? Jack, we can't go around the whole time asking what if when we don't know anything." I let a tear slip from my eye. "I know your upset about your best friend, but she is my best friend to. And my boyfriend is with her. We need to focus on trying to find them instead of pacing and going through the worst scenarios in our head."
A few more tears have slipped when I finished. But when I look back up at Jack, he has guilty look in his eye. I quickly wiped the tears and put on a confused face. Why would Jack look guilty?
"What's going on Jack?"
"I was supposed to protect her. I made a promise. I would always protect her no matter what. Anderson's don't break promises, but I just did. I promised her dad that I would protect her and if anyone hurt her, they would have to deal with me."
Why would Jack make a promise to her dad? It's not like they were going out. Maybe her dad just say how close they were and made him promise. Yeah. That's it. Kim would have told me if something was going on. I'm gonna stick with he best friend scenario.
I take a quick glance over and make sure that they aren't paying attention to our conversation, before I reply, "I understand you want to protect your best friend Jack, but-"
Jack's arms fly in the air. "She's not just my best friend, Grace. She is my girlfriend. We were going to make the announcement later at the party."
Oh my god. "W-What?" I let out in a low whisper. I look at Jack, who now has tears flooding from his eyes, but he does nothing to wipe them away. He doesn't respond. We are just standing here. Looking each other in the eyes. I still can't process what Jack just told me.
"I know this isn't the way you wanted to find out, but I had to tell someone."
I pull Jack in a hug. I put my arms around his neck and his go around my waist. It's not a romantic hug. It's a comforting hug.
"We will find them. Everything will be okay." I whisper into his ear. We stay like that for a few more seconds until Milton yells, "I'm in!"
We quickly pull away from each other and walk over to everyone else. It took Milton a little longer to get in the cameras than I though it would, but hey. We are under a lot of stress. I watch as Milton searches for the video around the time we estimated for Jerry and Kim to disappeared. Which we estimated about two hours ago.
"I found it!" Milton double clicks on the video and it pops up to a full screen. Whether we were ready to see this or not. Milton clicks play.
It starts out with Kim walking toward Jack's car. She flips though the set of keys Jack has, until she finds the one to open Jacks car. Before she does, her eyes are wide when she turns around. And that is when Jerry comes in. They are talking for a few minutes before Kim turns back around to unlock Jacks car. As she is turned around, we see something hit Jerry in the arm.
"What was that?" I asked.
Milton pauses the video and leans back in the chair. "It's probably something to make him sleep. Such as anesthesia. Or something." I nod my head. I just want to make sure it wasn't anything to hurt him. Milton leans forward again and clicks play.
As the video continues, Kim turns around and Jerry falls on top of her. It looks like Kim is yelling something, but we don't know what because there is no sound. Next, something hits Kim in the arm and they both fall to the ground. Everyone gets a little closer to the screen in anticipation. We are waiting for the person to come get Kim and Jerry.
"What!?" I yell. Not even a second ago, we were all looking at Kim and Jerry on the ground then nothing. No one was there. It's like they disappeared within a blink of an eye.
Milton slams his fists on the table. "The person must have gotten in the camera and deleted to footage."
Jack starts to pace again. We were so close. It's like the person is teasing us. Like he or she wanted us to feel like we were getting close then yank that away from us. I'm gonna catch this bastard once we find Jerry and Kim.
"Well, w-what about looking for my car driving out? There is only one spot to get in and out of this area of the mall. They would have had to drive though it." Jack grabs out a piece of paper and a pen. He quickly writes something on the paper before handing to Milton. "There is my license plate number. If you see if then we can determine where this person went."
I looked at Milton. He didn't have a pleased look on his face. "Jack.. If he deleted this footage, then he probably deleted everything else to lead where he went."
"Maybe, but he couldn't have gone through every single camera that had him on tape. Where ever he is there has to be multiple cameras that caught him." Jack said. He did have a good point. "There is no way that the person would be able to delete the footage of every single camera that got him on tape. And even if he did, he is still probably working on trying to get the footage deleted. So there could be some cameras with some footage."
"Even if that is correct, that is a lot of cameras to go through. I doubt we will even make it." Milton said.
Jack groaned. "Well, we have to do something! We can't just sit here and do nothing. I can't just sit here and do nothing!"
Eddie, Kelsey, and I were all watching the argument between Jack and Milton. They both had good points. I know I can't just sit here and do absolutely nothing. But I know if we do try to go through almost every security or traffic camera in Seaford, there is no way we will be able to catch the footage before it is deleted.
"Neither can I, Jack! It's hard for me to, but there is nothing else we can do. We can't search through every security camera in Seaford!"
Jack's eye brows furrow. "How can you do this? How can you actually give up when two of our best friends are buried alive somewhere? I don't get how you can make that decision and live with yourself."
"Jack. I'm not giving up. We are just out of options. I mean, what if he left Seaford? How are we going to find them then?" Milton points out.
Jack's eyes widened. "Do that! Look at least at 5 or six cameras where the 'You are now leaving Seaford' sign is. There isn't many lights or anything there so the cameras must be spaced out. We can cover at least a mile of the footage. Do you get what I am saying?" Milton nods his head. "That way we can know for sure whether they left town or not."
"Okay. Fine. I'll look at the five cameras by the sign. The camera that is a mile away from the sign is by Wal-Mart. I'll start with the one closest to the sign and go back."
Jack just walks away. My eyes follow him as he goes in the bathroom. I go over to the table and sit there. It's going to be a while. I have to find something to do. I see Kelsey and Eddie go over and look through the rack of books closest to them. And Milton is just on the computer typing away.
I hope he finds something.
|30 Minutes Later..|
22:17:26
No one has bothered Milton one bit. Even though we are all getting very impatient. We knew that he would tell us when he got something. Jack was sitting at the table I was previously sitting at. Kelsey was sitting at a computer across from Milton. Probably on Facebook or Twitter. Eddie had a stack of books next to him. I think he was trying to focus on reading something instead of reality, but I don't think that is going well. I'm on my way to use the bathroom.
I walk into this insanely bright bathroom. I think it was the fact that we had barely any lights on in the library so it was darker. Plus its like 11:00 pm. I think. I think I left my cell phone in the police car or in the dojo. I'm not sure. So it's not like I can check the time.
Oh god. I look like a monster. I looked at myself quickly in the mirror before I started washing my hands, but when I saw what I looked like; washing my hands was the furthest thing from my mind. I had bits of mascara on my cheek. Probably from crying when I was talking to Jack earlier today.
I grabbed a paper towel and got a tiny bit of water on it. I started rubbing my cheek to get the mascara off. I saw it slowly start to come off. I continue with the other cheek till I was satisfied. I wash my hands quickly before going back out there. I walk over to sit next to Kelsey, who was just staring at the computer screen now.
"Hey." I say quietly.
She looks over at me. "What if we can't find them? What happens then?"
I sighed. This was going through everyone's mind lately. Not that it's a problem. "I'm going to tell you the same thing that I told Jack. We will find them. I know we were about to give up there for a second, but we could never ever do that to Kim and Jerry. I mean Jerry is my boyfriend and Kim is my best friend. And I know she is your best friend too. I promise you that we will find them."
She gave me a small smile. I put my hand on hers. "We are in this together and we will find them."
"Wait a minute!" I jerk my head towards the voice. It was Milton. It was the first thing he had said in like 30 minutes. All of us got up and were running over to Milton, waiting to see what he had found.
"What is it, Milton?" Jack asked frantically.
"Your car. I saw it pull into the Wal-Mart parking lot. And it went behind the store. I hacked into Wal-Mart's security cameras and you can see someone dragging two figures into the woods." He said, turning around in his chair.
We all looked at him is disbelief. "Well! What are we waiting for? Let's go!" Jack says.
"Wait. I don't think its where Jerry and Kim are buried. I mean this guy was smart enough to delete the footage of him leaving the mall, how come he didn't delete this footage of him by Wal-Mart? I think its a setup, trap, or a tease. Something like that. There is no way this guy got that stupid in two hours." Milton said.
"Well its something. We have to go look. Come on. If we don't find anything we can go back to police and have then interrogate us." Jack said.
"Let's go look. It's like what Jack said. It's something. We have a lead. The police are probably still at the mall questioning people anyways. It's something." Eddie said. Is voice almost sounded different. He just hasn't said anything in a while. That's why it sounds so different.
The rest of us nod in agreement.
Milton gets up from the chair and says "Okay. But first I'm going to take a quick video of the footage so we have it on a mobile device." He turns around and starts recording the video.
But in the middle of the recording, police bust through the door yelling for us to put our hands up. Kelsey and I screamed loud. Jack and Eddie immediately put their hands in the air. Milton quickly ends the video and turns off the computer.
The officer who put us in the cop car earlier came over. "You guys are in a lot of trouble." Officer Todd said. A few more officers came over to put handcuffs on us and take us out of the library. They have been probably waiting for the right moment to bust in because there was a crowd of people standing outside. Everyone was standing at an angle that no matter where we stood in the library we couldn't see them.
Everyone's eyes were on the five of us.
The slid Eddie and I into a cop car. Kelsey and Milton into another. And Jack was alone in another.
|Jerry|
22:02:23
"Are you sure you couldn't find anything that we could eat or drink?" I asked.
Kim had searched the entire car for something. We found some old empty Powerade bottles and chip bags.
Kim shook her head. "No. There is absolutely nothing. I don't know what we are going to do." She sighed as she plopped back into the seat. There was silence. I decided to go back and think about the party. I wish I was just back and partying with Grace. I miss her. I miss everyone. I remember laughing at how Kelsey was acting because she spiked her punch. And how Grace through a tiny bit of water on her to get her to stop hitting on me.
Wait.
When Jack lent me his car, I had to pick up some extra water bottles and chips just in case. I put them in the trunk. The seat I am sitting on is a secret entrance into the trunk.
"Kim. Move back to the front."
"Huh? Why?" She asked, confused.
I started to scoot closer to her, so I could get off the seat and pull it forward. But every inch I moved closer, she looked at me like I was crazy. "Kim. I remember I had to pick up some extra water bottles and chips just in case and I stored them in the trunk. If I am able to pull this seat forward, I can get into the trunk."
As soon as I finished, she was on her way to climbing to the front. Once she was all the way up there, I scooted into her spot and pulled the seat. It was a few moments until I was able get it open. I looked over at Kim and we both smiled at each other. Happy at the fact we are now able to drink and eat. I reached in and was trying to find the water.
Jack had too much in his trunk. He had some clothes, a spare tire and his karate stuff. When I finally found the package of water bottles, I pulled on it. I couldn't get it through.
"I'm not able to get the whole thing through, but I can bring a water and chips out one at a time." I said.
I looked over at her and she nodded her head. I reached back in and grabbed one water bottle. I pulled it out and tossed it towards Kim. She immediately caught it and started drinking. But half way of drinking it, she asked, "How much of these water bottles do you have?"
I shrugged my shoulders. "I don't know. I think I bought a pack, but I only took in like for the party. So like 30."
I went in and pulled out the rest of the stuff. I tossed Kim her bag of chips and I went and grabbed a water and chips for me.
We had food and drink.
A/N:
Horrid ending. I hate it. I hate it so much. I really don't like the chapter that much either. But I hope you guys do. I had like only 1,000 words written until today. I wrote 4,000 words today. This is defiantly a longer chapter. Do you like chapters this long? The next on might actually be this long. I had more that I wanted to put in, but I really felt like it was getting too long.
I will try and update faster for the next chapter.
Oh, and you have no idea what I have in store for the upcoming chapters.
Hint: Fights. betrayal. Lies.
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Please. I do apologize for it being a long time since I updated. Did this make up for it? Personally, I hate this chapter. But I felt like it was needed.
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