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“Everything okay?” I ask again, this time feeling the worry seep in.
“Um.” Violet attempts to hide the screen from me.
“Vi, what is it?” The nickname slips out before I realize it.
“Austin is missing.”
My eyes go wide and my stomach flips–which is not good for the alcohol. I feel sick and suddenly sober. “What–what do you mean he’s missing?”
“Grant and Harry can’t find him.”
“What the hell? How can they lose him?”
Violet’s phone starts ringing again and this time, Violet answers right away. She puts him on speaker and we attempt to find somewhere quiet enough to hear him.
“What do you mean he’s missing?” Violet immediately starts in.
We hear Grant sigh and a muffled voice in the background. “He’s just…gone.”
“Well, how did that happen?”
“We were about to head back to the hotel but we were hungry as fuck. And the only place still open seemed to be the Taco Bell down the street. So we started walking that way. Harry wanted some water so we all went into Walgreens. We went different directions and that’s when we couldn’t find him. He up and disappeared.”
“In the middle of Vegas?” Violet deadpanned.
Another sigh. “Yeah.”
I can hear the stress in Grant’s voice and despite how much he irks me, I have other priorities. Like how in the hell does my brother just go missing and how the fuck do we find him in the middle of Vegas. “Did he say there was anywhere he wanted to go that you guys didn’t?” I chime in.
There’s silence for a minute before Grant responds. “Dakota. I didn’t know you were there.” His voice is a mixture of disappointment and surprise–like I wasn’t supposed to find out. “Who else is with you two?”
“Just the two of us,” Violet responds for us.
“So Kate isn’t?”
“Nope.” Violet rolls her eyes.
“Where is she?”
“Grace took her back to the hotel.”
“Did they make it there?”
“Yes,” I answer this time. “They texted us when they got there.”
“Good.”
“Do you think he went back to the hotel?” I ask.
“I don’t think so. He was pretty adamant that he was starving and not ready to end the night.”
“Do you think he went to Taco Bell without you?”
“We’re heading that way now.”
“Okay, we can look in the hotels on our way back up the strip,” Violet says, turning around and going back the way we just came. “Get us some food while you’re there,” Violet tells Grant.
“Um, sure.”
