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Hudson wrote next, followed by the rest of them who told me to sit tight.
But I couldn’t just stay here. This was the only place I knew Oaklynn wasn’t.
I started to stride away, out into the open, so I could look in every direction, only for Foster to come jogging up.
“Hey,” he called breathlessly. “What do you need me to do?”
“I don’t know,” I growled. “I don’t fuckingknow!”
“Okay, well, the first thingyouneed to do is breathe. Alright?”
When he clasped my shoulder in support, I hissed and shrugged him off growling, “I don’t need…” But he was right.
We couldn’t find Oaklynn if I lost my head to the fear. I nodded and sucked in a long breath.
Keene was the next to jog up, his face sheet white with dread. “I dropped her off at the door to her Technical Writing class, I swear to God.”
“I know, I know,” I said, waving him silent. “She made it through that with no problems. But then she went up to the writing professor’s office for a meeting, and he said she lit out of there like her tail was on fire. But from there… I don’t know. She came here for some reason. I found her phone in the grass right over there.”
When I lifted it, the other two swallowed audibly and cringed.
Alec, then Hudson, and Parker showed up next.
Thane was still across town at the high school where he was a counselor, so I didn’t expect him at all.
But the others… I already started to feel better with them around.
“Where are all the possible places she could be?” Parker asked. “Her brownstone? Damien’s place? The student union? Cafeteria? A friend’s?”
“I can check out our place,” Alec spoke up before waving us off and hurrying away.
“She has a close friend named Jaylani,” I said. “But I… I don’t know how to get a hold of her.”
“On it,” Parker said, pulling his phone from his pocket and beginning to research.
“I picked her up from Alec when they were leaving Hill Hall,” Keene said. “Maybe she left something there and went back for it.”
“I’ll go,” Hudson said, lifting a hand to volunteer before he took off as well.
Which left Foster asking, “Does she have any chemistry or biology classes today? Why would she comehere?”
“No,” I said. “She should be on her lunch break now until two.” And the student union was in the complete opposite direction.
“Damn,” Foster mumbled while Oaklynn’s phone buzzed in my hand.
When I glanced down and saw Waverly’s name, I cried, “Wait!”
Parker lifted his face from his phone as both Foster and Keene surged forward, demanding, “What?”
I think I have something,
the message on Oaklynn’s phone read.
“It’s Library Girl,” I told them. “She’s got news?”
“Well, what does she have?” Keene demanded.
“Shh…” I waved him quiet. “She’s still typing.”
