The chapter we've all been waiting for...... enjoy this LONG ASS CHAPTER! GOOD LORD THIS CHAPTER TOOK FOREVER TO WRITE! I started writing it on Wednesday, it's Friday now!

Mature themes up ahead!

(Hopes POV)

     Friday, thank god it's Friday! (Y/N)'s supposed to be back at school today which I'm honestly very happy about! I know how her relationship with her mom is so I knew how she wanted to be back as quickly as she could. I wouldn't blame here to be honest.

     I tried to text her while she was out in California but none of my messages went through to her, maybe she turned off her phone, or maybe it's my phone acting up again, can't wait to get a new one soon.

     I quickly got ready for the day, Linkin Park shirt, skinny jeans for once despite me jumping and wiggling to get them on, and my hair in its usual ponytail with my headband. Maybe today should be the day that I talk to Cris, yeah, it's Friday so once I tell him I basically won't have to see him for a whole two days. I grab my book bag as well as my phone and my charger and say bye to my parents as I walk outside to my car.

      But today I was greeted by a different sight. A sight that actually surprised me. Cris was walking up towards my door, motorcycle helmet in hand. He smiles when he sees me and tosses me the helmet.

"Before you ask, I received my International Driving Permit a month before I came here after I figured out I WAS coming here. If you're wondering what that it..... basically a license for anywhere." He says laughing a little. I give him a quick smile and walk up to him. He grabs onto my hand and pulls me in for a kiss. I sigh and back away from him.

"Look Cris, I've been meaning to talk to you." I say. He looks at me and laughs.

     "Are you asking me out on a date?" He laughs again, this time walking towards the motorcycle. I look at the ground and slowly walk towards the bike.

     "It's a 2006 Yamaha r6. Brock's dad let me test it out a couple nights ago, been in love ever since. Well, with the bike, I already been in love with you since I first met you." He says turning back to look at me. I close my eyes and take a deep breath. Fuck this is going to be a lot harder then it looks.

     "Hey.... you're book bag looks a lot smaller then usual." I say, changing the subject. He shrugs his shoulders and gets on the bike, grabbing the helmet on the ground.

     "Yeah..... I cleaned it out, took out the useless stuff that I didn't need. Anyways come on!" He says putting on the helmet. Tell him at school so he doesn't get completely pissed off at me and ends up trying to kill me. Like that'll happen, he'll probably end up getting mad like any other man but because he "loves" me, he'll quickly get over it.

"Hey at school I have to tell you something." I say getting on the back of the bike and put on my own helmet. He starts the bike up and looks back at me, our helmets hitting each other.

"Sorry! Hey you might wanna hold on!" He yells over the motor. I nod my head and grab onto his waist. He's still your boyfriend Hope, you gotta calm down. Yeah, you've been on one of these before, it's fun!

As he drove I started to calm down. By how fast he's going we should be at school in 5 minutes. That's when he missed the turn to go into town. I looked back at the road that we were supposed to turn on the back to looking forward. I tap on Cris to get his attention.

"HEY! I THINK YOU MISSED THE TURN!" I yell as loud as I could so he could hear me. He turns his head for a split second to look back at me before turning back around.

He starts to pull off to the side of the road and comes to a complete stop. He lifts up the visor of his helmet and turns to me.

"Let me see your phone real quick!" He says loudly. I shift my weight so I can get it out my pocket.

I hand him my phone and he examines it before turning it on and tapping in the password to it. He unlocks it and the picture of us from when we first started dating comes up on my homepage. I wonder what he's doing. I glance between him and my phone and watch as a text message pops up, I couldn't tell who it was from but Cris looked at me after a couple of seconds of it being there.

"WHY THE FUCK IS CRAIG TEXTING YOU?! ARE YOU FUCKING CHEATING ON ME?!" He yells. Even of how loud the engine was, I could tell how pissed he was.

"LIKE I CAN CONTROL WHAT HE DOES AND DOES NOT DO! WHY ARE YOU GETTING SO MAD ABOUT IT?!" I yell at him, crossing my arms. He looks towards the woods and throws my phone towards it. That pushed me over the edge.

     I push on him as I get off of the bike while I take my helmet and throw it away from me. Cris turns off the bike and takes off his helmet as well.

     "Okay what the hell is wrong with you?! Was that fucking necessary?! You know what, FUCK this! We're done Cris! I'd rather walk the rest of the way towards school!" I say while storming off to the woods to collect my now shattered phone.

     As I picked up my phone I brushed off all the broken glass as well as the small crushed up leaves attached to it. I stood back up again and I felt a cold metal rod hit the back of my head. I stood there, looking ahead of me, scared shitless to move. I knew exactly what it was

     "If I can't have you, Craig can't either. Now.... let's go back to the bike and head to our destination shall we." Cris says calmly. With the gun still pointed at the back of my head he calmly reaches around me and grabs my phone. My eyes shift down as he takes it out my hands and easily snaps my phone into two pieces while dropping it to the ground.

"Come on..... the lake awaits us love." He whispers into my ear.

FUCKING FINALLY! I'VE HAD THIS PICTURE SINCE MARCH! THATS HOW LONG I'VE BEEN PLANNING THIS! JUST LOOK AT THE NAME AND THE PICTURE!!! AAAAHHH!

(Your POV)

     I got up and got ready like every other day, but today seemed different. Probably how I just got off of a "vacation" and I didn't have to go to school yesterday or maybe that it's a Friday yeah.... we have a football game tonight! I'll probably end up going with the guys and Hope like we usually do when there's a home football game.

     I got to school at my usual time and everyone and everything just seemed.... happier, it was sunny out and hardly any clouds in the sky. Even when I got to the group all of them were smiling at one another, even Brian and Evan we're smiling at the other.

     "Okay! What happened, who asked out who?" I say crossing my arms and looking around at everyone, a smirk on my face.

     "Craig here did something and we're all just proud of him for stepping up and growing a pair of balls. About time!" Holly exclaims while slapping Craig on the back. Craig chuckles and nods his head.

     "Yeah..... I told Hope how I felt! Last night we were talking on Xbox and she told me that she's planning on breaking up with Cris soon, so like.... 10 minutes ago I told her how I felt! Now we just have to wait for her to show up and soon enough she'll become Mrs. Thompson!" Craig says with the biggest grin on his face. Brock looks down at his phone for a couple seconds and looks back at the group.

     "They should've been here about 10 minutes ago..... I mean they took the Yamaha and that thing is INCREDIBLY fast. But then again they could've stopped to get breakfast." Brock says starting to look up at the sky like he was thinking. One by one everyone lost their smiles, Craig being the last one too.

     "Oh.... I see....." Craig says while grabbing his book bag from the ground. "I'll see you all in 3rd period." He says before walking towards school. I shake my head and look at Evan.

     "I'm sure that she'll be here soon Evan. I wish that you were this worried about me sometimes." I say beginning to laugh and nudging him. He smiles and starts to rub the back of his neck.

     "Clearly you haven't been told yet. Whenever your absent or your coming in late Evan legit has a meltdown thinking up the worst possible scenarios about what happened." Brian says while shaking his head. I look over at Evan while his face gets red. He looks up at Brian and shakes his head as well.

     "Now you're just making up stuff. I DON'T do that (Y/N)." Evan says turning to me now. I laugh awkwardly and lock my arm with his.

     "Let's just head to class now Evan okay? Hey we'll see you in 3rd bell today guys!" I exclaim while pulling Evan and I away from the small group. As soon as we were far enough from earshot I let go of his arm.

     "(Y/N) don't listen to him! He's just making shit up..... please (Y/N)." He says. I give him a smile, even laugh a little.

"Relax Evan, I know how clingy you can be sometimes. How bad is it, do you think I'm dying? Or maybe that I'm being murdered?" I say, sticking out my tongue.

As we walk inside the door there's a ton of people wearing the occasional red and blue on game day. Music already being played over the intercom, only on game days.... only on football game days. I remember last year Hope made a complaint to Mr. Smith and how it should be EVERY sport..... that only lasted for a whole fucking week.

As we were walking to class Evan grabbed onto my hand and spins me in a circle, both of us laughing while he kept on spinning me. We received a couple of looks from people in our grade but they kept on walking like we did.

He stops after a couple more spins but still holds onto my hand. I smile at the feeling and continue to look ahead.

"So.... are we.... actually dating now? Like.... dating dating." I ask turning to him. He scoffs and looks over at me with a smile on his face.

"I already thought that we were dating when you asked me in the locker room?" He asks. I stop walking and look at him confused.

     "No... I mean.... like we actually date instead of pretend dating. We go out on real dates and hug and kiss and all of that shit that REAL boyfriend and girlfriend do." I say to him. Ever since we kissed in my car I couldn't stop thinking about it, and the thought of ACTUALLY dating him. I have no clue as to why but it wouldn't leave my mind. His face lights up as a huge smile comes onto his face.

     "Yeah.... yeah I would actually like that.... girlfriend." He says with the same smile.

(Craig's POV)

     I know I shouldn't be telling you this on the day that you plan on breaking up with Cris but I just wanted to tell you that I've liked you for as long as I've been here, hopefully you feel the same way after this message. I sent the message while I was walking towards my car. We talked on Xbox last night about it and that's when she told me everything, literally everything going on with her life. I never thought that the time would actually come when she was going to break up with him. Maybe when the time is absolutely right I can ask her to homecoming. The day that I was supposed to ask her last year I ended up getting sick and didn't even get to go.

     It was a slow start to the day until the bell rung for 3rd period. I haven't seen Hope yet, not even in our 1st bell that we share together. Brian and I walked out of history and towards Mr. Bakers room.

"Hey don't worry dude, if she isn't in here I'm pretty sure (Y/N) will call her and see where the hell she's at." Brain said reassuringly. I nod my head and continue to walk.

"Maybe if you stop STOP obsessing over her she'll start obsessing over you!" He says laughing. Sometimes I really just want to slap him to make him shut the fuck up sometimes. He deserves it sometimes.

We got to 3rd period and the seats that Hope and Cris sat at were empty. My heart dropped but I walked in anyways. (Y/N) was on the phone but quickly took the phone away from her ear. Evan quickly sitting down by her.

"Evan I'm telling you it goes straight to voicemail. Her phone is fucking dead!" (Y/N) yells back at Evan. I wanted to throw up right there but I walked back to my seat as did Brian.

"What's happening?" Brian ask, looking back and forth between (Y/N) and Evan.

"She's trying to get ahold of Hope but either Hope is being a little bitch and rejecting the call or her phone is dead." Evan says. She's not a bitch, she may seem like one and act like one but she's not a bitch.

"Fuck this I don't care anymore. She can suffer missing a day of school. I'm already getting annoyed with this." (Y/N) says in defeat. The bell rings again and Mr. Baker gets up to close the door. It's just one day Craig..... she could just be sick and you're over reacting.

An alarm started to go off on somebody's phone, then someone else's phone started to go off, same alarm. A couple more people's phones started to go off as well and I realized what the alarm was, AMBER alert.

     Usually when someone goes missing the whole state sends out an AMBER alert if it's serious, most of the time it's only for the area of where it happened at. The AMBER alerts usually help with finding the missing person within a couple hours or so. I feel my phone buzz but the alarm doesn't go off.

ABER ALERT: 2006 Yamaha r6, black, LIC/GFA 7394 I scan over the text and put it back in my pocket. I think that they should change the system up on saying WHO'S missing so it'll be easier, but it's whatever.

(Your POV)

     The school day went by quickly after 3rd period. Hope nor Cris came in at all today, everyone just suspected that they ditched school and are already back at their homes.

     When I got home however I found Jess a crying mess on the couch with the tv on the news, Dad nowhere in sight. I throw my book bag down and run over to her, squeezing her in a hug.

     "Jess! Why are you crying?! Did something happen between you and dad?!" I exclaim while looking at her. She hugs me back and shakes her head.

     "HE'S JUST GOING TO BE WORKING ALL NIGHT THATS ALL (Y/N)!" She says through her cries. I let go of the hug and stand up from the couch.

     "EXCUSE MY LANGUAGE BUT THAT IS BULLSHIT JESS! THAT'S NOT A REASON TO CRY! NOW WHY IN THE HELL ARE YOU CRYING?!" My voice already rising. I have never risen my voice before at any of my parents, mom or dad, I knew I went cross the line but I had to make a point to her. One of the newscasters starts to talk on the news.

     "Police as well as volunteers are now searching for Hope Carson and Cristiano Richardson in Lakeview township. The two have been reported missing since 8 o'clock this morning. A witness said that he saw Richardson pull a gun out Hope before demanding her to go back to the motorcycle." The news reporter said. It switches over to an older man and he begins to talk all about the whole situation.

I couldn't even process what was happening after that, everything around me just went quiet. I couldn't hear Jess crying anymore, I couldn't hear the tv anymore, it seemed like everything went still. I knew I was crying, no, I was bawling, but I didn't know it till I felt Jess hug me and start to pat my back.

(Evans POV)

I walked through the door of my house and was shocked to see both of my parents sitting on the couch, their attention glued to the tv. I set my book bag near the stairs and make my way towards the living room. Even after I said hello to them they were still only listening to the tv.

I looked over at the tv as it flipped to a picture of Hope and Cris. I read the caption on the bottom of the screen and yelled out in frustration while punching the closest thing to me, which happened to be the vase on the coffee table. That got my parents attention, both of them yelling at me while I stormed out of the living room, tears already running down my face.

(Craig's POV)

"Police will find you and will stop you Craig. You can't just leave your family and search for her!" Brain yelled at me. I ignore him again as I continue to stuff my small gym back with a spare change of clothes as well as one of the "secret" guns that my brother had. I throw on a hoodie and put my hood up.

"I'm at 50 percent dude I'm leaving. If I die, make sure my gravestone says, 'it was out of love.' Bye Brian." I hang up before he can give me an answer back, don't do it Craig. Don't you dare start crying again. I take a deep breath and nod my head.

     I'm getting Hope Carson back, even if I die trying. I will not give up until she IS safe again. I take one more deep breath and walk out of my room.