Ian:
I was with my father when Troy started blowing up my phone. I had to put everything on hold because I was anxious to know if they found out anything about Clementine.
"Hello?" I asked Troy, getting up from the bed and moving toward the window.
"Dude, we reached the address, but it seems like someone else did before us," he replied.
My frown deepened.
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"There were only dead bodies. Clementine was not there. In fact there is no trace of her ever being here."
The moment he said that, I grunted and punched the wall beside me.
"Then we keep looking," I hissed.
As soon as I ended the call, I turned around and saw my father staring at me.
"Let’s find Clementine," my father said firmly, wiping the tears from his cheeks as he stood up. "I will do anything to have her back in your life."
The moment he said that, it hit me hard.
As I stepped out of the room, I called Troy and Haiden again.
"Hello, Troy. Both of you need to come and see me outside the academy," I told them.
I knew they would usually come immediately when Clementine was involved, so it surprised me when I noticed some hesitation.
"Could it wait for a minute? I mean, I’m kind of near my pack, and I have to go inside, speak to everyone, and explain things to them about why I left so suddenly," Troy excused.
Haiden added something similar.
"Yeah, sure, we can wait, but I want you to come quickly. We cannot waste any more time," I warned them.
They were on a conference call with me.
"Yeah, sure. Don’t worry. We will be there," Haiden replied, confirming.
I knew that stepping out of the mansion to meet Troy and Haiden, along with my father, was going to make them anxious, but we did not have another choice. So I decided to take my father with me.
Once we arrived outside the academy, on the road where we used to wait for the cars to pick us up for the train station, Troy and Haiden arrived. It took them a few hours since they had to deal with their own issues back home or wherever they were.
When they arrived, they looked at my father and then at me, as if hinting that they were unsure whether I truly trusted him.
"It’s okay, guys. He’s helping us find Clementine," I reassured them, though they still gave my father a quizzical look.
I understood that they had unresolved emotions toward my father. They did not know the whole truth. I did.
"So did you go and look for Clementine?" I asked, mentioning Nook’s place.
"Yeah, it was chaos," Haiden explained. "There were dead bodies everywhere, almost as if someone had attacked them. And there were signs that maybe Clementine had been there."
He then shared something they had not told me during the call.
"But you said there were no signs of her," I replied in annoyance.


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