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Chapter 23 - Search Party!

"God dammit Ethan where the hell is he?!" Hannah screamed at you-know-who. Ethan's crawled up in a corner, trying his best to look small so she feels bad. Hannah unfortunately, didn't work like that.

"I-I don't know!" Ethan managed to stutter out. "I think he r-ran away or s-something!"

Hannah gritted her teeth, closed her eyes and clenched her fists. Trying her best not to explode on everyone. 

Just then, someone is heard bursting through the front door. Everyone looks towards where the noise came from. "That might be him…" Ethan said, while sitting up from the corner of the living room. Hannah was hoping that Lukas didn't get mauled to death out there; this world is pretty shitty.

Both Ethan and Hannah are walking over to the main entrance, and lo and behold, there he was. Lukas was just standing there with a pack of cigarettes, a stained shirt and some weird white substance highlighting in his hair. 

"Fucking hell! Where have you been?!" Hannah screamed at him, as he lit up another cigarette. "Also, no smoking in here!" she walks up to him, and grabs the cigarette box out of his hands, and takes the cigarette out of his mouth. Hannah goes over to the nearest window, opens it and throws out the cigarettes. Lukas tried to grab them back, but Hannah closed the door before he could even get a chance to. 

Oh that bitch! Lukas thought while trying to force the window back open. 

"Wait. What's in your pocket?" Ethan politely asked.

Lukas somehow completely forgot about the poster he kept for later. He pulled it out of his pocket, and unfolded it before giving said poster to Ethan. He read it over and said: "A missing child poster?" Lukas nods his head. 

Hannah looks over Ethan's shoulder, and also reads said poster. "Damn, that kid kinda looks like Mark!" Hannah goes over to the hallway; and yells at Mark to come down here. 

In a matter of seconds, Mark's Bitch ass shows up, after presumably taking a shower since he only had a bath towel on. "What's going on?!" he said, probably thinking that someone's arm got chopped off like an idiot. Both Hannah and Ethan Looked uncomfortable, with Ethan blushing a little bit. Lukas didn't seem to care though. 

"We were looking at this poster, and the kid kind of looked like a girl version of you!" Ethan showed Mark the poster. 

"Huh. I mean, I guess it kind of does…" Mark said like the bitch he is. 

"Hannah! Ethan! I need you guys for something!" Sarah is heard yelling for them to come back to the living room. 

"O-ok, just give us a second!" Ethan gives back the poster to Lukas, grabs Hannah by the arm and drags her body to where they needed to be. Ethan waves at Lukas, in which he returns. Now the only two people left are Lukas and bitch boy Mark. They both looked around the room, trying to find something to talk about. Well, only Mark was doing that, Lukas was just looking down at his feet, trying not to make eye contact.

"Hey! What's going on here?" Drew finally shows up, with some food. Scaring the hell out of both of them.

"Oh. Hey Drew!" Mark says.

Lukas gives him a half-assed wave. Before looking through one of the bags that he had on hand. 

"So what are you two doing here?" Drew asks.

Lukas hands him the missing child's poster that was sort of crumpled in his hand. Drew looks over it and says: "this girl kinda looks like you mark!" watching as Mark starts to get more and more annoyed at that comment. "You're the third person to tell me that" Mark gritted his teeth. 

"You wanna go look for her or something?" Drew asks the both of them. Lukas nods his head immediately, but Mark shakes his head. Saying: "Sorry, but I'm the nurse here, so I don't do stuff like that…" I genuinely hate this fucking character. "I'll take the groceries back though" that ain't helping you bud. 

Mark runs off with the groceries like a bitch, now leaving Lukas and Drew all alone together. 

"Aight bud! Let's go find this little fucker!" Drew announces.

"Hell yeah!" Lukas finally speaks up again. 

The two of them bolt out of the station, and back outside. The sun was really setting this time. And the sky was now a new shade of orange, really setting the mood for both Lukas, and Drew. 

"Should we take the car?" Drew asks.

"They're probably in this area somewhere…" Lukas reminds him. 

Just then, Lukas notices some strange old guy, staring him down across the street. It freaks him out a little bit; but they keep on moving. Lukas watches as the old guy starts to speed walk away, and into some weird car repair shop. He then tugs on Drew's shirt.

"Yeah?" 

"Some weirdo who was staring at me; sped walked his way into that weird shop over there!" Lukas points towards the rusty looking car repair store that Drew always got the heebie-jeebies from. 

"Huh. good start I guess…" Drew and Lukas begin to walk in their general direction. Each stop towards that store makes Lukas' skin crawl more and more. It felt like some sort of supernatural being, just lurking and stalking that area. Or maybe there was multiple, Lukas couldn't tell either way. 

"You feel that too?" Drew inquires about Lukas. 

He nods his head again. Saying: "It feels like there's some sort of ghost, just waiting for some poor soul to stumble across"

"Oh c'mon man, what are you Shakespeare? Just say it feels creepy" Drew says. 

They continued walking, as the feeling of dread and despair kept building up inside of them. Lukas wondered if they should just leave, and go find a different place to look. The feeling of 'this is where that girl would probably be' clouded that former thought enough for them to keep pushing forward. 

After around five minutes of straight torture; and feeling like they were going to die at any moment. They finally made it to the car repair store. They both sighed with relief, and noticed that the feeling sort of silenced itself. Almost like it said. "Alright fine, your funeral" 

Lukas walks up to the entrance, and tries his best to forcefully lift it open; but of course, he couldn't. So he called over Drew to come and help him. And somehow, the thing opened with ease. "How did you do that?!" Lukas was baffled at how much light the door felt when Drew helped.

"Don't underestimate me Lukas! I am pretty strong if I do say so myself…" 

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