Don't blush, don't blush, don't blush. 

Grace looks at me with raised eyebrows. 

"So Jason... AKA model boy walked you home." She is grinning while sitting down on the couch. 

 "What a nice boy, very polite .." My mom says. She walk to the kitchen, probably to make tea. 

I take off my shoes and hang my vest before joining them. We drink a cup off tea and I tell them all about the evening. How they surprised me and all the presents. While another police series is on tv.

When our tea is up, we all go upstairs to sleep.

I quickly take a shower and put on my sleep dress.

I place Jason's earrings next to my jewelry box. They are so beautiful, I hope there will be an occasion where I can wear them. 

I walk to my bed and lie down. Thinking back about this evening. Mostly Jason, because I didn't really pay much attention to the others. 

How he responded to my scar. I look at my arm again. I keep forgetting that I have this scar, probably because it doesn't hurt or because I don't remember getting them. How can I have a scar? I hope It's gone again tomorrow. But then I still don't know where it comes from.

I continue walking through the day in my mind, but my thoughts want to skip everything until the moment I grabbed Jason 's hand, what he said. 

He almost kissed me, omg we almost kissed. I can't help imagining how his lips would feel on mine before falling asleep.

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During the break, I walk to my friends. We haven't seen each other before class because Dani and Sylvana were late and Jade wasn't there this morning because she needed to go to the dentist. 

When the see me comeming they all turn to look at me.

"Nice sweaterrrr," says Daniëlle and they all smile. 

"Thanks," I smile bank and look down at the sweater. I sit next to Indira on the bench. 

She looks at me sadly. "Sorry I couldn't be there yesterday Ci." She's not looking so good, her skin is pale and she has purple bags under her eyes. 

"Yes, we were not complete without you, but we will have another one soon enough," I say. 

She smiles and looks down again. The other start a conversation but I turn back to Indira.

"Indi are you okay?" I have never seen her look like this before. She normally smiles, laughs or tells funny stories non stop.

"Yes, just a bad night." She says and shrugs her shoulders. 

Sylvana, Daniëlle, Jade and I look at each other. We decide not to keep asking, if she wants to share it with us, she will tell. But if she hasn't said anything by the end of the day and still looks like this I'm gonna ask again.

I roll up my sleeves and lean against the wall. 

"Nice bracelet," Sylvana points to my arm. I have that bracelet that I got from Ian on. 

"Oh, thank you," I say and look at my bracelet. 

When the bell rings Jade and I go to class. We have a project, we need to help people in third world countries growl food. I'm searching for information on the internet with Peter, Jade, Diaro, and Klaus. The others of our group are building a model of a greenhouse. 

In the 5th hour, we have a free period. Jade and I sit in the schoolyard and quizz each other.  

"Bzzz ... Bzzz ... Bzzz" The screen off my phone turns on. I put down my book and look at my phone. 

"It's Daniëlle." Jade looks at me curiously, we never call each other when we're at school. Normally we just text.

I pick up my phone. "Hey, Cira, can you and Jade come to the main restroom." She sounds serious. 

"Yes we're on our way," She hangs up the phone. Jade looks curious when I stand up and gather my things.

"Come on, Dani wants us to come to the bathroom." 

"Why?" She also stands up and walks with me. 

''No idea.'' 

When we walk into the restroom we see Danielle's and Sylvanna's back turn to us looking down. I follow their gaze and when I stand next to them I see Indira sitting on the floor in the corner. With her arms around her legs, which are prest against her chest. When she hears us she looks up, her eyes are red and full of tears. I put my bag on the floor and kneel beside her. 

"What going on Indi?" She stares at me with the same expression on her face. I put my arm around her and try to smile a little. 

She wipes her eyes with her sleeve before talking. "Last night my parents and my sister had a very bad fight. My sister has new friends, but they really have a bad influence on her. You all know how she is, she has alway been rebellious but it is worse now. She smokes, drinks, her grades go down and she doesn't listen to my parents at all." Daniëlle hands her a tissue, and she wipes her tears. 

"So last night they had a very bad fight and she ran away. We called and texted her several times but she didn't respond. I and a few neighbors went looking for her outside but we couldn't find her anywhere. After a few hours, my parents called the police, but they said that this happens very often and they can't send out a police team for every rebellious teenager. If she's not back today after school we have to call again because they think she went to sleep at a friend or something. I have already spoken to all her friends and non of them know where she is. Her best friend told me that she had sent her a message that she was angry with her parents and that she would go out for a walk.'' her voice breaks at the end. 

How can those cops say that? Nothing ever happens in the town, so it's not that they are busy. 

Indira's lower lip starts shaking again and tears run down her cheeks.

"The school just called my mother and said she didn't come to school either." Sylvana and I look at each other. Anaya had never walked away before. She always tells her parents where she is going, not asking permission just telling them. Daniëlle also kneels next to Indira and rubs her hand over her arm. 

"Have your parents called the police again?" She asks.

"Yes, but they will only start investigating after school."

Jade rolls her eyes. "Jesus, can't they do their fucking job? If something happens they are to blame." I nod.

''I'm just afraid. I'm afraid something really bad has happened to her. I just have a bad feeling about this. You never know with those weird people walking around lately."

She is right, there was something in the news yesterday about 2 hikers who are missing. Lately, a lot of people have been murdered and the killer hasn't been arrested. But why would anyone want to kill her sister?

"We need to find her," Jade calls.

Indira shakes her head, ''I have looked everywhere,'' she says defeated.

''Yeah but 10 eyes see more than 2 do.'' Sylvana holds her hand out for Indi and gives her an encouraging smile.

''You didn't have to look alone yesterday, you could have told us we would have helped,'' I say and feel stupid for not asking her yesterday, why she couldn't make it.

 She nods and smiles at me. 

If something like this ever happened to my brother, I would search until I found him.

"But where do we start? She can be anywhere. "Say Indira. 

She is right, how can we find her? I think back to yesterday's police series. They knew everywhere she had been. They had been able to find out through her bank account where she used her card. We can't do that and I'm pretty sure she didn't bring her purse, only her phone.

"Trace her phone." They all look at me.

"And how do we do that?'' Jade asks, giving me the WTF look.

"I know someone who maybe can help," I walk out of the restroom to the room where we just had class. They all follow me. I scan the room for one person. He is all the way in the back, behind the computer. 

I look at them. 

''found him,''

We walk towards him and the others finally notice who I'm talking about.

Diaro looks surprised when he sees us walking towards him. He immediately closes down the tabs on his computer.

"Diaro, you're good with computers right?"

 He laughs, "Uh ... yes," he says confidently.

"Can you trace a telephone?" He raises an eyebrow and folds his arms. 

''Yes I can,'' he says curtly and narrows his eyes at me. He knows that I'm about to ask.

"I want to ask you a favor. Believe me, you're doing it for a good cause." We all look at him for a few seconds.

"Just give me the details." He says and starts typing on his computer.

I get a smile on my face and the others look happily surprised at each other. Indira sits down next to him and gives him all the information he needs while they explain the story to him. 

In the meantime, I go back to the others off her project group and hand in Jade and my part of the project and tell them we will be gone the rest of the afternoon. Just when I want to walk around the corner, Jason comes around the corner and I almost bump into him. 

He looks at me and then stops and holds out his hand to stop me from bumping into him.

"Hai," He looks at me, let's go of my shoulders and runs his finger trough his hair. The group of boys he's walking with walks ahead and waits for him a little further.

"Hey," I say briefly and look back. I take a step back and star at his face, still as perfect as I remember.

"What's wrong?" He suddenly looks concerned scanning my face. I look at him in surprise. How does he know something is wrong, I just said hey? 

"Indira her sister has been missing since last night." Now that I said it out loud, I hit me again how bad this is. There is a serial killer or more than one walking around. And Anaya is just a 14-year-old petite girl who is missing all night. 

He tenses up a little, "Have her parents already informed the police?"

"Yes, but they don't want to do anything yet. They don't take it seriously till after school." 

He laughs sarcastically. "Wow, they really can't do their work themselves," he says with disgust in his voice.

"Bzzz ..." I look at my phone.

Sylvana:
Found her Phone, in the river forest.

Her phone is found in the woods? I hoped she would be somewhere save, at a friends or I don't know in a mall.

"They found her phone," I look at Jason with wide eyes.

"Diaro, a boy from my class, has traced her phone." He nods and wants to say something.

"I have to go." Just when I turn around to walk to the others he grabs my wrist.

''Where are you going?'' When I turn around I see a frown on his face.

"The river forest." I simply answer.

He stars at me and shakes his head briefly. "You better leave that to the police." he lets go of my writs and sounds a little concerned.

"No, I can't just sit back and do nothing. You just said it yourself, they really can't do their work themselves." He nods, looks briefly at the floor and then at me. He needs to understand that right. 

I make another attempt to walk away but again he stops me. "Cira," he looks a little uncomfortable. "There are crazy people out there, especially now with all those murders." I nod. 

He is not going to be able to persuade not to go and he notices that now too. 

"When you hear or see something that is not normal, you hide and pretend you know nothing and have seen nothing, okay?" He looks deep in my eyes turning serious again. I just nod in response.

 ''If something happens, call me immediately."I swallow now I am a little frightened. 

We look at each other in silence until I realize what he said last.

I get a smirk on my face, "Can I have your number?"I place my hand on my chest and act surprised. He smiles and rolls his eyes."Oh no, wait, I will guess it." I laugh at my own joke remembering what Vanessa did.

He shaking his head and grins. I give him my phone and he puts his number in it. 

"Okay, I'm really going now," I just want to turn around.

"Cira," he looks at me for two seconds on silence. ''Be careful.''

I smile and nod and then really walk on. When I'm just walking around the courner I can hear him say something, it sounded dull and there was no one around him so I'm sure it's the mind link.

"Boys, come to the River forest, now!"