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"Ho away for a bit? Just pack up and leave together for a while or so that could happen

I laughed at the hopefulness in his voice "Luke, we can’t" I shook ar fro serious Let’s just pack up and leave, screw everything else, justone eye on the road as he continued, "I can protect you All this stuff will stop, the phone calls, the flowers, all of it will just go away and then it’ll just be us We’ll travel for a while, see sos you’ve alanted to do It’ll be perfect"

It sounded so nice, and I unconsciously started playing that out inasleep in his ar sounded so great, but I knew that was impossible, at least for the next feeeks it was impossible anyway "We have our finals, we can’t just up and leave," I protested A frown lined his forehead as he looked back to the road and sighed deeply I chewed onit onto my lap as I stroked his knuckles with reat, and if we didn’t have finals then I’d be saying heck yeah let’s go right now, but we have responsibilities, we have to graduate in order to get our places in college We can’t let so we’ve worked so hard for," I persuaded

His grip tightened on uess"

"There’s just three et those out of the way and then we’ll think about it, alright?" I bargained, wanting to take the sad expression from his face We hadn’tfor a hed and nodded, bringing ainst my pal the road stretch out ahead of us Everything see seemed to faze me because I knew that whatever happened he would look after me, just like he always promised he would I looked over at hi at the corners of my mouth I couldn’t wait for those three weeks to be over with so that we could live out his plans He was right, it would be perfect and I couldn’t wait He caughtand smiled over at ht mine "I love you, Maisie"

My heart stuttered as I nodded in confirmation, I didn’t need him to say the words, I already knew it, I always had done "I love you too" He grinned that dazzling s up the radio a little more so the soft tones of The Script filled the car

After a while I ree er in the car?" I asked, digginghis in-car charger fro out the end I s a few seconds before atte it into the little drinks holder in his car A couple ofdown at the screen to see that I had a new text e from Charlotte that had been received whento the e

‘I know you said not to, but I just got the phone number from the cell phone company database Here it is Seriously, let one of the boys call it and frighten the crap out of the guy!’

Then there was a cell phone nuain ide eyes Seeing it there, glowing in the fading daylight,more real someho that I had the nu with it; the police had the nuo with no contract or fixed address I shouldn’t get involved Just like I told Charlotte in the first place, I should just let the police do their jobs and wait for theain so that they could trace the call like they wanted to

But seeing it there was just too teuy would answer and then… what? What would I do then? I frowned down at it, confused and a little afraid of it I wanted to call the nu the better of nise the voice of the person and then I could tell the police who to look into Maybe it would be that easy and then it would be over Myscenarios so quickly that itany it up on reen call button as I fought with e by actually calling the person The chances are it would be switched off, like it alhen the police tried to call it But what if they actually answered? What would I say then?

"Everything okay?" Luke asked, looking over at me with one eyebrow raised I cleared my throat and nodded, still undecided "Who was that frorowl as he said Zach’s na to tell hially hacked the phone coulped, knowing he would beinvolved "No Charlotte found the phone nutogether as I spoke He obviously understood though