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"What do you ainst the brick, his brow furrowed in confusion

"She never caht before, either I I don’t know if she ran away or if she was kidnapped, or I don’t knohat I o?"

"You’d be surprised There are a lot of places to go in this school if you don’t want to be found"

"But what if she does want to be found?" The thought made me feel sick

"Then she’ll be found," he said pensively, though his mind was clearly somewhere else "When was the last tioing to skip it and go to the library to study"

Dante raised his eyes to o"

"What? Where? Do you know so? Do you knohere she is?"

Dante shook his head "If I did, I would find her for you"

"I know," I said softly

"When can I see you again?"

"We have class together in three periods," I said, confused

"Alone, Iafter curfew is basically i study hall? I can led in front of naling the start of class, and the sound of footsteps pounded on the stairway above us "I’ll be waiting," Dante said, and s lunch, Mrs Lynch and Professor Lu, they searched it again It felt odd watching the around Eleanor’s things They even confiscated Eleanor’s notebooks, though after reading theible scribbles and pages and pages of love notes written to Professor Bliss

Mrs Lynch confronted hi down the hall when I saw theh thein the door I crouched outside and watched as Mrs Lynch handed him Eleanor’s History notebook and crossed her ar the notes slowly Suddenly he dropped the notebook and stood up, gesticulating wildly with his hands They got into an arguainst the door and listened

"If you have an explanation, now’s the time," Mrs Lynch threatened

Professor Bliss claimed he had no idea the love notes existed "Eleanor was irl to have a crush on her teacher These things happen all the time It doesn’t mean I abducted her"

Unexpectedly, the knob on the door turned and the door swung open I threw myself out of the way just before Mrs Lynch stormed into the hallith so ainst the wall behind her

I met up with Nathaniel and told him about Eleanor and what I saalked to Philosophy

"So the last time you saw her was after Grub Day?" he asked