Can’t Win Me Back by Ginger Sue

It was still early in the night.

Alyssa and Jasper met up with Sean. After that, the three of them made their way back to Solana City as quickly as they could.

Along the way, Sean made endless attempts to call Tatiana. In the end, her phone was simply just shut off.

"Taty... Why aren't you picking up? Taty!" Sean mumbled to himself incoherently. He was a bundle of nerves.

"Everything will be alright, Sean."

Through the rearview mirror, Jasper could see that Sean's eyes had turned red. He continued in a warm voice, "I have already asked Xavier to go to Taty's school to look for her. Solana City is also just half an hour away. We'll head straight to Solana Film Academy."

In her uneasiness, Alyssa clenched her clothes tightly. Cold sweat had formed on her forehead. She stuttered, "Jasper, I really regret it now. I shouldn't have blown up at Taty."

"Don't say that, Lyse."

Jasper pulled her in for a loving embrace. "Taty isn't such a wilful person. Moreover, the both of you grew up together. How wouldn't she know how much you care for her? I'm sure she knows that you were just concerned for her."

"But Jasper. I'm still afraid."

We'll look for her together," said Jasper as he gave her pats of comfort. Deep down, he was actually feeling an

Tatiana all of a sudden. On the other hand, he

Even so, he still looked forward to the times when he could occasionally be the one she relied

and just being Alyssa's man behind

he hoped for was to be helpful to her. He just wanted to

order to avoid drawing attention, they stopped their car at the back gate of Solana

enough, Xavier ran out to them. He was dripping

entire school. We've also asked the manager of the female dorm to go to Ms. Tatiana's dorm to look for her personally. But we weren't

Their hearts dropped.

the surveillance footage near the school. There was no sign of

Tatiana had lied. She didn't come back to school at all. The seriousness of

the cops, Ms. Alyssa!"

make a report 48 hours after losing contact!" Xavier was also on

"What happened, Lyse?"

always answered our calls. She has never cut contact with us before. Are you able

knew that it wasn't time to make a report yet. However, she couldn't bother about that. She was