#Chapter 53: It’s a Small World

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I had only just woken up after a mostly sleepless night of wishing I could just explain everything to Nina without either scaring her or pushing her away, when I heard banging on my front door. Groaning, I dragged myself out of bed and opened the door to a surprise: Luke.

“She’s up to something,” he said, without so much as a greeting, and pushed his way past me into my living room.

“What? Nina?” I asked, still rubbing the sleep from my eyes as I watched the anxious skeleton pace back and forth across my apartment. It was times like this that I was glad to not have roommates.

“I don’t know exactly what she’s doing, but she’s definitely up to something that is very much notgood,” he said, a little too quickly for me to fully comprehend exactly what was going on in my tired mind.

“Wait… Luke, slow down. What’s happening?” I asked.

Luke stormed over to me and took me by both shoulders, shaking me back and forth.

“Nina is being lured into a trap!” he

shouted.

There were a few moments of silence as we stared at each other, the reality of the situation slowly sinking in.

Finally, I understood what was going on; panic mode started to set in.

“Where is she? How do you know? Is she alone? Is she hurt? Tell me what’s happening, god dammit!” I shouted as I ran around my apartment like a

madman, throwing on yesterday’s dirty clothes as images of Nina being brutally murdered or kidnapped by a crazy person flashed through my mind.

“If you would give me a chance, I would tell you!” Luke shouted, his usual monotone voice now bellowing so loudly it shook the glass of water on my nightstand.

and took a deep breath. Luke was right; running around like

the diner last night while she was at work,” Luke said. novelxo.com fast update“He sat down in

then he left. This morning, she drove to the gun shop outside of town — that’s right, a gun shop and walked out with a shotgun.

out of

with a car full of

on earth would she

my sole purpose was to

I asked, grabbing a duffel bag from my

replied, pulling a folded up piece of newspaper out of his hoodie pocket, “but I broke into her dorm after she left and I found this. The newspaper that the

the newspaper away from Luke. My eyes widened

“This is…”

guy who drugged her at the club. Someone must’ve found where I had him and they did him in. I’m not sure why, exactly, but my only guess is that that guy

he have given her this if he was the

terrified Nina looked, I got suspicious,” Luke replied. “So I looked through the windows

in my pocket and continuing to pack. “How long

ten minutes ago,” Luke said. “If we go soon, we might be able to catch up

starters, I didn’t want to get shot, and secondly,

only one on the team who I knew would agree to a last-minute camping trip like this, plus

is it alright if I bring my roommate? He’s going through some stuff so he

though.”

I said, rolling my eyes, and hung up the

I was standing on the quad when I saw Matt and his

almost audibly groaned when

recognized his roommate immediately.

guy that Nina had

going on dates with.

this is my roommate James,”

hand. ” Nice to meet you,” he

forced a smile and shook

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