#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.

a deep breath. Luke was right; running around like a chicken with its head

in a beat up pickup truck pull up to the diner last night while she was at work,” Luke said. novelxo.com fast update“He sat down in a window booth. When she went over to him, she looked terrified;

talked, then he left. This morning, she drove to the gun shop outside of town — that’s right, a gun

of town

a car full of

on earth would she need a dangerous weapon like that? And who was that man that Luke

though, because right now my sole purpose was to find Nina and protect

you know where she went?” I asked, grabbing a duffel

into her dorm after she left and I found this. The newspaper that the guy in the diner gave her. My best guess is that she’s trying to investigate… Because

away from Luke. My eyes widened as I

“This is…”

him and they did him in. I’m not sure why, exactly, but my only guess is that that guy who showed up to the diner last night

he have given her this if he was the one who did

diner last night and I saw how terrified Nina looked, I got suspicious,” Luke replied. “So I looked through the windows of his truck. There was a business card on

stuffing the newspaper article in my pocket and continuing to

minutes ago,” Luke said. “If we go soon, we might be able

for starters, I didn’t want to get shot,

knew would agree to a last-minute camping trip like this, plus he had a car — and told him to pack quickly and meet me at the quad. Just

can be out there in, like, ten minutes. Oh, and is it alright if I bring my roommate? He’s going through some stuff so he could use a camping

though.”

whatever,” I said, rolling my

later, I was standing on the quad when I saw Matt and his roommate walking toward

audibly groaned when

recognized his roommate immediately.

the guy that

going on dates with.

my roommate

his hand. ” Nice to

and shook

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