#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.

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

work,” Luke said. novelxo.com fast update“He sat down in a window booth.

talked, 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

out of

a car full of camping

I pictured Nina with a shotgun… Why on earth would she need a dangerous weapon like that?

was

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

after she left and I found this. The newspaper that the guy in the diner

away from

“This is…”

him in. I’m not sure why, exactly, but my only guess is that that guy who

do you know?” I asked. “Why would he have given her

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 pack. “How long ago did she

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

the woods and drag Nina home; for starters, I didn’t want

on the team who I 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 as I suspected, he agreed

alright if I bring my roommate? He’s going through some stuff so he could use a camping trip… You’ll

though.”

said, rolling my

quad when I saw Matt and his roommate walking

almost audibly groaned

recognized his roommate immediately.

guy that Nina had

going on dates with.

is my

smiled and stuck out his hand. ” Nice to meet you,” he said, a perfect

a smile and shook

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