"How did you feel when he and Katie started dating?" Sara asks. "Jealous, I felt like I was going to puke and cry at the same time every time I saw them together," I answer truthfully. "How do you feel when you look at him when he isn't with someone?" Sara asks. This is going to sound stupid. "I feel a tightening in my stomach, and I smile every time I look at him even when I try not to," I say I can feel my cheeks turning red again. "Awe! You definitely love him," Sara says with the biggest smile I have ever seen.
It feels good to have someone to talk to about this. I haven't told anyone other then Sara about my feelings for Mike.
"You should tell him how you feel," Sara says pulling me back to reality. "Are you crazy?" I ask. "If I told him how I feel it would ruin everything," I add. "Or you could tell him how you feel, and he could feel the same." She says. "I'm not you, guys don't think of me in that way. We are just friends." I say as I feel tears swelling up. "You'll never know unless you try." She says. "I can't. I can't lose him." I say and I let the tears fall. Sara stands up and pulls me into a hug.
"I've never had a boyfriend." She says which I already knew. "Why?" I have always wonder why she never had a boyfriend. The boys at our school were always asking her out but she always said no. "I don't know I never really liked anyone." She said and shrugs. I think she is the only teenage girl who has never had a crush.
The more I think about Sara I think she's weirder than I am. She is 17 and a very popular cheerleader, captain cheerleader. However, she has never had a boyfriend or even liked any boys. She has always been nice to the not-popular kids like me and my friends and makes fun of the other popular kids. She doesn't fit the typical cheer captain at all. I think I like her even more now.
Sara and I talk a little longer and then she goes back to her room. I lay in my bed and try to read but I can't find a book that can keep my attention so instead, I put my headphones in a listen to music as I drift off to sleep.
The next thing I know I wake up to banging on my door. I grab my phone to check the time but its dead. I head to my door and I open it. Sara is standing on the other side with tears in her eyes. Oh no.
"What's going on?" I ask. Sara pulls me into a hug. "You haven't heard I though Mike would have told you." She says not really answering my question. "My phones dead I fell asleep listening to music last night. "Mel and Morgan are missing the police found their car on the side of the road but there is no sign of them." Sara says. I tell her they are probably camping in the wood since that's what they told mike their plans were. Sara shakes her head frantically. "All their stuff was still in the car. Tent, sleeping bags even their phones." She says.
That's when I know there is a problem, I haven't seen Mel going more then 30 minutes with out her phone. There is no way she would leave it anywhere. "Can I borrow your phone I need to check on Mike." I ask Sara. Mike and Morgan have grown up together Mike's parents are foster parents. They got Morgan when she was two and have been trying to adopt her ever since.
Mike picks up on the first ring. Our conversation is short but to the point. I hand Sara back her phone. "I'm going to Mike's; Mel's family is there. They think they were kidnapped. Mike thinks they were murdered." I tell her and head downstairs. My mom and dad are sitting on the couch. I tell them that's I'm going to Mike's and ask if I can borrow the car. They usually don't let me or Sara take the car by ourself but today they just nod and I head out the door.
Mike's house is only about a 15-minute drive from my house but it is the longest 15 minutes of my life.
I have always thought that losing Mel or Morgan as a friend would bother me. I don't really hang out with them unless it's with Mike. But, finding out something seriously horrible might have happened to them breaks me in ways I can't explain. Not to mention I can't even understand how Mike must feel. He considers Morgan his sister. If something happened to Sara I would die.
My mind goes back to the start of summer and I remember a conversation me and Morgan had. She told me that me and my family should get out of town. I thought she was just being overdramatic like usual, but now there are five cheerleaders and her and Mel missing. What if those are the last words, I ever hear from her.
Now I finally know how Sara felt hearing her friends were missing. Now I know why she wanted to be out looking for them from sun up to sundown. By the time I make it to Mike's house my face is soaked with tears.