Zaire never knew about Theon's motives and my relationship with him, I didn't want to complicate things, after the conversation with Theon, nothing out of ordinary happened again, everything was just back to normal, what happened with what he wanted?. Just as I thought that everything is normal, I stayed calm too much, not realizing, Theon had another sickening plan in his mind to make fun of me and to confuse me more. Our class adviser went inside the room looking happy for some reason, she announced to us that a new student will join us, never knew that the new student and classmate was a missing person. Standing right in front of us was the missing Aubrielle Pierce, unharmed and looks healthy, I looked pale sick and confused of what was happening, couldn't utter a word.
The adviser explained to us that Aubri was gonna be in our class since she missed her 1st year college with the course of business entrepreneur, Quin, Aubri and I were in the same thoughts of studying business. And of course, everyone knew, Aubrielle Pierce, they were happy and celebrating that she is back to her family but what about Quin?, where is she?. I wanted to have a talk with Aubri alone about where she have been for the past 1 year, I wanted to approach her but so many students and teachers were surrounding her, talking to her of how was she?.
I kept on biting my nails nervously waiting and waiting for an opportunity to talk to her, however, as I kept on watching and observing her, Theon approached her like they knew and were close to each other, Theon was beside Aubri, holding her shoulders, then he looked at me with a smile like he was telling me that bringing back Aubri was his plan. Theon is really involved with all the missing students, what a f*cking psycho, is he even a human, I walked backward in fear, didn't know what exactly to do next, I needed help.
I walked quickly as possible towards the exit of the school, run to my bike and hurriedly left the school. With a high speed using the bike, in a rush towards my parents house, I wanted to know if Quin was back too, talking to Aubri was impossible, especially, if Theon is involved with her, what I saw earlier scared me so much, I was busy shivering in fear, not able to notice the white baby bunny that was in the middle of the road, I hit it with my bike which caused an accident, I was immediately separated with the bike, somehow, my wound in the head and arm wasn't that fatal, although as I look back at the bunny that I run into, it was dead with its decapitated head, the wheels of my bike might have made it loss its head.
I didn't have time to focus more on the dead bunny, what bothered me more was my location, I was in the wrong road cause right in front of me now was the abandoned forest, being here isn't a coincidence, something definitely drove me here. I wasn't alone, I saw Zaire entering the forest alone, without any thoughts, I followed him. Walking slowly and silently for him not to notice that he was being followed, on the very first moment I knew about him and Effie, I was already suspicious of him, he won't tell me anything so I can't trust him either, can I?.
Zaire was walking fast, I couldn't keep up with him, so I lost him, the path he took were so narrow that even the vines and plants were blocking the way. I stopped walking after I saw a fence blocking the deep Arlo forest, a sign where no one is allowed to enter it, after the missing file report of Aubri and Quin, they finally decided to fence it. The difference from then and now was the forest were so dark already and couldn't see any traces of the beautiful nature I discovered the last time I went there, thinking about it, all the missing teenagers are stuck there. Behind the fence, I was imagining things like, what if Quin suddenly show up coming out from there right now, I was keeping my hopes up, Quin also had dreams, she was just a kind and innocent older sister of mine. Minutes later, I smell the scent of cigar, I looked beside me and I saw Zaire smoking silently, also looking at the huge fence blocking us.
"Funny why they built this fence is to protect us from what is in there but what if the forest isn't really the problem here", he said with the smoke of the cigar coming out of his mouth, looking at his eyes focused on the forest, I asked him a question.
"Are you still hoping that your sister is still alive?".
"No, not anymore", he answered in a swift, what happened to his belief that his sister is still alive?. The words I only heard next was his curiosity as to where did Aubri really come from?, the huge fence between the forest and here couldn't possibly be climbed easily by a girl alone and his words were right. Thoroughly observing the cyclone wire fence, there was no sign of a cut wire or hole that can be used as a way out or in.
Just minutes after us, police were coming in to the forest one by one, inspecting more at the forest, beeing seen at the forest by the police will make us suspicious and a suspect, we were not close to any of the missing victims even if we were their relatives, couldn't afford for that to happen, so Zaire hurriedly held my hand and pulled me out of the forest. Using Zaire's expensive motorcycle to run away, we weren't caught, after all Zaire's family is wealthy, a son of a well known owner of famous hotels and cafe around the world. A high speed driving of Zaire in the road, police cars were in a hurry towards the forest searching for lost people.
After Aubri's sudden appearance, my parents were more determined to search for Quin, they called the police to further investigate and search for her, they even went as far as to hire people to find her in the forest.