Late nights

XXXII

- Are you actually texting other girls? - Olivia ranted.

- What are you talking about?

- Some girl came up to me and told me that you told her you wouldn't be coming. Who are you texting?

- Oh, that's just some random girl, I wasn't even gonna do anything. She texted me out of nowhere I didn't even start the conversation.

- So you admit to texting her?

- Well I'm not gonna lie. - Harry was also getting heated. 

- Show me your phone, - Olivia put out her hand, - come on, do it.

- Go ahead, you can look through it because there is literally nothing there. A dry conversation. If someone texts me, I'm gonna respond and that's it.

Olivia checked his messages and pictures.

- She sent you a picture in her bra and you even responded with "hot"! Don't even try to say something to defend yourself. How do you explain this, huh?

- I have literally never seen that picture.

- Why are you lying? For what? You literally responded to it.

- HOW? - Harry shouted. - I was with you the whole time, how do you think I texted that? Listen, Liv, I don't know how, but I have never seen that picture and also, this was sent while we were at the party.

- Well then let's find her and ask. You shouldn't be against that, right?

- Absolutely not. - He got cocky.

They started frantically running through the crowd looking for Caroline. They opened the door where Tom and Emily were but closed the door when they looked around and didn't see any signs of Caroline. 

Tom and Emily suspiciously looked at each other but didn't pay much attention.

Olivia tried to open a door, but it was locked. Moving to different rooms, they found a room that seemed oddly familiar.

- Open the picture. - Olivia said.

Harry took his phone and looked at the picture.

- Look, it's literally this room and this mirror. There's also a hand in the background, which means there were two people. They weren't downstairs, they weren't in the bathrooms, they weren't in this room or the other room...

- So the only room left is the one that was locked. - Harry started getting excited.

- Exactly. Let's go and wait by the door then. - She ran out.

Tom and Emily were still chatting with Lucas.

- So, what do you wanna do after school? - Emily asked him.

- I really want to fly a jet. I think that's really cool and I don't know. I'm not good at biology stuff, so I want to do something completely different. Also, my grandpa was a jet pilot. He also fought a war, I wanna do that one day.

- Cool, so a military guy. - Emily said.

- Yeah, but jets specifically. I wanna be in the air, not in the trenches.

Tom was listening to the conversation when he saw Olivia and Harry standing by the door. He called Caroline to ask where she was, but she didn't pick up. Tom ran out of the room to find Caroline himself. He looked in every room and crevice only to realize that she was in that exact room. 

He couldn't walk into the room, he couldn't call Caroline, so he ran to Emily:

- Hey, listen, Caroline locked herself into a room and Olivia and Harry are waiting outside the room for her. - Tom panicked.

- That's not good. What are we gonna do?

- I don't know. If Caroline decides to come out, she's gonna run into them. We have to tell her to stay in the room, I just don't know how. 

- Did you tried calling her?

- Yes, of course, she's not picking up.

- There's a window in that room, isn't there? - Emily was thinking.

- Yeah, there is.

- Okay, I might have a plan. Lucas, can you help us? - Emily turned around.

- With what? - He was sitting on the floor.

- We need some help to help a friend, let's just say that.

- Alright, I have nothing better to do anyway. - He stood up.