I gasped at the realization of my own thoughts and slowly came to the ground. I gave up. I was going home to go to bed and take any punishment my parents gave me. Nothing would evercome close to losing the person I lived for and nothing never will. I stood up again, dusting the dirt off my jeans when another realization hit me with solid jolt making me step a few steps back and eyes to widen. "Diego" I said in a mouthed. I was so caught up in Riley missing that I forgot about our other best friend, Diego. I saw a missing sign on a telephone pole that identified his exact look. I closed my eyes, held my breath, and moved my finger from the name
I opened my eyes ever so slowly and looked at the name. I stood there looking at the name and over and over. Finally after reading it over seven times, I fell to the ground, crying every drop of tears I had. after 15 minutes of nonstop crying, I stood up and wiped the tears away with my sleeve. My face was burning and my cascading brown curls were damp with tears. It was about five am now and I was at risk of passing out so took a nap behind a building
I woke up in the early Saturday breeze, my nose freezing. I stood up and discovered a few things; I was starving, my pants were covered in mud, and I, Nikki Skye, was not going home until I found Riley and Diego. Apparently I didn't get enough sleep. When I looked at my reflection in a closed store, my face was pale and I still had the black circles. I groaned and touched one of my nimble fingers to my frozen cheek and slid it down. Ice built up on my finger and I looked around. Snow blankets were covering everything. I saw a fimaliar face looking at me through the reflection in the window and turned around
"Ann?" I cocked my head and asked. Ann's shoulder-length black hair was in a mess and she gave me a welcoming half smile "Yeah it's me" she said while playing with a stick. Ann was an awesome friend but she was also a very evil friend "have you been following me or poking dead things with a stick?" I asked, looking at the stick. "who says you can't do both?" she said, laughing. I scoffed and looked at her hair again " Youve been looking for them too" I stated. I knew she was and that she'd been looking for about as long as I was, probally longer. "yeah" she pursed her lips. Great, we've both been looking and no luck. My eyes filled with tears and I went to hug her. She sighed and huged me back "there there nikk, were gonna find 'em. Dead or alive" she looked dramatucly to the side and sang 'dun dun dun'. I sighed and tightened my eyes; making the tears pour over.
We decided that we'd search together at night. To pass the time, we wen't into Riley, Diego, Ann, and my favorite diner. We sat at the booth and talked about our favorite memories of us all together. We laughed, we cried, we smiled for hours until it was finally dark.
"lets blow this crap shack!" Ann shouted, making the people at the diner stare. "uhh yeah. Lets" I laugh talked. We walked out of the restruant and into the streets. We were going to find them and we were going to find them now.