So this is the long awaited chapter three. (Well, I've been waiting a while to get it written…)

Anyways, hope you guys like it. It starts in fourth period on the same day as the other two chapters. (By the way, that day is a Monday. I don't know if I mentioned what day it was before.) Enjoy?

Disclaimer: Oh my hector, we already know I don't own Darkest Powers.

Disappearances

Chloe POV

Liz failed biology last year. She wasn't in school enough the semester she had it to be able to get all her work done and turned in on time to pass. That's sad for her, but this year we are in the same biology class.

Today we were working on a lab, Liz and I were in different groups and from the looks of things Liz was the only one doing the work in her group. The other two girls were just talking like they didn't have a lab to do, or any other care in the world for that matter. Liz didn't look too happy about having to do all the work.

She called the teacher, Ms. Kenyon, over for help but she didn't really help Liz out at all. Just repeatedly told her what she was supposed to be doing, making it sound like Liz was stupid, which she definitely is not.

After a few minutes of struggling with the lab, a couple of glass beakers started rattling then they slid across the table and became airborne, flying at Ms. Kenyon. Thankfully she moved before they hit her head.

The beakers smashed into the wall, glass shattering and falling to the floor and the liquid in the beakers was now dripping down the wall. I'm just glad we weren't working with anything dangerous.

"Elizabeth!" Ms. Kenyon shrieked. "Office! Now!"

"But. But-" Liz stammered, trying to find an explanation to what just happened.

"Now! I will not tolerate my students throwing anything, especially when that something is glass or when they are throwing something at me. Now, get out!"

Liz grabbed her bag and left the classroom trembling. I guess she was a freaked out as I was, maybe more.

What was bothering me about the whole situation was that I was watching Liz and our teacher the entire time and Liz never threw anything at her. She wasn't even touching the beakers right before they flew off the table.

So, how could they have just sailed off the table and tried to hit the teacher on their own?

It didn't make sense.

While the rest of the class went on with what they were doing, I sat wondering what happened with Liz.

For the next few days, Liz wasn't in school and all my classes except first period dragged on because I couldn't stop thinking about what really happened in bio. If it wasn't for Simon, first would have been bad too. He was making an effort to try to get me to feel better and still trying to empathize with me, since he didn't know Liz but didn't want me to feel alone or upset.

And lunch was…okay, I guess. Tori was practically a zombie, she seemed completely and utterly lost without Liz. But Simon tried to make us all semi happy again. I appreciated that.

After Liz's incident Rae and Tori moved over to Derek and Simon's table at lunch with me. It was better than having us split up and keeping Tori around Rae, since I know they would fight without me around. And since I spent half of lunch with them and half with Derek and Simon, I figured that we could all just sit together and stop World War three before it begins.

Tori sat close to Simon and Simon did his best to move away without her noticing. She seemed to have an unnatural attraction to him. Not that any other girl wouldn't find him attractive either. He was definitely the cute one of the family. Derek only had his emerald green eyes…that I would sometimes find myself staring at. And when he would turn that gaze on me, my heart would beat faster and my face would turn the same red as the first day I saw him. There's just something about-

Ahem!

Right, back to my all friends states of mind. Tori, as I already said, seemed lost. Derek was being, well…Derek. But he wasn't saying anything negative about our missing friend. And I say missing because we haven't heard anything from anyone about where she is, or at least I haven't. And neither has Rae but I'm not sure about Tori. I would think she hasn't because she's still so…lifeless and if anyone had told her anything, wouldn't she be happy to know where her friend is? I would be.

Simon and Rae would talk at lunch and include me in their conversations sometimes.

But for most of the week I didn't talk. I was too lost in my thoughts, thinking of why Liz didn't text or call to tell me what was going on with her. Had she been expelled? Suspended? Surely we would have heard about that, right? Was she grounded? Would that be why she has texted or called? Because she had no phone, cell or otherwise? What was going on to keep her from talking to me?

"Chloe? Chloe!" Rae's voice pulled me out of my thoughts. She was tugging on my arm, trying to tell me that lunch was over and everyone was leaving the cafeteria.

"Huh?" I looked around the cafeteria and saw almost everyone was gone. "Oh, I'm coming." I said grabbing my book bag off the floor and following Simon and Rae out of the cafeteria.

Derek was a few steps ahead of us and Tori was somewhere behind us, moving stiffly, methodically. Almost like a robot that was badly programmed to be a school student.

After school I found said robot going out to her bus. I wanted to ask her is she had heard anything about Liz, since she clearly wasn't going to talk to me about it at lunch. She glared at me, or tried to. She didn't seem to want to be as mean or maybe she just didn't have the energy to be mean at the moment. But she still snapped at me, saying no she hadn't heard anything from her best friend and not to ask her again.

I'm really glad it's Friday, I thought with a sigh.

When I got home I tried to call Liz's cell phone but no one answered. I didn't bother leaving a message. I had a weird feeling that even if I had, she wouldn't be returning my calls.

I still tried calling her house anyways. Her brother answered. He didn't have much to tell me though, seeing how he probably only knew what his nana would tell him. And since he's her younger brother, she would probably fudge the truth a little, if necessary, to make it easier on him. But he told me that she was somewhere getting better, and that something like that had happened before. Then he went off into some little story about it.

I wasn't really listening to him anymore though. My thoughts had moved on to wondering what someone was trying to make better.

There was never anything wrong with Liz before, was there?

No. No, I know there wasn't.

So what's going on now? There wasn't anything wrong with Liz before and now there's magically a problem. Something doesn't add up.

I have to distract myself or I'll go crazy thinking about this all weekend.

I hung up the phone with Liz's little brother after listening to his story and telling him goodbye. And as if right on cue, my phone vibrated. My distraction. It was Rae.

"Hello?"

"Chloe, is there anyway I could spend a couple nights at your house this weekend? I-I don't want to be home right now."

I was going to ask what was wrong but something in her voice told me to wait until later tonight. I told Rae I was going to be staying at my aunt Laurens this weekend and I would have to check with her to see if Rae could stay but that it should be okay.

Rae said thanks then quickly hung up the phone to go pack a few things for this weekend.

I called my aunt after that and she said she didn't have a problem with Rae staying with us. So at four thirty we picked her up and went back to my aunt's house.

Rae dropped her stuff off in the guest room and came back out to sit with me in the living room.

"Girls, are you two going to be okay while I go out for a little while?" Aunt Lauren asked.

I nodded.

"Alright, I'll see you two in a few hours."

"Bye." I said as she closed the door.

"Do you know where she's going?" Rae asked sneaking a peek out the window.

"Probably to the hospital. She goes there a lot."

"Oh." She sighed and started to play with a loose string on her shirt. "Chloe, can I talk to you about something?"

"Yeah. Sure, go ahead." I said pulling my legs up onto the couch.

"The reason I wanted to come stay with you this weekend was because my mom and I got into a fight and she got really mad and threw something. It flew right by my head and I grabbed her arm. She…she said I burned her when I grabbed her."

"Burned her? How?" I knew Rae liked fire but I didn't think she would go so far as to burn something or someone.

Yet another thing that doesn't make sense.

"I didn't burn her. I didn't have a lighter or a match in my hand or even in my pocket! Chloe, I didn't burn her. I didn't and I don't know why she thinks I did. I'm so afraid of what's going to happen now. I didn't do anything but I think she's going to send me away."

"Away to where?"

"I-I don't know. You believe me right? You know I didn't burn her."

"I believe you."

"I would never hurt anyone with fire, I just like to look at it. You know that!" By now she was desperately trying to get me to listen to her. She was frantic and afraid that I wouldn't listen or that I would think she was crazy.

I placed a hand on her shoulder to calm her. "I know Rae. I believe you. Okay? Why don't you just go to school with me Monday, that way you don't have to worry about going home this weekend? Your mom knows where you are right, just so we won't get in trouble for having you staying with us."

She nodded.

"Alright, well then let's just do that."

"Okay."

After that talk we decided to watch movies and talk about anything that wasn't related to Liz or Rae's mom. My aunt came back around nine thirty with dinner.

That's how the whole weekend went. Rae and I watching movies and TV, talking and my aunt going out and coming back with something for us to eat.

When we went to school Monday morning the first thing we saw was Tori and her mother standing outside having an argument.

Well it was actually more like Tori's mother yelling at her and she was standing there crying. What kind of mother would do that, in front of all her friends and the people she knows? And no one was stopping her.

As we walked by both Rae and I cast a sympathetic glance at Tori, who responded by glaring and turning her back to us right before her mother grabbed her arm and yanked her towards her car.

"We are going home. Now Victoria. It's time for you to stop sulking over that girl."

In that moment I felt bad for Tori. I just saw a glimpse of what she had to go through with her mother. I would hate that. And to think a mother would actually be like that. Unbelievable.

"Chloe? Are you coming?"

I turned to see Rae by the entrance to the school and I realized I had been staring out at Tori and her mom in the parking lot.

"Uh, yeah." I said with one last glance out at the parking lot.

We found Derek and Simon standing near the gym doors. They didn't look happy.

As we neared I heard some of their conversation, it was almost an argument.

"Is there anyway that it could all be a coincidence?" Simon said.

"I don't believe in coincidences. Something's going on and now with-" he stopped and turned to face us, we hadn't even gotten close enough for him to really know we were there.

Weird.

"Hey Chloe, Rae." Simon said with a smile.

Derek even said hi. Of course he was quite and it was more of a grumbling noise, but it was still a hi.

"Morning guys, what's going on?" I asked.

"Nothing-" Derek started to say but Simon cut in with a look in Derek's direction.

"It's-"

"Simon, don't say it." Derek warned.

"It's our dad. He's gone."

Yet another thing gone wrong. What is going on here?

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I hope you guys liked it…and I hope you guys like they direction my story is going in. There was so much happening in this chapter but it's all just setting things in motion, hopefully everyone could keep up with my physco babble…

Guess who's the only person left who hasn't had anything happen to them…she's next. (That sounds so maniacal. I should add this…Muhahah.)

I so desperately want to say something else right now, but I can't seem to word it right. Phail. Like how I spell that? Haha.

Review please? Maybe…or don't… and make me sad…that wouldn't go over well in this authors mind…I'll update quicker if you review. I already have part of the next chapter done! Please review. Pretty please.