Chapter 4: There is hope
Joe's P.O.V
Summer and I were almost to the car when I thought that I heard her say something. "What?" I asked her. "What?" She repeated. "I thought you said something...wait are we on the other side of town?" I asked. "Yea, why?" Summer asked. "Well, it's just I live on the other side of town, if the kidnappers knew that then they would want to hide him away somewhere away from us." I said. "You know you might be right. Do you have any flashlights?" Summer asked. "Yea, it's in the backseat with my bags. I'll grab it." I said, and summer nodded. I ran the last part of the way to the car and grabbed a couple of flashlights out of my car and ran back to summer. "Here. I'll go this way, and you can go maybe that way but stay in a distance we can hear each other. In case we do come around to anything." I said as I handed her the flashlight. "Alright" She replied, and we headed off to look around. I went around looking through the branches and behind large trees for any kind of clues. It was a big park and it will take us hours to look around everywhere. But now I won't give up until I've searched every inch of this park. He was my brother and if I had to get taken too, then I will. All I want to know is that he is okay. "Hey, I uh forgot something at the car. I'll be right back." I said once I realized I forgot Nick's insulin. I didn't think I'd need it but I better have it just in case. "Alright" Summer said as she continued to search. I ran back to the car to get his insulin and the monitor that he uses to know how high or low his blood sugar was. I found them and grabbed them and headed back to continue searching. "Did you find anything?" I asked once I was in Summer's hearing distance. "No, not yet; did you find anything?" She answered. "No, listen I am going to go look around. Flick your flashlight on and off if you find anything and I'll do the same." I said. She said okay and I started to walk to the other side of the park. "Help!" I heard someone scream. I looked around, and I didn't see anyone. "Hello?" I yelled. Maybe it was my mind playing tricks on me.
"Help! Someone Please HELP!" There it is again, someone was here I know that for sure now. I decided to signal summer. I looked around and saw little pieces of her flashlight. I pointed my flashlight and started flicking it on and off. I could see her flashlight point towards me, and she started running towards me. I could tell that she was running because her flashlight was moving all over the place as I heard her footsteps. "Did you find anything?" Summer asked. "No, but listen." I said. "Help! Someone" The voice screamed again. "Do you think it's them?" Summer asked. "I don't know it's a long shot but what can it hurt to check it out." I said. "Yea" Summer agreed. So we started to walk around the area to see if it was Nick and or Alex. Hopefully it was the both of them.
Alex's P.O.V
"Help! Someone" I screamed again. I could still see the car near a light post. "Nick hang in there. I see some flashlights." I said trying to comfort him. "Nick? Nick! Nick are you okay?" I asked, starting to raise my voice. He was falling asleep. "Help!" I screamed again. "Hang in there Nick. I'm going to get you some help." I said, clearly I was talking to myself. I got up and slowly made my way towards a flashlight. "Hey, you; can you help me please?" I asked. Whomever it was jumped and turned around, and flashed a bright light in my face. "Please you have to help me." I said grabbing his or her hand. I lead them back to where I had left Nick. "Nick!" He or She yelled. "Summer over here!" they screamed. "Summer?" I questioned. "Are you Alex?" He questioned, I could tell by his voice. "Yea, how do you know my name? Or Nick's?" I asked. "I'm Joe, Nick's brother." The guy said whose name appeared to be Joe. "Alex? Alex, it is you." I'm guessing was summer. "Summer? Is that you?" I asked. "Yea, everything will be okay." Summer said. She came over and gave me a hug. "I need light." Joe said. Summer let go and grabbed the flashlight to shine it where Joe needed it. Joe was loading up a needle. "Wait, what are you doing?" I asked trying to stop him. "No, he needs it. It will help him." Summer said as she held me back. "What?" I asked. I didn't know much about diabetes so I didn't know what would help and what wouldn't. I'm guessing that it will, this guy seemed like he was his brother. "Nick can you hear me?" I said once Joe gave him the shot. "Ugh, what's going on?" Nick asked. "Nick its okay were safe now, your brother he found us." I said once I crawled over to his side. Nick sat up and saw Joe kneeling in front of him. "Joe?" Nick questioned. "Yea Nick it's me." Joe answered. Nick's smile grew on his face as he grabbed Joe in a hug. "I think we should get them to the hospital." Summer suggested. "Yea, come on Nick." Joe said. We all got up, and we helped Nick to the car. "You don't think that they will find us." I said as I looked around. "No, we won't let them find either of you." Joe said helping Nick into the car.
Once we were all in the car Joe started to drive, and Nick was still feeling a little weak. "Nick you have to hang in there okay." Joe said starting to speed up. Nick just looked around; I think he was trying to keep up with what was going on. "Where are we?" I asked. "We're in L.A. Just about twelve blocks away from our hotel. Don't worry were going to be okay." Summer said. I looked out the window and saw a cop car parked in an alley. "I think you should slow down." I pointed out. "I can't. We need to get you and Nick to the hospital." Joe said. "Why?" Summer asked. "Because we just passed a cop car and now there chasing us." I said. Joe finally noticed the red lights flashing on his car. "Oh, great; you guys just hang in there okay. Hope this won't take long." Joe said once he started pulling over. "Licence and registration please." Said the police officer. "Is there a problem?" Joe asked. "Can you please step out of the car, sir" the officer said. "What's going on? I asked. They didn't hear me, what was going on? The officer got Joe to lean against the hood with his hands on the hood. Once Joe agreed to stay there the officer came over and shone his flashlight in our faces."Are you Alex Carter?" he asked shining the light on me. I didn't know what to say I just nodded yes. "Are you Nick Lucas?" he asked shining the light on Nick. "Yea, why?" Nick asked. "Can all of you come on out please." The officer asked. While we were getting out of the car he radioed something to the police station. "What's going on?" Joe asked. Another cop car came up and parked in front of us. "Did you get the papers?" the officer asked the other cop that just pulled up. "Yea" she answered. "Is it these kids?" asked the officer that pulled us over. She shone a light on all of us. "Yep, we got them." The female officer answered. "What is going on?" Joe asked. The officer that pulled us over walked behind Joe. "You're under arrest for kidnapping" The officer said sternly. "What?" Joe asked. "No he was helping us." I yelled. "It's the rules. You three were reported missing and this guy was with you. We have to take him anyways." the other officer said as she came up to us. "No, I didn't take them. This is my brother" Joe said struggling. "Sir, please calm down. This is just routine" The officer said as he had his hand on his gun. Joe backed away until he was standing in between Nick and I, Summer was on my other side. "I don't feel so good" Nick said. Joe turned to Nick. "No, Nick hang in there" Joe said with panic in his voice. Everything was happening so fast that I started to feel a little light headed. I looked around on more time. Joe was trying to help Nick, but the two officers grabbed. "Requesting medic help" one officer said into their radio. "What have we got here?" another officer said. I looked over to Joe and the officer pulled out the needle that Joe used to help Nick.
Kevin's P.O.V
My parent s still didn't notice that Joe was gone; they were at the computer watching Nick suffer. Joe was right we need to find Nick, and we need to do it soon. It's been at least six hours. They haven't stopped and it was getting dark out. "Mom, Dad. Joe is gone." I said. Why did I just say that? This is just going to be more stress for them to deal with. "What?" My mom asked. "He just left and didn't say where he was going." I said. "Well did you try to stop him?" My mom asked. "No, I thought that he would be back by now." I said. Why didn't I try to stop him? I was his older brother and I just let him go. I'm too worried about Nick to notice that Joe was dealing with a lot too. "Well you're his big brother. You should've stopped him. Who ever took Nick is still out there and they could take Joe." My mom yelled. "I'll go check his room to see if he left a note or anything." I said. My parents didn't say anything. I just ran up the stairs as fast as I could to Nick and Joe's room. I looked around and saw a note on Joe's bed. It said:
Mom, dad, and Kevin
Please don't worry about me, I can't just sit back and watch Nick like that, knowing that I could've at least tried to stop those guys. I am going out to find him. I will have my cell phone, please keep me updated. I have anything that I might need if I find Nick. Please don't come out looking for me. Keep looking for Nick and let me know what's happening. I will check in every now and then.
Joe
"Mom, I know where he went" I yelled as I ran out of the room and down the stairs. "He went to look for Nick." I said out of breath. "What? Why would he do that?" My mom asked. "Because were so busy worrying about Nick that we didn't notice that Joe is blaming himself for what happened to Nick." I said. "I think you guys should come and watch this" My dad said. My mom and I ran over to the computer and looked at it. Nick and the girl were gone. "What happened to them" I asked. "They went to the bathroom." My dad said. "Then what is the big deal?" I asked, what would be the big deal. I asked myself. "Where did they go?" yelled one guy, as he ran into the room after a few minutes. "I don't know" another guy said as he ran inside the room. "That was the guy who brought Nick and the girl out to the bathroom. Maybe he let them go" my dad pointed out. "What if he did, they could be anywhere by now. There is no way they could make it far enough away with the way Nick is. We can't help either because we don't even know where they are." I said as I started to walk back and forth; trying to figure out a way to find Nick. "We should call Joe, to tell him that Nick escaped." My mom said. "Yea, I will call him." I said. My parents nodded and I went to the next room to call Joe. I dialled the number and waited. The phone was still ringing when I got Joe's voice mail. "Hey Joe, Nick escaped from them. He is out there somewhere. Mom is going to call the detective over. The cops are going to be looking for him everywhere. I'll try calling again later" I said into the phone. "I left him a message, he wasn't answering" I said as I came back into the other room. "I just called the detective; he is on his way over." My mom said as she put the phone down. I just nodded and kept thinking of where Nick might be. What if Joe does find him? I asked myself.
The seconds passed like minutes, and the minutes passed like hours before the detective came. He talked with my parents in the kitchen while I was in my room. I couldn't stop thinking of where Nick could be. The good thing was that they took Nick on the last night of the show. Nobody, not even the press knew that Nick was gone. This way we didn't have to put up with the paparazzi outside our door. The only people who knew about this were our family, the detective and whoever else was involved. I hope that Nick could forget this day, when he ever came back. I can't give up any hope. Nick will come back one day or another. He had to; he was so strong. Nick was a fighter, no Nick is a fighter. But all I know now is that there is hope.