"Look, Nina, it's been awhile now, tell me you have come up with a plan. What are we going to do?" Fabian asked Nina during the Sibuna meeting
"Look guys" Nina spoke quietly, "I don't really know what to do, we have no leads, we don't even know where they are. There isn't much we can do."
"Come on Nina, please. We can't just leave Jerome with that mad man. We have to do something, we have to find him!" Alfie said still really worried.
"Well, seeing we have no leads, maybe we should start from scratch." Patricia said
"What?" Amber asked her
"I was just thinking, maybe we should check the barn. Hopefully we can find him, or some clues or something." Patricia answered.
"I guess, it's better than just sitting here. We can't leave it up to Victor and the teachers, remember how well they handled it when Patricia got kidnapped by Rufus?" Fabian mentioned.
"Yeah, good idea guys, we can check it out tomorrow morning. OK? Now, I think we should all get some sleep, it's gonna be an early morning." Nina said, sounding a bit happier that they had some kind of plan. They all dispersed, but Fabian lingered a bit longer.
"Don't worry Nina, we'll find him, I know we can" He told her reassuringly
"But, what if we don't?" Nina asked him
"Have you forgotten who you're talking to? We are the best mystery solvers ever. We saved Patricia from Rufus, kept Victor and the teachers away from the elixir for a while and found the cup of ankh! While still going to school and trying not to get caught by the teachers. We can do anything" he smiled at her. Nina smiled back, it was nice having someone always there for her, to pick her up when she was down.
"Thanks Fabian, goodnight" she said and he left, leaving her to sleep.
I was woken up by someone poking me and calling my name. At first I thought it was Rufus, come back. I sat up to see ti was Angela. She looked kind of tired but still frantic and worried. When I looked at her, I saw she had a black eye, and a bruise on the side of her face.
"Oh my God, are you ok?" I asked her genuinely worried.
"I..i'm fine, look, we have to go. We don't have much time" She said, pulling me to my feet. It hurt a lot to stand up, but I managed.
"What did he to you?" I asked her, when I could think again.
"Nothing, it's fine." She said, "I'm almost used to it" she said, almost whispering.
"What? He does this to you regularly?" I asked her
"No, not anymore. Come on, we have to go." She said again, pulling me up the stairs.
"Where are we going?" I asked her.
"We're getting out of here" she replied, still dragging me out of the house.
The Sibuna gang walked over to the barn, they had all hoped that they would never have to see it again, but Jerome's life was at stake.
"OK guys, Fabian and I will check out this room, and you guys go and check out the other one." Nina said, taking control. Everyone nodded, and went to work. They took awhile to open the locks on the doors, but after a few minutes, and a few hair pins later, they got in. Nina and Fabian started checking out the room, Nina started looking at the table, she saw lots of papers on it, so she started looking through them. A few of the papers were actually letters, Nina took no notice of them until she noticed that the addresses on them were not the address of the barn.
"Hey Fabian, look at these" she said showing him them. "This address, its not the barn address, do you thinkā¦"
"It could be Rufus's address?" Fabian said, accidentally butting in. "It's possible"
"We should tell the others" Nina said, Fabian nodded, and they ran out of the barn.
