Chapter 9

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The next time Taylor tried calling April's friend Leo, she ended up talking to someone called Don.

"Just how many of you are there?" she asked.

"Uh..four. Well, technically there are five of us, but..."

"I was thinking we should file a missing persons report."

"No, no no no, bad idea. Really bad idea, Taylor!"

Taylor huffed. She was in Central Park, watching the clouds drift across the lake's surface. "Well, do you have any better ideas, smart guy?" She wasn't normally this rude to people she'd only just met (or in this case, talked to), but she was beginning to feel frustrated as well as worried. "I can't call her family! We were supposed to leave emergency contact numbers with the landlord, only April never did. I checked. April's dad died when she was a kid and she's never even talked about her mom."

She got up from the bench. "Tell you what - I'll call in on the apartment one more time tonight. If there's no sign of her, I'll call you."

What was she doing? She should get the police involved - why was she putting her trust in these people? And why had Don thought reporting April missing was a bad idea?

Taylor didn't know what was going on, but she didn't like it at all.

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"Has April turned her cell on?" Leo asked.

Don shook his head, the ends of his mask flipping from one shoulder to the other. "Nope. And she hasn't checked her emails either."

"Dude...you found her email address?"

"Well, yeah, Mikey, it was simple. All I had to do was hack into her work record at the Daily Planet. Both her work and personal emails are registered on the system, so..."

Don suddenly stopped talking. His eyes widened and his jaw dropped. "...The system. Security systems! CCTV! Why didn't I think of that?"

He sprang up and bolted towards his computer. "If April left her apartment, she'll have been walking around. And if she was walking around, she'll be showing up on cameras."

"Can you track her movements?" Leo came to stand by him, looking over his shoulder. Raph and Mikey quickly joined them.

Don's fingers flew over the keyboard. "You just watch me."

To be continued…