Here's chapter 14. Review and tell me what you think. ;)
Tuesday, December 14th 2010
"Why does Lauren want us here?" Tina asked.
Puck was standing at the choir room door. "She has a new plan to find Rachel."
"Where is she?" Quinn asked.
"Here she comes now." Puck said as he opened the door. The group watched as Lauren walked in.
"Grab a chair." Puck said as he went over and sat down.
Lauren got a chair and sat down on front of the group.
"What's the plan?" Mercedes asked.
"I spent all last night doing some research." Lauren said.
"What kind of research?" Santana asked.
"Well lucky for us all of the Vocal Adrenaline members have public Facebook pages." Lauren said.
The group gave her a confused look.
Lauren continued talking. "Tonight the Vocal Adrenaline members are having a party. Everyone is going, including Mark and Lucas."
"So they won't be home but Mark's brother will be." Mercedes said.
Lauren smiled. "Mark's brother is out of town for the next few days. He left on Sunday night. Won't be back until Friday."
"Where is this party?" Finn asked.
"Carmel High School." Lauren said. "In the sports hall."
"So what are we going to do?" Artie asked.
"We're going to sneak into their house while their at the party." Lauren said.
"What?" The group shouted.
"Shh keep your voices down." Lauren said.
"Break into someones house?" Quinn said. "That's worse then Puck's idea."
"It's also dangerous." Tina said.
"Why are we even going to break in?" Mike said. "You said yourself that Rachel probably wasn't in the house."
"We are not going in to find Rachel." Lauren said. "We are going in to find evidence."
"You also said they might have destroyed the evidence." Santana said crossing her arms.
"True. We're going to look for the things the police didn't find yet." Lauren said.
Tina gave her a confused look. "What do you mean?"
"I mean where going to look for the murder weapon, Rachel's clothes. Anything that could tell us if they killed her." Lauren said back.
"Your more crazy then Puck." Quinn said.
"This is so stupid." Sam said. "We could get arrested or killed."
"This could be our last chance." Lauren said. "Puck, do you think you can get the lock of the door open?"
Puck nodded. "I can try."
"Okay, Raise your hand if you can drive." Lauren said.
Puck, Finn, Mike and Sam raised their hands.
"Okay. All of us can't go in. Puck, since you can work the lock your going in. Does anyone else want to go in?" Lauren asked.
"I'm going in." Finn said. "I want to do whatever it takes to find Rachel."
Lauren nodded. "Anyone else?"
"I'm going in." Mercedes said.
Quinn and Santana looked at each other.
"Me and Santana are going." Quinn said.
The group looked at them.
"I thought you both hated Rachel." Mercedes said.
"We never got to apologize." Santana said. "We want to find her."
"Okay here's the plan." Lauren said. "Puck, Santana, Quinn, Mercedes and Finn are going to go in Puck's car. Me, Kurt and Mike will go together. We're gonna keep look out on the house. Artie, Brittany, Sam and Tina you are gonna wait on the main road leading into the Riverview estate and tell us if their coming back."
"This is crazy." Tina said.
"This could bring Rachel home." Finn said.
"Okay. We're all going to meet up here at 6 o'clock tonight." Lauren said. "Finn, Puck, Mercedes, Santana and Quinn, I'm just warning you if you find anything it might not be pretty."
Mercedes nodded. "We understand."
Lauren got up and walked to the door. "Everyone wear black. Quinn, Santana and Mercedes tie your hair back when you go in."
The group watched as Lauren left.
"We're really going to do this?" Tina asked.
"We have lost it." Puck said.
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Later that night Lauren, Mike and Kurt were sitting in Mike's car. They saw Lucas and Mark leave the house. They watched as the silver Honda Civic drove out of the garden. Lauren used her own phone to stay in contact with group going into the house. She used Mike's phone to stay in contact with the group who were outside the estate.
"Are they gone?" Lauren said though Mike's phone.
"They just left the estate." She heard Sam say.
Lauren waited a moment before she talked into her phone. "Okay guys. It's safe to go in."
Lauren watched as Puck's car drove up to the front of the house.
"Puck you go first. The others can follow." Lauren said.
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"I don't think I can do this." Quinn said while taking deep breaths.
"You want to go to Lauren, Mike and Kurt?" Mercedes asked.
Quinn shook her head. "I have to do this for Rachel."
"Just stay beside me and you'll be fine." Santana said as she took Quinn's hand.
"Okay. I'm going to open the lock. I'll give you the signal to come in." Puck said as he got out of the car.
Puck quickly ran to the front door. The group watched as he messed around the lock. He turned around and used a hand signal to call them over once the door was open. The four members got out of the car and quickly ran into the house.
"We could go to jail for this." Quinn whispered.
"Kidnap and murder is more serious then breaking in." Puck whispered back. "Besides I much rather be arrested for this then see them two getting away with murder."
"Where do we start?" Santana whispered.
"Me and Mercedes will search down here. Finn, Quinn and Santana search upstairs." Puck whispered. "Remember don't touch or move anything. No one can know we're here."
Quinn, Santana and Finn quietly went upstairs while Mercedes and Puck started searching the downstairs area.
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While searching the bedrooms Santana went over and opened the wardrobe.
"What are you doing?" Quinn said.
Santana looked around. Carefully trying not to move anything. "I'm looking for Rachel's clothes."
Santana moaned when she didn't find anything. "If you were covering up a crime where would you hide the evidence?"
"Under the bed?" Quinn suggested as she got down on the floor and checked under the bed.
"Well?" Santana asked.
Quinn sighed. "Nothing."
The two girls went into Finn, who was in the other room.
"Did you find anything?" Quinn asked.
Finn shook his head sadly.
They search upstairs for a few more minutes. They found nothing and decided to go back down stairs.
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"I searched everywhere in the sitting room." Mercedes said as she walked into the kitchen. "There's nothing."
Puck was looking the press trying to find some clues. "I found nothing."
"Maybe they found something upstairs?" Mercedes said.
"Sorry." Santana said as she walked into the kitchen with Quinn and Finn. "We searched everywhere and found nothing."
"There has to be something here." Puck said.
"We should go back outside." Mercedes said. "There's nothing else we can do."
Quinn turned around and looked at the door that was under the staircase. She noticed something under the door. She took a closer look and realized it was a light.
"Look!" Quinn said as she pointed to the door. "There's a light."
The group turned around and looked at the door.
"We didn't check there." Mercedes said.
Santana ran over, opened the door and looked inside. "This is the staircase to the basement."
"Should we check?" Mercedes said.
The group nodded and slowly started walking down the staircase. The boys held their breath while the girls held hands. Mark and Lucas forgot to turn off the light. The group could see more as they got further down. What they saw next shocked them.
Puck gasped and covered his mouth.
Mercedes, Quinn and Santana started crying.
Finn started sobbing. He fell backwards on the staircase and screamed. "Oh God! No!"