Hmm, not sure what you all thought of the last chapter, or what you'll all think of this one, I'm wondering if you guys will like the direction I'm taking this in! I hope you do, but *shrugs* not much I can do if not. If you have any constructive points for me, please do tell me!

A warning in advance, I wont be able to post Tuesday/Tomorrow! Apologies!

I'll try and update every day, but sometimes i may not manage it, as life is really hectic at the moment!

Chapter 21: A search party

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(A/N: This is Thursday evening)The day passed slowly for TJ, Spinelli hadn't reappeared after the earlier incident in the janitors closet. TJ hurried home, quickly dropping off his bag and books, before hurrying over to Spinelli's house and knocking on the door. The door was opened almost immediately, Mrs Spinelli's face fell as she saw TJ stood in front of her.

"Where's Ashley?" she asked.

"I was going to ask you the same thing" replied TJ worriedly "Hasn't she come home? She left school today at lunch"

"Come in" replied Mrs Spinelli, walking across the room and sitting down on the sofa.

"Mrs Spinelli, Spinelli's been acting a little strange" replied TJ, feeling guilty about voicing his concerns, not only because he felt like he was betraying Spinelli in some way, but also because he knew he'd be causing Mrs Spinelli to worry.

"You've noticed too?" asked Mrs Spinelli "Oh god, I knew it! I thought it was just me, I was trying to tell myself I was imagining it!"

"Don't worry Mrs Spinelli, everything will be fine, I'm going to go and start looking for Spinelli" replied TJ, knowing that now Mrs Spinelli shared his worry, he really needed to find his girlfriend.

"I'll stay here in case she comes home" replied Mrs Spinelli "we should check her room, maybe you could find some sort of indication on where she might be?"

"Good idea" said TJ standing up, he and Mrs Spinelli hurried up the stairs to Spinelli's room, however the door was locked.

"OH NO!" cried Mrs Spinelli, "Now what do we do?"

"I can get in through the window" replied TJ, hurrying down the stars. TJ climbed the tree outside and into Spinelli's room, he began to make his way across the room froze at the sight that met him; he looked around in horror. Mrs Spinelli banged on the bedroom door, bringing TJ back to his senses, he hurried across the room, opening the door; Mrs Spinelli gasped in horror as she walked in.

The walls were covered, covered in black writing, newspaper clippings, photos and hand drawn pictures.

"Murder. Death. Dad. Joey. They're watching me..." said TJ as he read aloud of some of the things that were written all over the walls.

Mrs Spinelli let out a sob as she pulled one of several newspaper articles from the wall, all about Joey's death, written over all of them, was one hand written word 'dad'. As TJ and Mrs Spinelli explored further, they only continued to feel more horrified; all over the walls were family photos, in each one, Mr Spinelli's face had been scratched out.

"She must have done all of this last night" replied Mrs Spinelli, looking down at one of the photos in her hand "The room wasn't like this yesterday. I thought she'd gone to sleep!"

"We NEED to find her" said TJ in shock "I'm going to call the gang, they'll help me look"

"Why have you called us here TJ?" asked Gretchen, as the gang –minus Vince who was working- were gathered in TJ's room half an hour later "I'm shattered, my feet are hurting and starting to swell"

"Gretchen" said TJ "How did that research come a long? I've called you here about Spinelli, I'm worried about her"

"Well TJ, the research proved somewhat inconclusive. I was worried Spinelli might be suffering with bipolar depression" started Gretchen "Some of the signs were there; for example Spinelli's art work today, those with bipolar can be very creative, Vincent Van Gough was bipolar (A/N: this is a real fact). Also, there's the sweating, the rapid speech, gambling and excessive spending"

"Right, well we've seen all of that, are they all the signs?" asked TJ with concern "Or are there more?"

"Well there's where the theory falls short. Usually something like this runs in the family, and Spinelli hasn't shown some of the other more typical futures of the disorder. Bipolar can be triggered by a significant or upsetting incident that happens in someone's life" explained Gretchen

"Her parent's divorce" said TJ, naming the possible trigger "What are the other features Gretchen?"

"Well, there are many symptoms, but they include being on a 'high' or 'low', poor sleep, paranoia, hallucinations, hypersexuality..."

"What is hypersexuality?" asked Mikey looking confused.

"Hypersexuality is extremely frequent or suddenly increased sexual urges or sexual activity" recited Gretchen.

"Spinelli has all of those signs, well all of them apart from the 'low'" TJ informed his friends "It does run in Spinelli's family, Joey died during an 'manic episode' and Mrs Spinelli has bipolar as well. Spinelli's not been sleeping, she tried to have sex with me today in the janitors closest which, is so unlike her. Also, she said she saw Joey today, and of course, we know he died five years ago"

"Well in that case we need to find her" said Gretchen with concern "and as fast as we can, this is running untreated, Spinelli is a possible danger to herself and this could only get worse"

"It is worse Gretchen, you should see her room. Please you guys, we need to find her!" replied TJ worriedly.

The gang nodded in agreement, and after making a plan of action of who would search where, before spreading out and begining their search.

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So, another short chapter, ut what do you guys think? Review and let me know :) Thank you for reading!

Burton's Disney Princess: Thank you! I'm glad you liked the intensity, there's more to come! So, still feeling your psychic abilities are a little off? Or reading this, are you thinking they're still in tune! II hope you liked the update!

Rose-Aki: and now poor TJ has even more reason to worry! I;m glad your looking forward to my next fic, I am kinda looking forward to posting it. I cant wait to read your fic, I always love them! How old are they going to be in your new fic?

Sexehbunneh: I literally shouted "WHAT? HOW?" at the TV when they said Frankie was through. I knew as soon as Johnny/Kitty were in the bottom two, that he would go, and no one can deny she has a really good voice! I'm glad you like the last chapter, I'm posting this chapter from a safe place, just because you have that nice sharp knife on you...

Please read and review! Constructive criticism welcome!

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