The Message

Thank you so much to those who are wasting your time on this story! THANK YOU! I LOVE YOU ALL! hope you enjoy this chp. a;; my love, --katie--

About an hour had passed since Jimmy had arrived.. Still nothing had come up to give any clue to where Cindy was.

" I'm going to look at where she was sleeping again.." Jimmy said. He walked all alone to Libbys' room. Maybe there was something that he missed the first ten times he checked. He studied the pink sleeping bag on the floor. What was he missing? A tear fell and he wiped it away furiously. He had to be missing something! He sat down on the floor still studying the sickeningly empty sleeping bag. He hung his head in his hands, for once in his life, this just didn't fit. Just then Libby came in to see him so pathetically hunched over.

" Jimmy? Are you okay?"

" It just makes no sense! And I can't seem to figure it out! I don't even know where to begin.." he said quietly and lifted his head from his hands. Libby walked over to him and patted him on the shoulder softly.

" It's okay Jimmy, your trying your hardest, and that means more to me then you know.." she said comfortingly.

" But my hardest just isn't enough.."

" Just keep trying.." she said quietly again. He studied the sleeping bag.

" Right.." he looked at the clock. Three thirty. He was losing time... Libby was right. He got off his butt, and kneeled down beside the bag and ran his hands down it, not really sure of what he was trying to find. Just then he noticed that the zipper had been opened rather forcefully. He leaned down and peeked inside of it.. No idea of what he was trying to find. Libby spoke.

" Jimmy, what are you looking for?" she asked laughing a little. The smell of Jasmine floated into his nose, and he breathed it in.

" Nothing.." he said dropping the sleeping bag. " Just trying to find anything.." she smiled.

" Man for her enemy you sure do care a lot.." Jimmy looked at her furiously.

" Libby! This is not the time!" She looked a little bit surprised at his sudden reaction, at the moment he just needed to come up with a reason for why the girl he loved was missing not trying to explain his actions to her best friend.

" Hey would you turn the lights off for a sec Lib?" speechless she flicked the light off. He pulled out his watch.

" Call Goddard.."

"BARK BARK!"

" I know it's late boy, but please come over here, I need ya boy.. Thanks boy.." he hung up.

" Why do you need Goddard?" Libby finally spoke again.

" You'll see.." he said assuredly.

" Right..." she said. Soon enough Goddard came to Jimmy.

" Scan for Cindys' fingerprints.." Libby gasped as though she understood.

" Jimmy you are a genius!" she cried. He just rolled his eyes as Goddard scanned the room. Her finger prints were on the zipper... and on her pillow, on the key board at the computer in Libbys' room..

" Look for those made around..." he looked at Libby.

" Well she disappeared about 1:30 or so.." she said nervously.

The color changed and indicated those made around 1:30. The ones on the zipper had been.. He looked everywhere.

" Look for footprints.." sure enough they came up. They were headed towards the window... what on earth? Hopefully.. She hadn't. But when he searched the ground thankfully nothing turned up. What was she doing at the window? Then they just disappeared, then he switched back to fingerprints and they showed up along the side of the window, so she had been standing on the window for some reason... he knew that she didn't jump out...she would not have survived the fall, and would still be there. Libby looked at him worried.

" It's okay.. Maybe she was looking at something outside.. Is Nicks' house anywhere around here?" he asked.

" Well.. I think it's about a block in the opposite direction your looking..." she said a little bit wary of where he was going with this.

" Well I thought maybe she was watching his house, considering he's got a new girlfriend, maybe she was a bit jealous.." he laughed.

" Maybe, but I doubt it. She never really liked Nick like that. Sure she had a 'girly' crush on him, but I don't think she ever really thought about dating him..." she said.

" Whats the difference? When you have a crush on someone, generally you want to go out with them..."

" Well, she liked someone else way more.. Loved in fact.." Libby said cooly.

" I know, she told me.."

" She did now did she? What exactly did she say?"

" Just that there was someone else.." He said assuredly. He still was trying to piece together if it was him or not, but he was not going to tell Libby that.

" Oh." she said simply and walked over to him closer. " Anything else that you can find?" she asked. He stared at the sky.

" No, but I think the only way she could've gone.. Is up.." he said. " But I looked on the roof.."

" Libby by any chance did you hear any noise at all? Anything? Even just a little squeak?"

" Well I knew I heard a board creaking.. And a bang which I thought was odd, and that's when I came back out, and then I found out that the dog had just knocked over something in the hall, and that's when I found Cindy gone.." she fiddled her thumbs. Just then a message started to come in on his watch. He figured it was his mother.. But a picture of Cindy appeared.

" Jimmy! Help me! They say there gonna kill me! Please!"

" Cindy!" he cried as he stared into the tear stained face. " Where are you?" he asked a little bit impatient.

" They took me.. When Libby left.. They took.."

" Who took you?" he interruptted.

" I don't know, it was so dark..." her voice wavered and she cried softly.

" There there Cind... I'll find you I promise.. And we'll save you.."

" Please hurry Jimmy.. Please.." she said quietly and then the connection started to go fuzzy.

" Cindy?" "CINDY!" he cried as the picture disappeared. He looked at the time on the watch.. He had not scored enough time to find the coordinates..

" Cind?" Libby asked with an eyebrow raised.

" Er... just trying to calm her down!" he said assuredly as he clicked his watch shut.

" Whatever you say Neutron.. Whatever you say.." she smiled. He blushed a little bit.

" Well I am tired.. I am gonna go home and crash.. I'll be over here first thing I wake up tomorrow..."

" Why don't you just stay here? My mom wouldn't care.."

" Yeah.. Okay." he said as he dialed his mom on his cell phone.

" Why do you have a cell phone and a watch that you can make calls with?" Libby asked a little bit confused.

" I use my cell phone for most of my calls but I use my watch if I'm in trouble or something.." she smiled. " Or if you call Cindy?"

" I don't know how she got the number to my watch!" he laughed at how stupid he sounded. Finally his mom picked up.

" Mom I have to stay here the night.. Okay?"

" Okay, just be good honey..." He couldn't believe how lenient his mother was being..

" Okay." so Libby smiled at him.

" You can sleep up here..." she smiled. " On Cindy's sleeping bag okay?"

" What? You sleep in here.. Or can't Sheen?" she smiled.

" I'm sleeping with Sheen downstairs.. Don't worry, he'll be on the floor.. But you never know how we could end up.." Jimmy stared at her. " I mean.. We could be cuddling.. And we know how uncomfortable you get..." she smiled warmly. " Night Jimmy.." she said as she left and closed the door. Jimmy took off his pants and sweatshirt and laid down inside of the Jasmine smelling sleeping bag. It tickled his nose and senses.. He closed his eyes as he smelt it and saw her... her blonde hair, and her soft lips, and her kind heart.. The way she made him feel so stupid with one smile... The way he had all of a sudden become obsessed with the way she tapped her pencil on her nose when she was thinking to hard, the way she picked at her nails when she was nervous.. They way he wanted more then anything to be with her, to love her, to hold her, to have her say, she loved him.. This was not fair, in any way or form, this was not fair, but finally he drifted off into a Cindy filled sleep.