Just a short part:D Will be posting the next part in the next couple of days. Believe me, this story is far from over! Oh, and thanks for all the feedback (((hug)))

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The door to the science lab opened, and the science club all turned in unison with hopeful expressions. The general consensus had been that if Josie were to suddenly turn up again, she'd come looking for them in the science lab. After dinner, they'd all turned back up at the Science Lab, hoping to stick around as long as they could, in the hopes that Josie would just appear.

But they were disappointed when Principal Durst bustled in to the room with a furious look on her face. She looked around the room, searching for one particular person. When she realized the person she was looking for wasn't there she turned to Professor Z.

Z had also turned, and when he saw Durst, he exchanged wary glances with his students, before turning back to the slightly scary principal.

"Professor Zachary," she said brusquely. "Where is Miss Trent?"

"Um… She's not here right now," he replied cautiously.

Frustrated, Durst snapped back at him, "I can see that, Professor Zachary, but where is she?"

Z lightly scratched the back of his head as he tried to come up with a plausible answer. "I'm not sure?" he said, his arms spread out in a gesture of confusion.

With her eagle-sharp eyes, Durst could tell something was amiss. "Professor Zachary… If you know something you're not telling me, it won't be pretty when I find out," she threatened.

Glancing once again at his pupils, Z sighed, unable to stand Durst's narrowed eyes. "All right… Josie's gone missing."

"Missing!" Durst cried out in shock, raising one hand to her chest. "What do you mean, missing? She's got to be around here somewhere!"

Z shook his head slightly, and raised his eyes to the roof, as if asking for strength. He knew that Durst knew about the black hole, but that she leaned towards the side of skepticism, and pretended that everything was fine with the school.

"Well… I daresay she's just gone off with some friends," Principal Durst continued, trying to rationalize Josie's disappearance to her students. "Yes, that's it. When you see her Professor Zachary, tell her I want to see her in my office."

"What should I tell her that you want her for?" Z asked, fishing for information.

"Miss Trent has missed almost every class this afternoon, and I want an explanation. She was at every morning class, but some time during lunch she seems to have left the school grounds, and she hasn't been seen since," Durst replied briskly, ending the discussion.

She turned and bustled out of the room, adjusting her glasses, as the science club exchanged significant glances behind her back. Shutting the door behind her, Principal Durst made her way down the hall, wondering how she was going to tell Victor Pearson about another student's disappearance.

Unbeknown to Durst however, a few students, who had been hanging out in the hallway, had overheard her exclamation about Josie being missing. And being typical teenagers, the gossip mill was started up, and the news spread around the school faster than fire.

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