Disclaimer: I can't find my birthday suit...
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Chapter 6: Think
"Damn it, Sheen, where are you?"
Jimmy slowed his Hover Car, sighing in frustration.
Despite have a pretty good idea of Sheen's true intentions, Jimmy had still looked in some of his favorite spots, although knowing deep down that if Sheen truly intended to do what he was thinking, he wouldn't be anywhere in town, where people could see—and stop—him. But hey, Jimmy could hope.
Damn, damn, damn, damn.
"C'mon, Jimmy," the boy genius muttered. "Think. Think." Usually Jimmy was blessed with a brain blast when he couldn't figure out a particularly hard equation or problem, but this time nothing came to him. He had never faced a problem of this magnitude before, because if it went unsolved, someone would die. His grip on the wheel tightened until his knuckles were white.
C'mon, c'mon, think, if you were Sheen and you wanted to be alone, where would you go…
Jimmy resisted the urge to bang his head against the steering wheel multiple times. Why, of all people, was Sheen the hardest to figure out? Even Cindy was cake compared to this…
Because you never knew Sheen was suicidal, his mind whispered. Because you never knew that he was willing to end it all. Because you never knew that he felt that way…
Jimmy felt a shadow of doubt flit across his mind. If he had never even known Sheen was thinking of suicide, then how the heck was he supposed to find him?
You're a freakin' boy genius, FIGURE IT OUT!
"Okay," Jimmy said after a moment, speaking to himself. "I know Sheen wants to kill himself. He wouldn't do that in public, because someone would see him and probably try to stop him. So he wouldn't be anywhere in Retroville…."
Which leaves about the whole damn world…
"No." Jimmy shook his head. "Sheen wouldn't go that far away. If he did, he would have taken one of my vehicles, or used one of my traveling inventions, and I would have known that. He has to be somewhere near Retroville." A moment of silence as the young genius pondered this; the next instant, it hit him like a bolt of lightning, and he sat up with a cry.
"The outskirts of town! Of course!"
Quickly, Jimmy maneuvered the Hover Car into action, rocketing towards the woods surrounding the town, desperately hoping he wouldn't be too late.
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(Bangs head against the desk repeatedly) This chapter, for the oddest reason, was the most difficult for me to write. I have no clue why, and yet at the same time I adore it.
Story's nearing its end... there's only about three chapters left.
