Nick made it into the kitchen just in time before the robbers were successful in their breaking and entering.
Squishing herself into the cupboard under the sink she realized how much smaller the space was compared to when she was little.
Everything was quite out in the restaurant until a giant crash of sound exploded.
Nick yelped and quickly covered her mouth as her side twinged in response.
She could hear the voices telling off who ever made the disturbance but was unable to make out what they were saying.
In the Hope's they would see there was nothing to take and leave, the kitchen door squeaked open.
Jeremy
Not much light was able to come through the covered windows. Fortunately the teens used their cell phone for light.
Jeremy's foot got caught under the upturned rug as he fell forward landing on something tall and metal.
The crashing sound made Jeremy want to high tail it out of there before he could get caught doing this very illegal thing.
The flash light on his phone revealed a pile of chairs toppled onto the floor.
"Make a bigger sound why don't you!" Molly whispered harshly. "Now everyone knows we are here."
Will moved his light towards the siblings. "Guys come on, keep looking she has to be here somewhere."
Jeremy noticed Will was leading them into the creepy kitchen area in the back of the restaurant. Jeremy just knew that there had to be hoards of rats and an infestation of roaches back there.
Following behind the other two, he shown his light everywhere on the floor. Waiting to see something scurry by his feet.
Looking around he noticed that all the expensive equipment was gutted and most likely sold to another business.
The only thing that gave him the notion it was the kitchen was due to it being a restaurant like his mom's.
"Guys, I don't think Nick would be in here. I ...I think we should leave."
Will was opening and closing drawers and the cabinet doors, trying to find a clue to his lost friend.
"I dont understand. Maybe she is gone and..."
Molly intervened, "No, remember. No one like Nick bought a ticket from that bus stop. She couldn't have left."
"Yeah but," Jeremy added. "They probably see so many people in a day that all the faces blurred together."
Jeremy was hoping that they would find Nick and bring her home. Nick would go back to school and everything would go back to the way it was before. Just without him doubting her every move this time.
"Hey," Molly whispered as she pointed across the room with her phone light. "Look."
Upon closer inspection Jeremy recognized smeared blood on the metal door below the sink.
Together the three pulled open the door, what was inside stilled them.
Tucked inside was a pale and slightly bloodly Nick. Her stitchings must have popped when she was booking it from the hospital and breaking into her old place.
Will reached in and grabbed Nick as Jeremy untangled her legs from the sink's drainage pipe.
He heard Molly's phone ring in the background.
They found her
