"I never knew how easy it is to escape if you don't mind leaving nearly everything behind." ― Beth Revis.

After the outburst earlier in the day, Richard decided he had enough. The best thing for him to do at this point was to leave home behind and go elsewhere, he didn't want to put up with anymore of the bullshit that they've put him through.

"The lies, the bait, the fake persona, I'm just done with them." he said to himself, as he prepares to leave home. "Luckily for them, they'll get what they always wanted: Me away from all of them." as he continued to write down a lengthy note to plaster on his door in case anyone actually cared to come by his house and see where he was.

He plastered the note on his door, locked the door, and left his key in his secured mailbox so no one would be able to go inside his house in case he ever did decide to come back. But with the mood at the very moment, there wasn't a chance of that happening. He walked away from the premises of his house, through the neighborhood and right before he went full steam ahead, he took a quick look at the school and friends he would leave behind.

"Y'all finally got what you wanted. Maybe you will all be happy finally." he said, as he continued on leaving behind his town.

After school as they all promised, Nicole and the others made the walk to Richard's house to try to see if he's willing to talk to them about what happened and give a thoughtful apology. When they got to the front of his door, they noticed a note that was plastered for about a few hours and all of them were curious as to what the note enclosed.

"Let's see what the note says before we knock on his door" suggested Jennifer.

Nicole then took the note off the door and decided to read the note to see if it tells them if Richie was home or not and if he was gone, where did he go?

"To whoever it may concern that is actually reading this note on my door, I am not home at the moment and I don't really planning on coming back home as of this written note. I'm just tired of trying to be a great understanding friend to everyone only to get shitted on in return for almost everything I've done trying to help.

It's something I have been feeling for a while now, just didn't know the right time to announce such until this writing. It really hurts to be taken advantage of and used like a 7-Eleven and then thrown out like a gumball wrapper when people are done with their short visit and I'm not striving to be like that, I just want to become the best of a friend to anyone that I'm friends with.

So after a recent incident at school, I decided that living in this city isn't just for me anymore. Call it immature or whatever you want, but I think after putting up with a lot of bullshit for years and being treated like I don't mean anything to anyone, this is the right move for me. I'm sorry you all had to waste your time meeting and dealing with me, I promise all of that is over now. Enjoy the rest of your lives without my presence around to be an anchor. And no it wasn't because of Nicole rejecting me, I already knew that was going to happen, but it's just the other main issue I've outlined has been my grip but do indeed make the rest of your lives great and strive for your hopes and dreams without me around to be a sore eye view.

- Sincerely, Richie."

"Oh my god..." said Nicole, with a complete shock on her face. "He's not coming back."

"Shit.. that means he isn't here." replied Jennifer. "What do we do now?"

The three girls of Jennifer, Nicole, and Jessica were all stumped. They didn't think Richard would just leave in the way that he did, but the letter made sense as to why he did. They much felt guilty but weren't sure of how to resolve it without Richard around to do so. Jessica decided to curiously look inside his mailbox and noticed a key inside.

"I found a key!" said Jessica. "It's his house key, we have to go inside to see if there's evidence of where he might have gone of to."

The other two weren't so sure about coming in into his house without him knowing, but they knew that they had to in order to find evidence of where he may have gone to.

So without hesitation, the three girls went inside his house and looked every for potential clues of where Richard could've gone to. So far, they couldn't really find much in regarding his whereabouts. They were discouraged but knew that they had to keep looking if it meant finding and bringing him back home.

"Let's go check his computer desk" suggested Jessica. "He might have something there regarding his whereabouts, I'm sure he had written it down somewhere."

They all decided to go check that said desk to see if any information was there, then they found a number of clues from the desk.

"I found a list of locations he wrote down, it looks like he was doing research on these places to see which one he would move to." stated Nicole.

"What are the names of the places?" inquired Jennifer.

"Places I don't even know existed in this world, it says as it follows: Sinnoh, Unova, Kalos, and Alola. It also has some other information about the places listed here as well."

"Those places don't ring a bell." Jessica said. "But which one did he go to? Those places sound like their not within town but very, very far."

As they were all about to diverge into thinking, Jessica noticed some paper on the desk behind the list of places document that had the title of "Ticket confi-"

"Hey wait a minute guys!" Jessica said, as she quickly went for that paper and quickly confirmed what she saw: a ticket confirmation document of Richard's departure.

"It says here that he booked it not too long ago and says that he's heading to Alola."

The three girls were in complete shock, they had no idea where Alola is, what the place was, and how they would even get there.

"What are we going to do?" Jennifer said in complete shock.

"We have to go and get him back," Nicole said. "Even if it is a big region and an unknown place to us, we owe it to him to get him back home. We will go to Alola next week first thing."

Jessica and Jennifer were a bit shocked by the idea, but they knew they had to rescue their friend and this was the only way of doing so.