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Chapter Six

Jayden spent the rest of the night locked in his room being angry at himself for hurting Emily the way he did. He kept trying to call her but she wouldn't answer the phone. "Jayden?" Lauren called knocking on his door. "Are you okay? You've been locked up in there since you got back from your date, I brought you some dinner,"

"Please leave me alone Lauren. I'm not hungry."

"Jayden please let me in."

Jayden sighed and unlocked the door. "What do you want?" He asked irritably.

"What's wrong?"

"What makes you think something is wrong?"

"For one you just snapped at me." Lauren started. "You said you were out with Emily and when you came back you were upset. You even skipped dinner and mom made your favorite. What's wrong? Did you and Emily have a fight?"

"Sort of…"

She moved from the doorway and sat at Jayden's desk. "What happened?"

"The plan blew up."

"What do you mean the plan blew up? How?"

"Mike was mad that Em and I were making out and he pulled me aside. He got mad that I told him he can't Emily if it doesn't work with Mia. He got mad and repeated the plan not knowing Mia was behind him. She told Emily the truth and she stormed out."

"So you're mad that Emily is mad at you?"

Jayden shook his head. "That's not it Lauren. She was crying and it's all my fault. Her heart hurts and I'm the reason. I don't want to be the reason she's sad."

"Oh Jayden I'm so sorry."

"What am I supposed to do? I want to talk to her but she won't answer my calls."

Lauren shrugged. "Go to her house and try to talk to her in person?"

"Her dad might answer the door and he's a big scary guy. I'm sure Em probably told her family about the plan and they'd want to hurt me."

"I think if she did tell her family her father would be here." Lauren joked hoping to cheer him up.

"That's not funny, Lauren. Emily said he used to be a Navy SEAL he knows how to kill me!"

"Then you need to do what you can to let Emily know how sorry you are and how much you care about her."

"But what if-" Jayden was interrupted by the sound of the doorbell.

"Jayden, could you come downstairs please?" They heard their father call.

Jayden and Lauren glanced at each other before heading down the stairs. Emily's family was standing there and Jayden feared they came to hurt him. "You jinxed me Lauren," Jayden whispered to his sister.

"I was only kidding when I said that." She whispered back.

"What's going on?" Jayden asked.

"Emily hasn't come home," Mrs. Peterson said. "Do you know where she is?"

"No, I thought she went home after she left the restaurant."

"We don't know where she'd go." Emily's sister Serena said.

"I'll help you look for her."

"We'll all look," Jayden's father said volunteering the family.

"Have you tried her phone?" Lauren asked.

"She won't answer, she always answers her phone which means something is wrong." Lauren and Jayden looked at each other. "What if she's been kidnapped?" Mrs. Peterson said worriedly.

"I'm sure wherever she is she's fine," Jayden's mother assured.

"We better get going, she's out there and we need to find her."

Everyone was out running around the town looking for any trace of Emily. It was very dark and with each passing minute Jayden was feeling worse. He and Lauren were in Lauren's car, their parents in their own car and Emily's family in their own car. "We'll find her Jayden, don't worry." Lauren said as they drove around.

"How can you sit there and tell me not to worry? It's dark and cold and Emily is missing because of me. If anything happens to her I'll never forgive myself."

"Jayden-"

"Lauren, if she's hurt that's on me!"

"We'll find her Jayden, she's really found a great place to hide since nobody knows about it."

"Drive to the park," Jayden ordered.

"What?"

"Go to the park," He repeated.

Lauren drove to the park and Jayden bolted from the car. "Jayden!" Lauren called as he ran into the woods.

Jayden ran further into the woods and stopped when he reached the tree house. "Emily are you up there?" He pulled his phone out of his pocket and dialed Emily's number when he didn't get a response. He sighed in relief when he heard the phone ringing. "Thank goodness." He climbed up the ladder and up into the tree house. Inside Emily was asleep on one of the beanbags. Jayden went over to her and gently shook her awake. "Emily, wake up."

Emily rubbed the sleep out of her eyes. "Jayden…"

He pulled her into his arms. "Em you had a lot of people so worried. Myself included."

"You were worried about me?"

"Of course I was. Why wouldn't I worry about you? I care about you."

Emily pulled away and looked at him. "Do you?"

"I understand that you're really mad at me,"

"I'm not mad Jayden, I told you I'm too sad to be mad."

"You should be furious with me, I'm mad at myself. I'd much rather have you take some anger out on me than see you crying."

"Why would you be mad at yourself? I'm the one that fell for your lies."

"I never lied to you Em, you were with the real Jayden, I just had an ulterior motive to be with you and that's why I'm mad at myself. I shouldn't have needed an excuse to hang out with you and now I'm the reason you're crying and the reason you were missing."

"Jayden why would you agree to such a mean plan?" Emily asked in a hurt voice.

"Mike's my best friend and yes the plan was to keep you off the market until he broke up with Mia but I didn't plan on liking you as much as I do."

"You like me?"

"I do, a lot. I don't regret agreeing to the plan because I got to know an amazing girl but I regret how bad I made you feel. It was never my intention to make you cry. Please forgive me." Jayden begged.

"Jayden-"

"I'll do anything," He interrupted. "I can't stand the thought of you being mad at me. Tell me what I can do to make you smile again."

"I'm going to need some time to think about it."

"That's okay, take all the time you want. But we've gotta let your family know you're safe. They've been worried sick, especially your mom. She was scared you were kidnapped because you weren't answering your phone."

Jayden and Emily climbed down to the ground and headed back towards the car. "There you are!" Lauren said hugging the two when they came into view. "How did you know she was here Jayden?"

"I showed her my secret spot." Jayden said.

Lauren's jaw dropped. "What?"

"I'm going to call the others, Emily, you get in the car with Lauren," Jayden said grabbing his phone and dialing. He walked a few feet away while the girls headed to the car.

"I can't believe he showed you his secret spot," Lauren said climbing back into the driver's seat.

"Why can't you believe it?"

"Because he's never taken anyone there."

"He hasn't?"

"No, I mean we know of it but even after begging he won't tell us where it is or even what it is. I guess I have a clue now of where it is."

"You really don't know where it is?"

Lauren shook her head. "No, but now I know it's in the woods. He must seriously like you if he took you there because he's mentioned taking the secret to his grave."

Emily looked out the window and saw Jayden on his phone. "I guess he does care,"

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I regret to inform you that at this point I have writers block so I'm open to suggestions for the next chapter(s) since clearly it's not ending the same way the episode of BMW did.