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Chapter 12- Realize

"Candice! Candice are you there?" he yelled into the phone. When he realized she wasn't he quickly dialed Jeff's number.

"Are you at her parents yet?" Jeff asked when he answered the phone.

"Jeff... Something happened to Candice."

"What do you mean?"

"Well she called and she was crying, I asked her what was wrong and she said she needed my help because he was right behind..."

"Behind what?"

"Well that's when I heard her scream, a loud crashing sound, and then her phone went dead." Matt told him. "Oh no. No no no." he yelled.

"What's wrong." Jeff asked

"I found her car." Matt said and then hung up his phone. He got out of his car and ran over to the wreckage. He looked in the car but didn't see her in it. He began to look around the car, but had the same result, nothing. He called 911 and waited. The police, Jeff, Paige, and Shannon all arrived at about the same time. Paige ran over to Matt.

"Matt is she ok?!" Paige asked looking at the wreckage.

"She's not in there."

When he said that Paige burst out into tears. Jeff pulled her into a hug and kept telling her that they'd find Candice.

"This is my fault. If I had just gone with her or tried harder to stop her, this wouldn't be happening." Paige said.

"Paige don't go starting to blame yourself. There was no way of knowing this was going to happen." Jeff told her.

"Why don't us three head over to her parents house, let them know what happened. Matt's got to be here to give his statement." Shannon suggested.

Jeff and Paige agreed. They all left to go to her parents house. After Matt gave his statement he leaned up against his car and began to wonder why Candice would go somewhere in the middle of the night, alone, knowing her stalker was still out there.

"Officer, what are the odds of finding her? And I want an honest answer." Matt asked.

"Well if this was your everyday kidnapping, a good chance because usually they'd want money. But if he's been stalking her over 5 years, this isn't about money, it's about love." he told him.

"Love?! I'm the one that's in love with her!"

"Sir, we'll do everything we can do to get her back. That's one plus side, if he's in love with her, he's probably not going to kill her."

Matt thanked the officer, and then began pacing. He just couldn't stop thinking about things. Like, what if she got hurt after the accident.? What if he tries to hurt her? What if he.. what if he... Matt stopped there. He couldn't even think about that happening to her.

Shannon, Jeff, and Paige arrived at Candice's parents house. They knocked on the door a few times, until they saw a light switch on.

"Mrs. Walker," Paige said when she opened the door.

"Paige, what are you doing here?" Mrs. Walker said as she let the three in the house.

Paige started to cry again, so Jeff spoke up.

"Mrs. Walker..." he started to say but was cut off by Candice's dad.

"What the heck are you doing in my house?!" he yelled at Jeff.

"Sir something hap..."

"Sir, you have the guts to call me sir?!"

"I was trying to be polite."

"Kevin would you shut up and let the boy finish his sentence. I need to know whats going on." Candice's mom said.

"Mr. and Mrs. Walker, Candice was in a car accident." Jeff told them.

"Wh... wha... a car accident?" Laura (her mom.. I can't remember if I gave her a name) said as she sat down on the couch. Paige sat down with her and put her arm around her.

"You and your brother ain't nothin but trouble. Everytime you two get around her somethin bad always happens to my baby girl." Kevin said, choking up.

David, the one who had been sitting there in silence the whole entire time finally spoke up. "Dad! Jeff and Matt are good guys. They would never do anything to hurt her. Would you quit blaming them!"

"Son you know as well as I do that they would hurt her."

"No dad, that wasn't them." David started to say.

"David." Jeff said while shaking his head no.

"I'm the one who gave her that concussion that one time. We were all hanging out at the school, and Candice was walking on top of the brickwall. Well Jeff and Matt kept telling her to get down because she was going to hurt herself. She didn't listen. So I threw my football up at her to try and scare her so maybe she'd get down. Well she lost her balance and fell. That is how it happened. Jeff and Matt didn't want you to get mad at me, so they just let you believe it was their fault." David told him.

"That can't be true." Kevin said.

"It is dad." he said and then got up and walked out of the house.

Except for the crying, the room was now filled with silence.