A/N: So new chapter right before I go back to school in like a day. I've haven't been updating a lot, I know, its only been every few months, but I think I'll try to speed things up since there's not many more chapters left, but I can't keep any promises once I start high school.

Enjoy, and tell me what you think!

When he heard the front doors slam open, Caleb looked up from the bench he was sitting on.

"Anything?" he asked as Tyler walked towards him.

"No. No one on the second floor has seen or heard anything from Reid since that day in school." Tyler's shoulders slumped. "What about you?"

"Same thing on the first floor. Where do you-"

Caleb's phone rang and Tyler dug it out of his pocket, looked at the caller id.

"It's Pogue."

"Maybe he knows something." Caleb looked up hopefully as Tyler answered.

"Yeah... No, we checked the dorms, there's nothing. You?" Tyler huffed out a laugh. "You sure? That's not exactly- Yeah, we should... Okay, we'll meet you there." He closed the phone, looked down at Caleb.

"He checked Nicky's. Nothing there either."

"Damn," Caleb muttered.

"He's heading up to Reid's house." Caleb looked at Tyler doubtfully. "Yeah, I know, Caleb, odds are he'd go there last, but we gotta check. It's the closest to your house than anywhere else we've checked. Let's go meet up there."

"Fine, but we all know he doesn't like going home much. Let's go." Caleb started for the car, but Tyler didn't follow.

"Ty, what?" Caleb turned back around; it was dark and he could hardly see Tyler in the soft dorm lights.

"Well, just. Shouldn't we tell someone about this?" Caleb heard the distress in his younger Brother's voice.

"What, like police? Tyler, Reid's really out of it right now. If we get a whole search party out here, who knows what he'll do in front of all those people."

Caleb almost made it to the car again before Tyler's shaky voice called out again.

"What about his parents?"

Caleb sighed. "I guess we're gonna have to let them know. We can't go sneaking around their house, even if they'll be pissed as hell at Reid."

"Do you think they'll be that mad at him? He's really sick, it's not like he ran away for the hell of it."

Caleb gave a frustrated sigh again. "I don't know. We'll deal with it when we get there. Let's go, it's already late enough." He opened the car door as Tyler went to do the same.

"When we find him and get this all straightened out, I'm gonna sleep for a day." His face suddenly turned almost pained. "And I was gonna study tomorrow for when school started again."

Caleb stared at him over the top of the car. "Tyler. Get in the car."

"Oh my God, you're a mess," Joseph hissed at his son as Reid finished emptying his stomach once again into the toilet. He leaned back against the doorway and watched Reid on his knees in front of the bowl. "You were out in the rain for a few hours, 'course you'd get sick. So fucking weak."

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry," Reid started muttering apologies again for what seemed like the tenth time since his father had dragged him out of Caleb's house and back home.

He heard the familiar crunch of tires in the driveway as he started heaving into the bowl again.

"Shit, shit, shit." Someone was muttering, had to be his father, but he couldn't hear anything over the rush in his ears.

"Come on finish up, let's go." Joseph was suddenly right behind him, a hand on his back pushing. "Damn it, I thought they'd be slower than this."

As soon as Reid finished his father hauled him up, just as the bang bang bang's started coming from the front door.

"Come on, boy. Get your damn feet under you." Joseph was pushing, pushing, forcing him out of the bathroom in the opposite direction of the voices outside, cold hands on Reid's fever hot skin.

"Mr. and Mrs. Garwin! We need to talk to you!"

Reid stopped, wanted to pull away from his father's hold, but he didn't know how long he could stay up. "Hey, that's Cal-"

"Go! Or I'll pick you up and throw you outside!" The hands on his arms tightened, started squeezing tight, and Reid felt like he wasn't really on the same page as everyone else.

"Wait, what? Outside?.."

"That's it!" Fingers on his shoulders, his upper arms, hauling him over something bigger, his dad's shoulder, and he was hanging upside down. So not a good feeling for his stomach.

He saw flashes of the tiled floor of the kitchen, and then he was being flung backwards, out the back door, into the cold again.

"I'll deal with you later, after I deal with them."

He looked up at his father's sneering face before the door slammed shut and he heard Joseph's retreating foot steps.

He knew Caleb was around; he'd been banging on the door. If he found Caleb, maybe they could go back to his house.

He waited for his stomach to stop thinking it would come up his throat anytime soon and laid on the cold ground. The wet leaves started to feel good on his hot skin, but he needed to move, needed to try and find Caleb.

So Reid started crawling.

"Boys? What is it, what's wrong?" He threw the door open, looked down at the faces of Caleb, Tyler, and Pogue.

"Mr. Garwin, we can't find Reid." He saw the fear in their eyes, and shame, and fought back a laugh. He had to act serious for his plan to work.

"What do you mean? He's gone?" Joseph felt his eyes go wide, his mouth slack, faking surprise.

"He was at my house. I-I was downstairs with Tyler and when we went back upstairs to check on him he was gone." Joseph could tell Caleb felt the most embarrassed.

"He was really sick, Mr. Garwin," Tyler's small voice came to his ears, and he really wanted to laugh now. They were so worried about Reid.

"Where have you looked?" He ran inside and left the boys in the open doorway, mocking his frenzy, grabbing his coat and throwing it on. "Have you been anywhere besides here? How long has he been gone?"

"We went to the dorms, Nicky's. No one's seen him."

"He's been gone for about an hour now," Pogue finally spoke up.

"We thought we'd come here to see if he was around or if he came home," Caleb said.

"Alright, we should poke around the house, see if he's around the neighbor's, any nearby streets." Three heads nodded at him as he started down the steps to the driveway. "Let's split up, cover more ground."

They all came to a stand still in front of the house. "Pogue and Tyler, you guys look around any of these houses." He waved his hand at the general area. "Caleb, you can try the roads, but don't go too far with out one of us. I'm gonna check around here and anywhere else. But you guys have to be quiet if you can, its late, and everyone's sleeping.

"Let's go." Pogue clapped Tyler on the shoulder and they took off to the tree line bordering the side of the house and fencing off the neighbors. Caleb nodded at him, started down the driveway to the front gates.

Joseph headed for the back of the house.

A/N: Kinda short, but I'm thinking it's okay. Let me know what you think!