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I had no idea how he managed to get out of the house when I was watching it. I mean god damn this kid was good, he was better than I was even. I know it had something to do with the fact that he had no real parent authority. I know Cassie tried but she worked and it was hard for her to be around all the time. Ryder was right though she had poor taste in girls and if she wanted him to respect her more she was going to have to try harder. I just didn't know how else he could spell it out for her. She needed to step up for him or he was going to go down a dark hole. I felt like my dad couldn't help her, I have no idea what it is like being a lesbian nor do I know how it feels for Ryder. I just wish there was something more I could do for him, I felt like what I was doing was the wrong thing. I think he felt I was smothering him even though I was trying not to. I wanted what was best for him but like he very bluntly pointed out to me I am not his father. There was nothing I could do for him right now, it was late and I headed home, I wanted to see Aria before she had to work in the morning. I crawled into bed with her. "Is he okay?" she asked, "he is fine but he is acting out. This is not the Ryder I know" I said, "I know it sucks, but Max he needs to figure it out. His mom needs to help him and he will get there, I feel like he will come around" she said. "I hope so, I just feel like he can do so much more with his life" I said. "I know love" she said kissing me and cuddling me more we ended up having sex before falling asleep. It was good having her in my arms, I needed this it was calming me down so much.
The next morning we were called out to a mission on the water and I hated that, Klea couldn't swim but I was going to be by her side. I had no idea why we needed to go on the water why they couldn't come to us but regardless we needed to go. "I hate this" Klea said, "I know but it will be quick, I promise" I said and she nodded. We didn't end up having to go that far, they met us on the beach, we were solving another murder this one looked fresh. "Looks like they dumped her body a few hours ago" Ian said, he still helped us on the bigger cases. Adam was more into the tech part of it all he didn't like the dead bodies. I had no idea what we were looking at I mean she could have fallen, she could have just slipped and fell into the water and drowned. We of course would have no idea, until Ian figured it out, I wanted to have faith in Adventure Bay there was just too much blood she lately. I also wanted to have faith in Ryder but that was not happening lately everything was falling apart. Turns out she committed suicide and there was nothing we could do. I sat on the beach, I felt like I needed to be better at this, we should have more help in this town, teens need more help. I wanted to do something, Klea sat beside me and it was still early so the beach was abandoned. "Max are you alright?" she asked, "no I am failing to see the good in anything. Ryder is falling part and I can't do anything to help. I feel like he is just going to get worse" I said, "I know and I wish we could do more but I feel like we just have to wait it out" she said. "Wait it out? I feel like it might be to late for him, he is going to wind up dead at this rate" I said. "We need to hope he doesn't come on Max let's get off the beach" Klea said. I sighed but nodded but before we could get up I felt something hit me across the head, "night night Detective" a voice said but I couldn't recognize it before my eyes closed and everything went black.
I woke up in a boat, Klea was still passed out beside me but I felt something was off, one we had no way of getting back this boat was broken, I couldn't even see land. How far did we end up going. Klea woke up beside me and started to panic, "Klea we are fine" I said, "Fine you call this fine! we are fricken sinking!" she screamed, that was the issue I didn't notice. "Klea we are going to need to swim" I said, "Max I can't, I I can't swim" she said, "Look at me you can and I will not let you drown" I said, "Max" she said with tears, "trust me Klea but we need to swim" I said, "swim where?" she said, "I don't know but trust me okay" I said she nodded still scared but I wasn't going to let her drown. We were in the water clearly with no destination, I had no clue what direction Adventure Bay was or where we were going to end up but I wasn't going to let her die. I finally saw it land and she was literally clinging to me for dear life, I was getting tired but I had to keep trying, I had to make it. Once we were on the beach I collapsed on the sand and Klea sat there shaking holding her knees. I wanted to say something but I was to exhausted and I had no idea where we even were but I needed to figure it out. Klea right now was useless to me, and neither of us had a phone, I had to wonder what they did to Titan, damn it I hope he is alright. We needed a plan a plan to get back to Adventure Bay. Surely someone would notice us missing right? Titan will find us he had too, there had to be a way. Klea was a mess but like I told her I wasn't going to let her drown. Who was it that did this, I knew it wasn't Zachary, I would have recognized the voice, he wore a damn mask, I couldn't see his face. I needed to see more, I needed to figure this out. "FUCK!" I swore and this woke up Klea, "Oh my god! Where are we?" she asked, "I don't know but we need to figure out a way off this damn island" I said. "Well I can't swim so I don't know" she said, "I know and I won't ask you too you nearly drowned me so I can't do that again" I said, "ugh I am so sorry, Adam he can swim really well we should call him" she said, "sure do you have a phone?" I said, "oh um no, okay they will find us right" She said, "I am not sure but it looks like we are going investigating. Come on we have and island to explore" I said. Klea followed me I could feel her thinking, I felt like she was thinking hard she was going to figure out a way to escape. Klea was the problem solver, I was confident she would figure this out. We just needed to get a signal to Adam and Titan they had to find us we would not die on this damn island.