Chapter
21
"Oh great
did Brian disappear too?" mumbled AJ who sat in an orange chair drinking
cold coffee.
"Shut up
AJ!" Kevin nearly screamed. "I can't find Bri anywhere! But I did
find this" he said as he handed the cell phone to Howie.
"Are you
sure this is Bri's phone Kev?" Howie asked as he turned the phone over.
"It has
the first few digits of AJ's cell phone number on the display window."
Kevin explained.
AJ's curiosity
rose as he heard his name and he approached his older band mates. "What
about me?" AJ asked
"This
phone Kev found has the first few digits of your cell phone number in the
display window." Howie explained.
"Oh"
AJ said, at a loss for words.
"Are you
sure this is Bri's though Kev? I mean absolutely sure?" Howie asked.
"Not one
hundred percent sure" admitted Kevin "But I know one way to find out
for sure." He said as he grabbed the cell phone out of Howie's hand and
pushed a button to activate the numbers stored in the phone's memory. "It
is Bri's phone." He whispered, "This is his parents phone number. And
this" he said as he pushed the down arrow key "Is his brother's phone
number."
"What
should we do?" Kevin said with a lost look in his eyes.
"Let's
first contact the police and tell them what happened and then we go from
there." Howie stated logically.
Kevin nodded
in agreement and walked over towards the couch where his cousin's book bag lay.
He picked up the book bag and sat down putting the book bag in his lap. As
Howie and AJ both watched curiously, Kevin unzipped the book bag and pulled out
a blue book bag. Using the book bag as a table, Kevin sat the notebook on top
and opened it up quickly scanning the top of the pages for the dates of the
entries. Even though he felt a pang of guilt go through him with each page he
hesitantly turned, he kept telling himself that something written on the pages
could give him information to save his cousin. He suddenly stopped on a page
and read silently as Howie and AJ watched curiously, wondering what information
Brian's journal could posses that could be of this much interest.
"Oh my
god" Kevin whispered fearfully.
"What is
it?!?" Both AJ and Howie exclaimed as they both walked to Kevin's side.
Without a word
Kevin handed the notebook to Howie and buried his head in his hands as AJ
looked over Howie's shoulder to also read the journal entry.
"You mean
he witnessed a murder?" AJ nearly yelled.
"AJ shut
up!" Howie hissed. "This sounds like it is the same murder that we
seen the news report about earlier." Howie said thoughtfully.
"Oh
great! Just great!" Kevin moaned. "It is after 11:30 and he hasn't
taken his meds. God only knows where he is now! And he witnessed a murder and
is missing. Oh yeah and Nick is in the hospital fighting for his life! I can't
take much more of this!" he said loudly, his voice rising in volume with
every word he said.
"Kev just
calm down. Having a mental breakdown on us isn't going to help the situation.
I'm going to call the police and see what they say about this ok?" Howie
asked, silently hoping and praying that Kev would go along with his plane. He
sighed in relief when he realized that Kevin finally seemed to calm down.
Kevin just
nodded in response and Howie pulled his cell phone out of his pocket and pushed
"0" to ask the operator to connect him to the local police station.
After a few moments, the operator kindly connected Howie and he waited
impatiently as the phone kept ringing. After the 7th ring, how was about to
hang up, but someone picked up.
"Officer
Daniels speaking how may I help you?" the voice on the other end greeted.
Howie sighed
in relief and explained to the officer the situation of Brian's disappearance.
The officer listened patiently and told Howie to sit tight, that he would come
to the hospital to see what was going on. Howie thanked the officer and hung up
the phone, turning around in the process and was greeted by AJ and Kevin's
curious glances.
"The
officer said he would be here in a few minutes and for us to sit tight until he
gets here." Howie explained
Both Kevin and AJ sighed and turned their attention towards the wall,
which for some reason seemed very interesting to them at the moment.
All three young men nearly jumped out of their seats when they heard a
voice from the doorway say, "Hello gentlemen"
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