Finding My Lost Self [to be edited]

Chapter 26 - What if he was eating our pizza queen?!

"Come on, let's get out," He said and I nodded and followed him. We went to the kitchen where Richard was eating a sandwich and Linda was on the floor playing with some chewing toy.

After Richard had greeted Tyler, he smiled down at me, "Hello there," He said with a smile. I noticed that Richard looked around the age of 28 or 30. He had cropped blonde hair and his eyes were brown and warm.

"Tyler, your girlfriend was scared of me," He said with a smirk.

What? What the hell was he saying? I wasn't any one's girlfriend. I could feel the blood rushing to my face.

"I'm not his girlfriend!"

"She's not my girlfriend!"

We both denied at the same time. We laughed it off awkwardly then I looked back at Richard. I knew I owed him an apology. I mean, I practically acted like the man was a criminal.

"Sorry," I said sheepishly.

"Whatever, how had you been?" He asked Tyler as he bit into his sandwich once again.

That was how I ended up spending the morning with Richard, Tyler and Linda. We had a very good time. Turned out that Richard visited the beach house every other day to take care of it. He said he was with Tyler the day his parents died. I wanted to ask what happened then but decided to not press the matter.

When he knew that Tyler's grand mother was probably dead by now, he tried to lighten up the mood as much as he could. I knew he cared about Tyler. And I was grateful for that.

About an hour later, I glanced at the clock on the wall. It was about 7:20. I knew that I really had to go home to get dressed for school. My first period started in 50 minutes.

I grabbed my phone and unlocked it. When I saw what was there, my eyes widened in shock.

I had about 35 missed calls and 7 texts. I opened the call log first. 11 were from Martina, 15 were from Jason, and the rest were from Alex and Oliver.

I started to worry so I opened the texts. I read the first text that was from Martina:

From: Martina c:
Did you find him? Sam, please reply!! -7:06 PM

I opened another one, it was from her as well.

From: Martina c:
Please, Sam. Call me when you see this! -7:41 PM

I swiped the screen to see the next text. It was from Jason.

From: Jason (aka. Jerkface) :p
How's your mom? Dave is going all PMS on me. -Jay. -8:00 PM

I started to feel worried. I swiped the screen to read the next text. It was from Alex.

From: Alex :D
They called me! Something is wrong with mom! -Alex. -9:26 PM

I started to panic. What the hell was wrong with my mom, now! There were four more texts, I decided to check them out as well.

I scrunched my nose in disgust and I could feel the blood rushing to my face when I read Martina's text,

From: Martina c:
Sam! Where the hell are you? I swear if you're ignoring me now to bang my brother I would throw up last week's break fast!! -11:07 PM

I swiped the screen to read another text that was from Jason,

From: Jason (aka. Jerkface) :p
I just ate three whole packs of Oreos >:) P.S. sorry about your mom. Cheer up! ;) -Jay. -11:34 PM/

Now I was growing even more suspicious. Something was definitely wring with my mom last night. And even Jason knew about it. That was why he was apparently trying to take my mind off it by the ores thing. I wanted to know what was wrong with my mom. I felt dumb and oblivious.

I swiped my screen quickly and read a text from Olly,

From: Olly :D
Where are you, Samz? I came over but your home was empty! :( P.S. Hailey and I are together! :D -12:06 AM.

Wow, I am gone for one night, and all hell breaks loose? I frowned as I thought of how much my luck sucked. I opened the last text which was from Alex. And when I read it, I couldn't belive my eyes.

Too many feelings were surging through me. Happiness, relief, confusion, fear, guilt, and a bunch of other emotions rushed through me as I read the text over and over again. As if I was afraid it would vanish.

From: Alex :D
She woke up, Sam! Mom woke up!! Where the hell are you?! -Alex. -12:24 AM.