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Lee and Melanie were fighting over whose bacon sandwich was who's, and Melanie kept slapping Lee's hand away. "You've eaten yours! Stop trying to claim mine." She yells, swiping up her sandwich and shovelling it into her mouth to stop Lee from eating it.


Lee groaned, "but I'm still hungry, seriously Melanie you could have done me a favour."


Melanie shakes her head, "no. No you are ALWAYS hungry, you never ever stop being hungry so my sandwich wouldn't have made a difference." She finished eating her sandwich and put her hands down on the table, gulping.


Lee grumbles under his breath, before turning to Chloe and Joshua. "She's unbelievable, seriously." He shakes his head.

 

[CrystalSmith]

Chloe laughs at them before looking at Lee and passing him a piece of her bacon sandwich, "Here, have mine." She says glancing at Joshua who was laughing at them too.


Joshua was eating quite quickly, clearly hungry. At the same time he was laughing loudly causing some chewed up food to fall out of his mouth.

 

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Lee took her bacon offering and grinned before shoving it in his mouth. He stuck his tongue out at Melanie, "see! Chloe is nice to me!" He swallows his bacon and grins.


Melanie was too busy watching Joshua. "That's absolutely disgusting..." She raised her eyebrows and a grin spread out of his mouth, "it's great." She licked her lips and quickly finished her sandwich.


Lee looked around, waiting for everyone to be done.

 

[CrystalSmith]

Chloe had now finished having given Lee what she didn't want, "Aww, thanks Lee." She says with a laugh. She looks at Joshua scrunching her nose, "Ew," she says with a laugh. Joshua closes his mouth, swallowing the chewed food and shrugging, "Oh well." He says with a chuckle.

 

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Lee grins at Joshua before shaking his head, "I'll get you a bib next time, alright?" He grins widely. "Okay. We need to think of a plan of action, to find Robbie. Where would he be? That is the question."

 

[CrystalSmith]

Chloe looks around, "Well he could be anywhere, Melanie, you mentioned he liked the graffiti wall? We could check there but check his house first incase he's there." She says.

 

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Melanie nods her head, "we'll check there, and the rocks. His therapist, the hospital... Home is a good place to check first too. He has to have slept somewhere, right?"


Lee nods, "would it be worth checking the school?" He questions, his eyebrows raised. "Sometimes he goes back to that graffiti wall."

 

[CrystalSmith]

Chloe nods, "So, we split up? Each going to different places?" She asks lightly. Joshua nods slowly, "He can only be so far away, this town isn't extremely big and he doesn't drive." He says lightly.

 

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"Yeah, yeah let's split up. I'll go to the school, Joshua you go to his house, Melanie you go to the rocks with Chloe, as you don't really know where the stuff is in this town. Then, we'll all meet up at the school, where I am, and go to his therapists. Sound like a plan?" He raises his eyebrows.

 

[CrystalSmith]

Chloe nods, "that makes sense, I'm new to this town, I don't know where anything is." She answers smiling. Joshua nods, "okay, I'll go to his house." He says.

 

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"Right, let's head out then!" Lee grins and stands up, "I'll wait at the school until all you guys show up, so don't worry about time." He walks away from them, anxious to find him.


Melanie looks at Chloe, "you ready to head out or are you after more to eat?" She asks, smiling and watching Lee as he goes. She hoped that they could find Robbie soon.

 

[CrystalSmith]

Joshua stands heading off towards Robbie's house. He was in a hurry too, wanting to find his friend. He waves bye to everyone before continuing to walk down the pavement.


Chloe nods, "Let's go." She says standing, "Lets go try find Robbie." She says with a small smile, she brings a hand through her hair and yawns again.

 

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Melanie stands and begins to walk out with Chloe, holding the door open for her. "I don't think he'll be at the rocks, if I'm honest, but we may as well try." She shrugs her shoulders and begins to walk in that direction, taking her phone out of her pocket. She dials Robbies number and puts it to her ear.


Lee walks to school, biting his lip. He hadn't been letting it show so much but he was absolutely terrified for his friend. He didn't know where he was or if he was okay, and he needed to know these things soon.

 

[CrystalSmith]

Chloe nods slowly, "But it's worth a try. You never know, he could be there." She murmurs following behind her and speeding up so they are walking at the same speed.


Joshua hurries to Robbie's house, almost in a full out run. As he arrives he climbs the steel steps at the back of the pub and knocks of the back door. He waited anxiously for someone to answer.

 

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Melanie nods her head and bites her lip, listening to her phone and hoping that Robbie picked up. After a minute she shoves her phone in her pocket, "didn't pick up." She sighs and rubs her eyes. "He best not have made us worried for no reason, like he best not have just gone to get breakfast and be back at the den."


Robbie's mother heard the knock at the back door and knew instantly it was someone who was Robbie's friend. Only they came through the back way. She stood up from her computer and hurried over to the door, opening it. When she saw Joshua a slightly worried expression came over her face. "Joshua, hi, come in, what do you want?" She asks, not trying to sound rude.

 

[CrystalSmith]

Joshua smiles weakly, "Have you seen Robbie?" He asks entering the and looking around. He noticed the woman's worried expression and he sighs.


Chloe nods, "Lets just try find him. If he isn't picking up maybe he could just want to be alone." She comments.

 

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"I thought that Robbie was with you guys all night?" She raises her eyebrows and widens her eyes, worried even more. She quickly ran into the living area and all that could be heard was the sound of her mumbling to her husband, who said that he hadn't seen him either. She ran back into the kitchen, "so you don't know where he is?"


Melanie shrugs her shoulders, "maybe, yeah, but it's still worrying. I'm gonna smack him round his shiny bald head when I see him." She mumbles.

 

[CrystalSmith]

Joshua looks at the woman, "We thought he was but in the morning he was gone. We are looking for him now." He says lightly, trying his best not to worry her anymore than needed.


Chloe nods, "I think we all will" she says as they continue to walk in a quick pace.

 

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"Where have you looked?" She asked quickly, her eyes still wide. She grabbed her phone and dialled Robbie's number, then put it to her ear as she tried desperately to get ahold of him.


Melanie laughs slightly, "you know I was there when we had to like shave it off. He said he didn't want to go bald gradually, he'd rather just get it over and done with. So I shaved it off for him, it was hilarious seeing him transform from this dark haired kid to this bald nugget." She laughs, then points in the direction of the rocks, which was half emerged in the water and half above. "Looks like he isn't there. Maybe we should head back to the school, then."

 

[CrystalSmith]

Joshua looks at her, "Melanie and Chloe are at the rocks, Lee is checking the school and I came here." He says lightly. Chloe nods and sighs, "yeah, let's head back to the school." She says, her too worried now.

 

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She nods her head, "you let me know if you find him. I'm gonna drive to the hospital to look there, alright?" She grabs her keys off the side and shoo's Joshua out of the house with her, before running to her car and speeding off.


Melanie turns around and begins to trudge back towards the school, her eyes on the floor and her mind wandering to negative thoughts about what could have happened.

 

[CrystalSmith]

Joshua nods, "I'm going to go meet back with Lee and Melanie." He says before running towards the school and sighing. He sees Lee and shakes his head, "He wasn't at home, his mum rushed off towards the hospital." He says, out of breath now.

 

[buildingaspaceship]

The rocks wasn't far from school, and Melanie was half running half walking, so they reached there just as Joshua did. "He wasn't at the rocks either." She was almost out of breath too. "Any luck here?" She asks Lee.


Lee shakes his head, "no. He isn't here... But he's been here. Look." He gestures for them all to follow him and he walks round to the outside of the cafeteria, the large glass windows showing the inside of it. On the floor next to the window was a beer bottle, and on the glass of the window was a large graffiti of a half naked nurse with her back to the teens. She was looking over her shoulder, had a whip in one hand, and a cigarette in the other.

 

[CrystalSmith]

Joshua looks at the graffiti, "Damn, we need to find him. Like fast." He says lightly. He was worried now, "Where else should we check?" He asks lightly. Chloe looks at them, even her worried now. She looks around picking up the beer bottle and throwing it in the nearest bin.

 

[buildingaspaceship]

"Well, there's always the building site, and his therapists. Other than that, I don't know where he's likely to be. I don't know where else he hangs out." He looks at the floor and then at the graffiti again.


Melanie shrugs her shoulders, "we'll try those places. Then we'll call the Garda." She looks around and Lee nods. She then realises that Chloe wasn't Irish. "Garda are police."