𝙎𝙚𝙡𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙩𝙝 ⇝ 𝙆𝙞𝙖𝙧𝙖 𝘾𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙚𝙧𝙖

𝙊𝙉𝙀 {𝘾𝘼𝙉 𝙒𝙀 𝙅𝙐𝙎𝙏 𝘾𝙐𝘿𝘿𝙇𝙀 }

"Sarah! Allison! Rafe!" I hear Rose holler loudly.

Sarah and I head down to the kitchen before sitting down at the table with Rose, Wheezie and Ward.

"Where is Rafe?" Ward asks and everyone looks at me.

"He left earlier. Said he was meeting friends" I tell them.

They all accept the answer, tucking into their breakfast and I pick up my fork, gently poking at one of the pancakes on my plate.

"Is everything okay with the food, Allison?" Ward asks me and I paste on a happy smile.

"Of course. I was just day dreaming" I blurt out an excuse that he eats up.

"Always day dreaming, you are" He chuckles and I let out a small giggle, nodding.

I cut up the pancake and put a small piece in my mouth, making eye contact with Sarah who smiles at me with what looks like pride.

That look alone encourages me to eat the full pancake in front of me and I try to eat the other one but an overwhelming sick feeling stops me.

"I am stuffed" Sarah says exaggeratedly, pushing her empty plate away from her "Alli and I are gonna go get dressed"

Before anyone can reply, Sarah jumps up and pulls me out the room. We enter her room and I flop onto her bed while she rakes through her closet.

"You're eating a lot better recently" Sarah comments.

"Yeah. I had to buy bigger jeans too" I reply negatively.

"That's great, Alli. I bet they look hot as fuck on you" She says encouragingly and I smile softly.

"They do look nice" I shrug.

"I knew it" She grins, throwing some clothes onto the bed.

"But Rafe doesn't like them" I frown sadly "He likes the smaller ones"

"Fuck Rafe. I like them" She spits.

"You haven't even seen them" I reply, a smile creeping back onto my face.

"I don't have to. You look great in everything you wear" She declares.

"Thanks, Sar" I say gratefully.

"Don't thank me, silly. Just get dressed" She laughs, throwing some clothes at me.

I catch them and inspect the outfit she has chosen, a light grey tie up bikini and a pair of white cotton shorts. After changing into the clothes and pulling on a pair of white jordans, Sarah and I head out into the yard.

We find a flock of birds trying to catch the mice that had been flooded out of their homes during last night's storm and decide to help the little animals out. Sarah grabs a couple tennis rackets from the house and hands me one of them.

Sarah and I swat at the birds, running around like mad women and jumping into the air to try and stop the birds from hurting the poor mice.

"No, no, no, no, no!" Sarah cries as a bird swoops down to the grass.

"Sarah! Allison!" I hear Ward yell but we continue waving the rackets at the birds.

"We're busy!" Sarah shouts.

"What are you doing?!" He asks in confusion.

"The burrows filled with water from the surge!" She answers.

"The birds are having a field day!" I add worriedly.

"The birds have to eat too, girls!" Ward tells us.

"No, it's a mouse genocide out here!" She protests.

"No!" I shriek, swinging the racket at a bird trying to swoop in on a baby mouse.

"The cycle of life is what it is, sweetheart. Now, come on" Ward huffs.

"I can't be a part of it! First they came for the mice, daddy" She tells him as she pulls me towards him and an upset looking Lana Grubbs.

"Well, I have an actual human being here that you might help" Ward replies, gesturing to Lana.

"Oh, my God" Sarah breathes out as we reach the adults.

"Hi" Lana greets us, shaking each of our hands.

"I'm Sarah and this is Allison. I'm so sorry" Sarah tells the woman.

"This is Lana, Scooter's wife" Ward tells us.

"You were storm prepping with him, right?" He adds.

"Yeah. He helped me latch the cabin on the Druthers" Sarah nods.

"Last night?" Ward asks.

"Yeah" Sarah says.

"And did he go out after that?" Ward then asks.

"From here?" I ask in surprise.

"Yeah" Ward nods.

"No. Are you crazy? There was a hurricane" Sarah retorts.

"Well, did he say where he was going? Get a phone call or mention anything?" Lana asks desperately.

"He didn't say anything to me" Sarah answers and the trio looks to me.

"I'm sorry, Mrs Grubbs. I didn't speak with him" I tell her.

"I'm so sorry. Is he okay?" Sarah asks in concern.

"He's absolutely okay" Ward assures us all.

"I hope so" Lana adds.

"He's hunkered down somewhere, all right? We're gonna find him" Ward tells Lana, guiding her away from us.

"We're sorry" I apologise.

"Thank you" She replies before walking away with Ward.

Sarah and I share a mutual look of concern before heading back to the mice need of our help.