FrAcTuReD (Part One) (Completed continued in Part Two)

Chapter. 24

"I doubt anyone in this town wouldn't know. It was Mordecai, he left with her. Not sure why though, I didn't even know they were that close."

Alex didn't say anything in in response while Jason thanked the student before the two left the library, her hand resting along her chin as she thought, where could she have gone then?

"Why not give her a call?" Jason said as if he read mind.

"Right, yeah..." she said before pulling her phone from her sweater pocket and dialed only to receive a busy signal, she tried a few more times but the same events kept happening. "It's busy," she told Jason. "I keep getting a busy signal. I'll keep trying though." Charla... she thought recalling how panicked Charla was when she made light of Charla's other personality and what it might have even caused. Please just don't do anything rash...

Moments before...

"Charla wait!" Mordecai called out as he ran quickly after Charla, right after hearing about the murders Charla quickly grabbed her things and left the school grounds, he had an idea as to where she might be going to, but he knew running around blindly wouldn't do any good. "Charla stop!" he said grabbing her arm. She jerked to a stop but Mordecai refused to let go of her arm. "You need to calm down; running around blindly won't do any good."

But Charla refused to look to Mordecai. Slowly he let go of her arm and now she seemed to refuse to move.

"I know you want to find out what's going on, with the recent talk about what's happened but that's all it is, just talk. Until we have solid confirmation you shouldn't rush into it. I understand you have a connection to this but..."

"No you don't!" she snapped and before Mordecai had a chance to react Charla had grabbed him and shoved Mordecai into a man-made stone wall and gripped his uniform and glared at him angrily, reminding him more of when he saw her several weeks ago at night. How intense her hazel green eyes seemed in the orange glow of street lights during the rain as it fell. Charla gripped his shirt tighter. "You don't know a damn thing of what I've been through from this, how it's affected me."

He merely looked at her blankly before speaking. "You're right," he said. "I can't understand the personal ties you have to this, but like I said rushing in won't do anything to help the situation or even you. I may have said the wrong words but I can at least grasp how bad it is unlike the others that seemed interested." He placed a hand over hers. "So please, let go of me so I can help."

Charla merely stared at him before letting go, her hands fell to her sides as she did so.

"What you just did, reminded me a lot of him." Charla looked at him with a frown as he dusted himself off. "Carlin would get very emotional whenever it came to you, or of matters he deemed personal, I tend to forget that you were both twins so it's obvious you would shares some aspects in your life."

Is he trying to complement me? Charla thought. "Look, I know you want to help me but I don't think you can. At least not with this."

"Well you were planning to head to the police station right? To try and talk to your uncle about what happened, why not call him?"

Charla held up her cell to him and he looked to the caller list. "I was while running kept getting an audio message that his phone is off or out of range, I think it just died again. And no one is answering at the station ether."

Mordecai held out his hand. "May I use your phone?"

"I guess but what about yours?" she asked while handing it over.