Through Thick and Thin

Chapter 6

(Bi's POV) *approximately 12:01am)*

Okay, so it is officially now Saturday, I was meant to be in bed over an hour ago as I have an early shift in the morning, and half my friends could be officially labelled 'Missing'. Me and Marj were the only sober ones left looking for Pearl, Sara, Maddi, Phoebe, Weasel, Lori and SaraH on a deserted beach. The party had ended earlier than usual, and now me and Marj were left standing on Pearl Beach, surrounding by most of the boys who were completely plastered. This included Ash, Ansel and Carter (who for some reason had a swollen cheek?). Liam was also here, but wasn't drunk (and also wasn't helping), and I'm assuming we're also looking for Luke, who was also MIA.

"They must be up at the house." Marj resolved, as we led the drunken group up the path to the house.

"But I still don't understand why they decided to leave the party so early." I exclaimed. I guess some of them weren't strangers to the ideal of a 'random hook-up', but the majority of them had boyfriends (or 'friends') that were currently in the drunken group being led slowly up the stairs. It just didn't make any sense.

We walked up through the back door leading into the lounge room and kitchen area, to find it too deserted.

"Okay, lets leave the drunk ones here, and go search up in the bedrooms." I said, taking control, "Liam you stay here and keep them sane, we'll be down to help you with them in 10 minutes or so."

Liam shrugged, dropped down on the lounge and turned the television on, while the drunken group of boys behind them stood there aimlessly, gaping at the tv.

I grabbed Marj and we bolted up the stairs, checking through all the doors to find them empty, until we came to Maddi's room, where we found Maddi, Phoebe, Weasel, Sara and Lize all curled up on Maddi's bed watching Friends and eating ice-cream.

"Ooh ice-cream, give me some!" Marj cried, running up and joining them on the bed.

"WHAT ARE YOU GUYS DOING WE'VE BEEN LOOKING ALL OVER FOR YOU!" I exclaimed, looking pointedly at Phoebe, who was the only one not drunk (Weasel), screaming at Marj for taking the ice-cream (Lize) comforting Sara (Maddi) or sobbing dramatically (Sara).

"Sorry, but there was kind of an emergency." Phoebe replied, glancing at Sara.

"What happened?" Me and Marj asked in unison.

"Carter happened." Maddi answered quietly.

"Drunk hook-up with Pearl" stated Phoebe, rolling her eyes.

"That probably explains his swollen cheek then." I chuckled.

"Wait, but where's Pearl then?" asked Marj, "And SaraH, Alex and Lori?"

They all shrugged.

"I had a missed call from SaraH at about 8:30pm" Sara replied slowly, before starting to choke up again.

"I'll go call her then" I said, before pulling out my phone and walking outside.

(SaraH's POV) *5 hours earlier*

"And next up in the showjumping arena, Sarah Storey riding Gordon."

I took that as my cue and started riding Gordon out into the arena, which was well lit up and had a good crowd.

All my jumps went well until I came to my 7th. A brick wall that nearly stood taller than me, and seemed to tower above the rest of the jumps. I'd jumped it before, cleared it easily.

Except I don't know what happened this time, something scared Gordon, and all of a sudden, I was flying towards that brick wall, before everything went black.