Disconnected

Chapter Three-Unity and Confusion

Two Ghost-HS 2:26pm

"Find anything interesting?" Calum jumped at the voice coming from the doorway of Luke's bedroom. He hadn't even heard anybody walking in.

"Nothing except a notebook with songs and the time beside them, it's weird," Calum said to Ashton who, by then, had walked into the bedroom and sat himself at the edge of the bed. Petunia followed and settled herself at his feet with a small grunt. "The last time written in here is from a few minutes ago. I don't know what it's supposed to mean though."

"Check the laptop," said Ashton bluntly, "it'll still be open and we won't need a password."

"Little invasive don't you think?" Calum muttered while handing Ashton the notebook to reach for the laptop anyways. As soon as his fingers traced the mouse-pad, the screen illuminated with the last web search Luke had entered.

I swear to god the silence is breaking me

Both Calum and Ashton's faces scrunched up in confusion as they read the sentence and then scanned over the search results.

"I actually have no idea what this is supposed to be."

"Me neither." said Calum to Ashton who peered over his shoulder.

"Check the other tabs." Ashton said pointing to the top of the web page.

"Don't put your finger on the screen!" Calum whispered harshly, smacking Ashton's hand away. Using the sleeve of his sweater, he wiped the smudge from the glass. "Luke's gonna notice because he can't stand dirty screens. Then he'll know we snooped."

"Whatever." Ashton rolled his eyes then reached over Calum's shoulder to move the cursor to the next tabs. The tab opened to a YouTube search. The search bar read:

Music>Singer/Songwriter>"Nothing"

"I think that's just him listening to music. Next tab."

"Wait!" Calum smacked Ashton's hand away again before he could change anything, earning a small yelp from his friend. "Luke didn't open any of the videos, see? No red line."

"Sooo?"

"I don't know, yet. But don't you think it's weird?"

"Sure Calum. Come on next tab! Luke'll be out of the shower soon!" Ashton half-whined impatiently.

Calum's eyes narrowed at the screen as his brain tried to chase a thought before it got away unanswered. How did they connect? A notebook of songs, a YouTube search for a song with no artist and a search with...

"Are those lyrics?"

"What?" asked Ashton.

"The first tab, the weird search; do you think those were lyrics he had been searching for?"

"Uh maybe," Ashton scrunched his nose while thinking. "Yeah actually. That would, that would make sense, I guess. Maybe it was a song he heard on the radio or something that he wanted to find, I don't know."

"Mmm close, but whatever this is has something to do with why he's been locked in here for two days. It's gotta be bigger than some song on the radio." Calum thought aloud, more for his own benefit than for Ashton's.

Both Calum and Ashton were silent for a few minutes as they tried to connect the dots in their heads. The silence was broken by Ashton muttering something that, in a way, sounded more like a question.

"What?" it was Calum's turn to ask.

"The next tab, the last one, it looks like it says soulmate. Maybe this could have something to do with his soulmate. It would make sense because of the whole song connection thing right?"