Silence by Rebekah Shimer (summer books TXT) 📕

them away, but I couldn’t think of what I had dreamed that would’ve made me cry. I couldn’t really remember my dream at all. It was all kind of blurry without any details. I got up and started to get ready for school, but then I remembered that it was Saturday. I smiled as I climbed back into my warm bed and pulled the covers up to my chin. My happiness was short lived, however, when my phone started to ring. I threw my hand out and blindly searched for my phone on my bedside table, but I only ended up knocking it off the table completely.

I bent down and grabbed my phone off of the floor. I looked at the screen and smiled when I saw that it was Edwyn who was calling me.

I answered the phone, “Yes?”

He sounded shaken up as he said, “Can I come over?”

I sat up slowly and said, “What’s wrong?”

“Please. I can't tell you over the phone. Can I come over?”

“Yeah. Yeah.”

“Okay. See you in a few minutes.”

“Okay. Bye.”

He just hung up, which was never a good sign from him. I started to search my mind, wondering what he could’ve been so upset about. Maybe he didn’t want to date me anymore. Maybe he wanted some of the other, more popular girls instead of me. I got out of bed and put on some jeans and my normal graphic t-shirt. I walked out into the living room and sat down on the couch. A few minutes later, I heard my doorbell ring and I knew that it was Edwyn. I walked to the front door, almost afraid to answer it. What bad news did he have that made him call me and demand for him to come over to my house?

I opened the door and almost gasped when I saw Edwyn. He had taken his car, which I always knew was a bad sign, beings how he usually just jogged over. I looked at Edwyn and realized that his eyes were red and puffy and his face was wet from tears. I motioned for him to come in, but he just wrapped his arms around me. I shut the door and hugged him back, still not really being sure what was going on.

I asked him after I had pulled away from our hug, “What happened?”

He said shakily, “Logan . . . he-he’s missing. His mom said that he never came home from school yesterday and no one’s seen him since. They’re having a huge search party go out today and look for him.”

“What does that mean?”

He shook his head and said, “I don’t know. I don’t want to think the worst, but it’s Logan. He never does something like this. He wouldn’t just leave without telling anyone.”

“Shhhh. You said they were sending people out to look for him. I’m sure he’ll turn up. Trust me.”

He nodded and almost said to himself, “Yeah. Yeah you’re right. He’ll turn up later today and it’ll be like nothing happened.”

I was surprised at Edwyn. It wasn’t even a week since Logan and him fought and now Logan was the most important person in the world.

I led him over to the couch and asked him, “Edwyn what’s gotten into you? Not even a week ago you and Logan were fighting. Now, your worried sick about him. What’s going on?”

He sighed heavily and sank back into the couch, “I asked him to come over for lunch yesterday.”

“Why?”

“You need him.”

“But Edwyn I have-“

He smiled and said, “I know I know, but admit it Audrey. We were both a little depressed without him around to cheer us up.”

I nodded and he wiped off his face. He looked around my house for a minute, pretending like he was getting awkward.

I laughed and asked him as I got up, “Want anything? Milk? Water?”

He shrugged his shoulder and said, “I don’t know. I'm just going to look in your fridge and take whatever I find.”

I laughed, knowing that he was fully joking, and walked into the kitchen. I pulled out some things from the fridge to make breakfast with and he came up behind me.

He wrapped his arms around my waist and asked, “Whatcha making?”

“I’m making . . . something. I don’t really know what it’s going to be yet but when I find out I’ll tell you.”

He laughed as he unwrapped his arms around my waist and sat down in one of the chairs.

I asked him as I put some eggs in a pan on the oven, “Did you get some footage of you running yet?”

“Not yet really. I have to be running at a meet in order to really show them what I run like. If they like it, they’ll show up to one of my practices where I can show them how fast I can run different things.”

I turned around to face him and said, “Cool. At least you know what you want to do with your life. I have no clue as to what I’m going to do when I go to college.”

He laughed and said, “You’ll figure it out. Look at me. If I can figure it out, anyone can.”

I laughed mockingly at him and said jokingly, “You were running before you could even walk! It’s not that hard of a decision for you.”

“True. Maybe I can get some college scouts to watch you run.”

I glared at him and threw a piece of an eggshell at him. He laughed as he threw it into the sink.

I said while turning around to myself, “And he can play basketball.”

“What was that?”

I turned around sharply and said, “I said you can say basketball.”

He glared at me humorously and said, “Are you sure that’s what you said?”

I nodded my head vigorously and he laughed.

He walked over to me and said, “You know what? We haven’t even really had our first date yet. I mean, we tried to but it kind of ended in a fight.”

I smiled and asked, “Are you free today?”

“I think I can clear up my schedule.”

I was about to say something, but the doorbell rang. I groaned and trudged to the front door. It seemed as if every sweet moment of Edwyn and me’s relationship was usually interrupted. I opened the door and saw Bruce standing in the doorway.

I asked him, “Bruce? What-“

“They found Logan.”

“What!”

“They found Logan.”

I heard Edwyn run up behind me and join in the conversation, “Where was he? Where is he?”

Bruce took a deep breath and said, “That’s just it. They found him in Lake Titan. This time, they know that someone has definitely murdered him.”

I didn’t want to ask, but I did anyway, “How?”

“He was stabbed in both sides.”

Edwyn asked, “How do you know all of this?”

“My house is right next to Lake Titan…”

I knew that he was still talking, but I tuned out all of the noise. Logan was dead. Gone. He wasn’t going to school on Monday and he wasn’t going to come over and play video games anymore. I started to shake and Edwyn saw that I was about to break down.

He said while shutting the door on Bruce, “We’ll talk to you later Bruce. This really isn’t a good time for either of us right now.”

I could tell that he was about to break down too, but he didn’t show emotion until the door was fully shut. I hadn’t realized it before, but tears were rolling down my face without my knowing. Edwyn wiped them away and pulled me into a hug. I cried into his shoulder and he did the same. We stood for what felt like hours just crying and holding each other. After a while, the tears stopped flowing and I was just trying to focus on Edwyn. He was still there, holding me when I needed him most. I’m sure that if he hadn’t of been there, I would’ve called him up anyway and asked him to come over. After a while, I realized that there was a little smoke coming from the kitchen.

I was confused until I realized that I had left my eggs on the burner without turning it off. I broke away from Edwyn and raced into the kitchen. The eggs were completely black and the pan was smoking. I turned the oven off and fanned the smoke away. Edwyn came rushing in and pulled me away from the oven. He grabbed an oven mitt and put the pan into the sink. He turned the faucet on and the pan smoked even more from the water. By the time that it had stopped smoking, we were both in a coughing fit.

I turned the fan on in the kitchen and we both went into the living room. Edwyn was silent for a while, but I didn’t want to break the silence. I didn’t really know what to do. How were we supposed to react to Logan’s death? After a while of silence, Edwyn turned the TV on. He switched it to a random game show and we both watched it in silence. After a while, I reached out for his hand and he gently grasped mine in his.

I asked gently, “What are we going to do now?”

“What do you mean?”

“Well we can’t just let this killer go around town killing people at random? Are we just going to sit and hope that we don’t get killed next?”

“Audrey. It’s not like we can do anything. This killer is obviously too clever to get caught by the police, so why wouldn’t the person be too clever for us too?”

I sighed heavily and said, “I know I know. All I’m saying is that I just can't sit around here waiting for something else to happen. I need to know that this isn’t going to happen again. I don’t think I could take it again.”

My voice broke at the end and I knew that he had heard it break.

He squeezed my hand tighter and said, “This isn’t going to happen again. They’re going to catch this killer and do whoever it is some justice. Trust me. You don’t need to be afraid Audrey. This killer will not even touch you. I will make sure of that.”

Missing

Edwyn

 

I had gotten the call around six in the morning. Logan was missing. No one had seen him since school yesterday. I dropped the phone and put my head in my hands. I fell down on my knees and tears started to fall right then and there. Why hadn’t I asked him to be friends with Audrey sooner? Well, at least he had before he went missing. I knew Audrey would’ve felt guilty if he hadn’t because she would’ve taken the blame on herself like she always does. I knew that something bad had happened to Logan. He wouldn’t just leave without telling at least one person unless something was really, really wrong. I grabbed the phone and dialed Audrey’s cell phone number.

She answered the phone, “Yes?”

I asked her while trying to cover my shaky voice as well as I could, “Can I come over?”

She asked, “What’s wrong?”

“Please. I can't tell you over the phone. Can I come over?”

“Yeah. Yeah.”

“Okay. See you in a few minutes.”

“Okay. Bye.”

I hung up quickly and started to walk towards the door. My mom walked around