I met Chase and Alek at the school, near one of the side doors. They were busy getting the door open. "This is insane," Chase kept whispering. Alek would shush him every so often and get back to trying to get the door open. Eventually, Alek let out a quiet cheer, and the door popped open. 

"To the office we go," Alek announced, leading the way. The dark corridors of the school were a lot more eerie at night. I quickened my pace, and Chase and Alek did the same. Eventually, we reached the office. 

I sat down and started going through the files that were lying around. Eventually, I found a list of everyone's sports locker combinations. "Let's start with Chandler. He was at the party, but nobody really knew why. He and Peter never got along." Chase said, pointing at Chandler's name on the paper. I nodded. 

We quickly went to find his locker, and Alek entered the code. I was thankful that our college was as small as a high school, and everything was easy to find. We all gasped at what we saw. The locker looked like a normal sports locker, except for a few key details. The first was a picture of Peter looking genuinely happy. It was a photo of him I had never seen before, and it was that it was in the locker of someone he didn't get along with. The second was the phone lying on top of all the things. Nobody would leave their phone overnight. 

I picked up the phone and clicked it on, immediately going to the messages. The only texts were to Peter. This was the phone of Unknown. Suddenly, sirens and loud voices were flooding the halls. "Oh shit, it's cops." Chase gasped. I grabbed Chase and Alek by their wrists and pulled them along, pulling all three of us into a storage closet and locking the door. Unknown's phone was burning a hole in my pocket. 

I was heavily aware of the lack of space in the closet, and Alek and Chase occasionally brushing against me or each other. I happened to be in the middle of the two. Chase and Alek must have been aware of it as well. I was turned more toward Alek, and I felt Chase lean more into me from behind. I felt his breath on my neck, then the weight of his head. It was dark in the closet, so I knew Alek couldn't see Chase hugging me from behind, but he could hear movement. "We're okay," Chase breathed into the skin on my shoulder. It was quiet, but I heard him. 

"Are you okay?" I whispered. Chase squeezed tighter. I pulled Alek into the hug, so that he was hugging me from the front, while Chase was hugging me from the back. Chase let out a quiet noise. "Are you crying?" I asked. 

"The situation of everything just sank into me. Cops are chasing us because we want our friend back. Our friend, who happens to be missing." Chase whispered. I turned to face Chase, knowing he needed some form of comfort. Our lips brushed, then suddenly I was pinned to the wall. Alek had moved to the side of us. Chase was kissing me deeply. Way deeper than our last kiss was. I kissed back just as deeply. I needed him as much as he needed me in this moment. 

"Can I-" Alek started to stay, but Chase had pulled me forward to give Alek room behind me. Alek started kissing and biting my shoulder and neck. I stopped kissing Chase to catch my breath, and suddenly Chase and Alek were kissing each other over my shoulder. They were fortunately both taller than me. I tugged on Chase's shirt to stay balanced, then I slipped my hand under. Chase gasped, breaking his kiss with Alek. 

"Wait. We shouldn't be doing this. Well, not here. I enjoy this, but not in a school storage closet. I think I've said too much. Can we get back to the investigation?" Chase whispered. Alek and I slowly and hesitantly agreed. I knew we had to focus on the investigation, but it was hard to focus when I had been between both of their bodies. Chase cleared his throat. "It doesn't sound like the cops are here anymore, but we should head directly for the exit just in case."

I slowly opened the closet door, my hand still shaking from what had happened moments before, and we bolted for the exit, and didn't stop until we had made it pretty far. "My house?" I asked, breathless. Chase nodded, and Alek didn't answer. Their minds must have been somewhere else as well. 

We walked silently to my house and straight up to my room. I sat on my bed, looking anywhere except Chase and Alek's faces. "Jayden? Can we look at the phone now? Maybe there are hints for where Peter is." Alek asked. I snap back to reality, pulling the phone from my pocket. "Also, please don't be mad, but I may have given you a hickey," He continued. I glanced up quickly, pulling out my own phone and opening the camera. Alek had given me a hickey. I shouldn't have liked that as much as I did. This day was getting more and more overwhelming.

I snapped my eyes back to Unknown's phone, swiping it open. "No password," I commented. "Where should we start? Texts, photos, phone calls?" I asked. 

"Photos. We already know about all the texts between Peter and Unknown, so there is no reason to go through them, unless Peter deleted messages," Chase responds, leaning over my shoulder to see the phone. I felt warm at the closeness of him. Alek leaned over my other shoulder. I shakily opened the photos. 

There were only three. One was of Chandler and Peter at the party. One was just of Peter smiling. It was the same one that we found in Chandler's locker. The last one had a time stamp from after Peter went missing, and the photo was of Peter. He looked scared. He was sitting outside a creepy old building in the photo. 

"I know where that is," Alek whispered. "We have a clue," Alek gasped. Chase and I turned to look at him. "That's an old barn a few miles into the woods. Peter and I went there once before he went missing. It was a pretty creepy place, but I still remember how to get there. We have to go. We have to-" Alek ranted. 

"Alek! Hey, calm down. It's the middle of the night, and it is not safe to be in the woods right now. We should wait until morning," Chase whispered. That seemed to bring Alek to a calmer state. Chase opened his arms. Alek gratefully slid into them. "We should all get some sleep," Chase continued. 

I grabbed them clothes to sleep in, and we all climbed into my bed after we got ready for bed. Alek was lying in the middle again. Chase had wrapped his arms around him. I leaned in, wrapping my arms around them as well, hugging Alek from behind. Chase started to run his hand up and down my hip. "We didn't do too good at waiting until after the investigation," I commented. Chase laughed. 

"Maybe that's a good thing. This is a difficult situation to be in, and we can keep each other stable," Chase replied. I smiled. Chase kissed my forehead, then Alek's. 

"Never expected you to be such a sappy romantic," Alek commented. Now it was my turn to laugh. Chase rolled his eyes. "I don't feel tired right now," Alek commented. Chase and I agreed. I couldn't sleep with everything that's on my mind. "Can we continue what- um," Alek started to ask nervously. "What we started earlier?" Alek quickly finished. 

My eyes went wide, and so did Chase's. Neither of us got a chance to answer because Chase's lips were on Alek's in a flash. My lips went to Alek's neck, returning the favor for what he did earlier. We continued to kiss and make out until we were all three exhausted. We agreed that it wasn't the time to go further than making out, especially with everything else that was going on. I was happy to fall asleep in their arms, but I knew we had to stay focused on finding Peter.