Chapter 5- Leo missing???

Lily came back to the table only to find Marco sitting alone, she asked where Leo went Marco replied "he'd probably be back or maybe not, let's do our studying"

Leo did not come back, Lily after leaving the cafe and heading home gave Leo a call, unfortunately, he didn't pick up, she called him again since she was worried and fortunately, he picked up and said 'hello' The voice sounded familiar, she didn't pay much attention to the voice and kept asking "why did you leave? , is everything alright? Leo, are you there?"

A deep voice replied, "Leo didn't come back home, this is her brother Liam speaking, is he not with you?"

Both Liam and Lily got extremely worried, and they started searching for Leo, Lucas joined them in searching for Leo, and half an hour passed they couldn't find him, "Is he close to his classmates? Would he be at one of his classmate's houses?" as Lucas asked this to Liam, he suddenly sat down with heavy emotions, Liam realized he doesn't know much about his brother's life since he didn't even know if Leo had friends other than Lily

On the other hand, Lily replies to Lucas saying "he isn't very close with his classmates to stay at their house, I think I should call Marco, we just befriended him today maybe he knows something?"

Lily on a call with Marco informs him about Leo missing, Marco can't provide any information but he runs to find Leo as he knows a location where Leo used to go in his childhood,

Marco reached Under the bridge and surprisingly he found Leo sitting while hugging his knees, Marco couldn't help but get a flashback of young kid Leo whom he saw in that exact place in that exact position for the first time and befriended him, Marco slowly approached Leo while trying to start a conversation with him asking for how long he has been hiding here, Leo who was pretty much calm asked: "my phone died can you tell me what's the time?" Marco replied "8 pm you should go home your brother is waiting for you" Leo simply agreed and walked with him home, Marco didn't want to know why Leo went there, why Leo was down, why Leo was silent as he already knew all the answers.

now that Leo is back home, Lily who was waiting for him in his house leaves to go home, Leo starred at Liam and signals to him with his eyes, They both Start talking with their eyes, the talk was Leo asking Liam to take Lily home while Liam was declining saying he isn't close with her finally after Lily left Liam had to follow her, Lily didn't notice Liam following her

Suddenly a biker from behind honks as biker the tries to overtake Lily, but Lily can't hear a horn from behind, she is about to get crashed by the biker when suddenly Liam holds her wrist and pulls her, Liam gets mad at her "Didn't you hear the horn? why didn't you move?" Liam was already frustrated because he was forced by his brother to drop Lily home, Lily seeing Liam's anger shakes off his hand from her wrist and walked away saying you don't need to follow me/ drop me home, I'll go my own, go take care of Leo, Liam left and went back to Leo, Leo was surprised to see him back so early he asked him how is he back so fast, Liam replies saying "she said she doesn't need me to drop her home, let's have dinner"

The next day, Leo couldn't find Lily in college, so he tried contacting her, she said she wasn't feeling well so she wouldn't attend class today and tomorrow, Leo told her to take care of herself, Leo reached home earlier than usual since Lily isn't here to tutor her, Liam in surprise asks him why he's early Leo tells him about Lily's conditions suddenly Liam felt a feeling of Guilt, Liam at that moment had flashbacks of Lily shivering in cold while searching for Leo yesterday with him and realized the least he could have done for her was to safely drop her home but instead he even got unnecessarily angry at her which made him feel more guilt.

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