“I’m sure I’ll get over it,” I said. “Find anything helpful?”
“Girl, I found all sorts of helpful things.”
“Such as…?”
“Lots of big cocks, mainly.”
“I gathered that from the picture you sent. I was more interested in what clues they had for us.”
“Oh. Let me ask.” Chastity started talking to the firemen, but it was all muffled on my end. “Apparently they’ve never heard of Tanner or the Society.”
“Seriously? Then why’d you send me that selfie with two thumbs up?!”
“Because I had a great time. Didn’t you see all that cum on my face?”
“Damn it, Chastity! I can’t believe you got me all excited for nothing.” She was seriously the worst.
“Well you should still be excited. The firemen said we can come back any time.”
“That doesn’t make me feel better. Tanner is missing! And we have no clues.”
“It’ll be fine,” said Chastity. “I bet we’ll get an envelope from the Society soon telling us what to do.”
Hmm…“I can’t believe I’m saying this, but that kind of makes sense.” Or was I just clinging to false hope?
I had no idea.
The only thing I knew for sure was that I loved Tanner. And he loved me back.
***
No envelope arrived. So we started our hunt again.
We searched for Tanner for days.
Weeks.
Months.
The whole summer went by.
For real. I wasn’t just exaggerating because I was locked in a bathroom. I was free and in hell.
Tanner was gone. There wasn’t a single trace of him. Or Nigel.
And I had no idea how to find him. I didn’t even know where he lived. I’d only ever been to his fake apartment.
I even tried calling the number Nigel had left on my kitchen counter after he’d bagged me, but the number was no longer in service. Neither was Angel’s number. Not that I’d had the courage to call him…I’d made Chastity do it. I could never see or speak to Angel or Diablo again. I’d booped their penises like a sex-starved maniac.
We also had the key that Tanner had given me the same night he’d disappeared. But I’d put it into a lot of holes and nothing ever happened. And therefore it was useless. Seriously, who gives someone a key with zero context? It could literally go to anything in the whole city.
The only lead we had was Club Onyx. In Tanner’s note that I’d opened early, he’d said if he ever disappeared that I should go to Club Onyx. That it would be where I’d find what I was looking for. And I was looking for him. So…I needed to find Club Onyx. But that wasn’t a lead because I didn’t know where it was or how to get in without Tanner. The Society app on my phone disappeared the morning after Tanner disappeared. Poof. Gone. Without the app I couldn’t even work my way up to getting access to the club. Not that I wanted to go on a date with anyone but Tanner anyway.
And I only had one possible resource to locate Club Onyx – Dr. Lyons. But I couldn’t see him because there was no way I wouldn’t do something that would result in me going to jail. And he was in three out of my six incidents. You didn’t hang out with people who were in half of your incidents.
“You know there’s another option,” Chastity said as we finished another box of wine.
I’d been finishing a lot of boxes of wine recently.
