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* Keenan's P.O.V *

I've been calling Tiara for the last hour and have yet to receive a response. I'm starting to get worried and I'm trying my hardest not to think the worse.

I walked over to the girls side of the dormitory to ask Lani if she heard from her.

I knocked on the door and she answered right away. "Good Kendall is here too" I said while walking into their room.

"Wassup Keenan?" She asked "have you guys heard from Ti?" I asked them "uh no last time I checked her and Nate were going to the store to get the supplies for their communication project" Lani spoke.

"I'll try calling her" Kendall pulled out her phone "Keenan I think you need to sit down , you look like you're about to throw up" Lani walked me over to the chair and handed me a water.

"I can't drink that right now, Tiara has never not responded to me this long, her phone keeps going to voicemail. Whenever she goes out even if it's just to a corner store she always makes sure her phone is charged before she leaves out" I told them.

"I've noticed she does that, I'm sure she's okay let's just keep calling, have you tried Nate?" Lani asked.

"I don't have his number" I shook my head

"Now why don't you have your roommates number?" Kendall asked me "I don't know I just didn't get around to it, do any of you guys have it?" I asked them.

"Nope, she's still not answering , have you tried tracking her location?" Kendall asked me.

"No I-... let me check" I pulled out my phone again to check her location and it wasn't popping up.

"Does it not update if your phone is dead?" I asked them "I don't think it does" Lani said.

"What are we gonna do?" Lani asked "should we try calling the police?" Kendall asked.

"Tiara is a black women in America , they aren't going to give two fücks about her"  I told them truthfully.

"wait weren't Cassie and Nate fücking? Think she has his number?" I asked them.

"Guess we gotta go find out" Kendall got off of Lani's bed and we walked to her and Cassie's room.

She unlocked the door and Cassie was chilling on her bed.

"Cassie" I said she looked up at me and raised her eyebrow "yeah?" She asked looking between us "do you have Nate's number?" I asked her.

"I do why?" She asked "we haven't heard from Ti in almost two hours and all I know is he was the last person she was with" I told her.

"Maybe her phone just died" Cassie shrugged us off.

"Listen Cassie for two seconds get your head from up your ass this is serious Tiara could be in danger and none of us have a clue of her whereabouts so can you please give us Nate's number" Kendall said to her.

Cassie sighed and pulled out her phone, she gave us his number and we called it.

"Have you two ever texted?" Lani asked "no" she answered "got on the phone?" I asked.

"No, after you guys rudely interrupted us that one day I had asked for his number before he left. I just never texted him" she said.

I keep dialing the number and it keeps going to this voice machine. "He gave you a fake number" I told her.

"Try texting it" Cassie said now she's become more alert and lifted from her bed a little I noticed.

"It's green" I told them.

"What if he did something to her oh my god" Kendall said

"Why would he?" I asked. I was now getting angry.

"Ti was feeling skeptical about Nate since we all had lunch together that day. She said he was always looking at her weird and saying slick things to her" Lani explained.

"Why did she never tell me these things?" I asked them "she said she was going too ... but I guess she didn't know how" Kendall shook her head.

"We told her to tell you as soon as she told us she felt off about him" Kendall added.

"Did he ever put his hands on her?" I asked "I remember her telling us that one day he did walk towards her to the point where her back reached a wall and would slide his fingers down her arm" Lani told me.

I sighed "we have to find her. Who knows what he is capable of" I said.

"I wanna help" Cassie got off her bed and walked over to us.

"Thought you were tired of things being all about Tiara?" Kendall said smartly "she's still someone I love and care about, I would hate if something happened to her" Cassie said to us.

"Come on I'll call Skylar" Kendall said and we all started walking towards the lobby.

* Tiara's P.O.V *

I opened my eyes and sighed. I thought I was going to die. I guess he kept me alive so he could torture me some more.

I looked down and noticed that the clothes I had on were off of me and I was in new clothes. I looked around and saw my blood stained clothes on the floor.

I also noticed my purse , I hope he didn't check my bag and took my phone.

That's when I heard footsteps and pretended I was still sleeping.

"Why can't I have a go at her it's not like you really like this bïtch" I heard some man say

"Because who knows what kind of cases you done caught with all them bïtches you done fücked on. I won't let you destroy her life." I heard Nate say.

The man chuckled "you already did, just like how you ruined McKenzie's"

I heard what I'm assuming was Nate throw a punch "what did I tell you about bringing her up" he said through gritted teeth.

"How're you mad at me because you killed the only girl that was ever in love with your weird crazy ass , man get off me" I heard that man push Nate off of him.

He left out the room and Nate slammed the door behind him.

He then laid down next to me. I felt him caressing my cheeks, "only I can have you Ti, I won't let anyone else hurt" the feeling of his fingers touching me made my skin crawl.

I swear I just wanted to disappear or just wake up from this nightmare. I fake squirmed around to cause him to stop touching me.

But then his hands moved down to my thighs and I felt them travel up and down.

I did the fake squirm again but this time I opened my eyes.

"You're awake" Nate smiles at me.

I looked around this unfamiliar room still trying to take everything in.

I feel like I have to throw up , I'm in so much pain I can't even move.

"Nate ... do you have any ibuprofen?" I asked him "I think I might let me go check" he got up from the bed and left the room.

I made sure I heard him go downstairs before I slowly got up from the bed and grabbed my purse. My phone was still in there and it was on 1%.

I saw that I had multiple missed calls and text messages from everybody which caused me to tear up.

I hurried up and hit the emergency thing so it could send out a message to everyone on my emergency contact list.

That's when I heard footsteps coming up the stairs. I put my bag back down and made it back to the bed before the door opened back up.

It wasn't Nate .. I think it was the man that tried to touch me earlier. I tried backing away but of course I'm already in too much pain.

"Nate left to go get you some medicine or whatever" he said while taking off his belt.

"I'll be quick I promise" he said while coming closer to me "no please" I shook my head and cried.

That's when he turned me over lifted my shirt up tying my hands with his belt.

No not again.

* Yolanda's P.O.V * (Tiara's mother)

"Hey babe!" I ran downstairs to where my husband was on the couch chilling.

"Tay'Vian!!" I called for her too "have you guys checked your phones?" I asked them.

They both took out their phones "oh my god Ti, this location isn't her school" Tay'Vian said.

"Do you think this is real?" My husband asked me. "I'm gonna call Keenan" I said that and then there was a knock at my door.

Tay'Vian answered the door and it was miss Nikita "did you guys also receive this?" She asked showing us the same message we received.

"I'm calling Keenan now" I told her.

* Korey's P.O.V *

I had no idea I was still on Tiara's emergency contact list.

"Hey Anthony can you look up this address" I told him

"Yeah sure to where?" He asked me. "Yeah where you tryna go?" Bre giggled.

"No I had no clue I was still on Tiara's emergency contact list and I just got a SOS message with an exact location" I explained to them.

"Omigod I hope she's okay" Bre said.

I told him the address and it's somewhere in southeast d.c.

"That's nowhere near Howard" he said.

"I'm gonna call Keenan" I said "no let me do it" Anthony said.

I was now worried. Tiara wouldn't send out an emergency unless it really was one.

I went to the southwest airline app and started looking for the earliest flight to dc.

* Keenan's P.O.V *

"Did you guys get that also?" Kendall asked us while looking at her phone.

I checked my messages and it was an SOS message from Tiara with a pinpoint location.

"We have to go" I told them.

"But wait Keenan what if it's someone there with guns and they try to kill us ? Or take us also? We need to be prepared!" Lani said.

"I really think we should call the police or go to the station and have them follow us to this location" Cassie suggested.

"I actually agree Keenan we cannot just go there unprepared we don't know what we're walking into" Kendall added.

"Okay okay," I said and then my phone started ringing "it's her mom" I answered it.

"Keenan, please tell me this is a joke" She said worriedly. I sighed "I really wish I could, me and the girls have been trying to reach her for almost 3 hours now, we all received the message and now we're on our way to the police station so they can follow us here" I told her.

"Oh my god" she started crying "somebody took her" she told who I'm assuming was her husband and daughter.

I heard someone grab the phone "son, we're going to be on the next flight to dc okay, Yolanda is having a panic attack right now we're gonna try to calm her down but we're on our way" my mother told me.

"Okay" I said , I was now getting a phone call from Anthony.

I answered it "bro ! Is Ti good?" He asked. I couldn't even have an attitude with him right now we're all worried about her. I'm trying my hardest to stay as calm as I possibly can.

Me and the girls were walking downstairs to go meet Skylar out front.

"We think she's been taken , for the last three hours we've been trying to reach her but no luck. We all received this message" I told him.

"Yeah Korey did too , he had no idea he was still on her emergency contact list. Listen we'll fly out right now" he told me.

I can't even tell him no "okay we're heading to the police station now so they can follow us to this location" I told him and then hung up.

Calm down Keenan , she's okay. "So you guys got the message also?" Skylar asked us while speeding off before we could even get our seatbelts on.

"Yes, but drive to the police station!" Kendall told her.

"Now what are they going to do?" Skylar asked us.

"We have to be prepared in some kind of way. We don't know who she's with!" Lani explained.

"Okay fine" Skylar drove to the police station and when we got there we all jumped out of the car.

I walked in there and all eyes were on me. I walked to the front desk.

"Officer hello , my name is Keenan Jefferson I would like to report a missing persons report. My girlfriend Tiara Gold Carter has sent out an SOS message with this exact location. We don't know who took her or what they could be up to with her. Please we need you guys to help us" I told the lady at the front desk who was fortunately a black women.

"Okay send me the address, I'll call my unit" she said.

"All units this is a 10-65 , I repeat this is a 10-65" she said in her walkie-talkie.

"Show me the address" she said while getting up from her chair and heading to her car.

"Southeast dc" I heard her mumble. "Okay follow us" she told us.

"What's going on?" Another officer asked. This time he was male and white.

"His girlfriend was taken but she sent out an SOS message to them from her iPhone, and now we're going to go get her from this location" she signaled me to show him the location.

He looked "alright let's go, what does she look like?" He asked me.

I showed them a picture of her smiling.

"She's a beautiful young lady" the women officer said. I just nodded my head "she's okay son, we're gonna go get her" she reassured me.

I got back into Skylars car "follow them, I gave them the location" I told her.  She started her car and followed them.

"What did Anthony say?" Cassie asked.

"He told me that Korey also received the message and that they're on their way here, along with her parents and my mom" I told them.

The car went silent. I could tell that everyone's mind was just wondering and hoping that Tiara was okay.

She better be okay or I will kill him myself.

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Cliffhangerrrr!!! We love those. But omigod yalllll I'm so glad Tiara was able to send out an SOS message before her phone completely died.

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