You clearly are a looser.

CHAPTER 26.

Sarah's POV.

We don't know how much we want someone until we start to see them turning back and move in another direction.

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The moment we come out of the car I smack Zack's head. Agitated, I lean on the car. We were exactly where James had been for the past hour and now when we reached, he slipped away.

I groaned knowing that we couldn't spot him in action.

"Now what?" I ask sipping water.

"Umm, I don't know!" Zack shrugged.

"How about we find people who know James by showing his photo?" Nate asked looking at our faces.

"Really?" Zack narrowed his eyes on Nate and continued, "There has to be someone common here. Someone that holds a connection. Maybe from Sarah's neighbourhood or Nate's place or school or my place. Just someone you know?" He moved his hands making certain actions making his points clear. I cleared my mind to think but even after a lot of thinking there was no one I knew within my neighbourhood or school who stayed here.

"No. There are hardly a few people I know and they all don't seem to come here or have a house here." I said folding my arms on my chest letting my hair turn a mess in the wind.

"Me neither. And James is your neighbour who seems to come here." Honestly, it was a bad idea to even acknowledge his idea, so I looked at him straight until he mouthed a sorry. Don't judge me, I'm trying to hold on to someone's word which are contradicting the situations.

"I think I know someone from here." We both turn around to face Nate who seemed to have a nostalgia hit and a red neck.

"What?" "Who?" These questions came out of me and Zack making Nate jump in his place.

"Umm well.." Nate stopped mid-sentence to have a glance of our curious face and out faces only had the urge to listen so I nodded at him.

"Heather,  her name is Heather, she stays around this block and there is Stella who lives here too. From school." His face was bright red.

"Fill in with the details please." Zack rolled his eyes as he said. So much for being interested. I mentally roll my eyes at his reaction.

Yeah, I copied his reaction.

"Stella is quite a nerd but I don't think she will ever go for a guy like James."  Nate prodded confidently.

"How did you know that?" I voiced out considering Zack was going to ask the same.

"10th grade I had to take her help in an English essay and about Heather, well she can be the one cause she is interested in casual hookups!" Nate was slightly and I mean it slightly embarrassed when he said that.

"Again how?"

"She asked me and again that was in tenth grade." He sighed.

"What? You were fucking with her?" Zack said dramatically.

"Umm well, long version or short?" He asked and before Zack could answer I opened my mouth to say, "Long version!"  While crossing arms ready to know the casual encounter.

James all forgotten, anyways what could we possibly do?

"Ok let's do this. That one day in tenth grade, we had these stupid chemistry labs to write and that was teamwork and I was paired with Heather. That girl screamed good looks and sexy figure, I swear!" He harked back to the past or whatever it is.

"And you had sex with her?" Zack asked curiously.

"No, for the record no. We were talking randomly about series and I remember specifically talking about Spartacus majorly all the roles and everything. Then we reached her home we sat for a while after I had water and then she excused herself as I laid out the worksheet and started working on them..." He paused to see whether we were with him or not and I nodded at him waiting to hear the rest.

"Then you had sex?" Zack popped his head up.

"No Zack stop being horny, she came out in some characters outfit I couldn't recognise and it was honestly a little slutty too and not even attractive in the slightest. I asked her what was that and all she said was hey sexy, why don't you let me be your slave as I ride you uptown while you go downtown, you'll be my 7th master." Embarrassment clear as day on his face while he mirrored her actions with her dialogue in the same shrill high pitched voice while I puked mentally and Zack had an amusing expression.

"Did you melt and had sex then?" Zack asked with a smirk.

"No! Are you hormonally  imbalanced?" Nate groaned while I grinned at both of them.

"I ran out of there!" With an unreadable expression and a heavy breathing Nate stated.

"Omg, you did what???" I had to stop laughing for those four words to roll out of my mind.

"You wuss, you ran away." Zack snickered.

"Don't laugh both of you. She was literally scary with her dress up and she kissed me, dude!" He screamed and his face was red again. If I knew any better I would have awarded red as the colour of the week or the month.

"Oh fuck I can't stop laughing!" I said in between my laughs.

"Dude, you should have told first hand you didn't have sex with that hot chick. You whacked my mood!" Zack scowled but still grinned on his situation.

I swear Zack is only thinking about sex. What the heck duh.

"At least I have had kissed someone and not like you. You have virgin lips." Nate grunted. He behaved as if it was some kind of achievement. Really Nate?

"Virgin lips really? By the way, he doesn't have it whatever you call that virgin lips. His lips could be anything but a virgin!' I snickered while Zack scoffed like a kid and Nate looked like he was unable to process whatever I said. So I made it simple for him.

"He has kissed Rose." I laughed making Nate snicker like a maniac.

"Whatever. But you're clearly a loser." Zack scoffed.

"But now what are we going to do and where are we going to find whoever was with James?" I ask bringing the attention back to the matter in hand.

"Heyy... Spartacus guy. What are you doing here?" A voice boomed behind us. We turned around slowly to see a ginger headstand with her hands on her hips. I had an urge to laugh at how she was standing. She literally looked like a mug. However, she seemed to pull a smile. With a full sleeve crop top and the shortest shorts she has worn, her whole figure was at the display and she had a good one. I cringed internally when I saw both the guys and the rest of the people eyed her like she was the last candy of the store. It didn't even faze me to see her knowing full well she loved the attention on the street.

"Hi, Heather." Nate said with a small smile. I locked my eyes with Zack and he nodded with some kind of understanding.

So this was Heather. She had all the beautiful features, I can't even imagine what Nate said had been done by her. She didn't look that type but how much could you know a person only by a single look.

"Don't worry, I am not gonna pull anything. So again why are you here in the middle of the road? Are you lost?" She asked curiously only looking at Nate.

"No, I am here with them. This is Sarah and this is Zack and we are not crazy, we are finding something." Nate gave a curt reply.

"We are actually looking for someone!" I commented.

"James. We are looking for James Foster and possibly the girl he was with. Have you seen him?" The moment she heard his name, her eyes bulged out as if she had seen a ghost within us, her face went pale.

I immediately knew that whatever is coming next, I am not liking it.

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