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5 Months, 2 Weeks, 3 Days, 7 Hours, 27 Minutes,
and 42 Seconds.
43 Seconds.
44 Seconds.
45 Seconds.
Clay watched the hand on the clock.
Tick. Tick.
47 Seconds.
He had kept track of how long it had been.
48 Seconds.
He had kept track of how long it had been because he knew if he didn’t, it would all blur together,
and time would become meaningless.
52 Seconds.
Time is already meaningless.
54 Seconds.
When it first happened,
he knew he only had around a week to find him.
55 Seconds.
He knew he was still out there.
57 Seconds.
But when weeks became months,
he became lost.
58 Seconds.
He gave himself a week.
59 Seconds.
But now it had been
5 Months, 2 Weeks, 3 Days, 7 Hours, 27 Minutes and 59-.
28 Minutes.
And he knew it was too late for him.
For both of them.
He looked down at his phone.
He had left it on aeroplane mode for a while now,
but he hadn’t kept track of how long THAT had been,
so he wasn’t sure.
He was curious,
and he had nothing to lose.
So he took it off aeroplane mode.
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5 New Messages from Badboyhalo.
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6 New Messages from Sapnap.
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All the messages,
notifications,
worried tweets,
and calls.
It was all the same.
Where are you?
Are you okay?
We haven’t spoken in a while, how have you been?
How have you been coping?
Funnily enough,
those were the questions he wanted to ask George.
George.
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1 New Message from George.
George.
Wait.