Chapter 121

I can't believe what I am hearing. 

"Ashley, what are you trying to say? Are you worried for Tyler's welfare? Tyler?!" I sound as incredulous as I feel by her line of questioning. I understand that it mustn't be easy being asked questions by people you don't know about something you need to forget. I get the pressure that must be like on her. 

"If Linc killed him, he deserves to be found and given a proper burial at least." Is what she whispers back to me. 

I look at the phone in my hand in absolute shock. 

"Surely, you can't be serious, Ash. Please tell me this is a joke right now." I say, clinging desperately to the phone. I need her to laugh and say it is another deflecting joke. I wait for it but it doesn't come. 

"You know I am not. You are not here, you don't know what it is like. Even his closest friends haven't heard from him. They don't know what to think. Some even went as far as going to check at his mother's house even thou