The next time they went to school, which was a Monday, Jeremy had spotted Christine crying...he didn't think anything of it and made his way to class.

That class just so happened to be one he and Michael didn't share.

So when Michael seen Christine crying in his class, he immediately went over to check on her, knowing Jeremy couldn't possibly find him right now.

"H-Hey Chris... what's...why are you c-crying?" She looked over at Michael in almost shock, mainly cause they hadn't talked to each other in a very long time.

"My cousin Nick vanished. Just like everybody else...he was like a brother...and I have no clue where he is or what happened to him..." She sobbed into her hands, and Michael gently patted her back, knowing exactly where her cousin was and feeling immense amount of guilt for having to hide it from her.

"I'm...I'm sorry Christine." He muttered and she wiped her eyes slightly and had a very weak smile on her face.

"It isn't your fault Michael." She told him and inside he wanted nothing more than to finally tell somebody the Hell he'd endured. To let anybody know that he was being forced into secrecy by his psychopathic boyfriend.

"..." He remained quiet for a long few seconds. So long it was quite strange for Christine to think this was the same Michael who, just a month ago, was almost as outgoing as her.

"Michael, is something wrong?"

"It's...nothing Christine. I'm just paranoid you know?"

"Mmhm."

"About pretty much anybody g-going missing..."

"You know you could've talked to the Squad about it right?"

"No...I...I can't tell you guys. I don't wanna burden you."

"It's okay Michael, you won't burden us..."

"I just...I can't talk about it alright? It hurts enough as it is." Michael pulled his hood up and turned away, tears threatening to spill from his almost lifeless brown eyes.

"Something's wrong here...." Christine thought to herself, tapping her fingers a bit.
"But what? Michael seems horrified of somebody finding out about his feelings...but why would he be scared about that??" She seen the door open and from then on paid attention to the class, the lingering worry for one of her friends never leaving her mind.

***

As she made her way to lunch, she was trying to piece together everybody going missing.

She had only seen a few factors connecting them. Most of them were in one way or another connected to the Squip Squad friend group, whether through multiple or singular mutuals. All were guys. And none of them were straight.

So this stranger is targeting non straight males who all seem to know the same people. That didn't really help, it just made her worry that Jeremy and Michael were next.

She kept glancing over at where Michael sat that day, noticing how he didn't look happy what so ever even when near Jeremy, and how Jeremy looked way too happy when he could go missing.

"Christine, are you okay?" Chloe snapped her fingers rather loudly, grabbing Christine's attention quickly.

"Yeah just...worried about Michael is all."

"Honestly I'm worried for all the guys now. And maybe eventually the girls." Brooke muttered, chewing her nails a bit and shaking.

"I mean, I'm worried about that too but I actually managed to hold a conversation with Michael for the first time in a while and he seemed pretty scared about something figuring out how he feels...honestly I don't know why he'd be scared about that but it just makes me think...who do you think is behind this thing? The fact all the guys who went missing knew us and weren't straight has to lead to something right?"

"Do you think it's another student?" Brooke suggested under her breath and all of them stared at her in shock. "I'm sorry that was stupid why would one of our classmates be behind this?"

"No no...that's really smart actually. The question is who did it? Who has any reason to hurt anybody we know?" Jenna queried and there was a long silence before they all glanced over to where Michael and Jeremy were sitting.

"You know, they've been acting really strange recently...is it just me?" Brooke asked and all of them agreed with her. "Especially Jeremy...he honestly seems sorta...well...scary now."

"Obsessive too." Chloe spat and they all nodded.

"You don't actually think Jeremy has anything to do with this do you?" Christine didn't want to think about one of her best friend's being the reason a lot of her friends as well as her own cousin went missing.

"What other lead do we have Chris? It couldn't possibly be Michael, look at him. He isn't even feeding himself anymore." Chloe was pretty harsh but she wasn't wrong. They all seen that Michael wasn't feeding himself, and instead, Jeremy was feeding him. And it wasn't in a sweet couple way either, that much was obvious.

"But what do you think Jeremy, if it is him, has even done to everybody?"

"I have no clue but it's probably not nice." Brooke whispered, not wanting to think about it.

"Hey where are they going?" Jenna quickly brought up the fact that Jeremy was leading Michael out of the cafeteria.

"...It looks like they're heading to the bathroom." Christine couldn't be sure but there wasn't any other room they could get into where they were going.

(Now to the boyfs. Who are back in the bathroom)

"Micha, Love, you haven't said anything all day and it's worrying me. What's wrong?" Jeremy asked, pulling the sedative out of his pocket and waiting for an answer.

Michael didn't reply.

"Michael. What's wrong with you? Why haven't you said anything to me today?"

"W-Why did you kill Nick?" Michael whispered and Jeremy's eyes flickered with some sort of malice as he grabbed Michael's wrist.

"I did what I had to do." Jeremy was staring the now shaking Michael dead in the eyes, a smile forming on his freckle covered face. "And now you're safe." He moved his hand to Michael's hair and began curling it, that smile only getting more and more sadistic. "Now open up Love." He cooed and Michael did as told, and as usual he felt more regret and guilt fill up inside him before it vanished into a fake calmness. "There. No need to worry about Nick, you're safe from him now."

Jeremy lead a drowsy Michael out of the bathroom, and Christine got a glance of them from her table. She immediately noticed how sluggish Michael was acting, and it put her on even more of an edge.

She knew that her friends were probably right about Jeremy, because she could see pure insanity hidden in his eyes as they passed the table.

She had to get Michael away from him before something happened to him.