Chase Keith will be referred to Chase K
Chase Hudson will be referred to as Chase

Ray✨ has started a chat with Noen😽

Ray✨: I'm okay Noen but let Payton know I'm leaving his mom's house and that I'm blocking his and griffin and Anthony's numbers so tell them not to bother messaging me for a while. You can tell the rest of them if you want

Noen😽: okay. Just text me if you need anything at all

Noen😽: I'll be here for you

Ray✨: I really do appreciate it Noen. I'm glad I've got to talk to you. You're an amazing person and I really wish I could've got to meet you.

Noen😽: ray? What does that mean? Are you okay?

Ray✨: tell them I'm sorry

Noen POV
"Guys! Everyone, get in here!" I yell. Everyone looks over at me, the rest of them walking in from the attached other room.
"Is everything okay?" Chase asks. I start aggressively shaking my head and hand my phone to him, Ray's texts pulled up. "Oh crap."
"What is it?" Josh asks.
"This is all your fault, the three of you," Chase growls, pointing to Griffin, Anthony, and Payton.
"What's our fault? I didn't do anything." Griffin crosses his arms over his chest.
"If she kills herself, I'm blaming you three!" Chase yells.
"How do we know where to find her at?" I ask. Nobody says anything, looking around in confusion. "Hello? Okay, everybody, read the texts. Sounds like she is going to kill herself, but she's in Georgia and we are in Boston. Does anyone have any ideas here?"
"I, uhm, no? I don't know, call the cops. Have them track her phone or something," Josh says, pacing the room nervously as the phone gets passed around.
   "That's good." Chase nods and pulls out his phone. "I'll call, I guess. Phone," he says and motions to get my phone back from Payton. He hands it over quickly, and Chase walks into the other room, closing the door.
   "I screwed up. I thought I would be helping," Payton whispers. We all look over at him.
   "Yeah, you really did screw up. All three of you," Jaden sighs. Griffin glares at him, but Anthony and Payton just nod. I think Payton is crying.
"Can someone explain to me what's going on?" Chase K asks. We all look over at him to where he is sitting on the floor. "I really still have absolutely no idea what's happening."
"Well, I think Payton should. Seems like he knows more than all of us," Jaden says with a sigh, leaning back against the wall.
"I-uhm. I..." Payton stutters. Chase walks back into the room and hands me my phone.
"Spit it out already, would ya?" I ask.
"You know, we were texting in the group and then I had started texting her just us and that's when she wasn't responding. So then we FaceTimed and I had them two come out on the balcony with me and Ray didn't know and her father is some abusive creep, so I had my mom come pick her up and she was staying there and then she wasn't responding to my texts again for a while but then she did and that's when she got back in the group." He rubs the back of his neck, breathing heavily. "And now she probably hates me for being an idiot, but I didn't mean to be an idiot, and I don't know. I think we were going good until that FaceTime got brought up. But now she hates me. I screwed up. I really screwed up. And now she might kill herself. See, that's great. Just great. It's like someone is standing on the edge of a cliff, but then you go and push them over the edge. That's what I did. I pushed her over the edge."
   We all sit around, Payton's heavy breathing the only thing that can be heard.
   "Well, that's deep. Sucks to be you," Sam says. We all look at him, and he shrugs. "Just saying."
   "You just say a lot," Chase groans.
   "What did the 9-1-1 people say?" I ask him.
   He sighs. "Well, they said they'd track her phone, but some places might be spotty with bad reception and if she leaves her phone somewhere, they'd have no way to find her. They're sending crews out to look for her around your house, Payton." He looks over at Payton. "You are going to have some massive apologies to make when they find her."
   "I know. I know. But what if she won't even let me explain? She won't trust me anymore!" He kicks the bed frame in frustration.
   "Let's just hope they find her before something can happen to her." I look around at them. "Unless anyone else has another idea."