Chapter 36: Finding Jade
KIX:
I ran as fast as I could to the girl’s comfort room. I swear I had never run as fast as I did all my life, even when I was a wolf!
I looked through the stall, not minding that the people there were protesting that I suddenly barged in.
I don’t care what they think about me. All I cared about was finding Jade.
I went into the eastern and western part of the school, but I didn’t see Jade anywhere. Where the hell could she be?
When I got into the girl’s bathroom at the northern wing, the ushers there must have been half expecting me. They banned me into getting inside the girl’s comfort room.
“Sir, please don’t cause a scene, or we will kick you out.”
“Then, let me just please check if Miss Jade Sy is in there. I just need to know.”
“You aren’t allowed to go inside, sir.”
“What if she passed out? Let me just call her. Jade! Ja-!”
I was about to shout my mate’s name one more time when a hand landed on my shoulder.
“Hey, what’s going on here?”
I don’t know whether I should laugh or cry, for when I spun around, I met the stare of the person I would never want to meet there.
It was Liam.
“Have you seen Jade,” I asked him back.
“Weren’t you supposed to be with her?”
“Yes, but when I got back, she was gone…”
“How long ago was that?”
“I don’t know… Maybe twenty or thirty minutes ago?”
“Come on. I don’t think Jade’s in here. Let’s look somewhere else.”
I hated the smell of this rat. He was wearing a dark blue suit, and he was all dressed up for the ball as well. What the hell was he doing here? Did he follow Jade just because we were going to the party together?
However much I hated him, I liked that he was calm about what was going on. Maybe that’s what Jade liked about him…
“Have you tried calling Jade?”
“Uh, no,” I confessed. I immediately unlocked my phone and hit the number that was on my speed dial.
I obtained Jade’s number through Edril’s report. I debated calling her numerous times in my head before actually coming to enroll in this school, but I never did for fear that Jade would only run away if she learned we’re going to be classmates soon.
As soon as I hit the number, I heard a ring at the other end of the line.
“Sh*t, she’s not answering it,” I said, feeling more nervous than ever.
“I’ll try calling her too. Let’s split for now and go through each floor. You start with his wing; I’ll go to the east wing. If we don’t see her, let’s meet again at the lobby in fifteen minutes.”
I nodded. I hated this punk to the core, but right now, the most important thing was finding my Jade.
I went upstairs to the second floor and banged into every room, nook, and cranny I could look at, but I couldn’t find her.
“Damn it, where are you, Jade? Where the hell could you possibly be?”
If something bad happens to her, I wouldn’t forgive that culprit. I swear I would never forgive him!
I climbed and scoured through the entire third floor too, and just when I was about to give up, I smelled it. I smelled the scent of my mate wafting through the air…
I ran towards the direction of her scent. If she was only mine, if I had only marked her and claimed her already, I wouldn’t have to go half crazy at the thought that her life was in great peril!
I was taken by my sense of smell to the third floor fire exit. As soon as I opened the door and was greeted by Jade’s surprised face, I hugged her.
“Jade, where did you go? I was looking everywhere for you, my Jade!”
“Ugh, Kix… I-I can’t breathe!”
I was so out of my mind that it took me several minutes to realize that Jade was fighting hard against my embrace.
“I-I’m sorry… Sorry Jade…”
I tried to fix her hair and her rumpled dress, but she stepped away from me, raising both of her arms in defense.
“Kix, what was that all about? Were you just trying to strangulate me?”
“No. I just… I just missed you. You suddenly disappeared, and -”
“Well, you disappeared first, so… Anyway, will you help me?”
She pointed towards the floor. As soon as I followed her pointer finger, I saw Dianna sprawled into the ground, rolling over it like a madman.
“You were with her all this time?”
“Yes… Sorry, I went away without warning. It’s just that I was afraid she’d do something stupid and embarrassing, so I followed her here. I had been keeping an eye on her since then.”
I kneeled down at Dianna. She moaned a bit as I checked her pulse and breathing.
“It seems like she’s alright. She’s just drunk.”
“Yes. All it took her was one glass of punch, and now she’s acting like a crazy caveman,” Jade sighed.
“So, that glass of wine, it wasn’t you who drank it? It was her?”
“Eh, how did you know about the wine? Well, yeah. Even before she finished drinking, she acted weird and sprinted all the way through here before becoming drowsy.”
“She did,” I said, laughing out loud. Jade could only look at me in a strange way.
“That wine she took, it was spiked with something, you know.” Jade froze on her tracks when she heard me say it.
“What? Who would do that?”
“I’ll tell you all that I discovered, but first, tell me,” I said, “how did you end up with that glass of wine, and how on earth did Dianna end up drinking it?”
Jade acted as if she wanted to sit beside me on the floor of the fire exit. I quickly took off my jacket and spread it next to me.
“Sit here. You’ll make your clothes dirty.”
“How about you? That suit looks like it costs thousands of bucks…”
“Don’t worry about it. I got this suit for free from an investor.”
Jade simply nodded at my explanation as if getting free suits was the most natural thing in the world. She sat on my coat and proceeded to tell her story.
“Well, it started not long after you left for the buffet table…”
