Eric was quick to contact me after the photo had circulated around the student body of Moordale High. He raced over to my house to discuss the possible sighting that Ruby was alive. Without even greeting my mother as he runs up to my room, with the photo in hand. "Can you fucken believe it?" He asks.
"Wait," I begin. "Why were you following the page in the first place?"
"They followed me first, sometimes I just don't check who they are. But when I saw everyone talking about the page in the past week I found that we were following each other, there is some dark stuff on that page." He explains, taking a seat next to me on the end of my bed.
"I just wonder where the picture came from." I muse.
"Otis, have you ever heard of a reverse image search?" I shake my head giving him the answer. "there are a few websites that search the entire internet looking for the origin of a post or picture."
Explaining the situation I pull my laptop out and let Eric take over control. He uses Google to search for one of the websites that we didn't need to pay a fee for. Using a screenshot of just the image that was uploaded on Instagram, he uploads it to the website. "You ready to find where Miss Matthews or her twin is?"
I shrug, stating my answer as undecided.
He pushes enter as the website informs us it was searching many major websites and social media platforms. "It might take a while." Eric says, "Want to play some video games for a bit to pass the time?"
I agree with the suggestion and for the next half hour, we play a few of the games I had available on the small TV that sat in the corner of my room. My laptop was almost forgotten about until Eric pulls out his phone to see if there were any updates on the Instagram page. "The post has been deleted." He explains showing me it was just the usual graphic images displayed. "That's weird."
"Totally." I agree, unlocking my laptop to find that there was one result that came back with an image match, with many other websites claiming to have visually similar photos.
"Well open it." Eric urges me as I click on the link that redirects the website to an Instagram account that belonged to a twenty-four-year-old named Noah Baker. The image belonged to the most recent post he had uploaded. The others included him in various outdoor activities from snowboarding to hiking.
He had many shirtless photos, showing a very muscle defined body. "Well, he's hot," Eric comments looking at the shirtless photos. I ignore it and click on the post to see what this Noah guy had captioned the photo. "With the queen who definitely rules us all on the slopes." Eric reads out, I notice there were two more photos attached to the post.
The next photo was an action shot of two people dressed in all black snow gear, wearing helmets on their heads as they were racing down a steep mountain covered in snow. I did notice blonde hair falling out from under one of the figures.
The last photo displayed a selfie between the man with the Ruby lookalike with two braids holding her long hair, unchanged from blech. She gives a huge smile as both are wearing matching black shirts that displayed what looked like a company logo. "That's Ruby! One hundred percent!" Eric points to the screen.
"If it is, she looks happy," I comment, seeing the big cheeky smile she gives in the last photo.
"Well, this guy Noah is based in New Zealand," Eric says looking at the profile that belonged to Noah Baker. "How the hell did she make it to the other side of the world?"
"She's smarter than everyone gives credit for!" I defend her.
"I don't doubt it," Eric says. "The Noah guy hasn't even tagged her in the post, should we maybe see if she's following the profile under a different account."
"I would believe that Ruby would've blocked everyone before she left if she made a different account," I explained seriously. "Do you think we should contact the police with this information?"
"If you didn't you'd just be giving more a heartache for her parents." Eric reasons.

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unsolved disappearances » otis and ruby
Fanfictionotis last saw ruby matthews the night he was abandoned in France. he took to opportunity to kiss the girl who he had been dreaming of since he laid eyes on her. this was seen by ruby, heartbroken by otis herself. ruby disappeared from moordale witho...