Darkness in the Neon Lights (H2OVanoss)

Chapter 15

"We're sorry, you have reached a number that has been disconnected or is no longer in service. If you feel that you have reached this recording an error, please check the number and try your call again."

I hang up the phone and redial the number, staring blankly at the ceiling. After the events from last night, Panda decided to close the club in order to clean it and give us a night to collect ourselves. I didn't get much sleep however. Maybe a nap for an hour or two. All I could think about was losing the two people that helped me when I was so low. Gave me a place to sleep when I was about to sleep in the rain or under a bridge. Gave me a job, a place to call home, and a family... One is now dead, and the other...

"We're sorry, you have reached a number that has been disconnected or is no longer in service. If you feel that you have reached this recording an error, please check the number and try your call again."

It hasn't even been twelve hours since I watched that door shut behind him, and his number is already gone. I've been calling it for an hour now, and I always get the same stupid message... But I can't help it.... Part of me is just hoping that it will go through with the next redial. That he'll answer and we can go for our morning run. He can finish teaching me how to give a good lap dance, and he would be here to help me when I really need him.

"We're sorry, you have reached a number that has been disconnected or is no longer in service. If you feel that you have reached this recording an error, please check the number and try your call again."

I haven't moved since I got home last night. I've stopped crying long ago, and I have been hoping to wake up from this nightmare for too long now. I don't want to get up. I don't want to do anything. I don't want to talk to anyone... I just want my friends back.

"We're sorry, you have reached a number that has been disconnected or is no longer in service. If you feel that you have reached this recording an error, please check the number and try your call again."

Hanging up the phone, I finally look at the screen and see a picture of Ohm and me in our work uniforms. It was a slow night, not many people I had to take care of, so I spent a good chuckle of the night talking to him and Bryce backstage. The three of us started fooling around on snapchat, when Ohm pointed out that we hadn't really taken any pictures together, so we started doing just that. I made the best ones their pictures on my phone... Funny. What once was a happy memory hurts so much now.

I redial the number and pull it back to my ear.

"We're sorry, you have reached a number that has been disconnected or is no longer in service. If you feel that you have reached this recording an error, please check the number and try your call again."

I pull my phone away and look back to my phone again. I hang up and am just about to redial the number again, but stop when I see a text come up from Panda. I open it and see that he had sent a mass text to everyone.

"Due to the events of last night, I'm going to close the club again tonight. If anyone needs to talk, do not be afraid to turn to myself or the others for support."

I sigh and switch back to Ohm's information on my phone, redialing it again and bringing it back to my ear, just to hear that same stupid recording again. Hanging up the phone, I sigh. He's really gone... I'm never going to see him again... No; he can't be. I just need to reach him.

I redial the number again, hoping to reach him this time, only to hear the same stupid message. If I could, I would probably be in tears by now, but I don't even have the energy to bring up a single teardrop. All I can do is hang up the phone and curl into a ball, hoping to fall asleep or something. I shut my eyes and feel them shoot open when I hear my phone going off.