Page 166 of Love Undiscovered
“His parents live in Brighton County,” I say.
“Do you think she took him to his parents’?” Lexie asks.
“No, they don’t like her. She wouldn’t go there. Plus that’s not where they would have had a date?” I ask.
“Right.” Lexie nods her head absently.
“Maybe he said something that he thought you would take as a clue. Was there anything he said that seemed odd or unusual?” Trevor asks.
“Everything at times,” Kat says. I backhand her on the shoulder.
“He did!” Lexie says. “He said something else kind of weird that reminded me of something else that I thought was weird.”
“That clears it up, Lex. Thanks,” Kat says.
“What did it remind you of, Lex?” Trevor asks. He takes her hand and runs his thumbs over it in what I imagine to be a soothing motion.
Lexie closes her eyes for a moment. “I think it was a movie, maybe. It triggered something odd at the time. I remember thinking it was out of character for him.”
“You’re right,” Kat says. “He did say something weird. That he was over something? Or going over something?”
“Getting over something?” I’m ashamed I don’t remember more of what he said.
“No, it was more like somewhere,” Lexie says.
“Somewhere ovah dare,” Kat says in an unidentifiable accent. “Actually, I think he said somewhere over the.”
“What is somewhere over the?” I ask, my voice rising. I’m getting increasingly frustrated the longer we sit here.
“I don’t know,” Kat says. “But he also said there was no rain. Wow, I am just pulling shit out of my ass here. It’s like chemo-brain in reverse.”
“Somewhere over the, and no rain,” Trevor says.
Lexie shrugs her shoulders. “Somewhere over the rainbow?”
“There is a park on the other side of Brighton County called Rainbow Park,” Trevor says.
“Do you think that’s what he meant?” I ask.
Don’t get your hopes up. Don’t get your hopes up.
“It’s as good a clue as any,” Trevor says.
“Crikey,” Kat says. “We just solved the mother fucking mystery, Scooby.”
“Let’s go, Trevor,” I say.
He speeds off in the direction of the park. And my anxiety ramps up once again.
Will he be okay that we came after him? Did he really mean thesomewherecomment to be a clue? He doesn’t want Helen. He couldn’t. That would be stupid. Right?
“Are we doing the right thing?” I ask.
Lexie turns around to face us. “You said you love him.”
I nod.
“Then there’s no question,” she says. “He needs us, we help him.”
