#Chapter 77: Spilled Beer

Matt Matt couldn’t concentrate on the party or the people around him. After Celeste had come in claiming a homeless man had attacked her, his stomach had been in knots and he felt like he couldn’t breathe. The noise faded into the background as he stared at his phone. The mobile app he’d been using to talk to Rose stared up at him mockingly. There were no numbers in the corner. He still didn’t have any new messages. He opened the app anyway. His last message to Rose still had the ‘Unread’ text underneath it. He glared at it as if he could make it change to ‘Read’ with just his will alone. But he’d spent so much time doing that, he knew it was hopeless. Then to his shock, it did change. Every single hair on his arm stood on end as he held his breath, waiting for a message to appear. But it didn’t. Rose wasn’t even typing. What if it wasn’t her? What if someone else had logged on? What if Rose had also been attacked? Rose? Are you ther