Chapter 48: Trying Too Hard

Noah

It's been four hours since I left my house and my phone won't stop buzzing with messages and calls from my family. I keep looking at it but still don't feel like picking up.

“You know,” Lucas says to me as he sits right beside me, “if you're just going to let it ring, why don't you turn it off instead? And give me that.”

He attempts to reach for the bottle in my hand but I pull back to stop