#benlore

Mysterious indeed...! When did this happen? Is the flash drive still plugged into her computer? :0

—Whimsy!

—Whimsy! (@friendsintheinbetween)

do you want the full story? i guess it might help someone find her at least

we found a a flash drive in the woods late at night. just one of those usb stick ones, nothing special. when we got back to our apartment, she plugged it into her computer

i still have no clue what happened, but when i woke up the next morning, she was just gone. she didn't take anything with her, nothing was off except for the front door being unlocked. i looked around and asked around and not a soul said they'd seen her. and i didn't find her either

What was she like?

it was yesterday, but...

she was always very kind, and reckless. but in a good way. she always had a lot more energy than me

we liked exploring together. i was never much of an outdoorsy person, but i always wanted to go with her when she said she was doing to go wander off somewhere.

we met in high school. we were both awkward, quiet kids, so i guess that sort of brought us together lol. she helped me come out of my shell, in a way

...god, i miss her. i'm sorry, i don't mean to yap some random stranger's ear off. thanks for asking about her though. i'm still looking

“Yeah, I don’t think it’s doin’ anything… Nothing’s popping up in file explorer, at least.”

“Did it install anything?”

“Nah, I checked.”

“..I kinda find that hard to believe.”

“Well, it’s a flash drive we found in the middle of the woods. What did’ja think it’d do?”

“I dunno. I was hoping it’d be haunted or something.” He chuckles.

“Well, I’m glad it’s not. God knows enough weird stuff goes on around here already.” She jokes in response, standing up from the squeaky desk chair. “That reminds me, whatever happened to that guy you saw at the park?”

“Dunno. Not our business.”

“Aw, c’mon! You just said you were hoping it was haunted and now you’re all ‘oohh not my business aren’t I so cool and nonchalant-”

“-Okay, okay, fiine..!” He interrupts, obviously trying not to laugh at her mocking and failing miserably. “We can look up what happened in the morning. It’s already.. what, midnight?”

She yawns. “Fiine, bu-"

[The footage abruptly stops. There’s a black screen for a few moments, before cutting to security camera footage from an interview. Ben sits across from a police officer, looking visibly shaken.]

“..yesterday morning, and she was just gone. I called her parents, she’s not with them. She left her phone,” He audibly swallows, trying to soothe his strained voice, to no avail. “I went through it, just to be sure. I didn’t find anything, she didn’t tell anyone she was going anywhere-”

“And you said there were no signs of a struggle in the room?”

“Y..yes, ma’am, that’s correct.”

name's ben, he/they. i probably won't be very active on here lol