I calm down gradually, a little. He left his phone and his henshin device thing. Mobirates, I think. He'll be back for both of them. He wouldn't go join the Gokaigers without his Mobirates, after all.

I pace. Twitch. Pace some more. I don't touch the blood on my knuckles. I head down to the little bench used mostly by Joe, and I do sit-ups until my muscles rebel, then I look at the clock.

Nearly half an hour.

I stand up.

He's -- he's not coming back.

I jerk into action. Car keys, phone so I can call people when I'm running around the school, the park, anywhere else I can think of that he might go.