The Gerbil

She headed into the bathroom to check there as well.

He checked the vents and found nothing.

After checking everything in the bathroom- even the floors and for any places the mirror might have been taken off- she went to check Jerome's desk. This was not going well.

Liam went to check in between the mattresses of Jerome's bed, trying to see if Sophie had missed anything. Again, there was nothing.

Once again, she couldn't find anything. She took a quick look at the walls just to be sure there was nothing there either.

Liam looked at the posters. There seemed to be some new tape over the top of them. "Have you checked behind the posters?"

She shook her head. "Not yet." She walked over, carefully peeling the tape off of the wall.

He stepped over to help her.

She started on the last piece of tape.

A fist sized hole was revealed when they took the poster down.

She reached up into the hole, finding it almost empty. The only thing there was a single key.

"A key? That could go to almost anything."

She turned it over, seeing the tiny three digit number engraved into it. "I think it's to our dorm... Izzy's and mine, I mean."

"Have you checked through all of Isabelle's stuff yet? There must be something."

"Almost all of it. I haven't had a chance to look through her desk yet." She turned the key over in her hands out of habit.

"How about you go and finish searching and I put Jer's stuff back?"

She nodded, handing him the key and leaving to finish searching.

Liam proceeded to put the key down the hole and pulled out the Scotch tape to get the poster back up.

Once she reached her dorm, she began going through Izzy's almost empty desk. She couldn't find anything important. She did, however, come across a few scratch sheets of paper with Jerome's name doodled on them along with notes from History class. That was, until she noticed something strange about Izzy's pink stapler in the top drawer. She opened the stapler, and found a folded sheet of paper where the staples would've been. She unfolded it, discovering a vague map.

Liam sat in his room wondering if he should go check on Sophie.

She frowned, remembering that she didn't have Liam's number. She went through Izzy's phone until she found it, and texted him a picture of the map.

"Found this in Izzy's desk. - Sophie"

Liam's phone buzzed. He had received a text from Sophie.

"It looks like a floor plan of a building.-Liam"

She read his text, then looked at the map. He was right.

"Meet me in my dorm so we can figure this out in person? -Sophie"

Liam snuck up to the girls' dorms and knocked on Sophie's door.

She walked over, opening the door. "You don't really have to knock."