Ash Kelley

So they spent hours roaming the town looking for him.

They went back over the border, but it was like he vanished without a trace.

He was just gone.

And honestly, you don't think, and I know like...

You don't think about this happening with, like, a man.

No.

You know what I mean?

It's not your first thought.

Like, when it's, like, a group of men together, you would assume nothing can touch them.

Like, they're invincible, essentially.

You know what I mean?

I know that's not true.

I'm just saying that's the initial thought.

It's the way we're kind of, like, conditioned to think with these kinds of stories.

That, like, a group of young men, one of them suddenly going missing is like, what?

Like, how did that happen?

Like, he wasn't safe?

yeah it's it's just like very shocking it is it's and it's chilling yeah it is chilling that's the perfect way to describe it so they spend all night searching the increasingly empty streets of matamoros for mark growing more and more concerned with every single hour that passed finally when the sun came up and they still hadn't found any sign of mark the three decided maybe he had just gotten a ride back to south padre with someone that he met at the bar maybe that girl that they saw him talking to earlier they're like

hopefully we're overreacting here yeah because the alternative that their friend had now disappeared in a foreign country was way too frightening to accept at the time and like who takes a grown man well and you don't admit i i don't think you initially go to that like obviously when you're looking for your friend for hours and hours and you can't find them like panic starts to set in but then after a little bit you're like okay let's be a little logical here maybe he did just get a ride yeah like you don't want to go doesn't want to believe that

The worst case scenario.