"If that boy's really dead, it would be even harder for Jackie to accept. Thankfully, he's only gone missing, which is a silver lining. At least there's room for hope," Weston remarked.

"Hope?" Jackson replied indifferently. "They only knew each other for a few months. Jackie is still young; in five or ten years, she’ll forget him."

"True, they only knew each other for a few months," Weston conceded. "But once the police stop searching, what will you guys do? Will you continue to look for Morris?"

"We’ll keep searching – for a year. If we still can’t find him after a year, we can only leave his fate up to the heavens," Jackson said.

In other words, if they still couldn't find him after searching for a whole year, then the chances of ever finding him were slim.

"Regardless, we should register with missing persons organizations. It’s a shame the police only have DNA data from Morris' parents and not Morris himself!" Serenity lamented.

If they had Morris' DNA data, the chances of fi