ANASTASIA

In just a day, I've had to sit through and listen to so many more interrogations than I have in my entire life.

All the staff in the store and even bystanders were politely questioned. They were all asked if they had happened to come across a woman with a child. They'd ask along with the description of both the woman and Amie, but no one, not even a single person had seen them. It was as if they disappeared through thin air.

I couldn't stop the tears from rolling down my eyes.

Poor Amie. She had just managed to get out of months of being confined to a hospital bed only to get kidnapped by some unfortunate person. It was so unfair to her.

What could they possibly gain from this?

I wondered how she was doing now. Where did they keep her? Has she eaten? Is she thirsty? She must be cold.

I glanced at her medications that still lay untouched on the counter, waiting for its owner to use it. I had spent the night watching them and at some point, even Justin had begun to cry. He must have noticed that his big sister was not around anymore.

Aiden and Dennis were still going around, looking for ways to find her. In a matter of hours, they both had posters with Amie's pictures printed out with a ransom for whoever finds her. They pasted the posters at different locations.

They were surprisingly working fine together and I briefly wondered why it had to be Amie's disappearance that'd bring about this unity.

The store had been nice enough to send us a copy of the footage of the woman walking out. And whenever I wasn't trying to get Justin to stop crying or taking care of him, I was hunched over either my phone or laptop, eyes squinted as I peer at the video, trying to figure out who the woman was.

Was this another sick way of paying me back? I confided in Dennis. He stared at me for a long

shrugged. "So she doesn't appear

shook his head. "Nah, babe. It isn't Clara. I'm sure of

of Amie's sudden disappearance,

mouth, tears rolling down my eyes as I watched Amie come on

on her lips, but I could tell, everyone of us could tell, that she was scared

she was doing fine. She had no scratch on her so they hadn't touched

their face before the camera,

kidnapper's face was obscured and their voice was distorted with some intense

her to return," the electronic voice said

the fuck!" I heard Dennis mutter beside me, his arms still

from involving the police. So do not involve the police."

video ended with Amie's face back

his hair, while Aiden

time. Let's take the money to the location," Aiden

head and looked up at Aidem who was already rapidly tapping on his phone's screen. He glanced up at Dennis, a mixture of confusion

inform the police first," Dennis said as a matter

watched the video," he gestured towards our phones. "They said we

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