Laura
“Are you sure that no one in your family or close to you picked her up from daycare today, ma’am?” The police officer asked when I went to file a complaint at the nearest police station. It was already dark, and I was almost becoming a desperate madwoman, looking for my daughter everywhere.
“No, officer. I have almost no one close to me here, and even if I did, no one would pick up my daughter without my permission or before talking to me,” I replied to the officer. I had already called all my friends or people close to me, but none of them were with my daughter, which made me more worried.
Where would my daughter be?
“Unfortunately, we can’t do anything before we give you 24 hours to report your daughter missing,” said the police officer, making r sigh
in frustration.
I left the police station with no results and called the doorman condominium in the hope that Anne had come home on her own, maybe I was late, and she decided to go home alone, but the doorman said there was no one at my house and Anne had not returned. I was already desperate and didn’t know what to do.
“And what did the police say? Are they looking for her?” Ava asked on the other end of the line, completely worried about my daughter’s safety.
“They’re not doing anything, Ava. They can’t do much because they have to wait 24 hours to report my daughter as missing,” I replied, feeling a lump form in my throat. I wiped the tears from my face, feeling panic building in my chest.
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“What a bunch of bastards!” Ava cursed, completely exasperated.
“Babe, calm down, okay? You’re just going to make Laura more nervous. I don’t think anything big happened to Anne, she should probably be in a safe place,” Terrence said, trying to calm Ava and me down. They were both on their way to Staten Island so they could help me look for my daughter.
“As much as I think it’s cool that you try to calm Laura down, Terence, I’m afraid nothing much happened to Anne; the girl is only five years old and is always obedient and well-behaved; she never disappeared like that. Why would she disappear now?” Ava said, unable to hide her fears.
“Something must have happened to her, my God,” I said, sighing. I was walking around the neighborhood near the daycare center with my eyes on any child I saw along the way trying to find my daughter, maybe she was lost walking aimlessly, she would certainly get sick because it was a very cold today. “I’m such an irresponsible mother it’s all my fault, I shouldn’t have been late to pick up my daughter.
I mean, I had spent some time arguing with Richard in the car instead of going to pick up my daughter, and if I stopped to analyze it, it wasn’t even Richard’s fault for making me late because he was covered if he was right since I was practically the cheating all this
time.
It was all my fault from the beginning, I had been a terrible mother by putting work first and not being there when Anne needed me and now here we were, with Anne missing and Richard not even wanting to talk to me. I had tried to call him as soon as I noticed Anne was missing, but his cell phone rang once and then went silent as if he had turned off the cell phone, clearly not wanting to talk to me. Maybe he would never want to look at my face again and now I had no one to help
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I had failed him and Anne, I was failing everyone. I was crying as I walked the streets of that neighborhood looking for my daughter.
“It’s not your fault, dear. It’s that damn daycare’s fault that doesn’t have enough security to protect the children. Imagine something like that, how could they take their eyes off a child who was under their responsibility? What you have to do is sue that ridiculous place!” Ava said almost shouting.
“The only thing I want now is to find my daughter. Good God, she must be so cold and hungry, she must be crying and feeling. abandoned, my poor princess,” I said, crying desperately.
“You have to try to calm down, Laura. Seriously, otherwise, you won’t find her anyway,” said Terence, trying to calm me down. “Didn’t you have any information about her? Didn’t anyone see her last? She just couldn’t have disappeared like that out of nowhere.”
“At that moment when the day ends at daycare, the children wait for their parents or guardians to come and pick them up, there are always a lot of people at that moment as each child goes with t parents to the car, so it becomes a little difficult to keep up eyes all children,” I explained, myvoice being tearful.
“I see. Is there a possibility that Anne went to the house of a little friend of hers? Because since it was very cold and you say that you were late today to pick her up, maybe the parents of one of her little friends took the girl with them because they didn’t They wanted to leave her cold. Not everything could have gone so wrong,” Terence said, still trying to reassure me.
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But I shook my head no. “No adult would take my daughter without calling me first and Anne doesn’t have that many friends, most of the time she talks to a little boy called Caleb and he was there when I arrived to pick Anne up,” I said.
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“Did you ask this little boy if he had seen Anne since you say they are almost always together?” Ava asked and I sniffled before answering.
“Yes, I asked, of course I asked, but he didn’t give me a consistent
answer.”
“What did he say?”
“Some nonsense about hamburgers and hot chocolate.”
“What do you mean? You need to remember everything he said because if this boy was the last person to see your daughter he could have given you crucial information,” said Terence, and I sighed, feeling a cold breeze pass over me, I was cold, but I didn’t care, I didn’t mind dying frozen while trying to find my daughter.
“When I approached him he said that Anne had gone away with her father for hamburgers and hot chocolate,” I said, although I found that conversation irrelevant.
“What does it mean? Richard didn’t pick up Anne today,” Ava said, making me sigh.
“The boy must have just been hungry,” I said.
“Or maybe he witnessed someone taking Anne away and s would give her this snack in return,” Terence said, making n walking.
“Are you saying my daughter was kidnapped?” I asked fearfully.
“I’m not saying anything, but that could be a possibility. There are a lot of criminals who trick children with sweets and sweets and then kidnap them,” he said and I put my hand on my chest in fear. My God, what if that were true?
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