Seeking Deeply The End
kim:
you better not be evil flid this time
flid:
It was light by the time I got home. I had probably been rude to Keller, in fact I knew I had been rude, but right then I didn’t care. I ran to my house from the car almost falling through the door.
“Vanessa!” my Grandfather said startled.
I looked around the house trying to spot Robin; I could feel the bile rising in my throat when I couldn’t see her.
“Where’s Robin?”
“In the bathroom washing her hands for breakfast.” He said.
I didn’t say any more I just ran to the bathroom. The house was small and everything was on one floor. The bathroom was in between mine and Robin’s room.
“Mummy.” She said excited as I burst through the door like a lunatic.
I dropped to my knees in front of her and pulled her into my arms wanting to make sure that she was real. All the time driving home from the gallery I expected the worst, expected her to be gone. That’s what kidnappers normally do when they demand a ransom is it?
My Grandfather had made pancakes. I sat trying to listen to Robins chatter as the phone call went through my head. Had it been real? If it was real surly they would have taken her. Maybe I dreamt it all. I had had an eventful night and virtually no sleep.
The phone rang and I jumped, Robin and my Grandfather looked at me as if I had gone mad. Maybe I had.
“I’ll get it.” Said my Grandfather.
I watched wide eyed as he walked over to the phone. I could hear my own heart beat as it sped up.
“It’s Macey.” He said holding the phone out to me.
I can’t remember exactly what Macey said on the phone, she just gave me the rest of the details from the police who had called again. I just tried to make encouraging noises where appropriate.
“Are you ok Vanessa?” she asked.
“Yeah. I’m sorry just one hell of a night. I’m still trying to get my head round it all.” Technically I was lying by omission, she assumed I meant the break in but that was far from my thoughts. All I could hear was that voice from the call. He sounded sincere, but yet everything at home seemed fine.
My grandfather watched me closely as sat back down and I ate. My hands were shaking and I tried to keep them still. My eyes kept flicking towards the phone. The call didn’t seem real now, but some part of me knew that it was and expected them to call again. Maybe they were still here?
I was up and out of my seat as soon as the thought entered my head. I ran into Robin’s room. Bart smiled out at me from all over the place. Her duvet had an image of him on pulling a money, my uncle’s idea not mine. Her lamp shade, curtains and rug all held different pictures and poses of him. I swear the room looked more like a boys. I flung open the wardrobe though there was no way anyone could hide in there. There were games, soft toys and a number of things I couldn’t even begin to identify piled high.
I even looked under her bed, pulling out the boxes from underneath just to make sure that there was no one hiding.
I did this through every room. Checking any possible place that some one could hide, even the small spaces that I knew no one would fit in anyway, but I had to check just to be sure.
I ran through the house and out the back. My grandfather and Robin stared at me shocked. I raced across the garden to my shed. The door was open slightly, just a small gap, nothing more than an inch or so. I was sure I had locked that last night. I opened the door cautiously, and peered in. Robin’s paddling pool lay in a screwed up on top of my lawn mower. Nothing looked to have been disturbed. And nothing seemed to be missing.
Maybe I hadn’t locked it. It was rather hectic last night I could have quite easily just thought I had done it.
I turned back to walk into the house after pulling the dead bolt and locking the shed up again. My grandfather and my uncle stood staring at me. I stopped where I was. I had no idea how I was going to explain my temporary insanity. I didn’t even remember my uncle being there. At least I was sure he wasn’t when I ran out of the house.
“Ethan?” I said as I got closer.
“Hey. You lost something?”
“Nope. When did you get here?”
“Just now.” He said smiling. “You were racing out the kitchen door.”
“Oh.”
Robin came running out the house to me; Zandra and Bonnie were following close behind. Zandra and Bonnie were my cousins. They weren’t Ethan’s children; they belonged to his twin sister Alex.
Robin loved playing with them. Zandra was just a year older than Robin and Bonnie was three.
“Uncle Ethan is taking Zandra and Bonnie to the zoo; he said I can go too. Can I mummy?”
“No.” I said bluntly and regretted it almost as soon as the words had left my mouth.
My grandfather seemed to be watching me suspiciously and I wanted him to stop. He was studying my face, my expressions and I knew he could see right through me. All of them seemed to be watching me, wondering what the sudden out burst was about. Damn. There was no way I was going to explain this successfully.
“It’s only the zoo Vanessa.” Said Ethan. “Not like I am going to feed her to the lions or anything.”
“Please mummy.” Robin, Zandra and Bonnie all gave me puppy dog eyes. Although I don’t think Bonnie actually understood she was just following her big sister. My grandfather remained quiet and I wish I knew what he was thinking, mind you from the look on his face I probably didn’t want to know.
“I’ll have her back in a couple of hours.”
“Ok. She can go.” I said relenting. If that call had just been a cruel joke then I couldn’t make Robin pay for it by stopping her. Ethan was good with her, he was good with all the kids, it was a shame he didn’t have any himself, he would make a great dad.
Robin cheered and ran back into the house to get changed. I followed her in, avoiding my grandfathers ever watchful eyes.
“Mummy?”
“Yes Robin?” I said as she came back out of her room me, I was relived to be able to leave the silence in my kitchen.
“What’s this?”
She was holding a piece of paper in her hands. Thick red crayon shone from the paper. The words standing out perfectly. 72 hours.
oddball011:
OMG
Wow , flid I need more!!
SimulatedDork:
OMG, amazing! Keep it coming flid, you can't keep us hanging like this!
I sorta wanted to see Alex's children (and Ethan was adorable as a tot from A Fathers Sacrifice) because I think Vanessa + Robin look like Morgan.
Elven_Song:
Wow! Ethan grew up nicely! ^^ I wish I could see Alex, I'm sure she's just as gorgeous.
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