Alan waited for the doorbell, Tana and Fred laughed at his tension.
"Don't worry," they said. "She's only a bit late, she'll come she hasn't missed one yet." Yet as they finished the first movie and put in the second, they started to worry.
"Did you call her cell phone?" Tana asked Alan.
"Only five times, left messages, and called her house five times also," Alan replied.
"Shouldn't we call the police?" Fred asked.
"They won't do anything," said Alan.
"Where was she when she last called?" Fred asked.
"The parking lot of the care center," the care center was where she worked.
"Well let's go there, maybe she had car trouble or something," Fred suggested. They piled into the car and drove off to the care center. They arrived there in a half hour. They found her car there, locked, and she was nowhere in sight. That's when they called the police.
The police arrived at the scene within minutes, responding to the 911 call they received. Officer Griffin approached the group of three clustered together by the car.
"Now what exaltedly happened here?" he asked. One man, a man with brown hair to just below his ears, blue eyes, and wearing a black t-shirt and jeans came up to him immediately.
"Hey," Officer Griffin said. "What's the problem here."
"My... friend Pearl Edwards, was supposed to meet at his house," he said pointing to a black-haired man comforting a red-headed girl both wearing a t-shirt and jeans. "She called me at around 7:00, saying she was to be there soon. She hung up. It's only a half hour to Fred's house (the man over there). Yet she never showed up, I called her many times but she never picked up. After two hours we investigated. We came here and her car was here but she wasn't."
The officer nodded.
"Any idea where she could possibly be?"
"No, she would have called, she knows we would worry," Just then his cell phone rang. He looked at the caller ID.
"It's Pearl," he told everyone.
to be continued....
