Catching Emma

What I saw was nothing, just a lady that resembled Emmaline.

We drove to the hospital, we all parked our cars in the parking lot. We got into the hospital and we asked the doctors if they had a record of where she lived.

“Yes Sir, I'm going to get her address for you, it's in the reception." The doctor said to me.

Finally there was a flicker of hope, we would find Emmaline.

He came back with a piece of paper, he had illegibly scribbled down an address. I couldn't read it.

“Let me take a look." Wave said taking the paper from my hand.

“I'll go get the doctor." Casper said and before we could even stop him, he was out of the door.

He returned with the doctor who apologized before writing it all over again.

We set out to the address he gave us. We got to a house, it was a one storey building and it was painted white.

Casper knocked on the door, there was no response. I joined him in knocking while Wave went to the back of the house.

“Guys, I don't think there is anyone here." Wave said to us.

“What. Do you think she gave the hospital a wrong address?" I asked him...

He didn't reply.

" Maybe she gave them a random address." Wave said.

" I don't understand." I said combing through my hair with my fingers.

" You think she doesn't have a home?. " Casper asked.

“What was she doing out in the streets that night, it was raining heavily, if she had somewhere to go why would she be sleeping on a bench under the fucking rain?." Wave asked, he was talking about the night we found her, the night I found her.

“Bullshit...." Casper said he didn't want to believe it.

“Maybe she remembered and she just wanted to go to the park to see if she could find us." I said trying to calm myself with a fantasy tale.

“You go there every anniversary of her loss, you would have found her earlier if that was the case." Wave said to me with a stare that I could understand.

“I thought you said she was adopted." Casper said to Wave, I could already hear the anger in his voice, it wouldn't take long before he lost his temper.

“The investigator told me she was adopted, he didn't tell me what kind of a family adopted her, he mentioned that they had died in an accident though and her guardianship was transferred over to a relative." Wave said.

There were obvious noises in the fence.

“Who's there?." I asked walking towards the noise.

“I should be asking you." It was a man holding a shot gun.

" We're looking for someone." Wave said, he was the one that could negotiate with people, especially threats.

“Yeah, who?." The man asked with no intentions of lowering his gun.

“Emmaline... Does she live here?." Casper asked.

The man lowered the gun.

“I thought you were thieves. The folks that lived here didn't take a single thing with them, they just left with the clothes on their bodies." The man said looking up at the building.

“Emmaline got married to a rich dude, I guess he paid a huge dowry so they got super rich." The man said.

Nobody found the tongue to speak.

“Our sister is married, when?." Casper asked.

" To whom, do you know his name?." Wave asked the man.

I still stood there, I didn't even know if i was breathing.

“They mentioned a Mr Shawn but I don't really know. Her aunt Lein gave their new address to me, in case you need it to find your sister... Emma never told me she had three goodlooking brothers, although I knew of her amnesia. " The man said.

" She had amnesia?." I asked him.

" She did, she couldn't remember what her life was before she was nine I think, poor girl. With the way her aunt treated her like trash I always told her that soon life would shine down on her and it did, she got married to a rich business man." The man said.

We all exchange glances, I felt like strangling the very woman that treated Emmaline so badly and I was very certain that Casper and Wave could not wait.

“Please can we have the address, we'll be on our way, thank you." Wave said.

The man brought the address, he was happy to help us find her.

We drove to the house, it was a mini mansion.

“Do you think she agreed to get married to that guy?." Wave asked me.

" I don't know." I muttered.

" We shouldn't go now, I think we should come back when it's morning, they'd be asleep by now." Wave said.

" Why can't we just go in and kill them while they're asleep?." I asked.

" Take it easy Rob." Wave said to me.

My blood was boiling.

" These guys would have treated her so damn bad." I said pointing at the house.

" We will return tomorrow, look at the time it's three AM already." Wave said.

" What about Shawn... I'm in the buzz world and I don't know of a Shawn that got married to any Emmaline... Rob, you're in the business world, their neighbor said that he was a business man." Casper said.

Casper was right, he was in the movie industry and celebrity gossip spread fast, we would have heard of a guy that got married.

" I'm at the top of the business world, I don't know a lot of business men, my employees take over the socializing, I only do a few." I said.

We all conclude that tomorrow would be a good time to pay these people a visit and then we would get Emmaline's address.

***

Emmaline's POV

As I was walking I bumped into a very hefty man. It was dark, he turned around and I apologized.

“Ahn, Emmaline, just who I was looking for." He said in a voice that sounded like metal pots hitting together.

“Who are you, how do you know my name?." I asked him moving backwards

The area was quiet and lonely, there was no sight of anybody.

The man started to chase me, I ran for my life. I felt his hands on my back and he caught me, he pressed a handkerchief to my nose, I fought to breathe... And scream.