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Chapter 20 - Chap 20: Cover–ups

"Kid.. kid.. kidnapping?", asks jones heavily confused about the women's choice of words.

The reporter doubles down on what she said.

"Yes.. kidnapping, you were kidnapped? Don't you remember at all?"

Jones looks down the looks back up, whatever she's been told is nothing but a cover-up of the real deal.

"Should I tell her?", jones asks himself, struggling to get a word out of his mouth.

The reporter reassures him that no one else will hurt him, And that he could get the word out for the people, and spread awareness.

Jones looks at her face with deep remorse as he knows the story has been hidden from the public eye, and he is the only one who can change that.

Before he could think straight and tell her that this story is not true, the reporter hands jones her card with her name and number written on it.

"So.. so you're name is Emma rock heart?", says jones reading what's written on the card.

"Yes, I'm Emma!", says emma.

"And I am a reporter by hobby, so will you please if you are comfortable tell me your side of the story!"

"Ahm.. I'll, I'll think about it", says jones.

Bzzzz... buzzzzzz.... buzz..

Phone rings, buzzz...

Emma reaches for her phone in her coat, and fastens to pick it up.

"Hello?", says emma on the phone.

"Oh.. ohhh... okay.. Mmmm.. okay okay!", says emma nodding to every word the phone caller says.

She stops the phone call, checks the time, panic on visible on her face.

"Oh s@#&£... I'm late!!!", says emma Outloud.

"Ohhh.. mannnn!! Aggghhh"

Jones watches this sudden change in expressions, and looks confused.

"Gulp.. sorry, I have to go, like really really go!", says emma to jones.

She hurrily picks up her, quickly sets up her look, about to ran put of the library full speed, she pauses, looks at jones, "If you want to share this story, then please call me!"

And then she rushes out, leaving jones immobile and completely speechless before he could act.

While going out of the library.. in a car, with black glasses on, zack sits patiently, as the reported leaves the building.

He looks at the reporter going out of the library.

Zack: "hmm.. i hope this doesn't go south".

He slowly starts his cars engine, and drives off without anyone noticing.

Meanwhile back at the library, jones is setting the piled over books, he looks at the card again and again, mixed-up between keeping it or throwing it out.

"Hmm.. should I keep it!"

"Or not!?"

Jones looks deeply on the card, deciding to keep after a long search for answers.

Jones walks back home, thinking about if he should have told the reporter about the truth.

He arrives home safely, decides to spend some time with his beloved family in dinner, eating by them side by side as a family.

During the dinner, the mother asks where jones had gone to.

Jones a bit into his own thoughts doesn't really answer the question staying silent, and a bit concerned.

The mother acknowledges this and decides to ask the matter. Jones tries to ignore the question by making up an excuse, never really wanting to worry his parents and family members at the dinner table.

After a delightful dinner, the family goes to their respective rooms and sleep, however jones stayed up that night, still on the quest for his questions. He waits up till midnight on his laptop searching any possible information he could ever find, but to his surprise, he found nothing absolutely nothing.

It seemed like waking up till mid-night was a complete waste of time.

He slept that night tired, and completely lost in his sleep.

Throughout the night, jones slept comfortably.

But the nightmares came back, same scene, same veiw, same horror, but less vivid, and more scary.

Jones wakes up again sweating, his heart racing as fast as ever. The answers he had been looking for were infact in his memory.

Day by day, those same nightmares occured, same stories, but the voices grew louder, they were sharp, the veiw was becoming clearer and clearer, more lively, the scene was more vivid, it felt like he was going through all of it again and again. The people he saw, the faces he met, and the man who saved him, his face clear to see, Sir.Robert!!

And in sleep smiled while in this nightmare, it felt like everything was getting better. But when there are up's in life, down's follow the path of life as well.

At the end of the nightmare everything went south, jones woke up in tears, he got his answers all in days of revelations.

The ending of the nightmare concluded with Sir.Robert commanding jones.

"Tell my tale!"

Jones woke up, he knew what had to be done.

By the side of the table was the card given to him by the reporter.

It was fate itself leading jones till here.

Jones picks up the card, and calls the number written on it.

"Hello? Who is it", replied the women.

"It's... it's me, the th.. the missing kid", says jones.

"Wait.. your.. your the kid!", says the women.

"I–I wanted to meet.. I.. I am ready to tell my story!", says jones.

"Um.. um yes.. yes, YES!"

"You can come, I'm going to give you the location".

"Yes please", says jones ending the call and fastens to his bag, takes a shower.

Till that time the location is revealed through the smart phone.

"I guess this is it!", Exclaiming jones.

He goes out of his house, walking rather fastly so that no one could ever see him.

From a far, on top of a building, zack in full black attire, with black sunglasses, looking from top veiw.

Jones orders a cab, sits inside it, pulls out his phone and shows the location to the driver.

"Huh... soo.. buzz.. buzzz... pick up, zack!"

"What", answers zack!

"Do you have any leads on the guy!?", asks the man from the handheld radio.

"Not yet, not yet!", replies zack.

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