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“Sweetie, it’s time to get up!” Heidi Arnold said, knocking on her daughter’s door. She waited for a response and sighed when she got none.
“Hun! You’ve got to get up! You don’t want to be late for school.” She paused again. “Sami?” She opened the door.
“Sami?” She repeated softly, shaking the lump in bed. She drew her hand back in shock. With a gasp, she threw back the comforter on the bed. In the place of Sami, there was a lump of pillows.
“Sami!” Heidi yelled. She looked around in despair.
“Tom! Tom where are you!?” She screamed. Her husband came running into the room, alarm written all over his face.
“What is it Heidi?” He asked her, grabbing her shoulders.
“Have you seen Sami? Please tell me you’ve seen her.”
“No, I haven’t, what the devil is going on?”
“Sami wasn’t in bed! I think she…” Heidi stopped abruptly, bursting into tears. She collapsed into Tom’s arms. He held her for only a moment, directed her onto his daughter’s bed, and then ran to grab a phone. He returned shortly with the wireless phone and Sami’s phonebook in his hand. He sat next to his weeping wife and rubbed her back to comfort her.
“Yes, hello? This is Tom, Sami’s father? Yes, I know it’s six a.m., but… Yes, you haven’t seen Sami have you..? No..? No... Thank you. I’ll call you if… when we find her… Thank you… Good bye.” He clicked off the phone and called the next name on the list. His wife had stopped crying and had grabbed her cell phone to help.
“That was the last person,” Heidi said solemnly.
“No,” he shook his head, “there’s one more person.” He picked up his phone again and dialed 9-1-1.
“Hello? My daughter has gone missing… No, it’s only been a few hours since we noticed she… But… no I understand, but she… She normally doesn’t just disappear! No! Ma’am I understand, but… Yes I do! This is an emergency... No, I do not want to fill out a missing person form... Fine!” He clicked off the phone and slammed it onto the bed.
“It hast to be at least thirty-eight hours before we do anything.”
“That’s insane! My little baby is out there somewhere right now!”
“I know.”
“Tom, what will we do?” She whispered.
“I don’t know,” he replied. Heidi looked at her husband. His eyebrows were laced together in concern. Glancing at the mirror hanging on the wall, she saw that her eyes were puffy and red, and her hair was sticking up in random places. She sighed and turned back to her husband, who pulled her into an embrace.
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