Wolff Apartment
Nat and Juanita lounged around the apartment exhausted, they had turned up nothing, and in less than 2 weeks, Alex would be out. Cooper, David, Thomas, Qaasim and surprisingly Rosalina were not there, they were out having fun, or studying having fallen behind trying to help Nat.
The phone rang and Nat wasn't in a hurry to answer it. The press had hardly left them alone for weeks.
"Hello?" Nat said dully as he picked up the phone.
"Hey is this Nat?" The person on the other end asked.
Nat recognised the accent.
"Yeah, How are things going?" Nat asked not letting his hopes rise.
"Boring, but I don't have time for that?" Sam said urgently. "It took a lot of yelling, shouting, silence and coaxing, but I have something maybe you can make more sense of"
"What did he say?" Nat asked, his voice filled with apprehension.
"Whatever it is, there is something hidden where you don't expect to find anything" Sam replied.
"What the hell does that mean!?" Nat asked annoyed.
"If I knew, I'd tell you" Sam said helplessly.
"Ok… Thanks… Is there any chance you'll be getting out early?" Nat asked.
"Not likely… Not the way I've done things" Sam admitted.
"Why? What did you do?" Nat said, nervous of the answer.
"Times up you Aussie prick!" Nat heard someone say through the phone.
"I'll explain later" Sam said.
"I'm going to give you 10 seconds to take that back" Sam said as he put down the phone.
Nat smirked, he could understand why now.
"Juanita, do you know where Alex would hide something, where you don't expect to find anything?" Nat asked passing some of the burden over.
Juanita thought about for a few minutes, one thing kept coming to mind. 'It can't be that obvious can it?' she thought to herself.
"His maths homework book keeps coming to mind" Juanita said finally.
Nat shrugged, he wasn't sure.
"We'll there's nothing to lose by looking" He said finally helping Juanita off the sofa. Nat and Juanita both went up to his room and began searching through Alex's stuff until they found his maths homework book. It looked like it had never been opened.
"Alex really hates maths, doesn't he?" Juanita said smirking.
"Hate is an understatement!" Nat said concentrating on the book, hoping it would just scream the answer at him.
He slowly opened the book and two pages fell out of it, landing face down on the floor. Nat reached down and picked up the smaller of the two, and turned it over. It was a picture, of his mum holding who Nat assumed was Alex when he was a baby. Nat looked at it for about thirty seconds before gently placing it on the desk. He reached down and picked up the other piece of paper. It was an official looking document that Nat had never seen before. He read it slowly and his jaw dropped.
"He Doesn't!?" Nat said shocked.
Juanita read it over Nat's shoulder, and she looked just as shocked as him.
"He Doesn't!?" Juanita said, now understanding Alex's fear.