Chapter 5
The next morning, everyone was seated at the table eating breakfast.
"Guess what, I found an apartment," Jo said.
"That's great, so you're really moving back to Peekskill?" Mrs. Garrett asked.
"Yeah, we lost so much time together and I don't want us to be split up again," Jo explained.
"We feel the same way," Natalie said. "Tootie and I talked with our husbands yesterday at the zoo and it's all set, we're moving back to Peekskill."
"That's great! Now we can all be together again," Mrs. Garrett said. "Well not really all of us."
"Kelsey, will you go get me my shoes?" Tad asked.
Kelsey ran upstairs.
"Do you really think Blair is alive?" Tad asked.
"It's possible, you were," Jo said.
"That's true," Tad said. "I'll book the next flight to Colorado."
"Tad, do us all a favor, no more planes," Mrs. Garrett said.
"OK, I'll drive," Tad said.
Over the next few days, Tad looked at all the hospitals in Colorado. There weren't any patients named Blair Warner at any of them, and there were no records of Blair ever being a patient at any of them. Tad still had one more hospital to check and if Blair wasn't there, he was going home.
Jo, Natalie, Tootie, and Mrs. Garrett were sitting at the kitchen table playing cards. The kids were in the next room playing a board game and the guys were helping them, when the phone rang.
"I'll get it," Jo said. "Don't look at my cards."
"Hi, Tad," Jo said.
"I didn't find her, I'm coming home," Tad said sadly.
"Listen Tad, we're not going to give up OK," Jo said.