Zoë watched from upstairs as the adults gathered in the lobby. She wanted to partake in their conversation, which she knew concerned the whereabouts of her beloved sister, but obviously, she had been told to go upstairs until dinner time came. But she had no interest in anything that was available for her to do, other than listening that is. She was quite content at first, when nobody noticed her that is.
"Zoë, what did Mommy ask you?"
"To please go up stairs until dinner."
"Yes, can you do that please?"
"I'm going, I'm going, and you really do have eyes in the back of your head don't you!" Monica laughed as Zoë headed towards her room.
"Great, now we can talk."
"How many places have we looked for her, have we exhausted our possibilities?"
"Sam and I must have covered over four miles today alone."
"Us too." Gloria offered.
"I think we must have covered more around twelve miles."
"And we never even ran into each other." Monica said as she tried not to cry for the millionth time that day and she allowed her eyes to fall onto the table before her. Andrew took her hand in his own.
"We have run out of places to look."
"No." Andrew replied. "No we haven't, it looks close from here, but the other side of the lake is at least a two day's hike a way from here."
"It is worth a shot."
"I'm going to go first thing in the morning. Maybe even tonight."
"I'll go to." Adam replied.
"If no one minds, I would like to help too."
"Sam and I will stay here and take care of Zoë."
"Thank you. Tess" Monica said, "And of course, I am going too, and I think we should start as soon as angelically possible."

"Mommy, where are you going?"
"We are going to look for your sister. We'll be back in a few days."
"Can I go?"
"No sweetie."
"But what if they get me now?"
"They aren't ...."
"But I asked you before and you said stay with you and Daddy and you'll be fine, but you and Daddy are leaving!"
"Oh sweetheart, I think you'll be quite fine, you see Monique and her friends are afraid of Auntie Tess and probably Uncle Sam too."
"They are, how do you know?"
"Because I saw it." Monica laughed as she thought back to the first time that Tessa had been kidnapped by Monique and they had found out Monique and her friends were indeed scared to death of Tess.
"Can I go, please?"
"No Zoë. And I've already told you why and..."
"And next you're going to say that I'm a cherub and I can't go."
"Well yes, but that's the truth. If its any consulation, if you had been kidnapped and Tessa was here having this conversation with me I wouldn't let her go either."
"You wouldn't?"
"No. You see, Tessa is a big cherub and you're a middle sized one."
"Ok, I get it now."
"Did you say goodbye to Daddy?"
"Yes."
"Alright, I'll take you upstairs and tuck you in."

A few minutes after jumping into the water Tessa reached land. She quietly made her way into the trees and caught her breath. She was so relieved to be a way from Monique and her friends that even the dark woods were a safe haven to her. Now her top priority was getting back to the hotel. You could not see it from the other side of the lake, but anyway, she began to walk, she walked for hours and hours until sleepiness completely overwhelmed her, in which case, she fell asleep in a patch of grass.

"Damn it! Where the hell could she have gone?" Meredith screamed.
"Shut-up, you want to wake Monique up? I am guessing that she jumped off the boat."
"Duh!"
"May be we could, uh look for her after Monique wakes-up."
"You know, she's not going to be happy about this!"
"I know, I know! Oh, what are we going to do?!"
"Well, uh, what could she possibly do to us anyway?"
"What have you been smoking?! 'What could she possibly do to us anyway?' Ha! You know very well what she could do to us!"
"I've been smoking marijuana, crack, everything that you can think of really."
"Its an expression you idiot!"

As they walked Monica was deep in thought. Her heart was swimming in the depths of her memory. Although Andrew was holding her hand and Gloria and Adam were a mere few feet behind her she felt like she was miles a way from anyone. She drifted back in time, just a little. Her mind flashed back to every important moment that she could think of which involved Tessa, all the way from before her birth to tucking her into bed just a few nights before. But suddenly she snapped back into reality when they approached the lake. They then decided that the best way to thoroughly search the area ahead was to split up. So Adam and Gloria went in one direction, and Andrew led Monica in another. Monica was still thinking, and after a while she began to cry for the countless time in the past few days. They stopped and Andrew pulled her into a hug and let her sob in his arms.
"It's ok, it's ok, and we will find her."
"I know, I know. But Andre, even you don't quite know what it feels like for me. Sure she's your baby too, but she wasn't in your body, you didn't spend agonizing hours giving birth to her. In fact, you weren't even there when she was born."
"Once again, I apologize for that, but I was on assignment. But for self-defense, I was there later that night. And you must remember I was there when Zoë was born, for the whole time! And I promise that if by chance we ever have another one, I'll be there the whole time."
"Thank you Andre, now lets look for our little girl."
So Andrew and Monica moved on and began talking about times they had had with their daughter Tessa.