Chapter 16:
A few hours later, Sam and Abby run out of the ER. It was getting dark outside, and they had only a little time to run to Sam and Luka's place to find that letter. They run to the door and quickly open it. "Do you have any clue where this is?" Abby asks.
"Nope."
"Great," Abby says sarcastically. "How do you know he didn't shred it or something?" she asks more seriously.
"Cause' we don't have a shredder."
"Oh." Abby says, "I guess we don't get to tape little strings of paper together then," she says joking. Sam giggles as they go into the kitchen and start to look through all of the papers there. "I don't think he put it in the kitchen," Abby says after they have looked through everything.
"Yeah. Let's go look in our room then, he might have put it somewhere in there."
They walk into Sam and Luka's room. The place is messy, but they step in and start looking around. "Under the mattress," Abby says. "Isn't that where people always put things to keep them safe?"
Sam walks over to the bed, and Abby follows her. They pick up the mattress. "See anything?" Sam asks.
"Nope," Abby responds, sounding disappointed.
"Okay, let's look in his dresser; he could have hid it in there."
Abby stares at Sam. "What?" Sam asks.
"Nothing, its just weird going through another guy's underwear drawer," Abby says giggling.
"Fine, I'll take the underwear you take the sock drawer."
"Socks?" Abby asks, sounding disgusted.
"Do you want to find this letter or not?" Sam asks her. Abby reluctantly goes over to the bureau and starts looking through the sock drawer.
A while later and no letter found the two are about ready to give up. "There's one more place to look." Sam says.
"Where?" Abby asks sounding exhausted.
The two go into the little room set up as an office. There are papers everywhere. "I don't usually come in here." Sam admits.
"I don't blame you," Abby says looking around at all the papers. "Okay, someone takes the desk, and someone takes that… pile." Abby says giggling some more. The place was so messy it was kind of funny. Sam starts laughing too.
After searching and searching through the messy little room, they both find nothing. Abby is getting disappointed. "Are you done looking around the desk?" Abby asks Sam.
"Yeah," Sam says in a very disappointed voice. They walk out of the little room. Alex is out there watching TV. If anyone is to know where that letter is besides Luka, it would probably be Alex, Sam thinks. "Alex!" Sam screams. Abby and Alex both jump back. Sam runs over to Alex, Abby following her.
"Alex, we need to ask you something," Sam asks seriously.
"Okay," Alex mumbles half paying attention to his mother.
"Alex, pay attention," Sam says loudly to direct his attention towards her. Alex looks at her and Abby with that what-could-you-possibly-want-from-me look.
"Alex, have you ever seen Luka with a letter?" Abby asks trying to calm down.
"Yeah, every time he picks up the mail," Alex says turning towards the television.
"Alex!" Sam yells, getting angry. Alex sits up and listens. Sam describes what she could remember when she saw the envelope. "Did you ever see Luka take the letter out, read it, take it somewhere, anything?" Sam asks her son. Alex thinks. He can vaguely remember Luka taking something in an envelope to work.
"I think…" Alex begins to say, then stops.
"Come on Alex, just try to remember." Sam says.
"A while ago, I was down here watching TV and eating breakfast. It was morning, and Luka was carrying something. It looked like and envelope. I asked what it was and he just ignored me and said bye and walked out the door to go to work."
Just as Alex finishes, Abby screams "His locker!"