XxAnnaxx – I like that you like to review, and that you like the story. At first, I didn't think this story would be any good… I guess I was wrong. :D
Sylvia – I was in a mood when I wrote the chapter yesterday. I was like, into having the woman being mean, and rude, so I kinda went with the flow, I decided to end the chapter that way when Shari left the second day. :D
Hotsodagirl – yeah. I still figure out what is going to happen. I guess I will go with the flow… I think that I have an idea for the chapter… muah ha
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Billybobbers – you'll just have to read to find out, now wont ya?
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As Sharpay and Ryan slept, Shari unlocked the door, and let herself in. She turned off the alarm, and sneaked up he stairs. She looked into each of the open rooms. She found Kimi's room. She tiptoed inside, and turned off the baby monitors. She picked up the diaper bag, and Kimi quietly. She tip toed back downstairs, and took the car seat with her. Sharpay and Ryan slept soundly, not knowing the little girl was missing.
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The next morning, Sharpay woke up, glad that Kimi hadn't cried at all that night. She went to the shower, and did her business. She went into her daughter's room to get her ready, and found an empty crib. She screamed. There was a thump, some scuffling, and Ryan entered the room.
"What?" he asked. Sharpay was bawling, and couldn't speak. She pointed to the crib, where Ryan adverted his attention to.
"Why didn't we hear anything?" Ryan asked. He went to the dresser, and found that both the baby monitors were off. He went to his room, and grabbed his phone. He punched in 911.
"911, what is your emergency?" the operator asked.
"Um, my sister and I just woke up, and my sister's daughter is missing."
"How old is the child."
"Two months old. Her name is Kimi Evans."
"Is there any sign of a break in?" Ryan looked around the room, then checked every room. He went downstairs, and found that the alarm was not set.
"No, the alarm is turned off."
"How many people know the code?"
"My girlfriend, and… my mom." Ryan almost immediately knew who had taken his niece.
"I am issuing an Amber Alert right now, may I get your address so I can dispatch the police?"
"57 Oak street." Ryan said.
"The police should be there soon." Ryan hung up his phone, and went back up the stairs and found Sharpay, still in Kimi's room, still crying.
"The police are going to be here soon." He said, hugging his sister. She hugged back tightly.
"Let's go downstairs and wait in the living room for them to get here." Ryan suggested. Sharpay nodded, and they went downstairs.
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Shari had stopped at a convenience store to get some formula, as she had not found any in the diaper bag. She ordered some deli food for herself, as she conversed with the cashier.
"So, that is a beautiful little girl you have there." She said.
"Yeah, she is one of those miracle children. I thought I was too old to have children, and I found out I was going to have her." The cashier ran her hand across the top of Kimi's head when the lottery machine beeped and printed out a paper. The cashier turned to the machine and read the paper. She gasped.
"What is it?" Shari asked.
"An Amber Alert." She said.
"What does it say?" Shari tried to peer at the tiny paper.
"A two month old baby was kidnapped from Albuquerque last night or this morning. Kimi Evans." Shari started to panic.
"Here, I really got to go, take this, keep the change." She said, slapping a twenty on the counter. She grabbed her stuff, and went to the car.
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The police arrived at the Evans household, to find Sharpay still crying. She stayed on the couch as the police questioned Ryan.
"Who knows the code to the alarm?" he asked.
"My girlfriend and my mother."
"Does your mother live here?"
"No, she left about ten years ago, but the day before yesterday she showed back up here."
"Do either of them have a key? Did you lock the house last night?"
"I don't think my mother has a key after this long, but she said something, when she lived here, about a hidden key, but we never found it. I never gave my girlfriend a key to the house."
"What is your girlfriend's name?"
"Kelsi Neilson." He replied. The cop nodded, and went back over to a group of cops. One of them got on the phone, and was off within a few minutes.
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Kelsi was sitting in Drama class, wondering where in the world Ryan and Sharpay were. Troy glanced at her every now and then, non-verbally asking where the twins were. All Kelsi could do was shrug her shoulders.
When the class was nearly over, there was a knock at the door. Mrs. Darbus sighed loudly, and motioned for the two people at the door to come in. The two policemen opened the door, and the taller one spoke.
"We need Miss Kelsi Neilson." He said. Kelsi was really confused, but she stood up. The cop motioned for her to follow them outside. They exited the room, but the short cop didn't close the door all the way. Troy leaned far to his left to see through the crack. He gasped at what he heard, and saw.
"Kelsi Neilson, you are under arrest for suspected kidnapping." The cop said as he put hand cuffs on her.
"What was that Mr. Bolton?" Mrs. Darbus asked. Troy ignored the teacher.
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"What? Why am I under arrest? Kidnapping?" Kelsi asked.
"You are a suspect in the kidnapping case of Kimi Evans."
"What? No, you have got the wrong person. I would never kidnap her. I love that little girl. I'm her godmother." She said. Tears came to Kelsi's eyes as the cops drug her down the hallway, and out to their cop car. She felt like a criminal as she was put into the back of a cop car.
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"Mr. Bolton, answer me right now!" Mrs. Darbus said. He ignored the teacher again, and grabbed Gabby by the wrist. He dragged her out into the hall, and towards the door.
"What is going on Troy?" Gabby asked.
"Kelsi just got arrested." She gasped.
"For what?"
"Kidnapping Kimi."
"What?" Troy and Gabriella went to his car. He rushed to the twins' house, and found several cop cars in front of the house. The couple got out of the car and ran across the lawn, and burst into the house.
"What happened?" Troy said.
"Why are you here?" Ryan asked.
"Kelsi got arrested!" Troy almost yelled.
"WHAT?"
"That's what I am wondering."
"Kimi got kidnapped, and the alarm was not set. The car seat and the diaper bag are also gone." Ryan said. Troy started crying. He had just learned about his daughter, and she was just so quickly taken away from him. He saw Sharpay on the couch, also crying. He went and sat next to her. They hugged tightly.
"Our baby is gone." She cried. She repeated the same sentence for ten minutes. Gabriella talked to Ryan about what had happened, and a cop approached.
"May we please get a recent picture of the child, so we may issue an update for the Amber Alert?" he asked. Troy heard this, and stood up.
"Here is one that was taken yesterday." He said, pulling a photo he had printed out that morning from his wallet. It was a close up of a laughing Kimi. The cop took it, and turned back to Ryan.
"What is your mother's name so that we may try and find where she is at?"
"Shari Evans." He said. The cop nodded and went to the dining room table, where the cops had set up their 'office.'
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An hour or two after the Amber Alert was sent out, the lottery machine beeped with an update on the kidnapped child. She looked at the screen, and saw the picture of the baby. She gasped, and dialed 911.
"911, what is your emergency?"
"Yeah, I work at the Texaco here in Santa Fe, and earlier I got an Amber Alert, and I just got the update, but when we got the first alert, there was a woman in here with a baby, and when she heard about the alert, she started acting funny. She shoved a twenty on the counter, and left really quick. When I got the update, the picture was of the little girl the woman had here." She said.
"Okay, well the police will be there shortly." The cashier hung up. The police arrived, and took the report.
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"Miss Neilson. What is your relationship to Sharpay and Ryan Evans." The interrogator asked. Kelsi looked up at her.
"Sharpay is one of my best friends, and Ryan is my boyfriend."
"And how do you know Kimi Evans?"
"She is Sharpay's daughter. I was one of the only ones that knew she was pregnant, and Sharpay named me Godmother to the child."
"And where were you from eleven last night to seven this morning?"
"I was at my house sleeping." She replied.
"Do you have a room mate that can attest for you being in the room the whole night?"
"My little sister was sleeping with me because she was scared of the monsters under her bed." Kelsi said, thanking the lord her sister had nightmares. The lady nodded, and went outside the room. Kelsi sat there, and waited for the return of the interrogator.
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The cop hung up his cell phone, and approached the four who were sitting on the couch.
"Kelsi Neilson will be released." He said.
"Why?" Ryan asked.
"She has a solid alibi, and plus a cashier up in Santa Fe spotted an older woman with the child when the Amber Alert was released. The cashier called the police when she got the picture of Kimi." He said. Sharpay broke down in tears again.
"How could she do this to me?" Sharpay asked.
"She, as in your mother?" The cop asked. Ryan nodded.
"We will dust for the newest finger prints on the keypad of the alarm." The cop went back to the center they had set up, and a fingerprint test was set up. After half an hour, Kelsi burst through the door. She ran to Sharpay, and nearly crushed her in a hug.
"I am so sorry. I got so upset when they told me Kimi was kidnapped." She said.
"I am sorry that you got arrested." Ryan said, kissing his girlfriend.
"Yeah, I think Mrs. Darbus will be mad that I ran out of class after you got taken away." Troy said to her. The cop approached the five of them again.
"We just got word from the fingerprints that there are some that match a woman named Shari Johanson." He said.
"That's her maiden name." Ryan said, remembering all of a sudden.
"And I am afraid to tell you that she is wanted in four different states." Sharpay scoffed.
"That figures." She said.
"The states are Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, and California." He walked away. Not long after, the telephone rang.
"Hello?" Sharpay answered.
"Is this Sharpay Evans?" a man asked.
"Yes."
"I am from US Bank, and there was a check cashed today for a sum of one thousand dollars, made out to Shari Evans. I wanted to know if you had actually written this check." Sharpay jumped up.
"YES!" she nearly yelled.
"Well, thank you for your time, I-"
"No, you need to talk to the police, she kidnapped my daughter, you have to talk to them. Here is a cop." Sharpay said, jumping over the other couch, and handed the phone to one of the cops. They talked for a few minutes before he hung up the phone.
"She cashed the check in Raton, near the New Mexico, Colorado border. We are sending police to find her." Sharpay silently screamed for joy.
Two hours passes without word whatsoever. The cop who always talked on the phone, hung his cell phone up for the thousandth time that day, and came over to the five teenagers.
"We need Mr. And Miss Evans to come with us. Mr. Bolton also." He said.
"Why?" Kelsi asked.
"The police have found something."
"What did they find?" Sharpay asked, getting excited.
"We need you to identify the body of a baby the police found about an hour ago."