"Did you catch everything?", I asked Caleb
"Yes. There's nothing more in the room.", He answered.
"So, let's go pick the babies up!"
Carrying a big black bag in the shoulders, Caleb followed me through the hospital corridors until we reached the maternity ward. A young blond nurse came to attend us with a smile in her face.
"Can I help?", she asked gently.
"Yes! I'm the mother of Oliver and Samantha Rivers.", I answered showing her my hospital bracelet on which was written my name and the name of the babies. "The doctor gave me high and we come to take them home."
"All right!", she said picking the bracelet of my hands. "Wait here, I will be right back."
I and Caleb were standing in front of the glass leading to maternity. I watched all the babies lying in small cradles, each one cuter than the other, and I thought about how my life would be now with the couple twins. Suddenly, the nurse appeared in my field of vision. She walked through the cradles, looking at the bracelets in the arms of each baby. Then she made a strange face and ran out of the room.
"What's wrong, babe?", Caleb asked me coming closer. He must have seen my worried face in the maternity glass.
"I don't know… Apparently, the nurse didn't find the twins.", I answered.
"What!?", he screamed with a horror face.
A fat and black haired woman entered in the room with the nurse and they started talking. The young nurse seemed worried and she started to explain the situation to the other woman. The fat one looked at her with a face that showed she did not believe in the story. The nurse said something like "look for yourself" and crossed her arms. The other woman passed through the babies too and didn't find the twins too. The two women got out of the room and I held Caleb's hand hard. We heard steps in the corridor and we both turned our heads in the direction of the noise. The blond nurse came and stopped in front of us with a sad face.
"What is going on?", I asked worried.
"We… We are having a little problem in there. Your babies aren't in the maternity.", she answered.
"What!? Where are they then?", Caleb asked nervous.
"We… We don't know yet sir", she answered closing her eyes, afraid.
"What do you mean? You work here, you have to know where are them!", Caleb shouted.
"I'm sorry!", she said almost crying. "I've been working here since last week! It's my first job sir!"
"But… But… What a irresponsibility!", Caleb screamed.
"Caleb, don't be so cruel!", I yelled, almost crying too.
"I'll look again, I promise!", the nurse said running to the maternity again.
"What if –A kidnapped the babies, Caleb?", I said whimpering.
"Shhh, don't said that, Han!", he said pulling me into his arms. "They will find Olie and Sam, I promise…"
"I'm sure that was –A, Caleb! Who else could be?", I screamed.
He stayed silent and started to caress my hair while I sniffed in his chest. Then the fat woman appeared in the corridor and come to talk to us.
"Mister, miss… I'm here to make an announcement. Your babies are not in our maternity. But don't worry, we will do everything to find them", she said serious.
"It's your responsibility to take care of those babies! How can you let two of them disappear all of sudden?", Caleb yelled angry at the woman, still holding me.
"Sorry sir, but if you don't…"
"Here it is! Oliver and Samantha Rivers, ready to go home", a redheaded nurse said smiling and interrupting the fat woman. She was carrying the twins in her arms, both of then dressed up and sleeping deep.
"Where were them?", the black haired woman asked angry.
"I was giving them a bath. The doctor told me earlier that they might be liberated today, so I prepare them to go home", she explained. "So there it is! Here, take your angels!"
I separated from Caleb and held Oliver gently in my arms while he took Samantha in his. They were sleeping really deep and didn't even notice it. They look like real angels sleeping and it was so cute that a tear rolled from my eye.
"Thank you!', I said to the nurse. "You gave us a really big scare! But thank God, nothing bad really happened to my babies."
"Oh, I'm sorry! I really didn't mean it!"
"But everything it's ok now, it's all that matters!", Caleb said smiling while looked to Samantha.
"Let's go home, honey", I said.
As we entered in the car, the twins woke up and immediately started to cry in our hands.
"Oh, no! Not now!", Caleb exclaimed. "What do you want, ha?"
"I'm think they are hungry, babe"
"Good guess. You can feed them in the car. Let's go."
[...]
When we finally got home after thirty minutes of pure crying, we got really scared. We gone upstairs to put the babies in the cribs and when we opened the door, we saw everything in the room ransacked. Every mobile and every decoration. I look frightened to Caleb and he seems startled too. The cribs were stoked and removed from the original place and the animal wallpaper was spotted with some kind of pen ink. We looked in every room of the house but nothing was missing or overturned. No window was broken and the doors had no sign of forced entry. Everything was normal except the babies' room. When we gone put each baby in the respective crib, we got more scared. In the white blankets, someone wrote with the same pen ink:
"Sleep with the angels or the devil may catch your dreams –A"