"You are not alone in this. Do you hear me? I'll be by your side every time, for anything that you need, okay? I'll not let you face this alone, Hanna. I'm here for you", Caleb said holding my arms and looking into my eyes.

I wiped the tears that ran down my cheeks with the backs of my hands and I gave a long sigh. It was Oliver's and Samantha's birthday and in the past day, A had just kidnapped Samantha. The cops were still looking for her but they couldn't find anything until that day. I couldn't sleep at night and I passed it crying like never before. Caleb was worried about Sam but mostly about me. He hugged me and gave me a kiss in the forehead.

"I love you, babe", I whispered sniffling and looking to him.

"It's our son's birthday. Let's forget about that for a minute and celebrate with him. He needs it. And so do us."

"He is our only kid now…", I said silently, almost crying again.

"Shhh! Don't think this way. Maybe the cops find Samy or maybe –A bring her back to us. Don't think of the worst, Hanna", he said squeezing me even stronger in his arms. "Now, just promise me you'll be ok. For Oliver. For me."

"I… I'll try, okay?"

He smiled and gave me a long kiss. His arms in my waist made me feel safe and warm and for a second I forgot about everything that we were passing trough and surrendered to him completely. Suddenly, the bell rang and we had to separate ourselves. Caleb went to answer the door while I gone upstairs to bring Oliver down to his party. Spencer, Toby and Julie were waiting for us with Caleb in the living room.

"Julie!", Oliver shouted smiling and running for the Cavanaugh's daughter.

"Be careful, sweetie!", I said to him. "You don't want to get hurt in your own birthday party, do you?"

"Don't worry, Han. They won't break anything… Much.", Spencer said coming to hug me. "How are you?", she whispered in my ear when we greet.

"I'm trying, Spence", I answered silently. "I really am."

"If you need anything, you can call me anytime", she said moving away and smiling.

"You can count on me too, Han. We all are a family now", Toby said hugging me too.

"Thanks, guys. You don't know how much it is important to me right now…", I thanked almost crying again.

Caleb, Toby and Spencer came to hug me and I closed my eyes. Their love was genuine and I knew that they would be there for me in any situation. They were the best friends that I could have in the whole world.

"Now, let's party!", Caleb said smiling and taking us to the yard.

The guests were coming and our backyard was quickly full of people and kids running in the grass. Emily and her new girlfriend, Brigit, were sitting in a table with Aria and Ezra. My mom was with Pastor Ted and my dad with Isabel in separated tables. Oliver was going at every table to give everybody he knew a kiss in the cheek. When the sun started to go down, Caleb and I called everyone to sing with us and Olie the "Happy Birthday". Spencer brought the cake from inside the house and put in a table in front of the 101 Dalmatians' banner. Caleb raised Oliver in his arms so he could reach the candles in the cake. Toby took some photos of everyone sing and clapping hands and then Olie blew out the candles with a smiling laugh.

The party was awesome and Oliver had a really great time. At night, when everybody has already went home and Caleb, Olie and I were alone, I went to Olie's room to put him to sleep. He wore his new dinosaurs' pajamas that Spencer gave to him and went to lie down in bed. I took a book and went to lie down beside him.

"The Incredible Story of Drew, the Sheepdog", I read the title. "It was six o'clock in the morning when Drew, the sheepdog woke up in the farm…"

[…]

When I finished the book, Oliver was already sleeping next to me with his little brown bear in his arms. I got out of the bed silently and kissed him gently in the forehead. I walked out of the room, turning the lights of and closing the door. When I gone downstairs I found Caleb sleeping in the sofa with the TV turned on. I put the book in the bookcase and turned the TV off. He opened his eyes immediately and rubbed it.

"Sorry honey, I didn't mean to wake you up", I said quietly.

"I was just waiting for you", he said sitting in the sofa.

"You are the sweetest husband in the world, do you know that?"

"And you are the hottest wife", he answered smiling.

I was about to give him a kiss when the front door bell rang. We both looked to the clock at the same time and then we starred to each other seriously. Caleb stood up and gone to answer the door. He looked in the peephole and opened the door with a serious face. Two cops were standing in the doorway.

"Good night", one of them said. "We're sorry to bother you that time of the day but we found some things that may interest you."

"What… What kind of things?"

"Things from the Samantha's case."

"Please, come in", Caleb said giving a step back.

"Excuse me, ma'am", they said to me when they entered.

I sat on the sofa with Caleb by my side and the cops stayed up, with the hands in the pockets. One of them, the bald, were holding a little black bag. They starred at us for some moments, choosing the words to say.

"Some of our colleagues were driving in the Rosewood highway to do the daily patrol and the found some clothes in the ground. First, they thought that was from a tramp or something but when they got closer, they realized that it were from a baby girl. Nobody lives near that area and just trucks and trailers are using that highway, so there was no chance to be from a family that were passing there by car. When they got back to Rosewood, they saw the Samantha poster in the police station and realized that the clothes they found were exactly like the clothes that your daughter was wearing in the poster. The police didn't make tests yet but we are here to show them first to you", he said while the other cop opened the black bag and took of a transparent plastic bag with a purple little t-shirt, a black little velvet coat and a black skirt. They were torn and dirty.

Caleb took the plastic bag in his hands and looked to it shocked. He blinked some times and passed it to me. I remembered that, in the day –A took Samantha from us, she was wearing that set of clothes. I remembered the day Caleb and I bought it to her in the store next to our house. I couldn't speak or even blink while I was looking to it. A cop had to take it from me because I got paralyzed.

"Now we have to ask that: Are those clothes from your daughter?", one of them said.

"Y…Yes", Caleb answered looking to the floor.

"Are you sure?"

"Y… Yes", he answered again.

"All right. Now we are going to take this to the police investigators. They will make some tests with the evidences and when the results get ready, we are going to contact you", the bald cop said. "I'm really sorry to bring this to you but it's our job and we needed to show you these to solve the case."

"That's ok", Caleb said finally looking to them but with a very sad face. "We understand."

"If you excuse us, we have to go. Good night to you and we apologize for the inconvenience."

Caleb merely nodded and led them to the door, leaving them out of the house. He closed the door again and then sat back next to me in the sofa. We held each other and we started crying like babies in the silent room.

[…]

A few months after the cops visit, we got mailed by the police. In a beige envelope, the results of the exams in Sam's clothes were sent. Olie was in Spencer's house playing with Julie and Caleb and I sat on the sofa to open the envelope together. Maybe it was better if we never have opened it. In the paper was written that there were tire marcs, earth and blood in the clothes suggesting that maybe Samantha was hit by a car on purpose and stabbed in some parts of the body. They didn't say the she was dead already because they needed the corpse to say that but when it comes to –A, we knew that Samantha was no longer alive.