Chapter 6
The Call
Paul and the others sat at the hotel waiting on the phone call for the money drop off. "Hey Steph where's Paul?" asked Shawn who had just came back from the diner across the street, he got them something to eat since they hadn't eaten anything since yesterday. Steph looked up from the pictures she had took at the zoo with the girls. "Oh hey Shawn, he's out on the balcony!" she told him. Shawn nodded as he gave them their food and went to check on his buddy.
He walked towards the door and noticed that Paul was crying. "Hey man, I brought you your favorite!" Shawn told him holding up his plate. Paul turned to him and smiled, "Thanks buddy, but I don't think I can eat anything until I get my kids back!" Paul told him wiping away a tear.
"I understand but none of us have eaten since yesterday, and you really need to eat something. Besides I miss my kids too, and I'm sure Randy and Sam are going crazy not being able to hold Alanna. You just can't stop eating, because we will get them back and we will kill Kevin and who ever helped him take our kids. Because if there is one thing I know you never mess with someone's child." Shawn told him looking him straight in the eye. "Plus he took our kids, and if I know them as well as I do, I'm sure they've already told Kevin we're gonna get him and hurt him." Shawn finished patting Paul on the back.
Paul looked up at him and smiled back, "Thanks buddy your right! Let's eat I'm starving!" Paul told him grabbing the plate and going inside.
12:00pm The phone call
It was now twelve and everyone was sitting by the phone waiting patiently. Not a minute later the phone rang, Paul answered, "Hello?"
"Hello Paul how are you this morning?" Kevin asked him. "Fine, Look I have your money, just tell me where to meet you at!" Paul told him. "Hold on there big guy, it's not that simple, because the deal has went up a bit!" Kevin told him. "What are you talking about, you said $500,000!" Paul told him upset. "I know what I said and now the price has gone up, and the price now is $1,000,000 all cash and I want all $100 bills got it." Kevin told him. "Fine, where do you want me to meet you?" Paul asked rubbing his face. "In Central Park, no police or your little buddies got it and you'll see the adorable children again." Kevin told him smiling.
"Got it I'll come alone, but how do I know the children are still alive, just let me speak to one of them please!" Paul begged.
Kevin thought for minute, "Fine hold on!" he told him as he went to get one of the kids. He grabbed Cameron and took him to the phone.
"Hey let me go!" Cameron yelled trying to get loose. "Shut up you little brat, someone wants to talk to you." Kevin told him. He grabbed the phone, "You have two minutes Paul." He spoke into the phone. Before handing the phone to Cameron he whispered, "Say the wrong thing and your sister and her friends are gonna get hurt." he told him giving him the phone. Cameron nodded he didn't want anything to happen to the girls so he spoke in code. "Hello!" Cameron answered.
"Oh my god Cameron, you alright buddy?" Paul asked as he looked over at Shawn. "Yeah I'm okay and the girls are okay too!" he told him. Paul was relieved to hear that, "Listen to me okay we're gonna find you guys, just stay calm okay!" Paul told him. "Okay, uncle Paul?" Cameron asked. "Yeah?" Paul answered. "The blonde guy and the beast is here!" Cameron told him. "Who?" Paul asked. Cameron didn't answer back instead Kevin did, "Time is up pal. I call back tomorrow for the time so I can get my money bye for now!" Kevin told him hanging up.
Paul hung up on the other end, "Please tell me you got a location?" He asked the detective who was monitoring the entire conversation. He nodded,"Yeah they're about a mile away by the coast." the detective told him.
They was all relieved and celebrating that they were gonna get their kids back until the detective interrupted them, "Before you get excited, you still need to meet Kevin at that drop off or else he'll get suspicious and will know you had us to help find your children." he told them. Paul nodded, "Alright I'll still be there!" Paul told him.
"Hey Paul? How did Cameron sound on the phone?" Rebecca asked. "He sounded scared but he said they were all fine, and he to me something that I couldn't understand!" Paul told her. "What was it?" She asked.
"I think maybe he was speaking in code so Kevin wouldn't understand him, he said the blonde guy and the beast was there!" Paul told her. "You have any idea what that means?" Paul asked her. Rebecca shook her head, "No but maybe Shawn does." she told him. "Hey Shawn, do you know who Cameron calls the blonde guy and the beast?" she asked her husband.
Shawn thought for minute then it hit him, "Oh my god the beast is who he calls Brock Lesnar because of his size and that's what everyone else calls him. But I have no idea who the blonde guy is that could be anyone!" Shawn told him. "Who else did he give a nickname to?" Paul asked.
"Let's see, wait a minute I got it but, he wouldn't do this would he?" Shawn asked. "Who, Shawn?" asked Paul. "I'm not sure, but I think the blonde guy he was talking about is Adam!" Shawn told him. Paul was in shock, "Are you crazy?" he almost shouted, until he realized their wives were still in the room. So they went outside in the hall and grabbed Randy before leaving.
"Whoa what's up guys?" he asked. "Cameron told me the two guys that was helping Kevin!" Paul told him. Randy nodded, "Okay who are they?" Randy asked folding his fist. "He spoke in code and he said one of them was the beast which is Brock Lesner and the blonde guy which Shawn seems to think is Adam!" Paul told him. Randy's eyes went big and asked the same thing that Paul did ,"Are you Crazy?" Randy asked.
"No, I'm not but that's the only guy I can think of because he calls Chris Jericho Y2J and he doesn't know any other guy that's blonde." Shawn told him. "But Adam is one of our friends, why would he do this?" Randy asked now upset.
Both Shawn and Paul shrugged their shoulders until a thought came to Paul, "Wait a minute the police said that there was no struggle in the girl's room which means whoever to them was someone they all knew right?" Paul asked them. Shawn and Randy both nodded, "Yeah!" they both said. "So whoever did this was someone the knew and trusted. The only other person besides Mark that our kids trust is Adam!" Paul finished.
"Oh my god, you know I haven't seen Adam since earlier yesterday." Randy told them. "I know us too!" Shawn told him. "I wonder if John has seen him?" Paul asked. "I don't know call him and see, he said to call him when we get more information. He wants to get our kids back too." Shawn told him.
Randy nodded as he called John's cell, "Hello?" John answered. "Hey buddy, have you seen Adam today I need to talk to him about something." Randy told him. "Sorry but I haven't seen him since last night!" John told him.
"You saw him last night around what time?" Randy asked. John thought for a second, "It was about 7 or 7:30 when I saw him, he was coming out of his room, I tried to speak to him but he looked like he was in a hurry." John told him.
Randy nodded, "Alright thanks!" he told him. "No problem, so have y'all got any more information on the kids?" John asked concerned. "Yeah Kevin called again and said he wants $1,000,000 now instead of $500,00!
Paul got to speak to Cameron, he said they were okay but I'm sure they're scared." Randy told him. "Oh okay, look man don't worry, the police are gonna get your kids back I promise." John told him. Randy nodded, "I know it's just that..."
He was interrupted when the swung open, "Randy you got to get in here!" shouted Paul who had went back inside the room. "Hey John I gotta call you back okay." Randy told him. "Alright just remember what I said okay." John told him. "Alright I will!" He told him hanging up as he walked back inside the room.
"What is it?" Randy asked. "It's another phone call!" Shawn told him as they watched Paul pick up the phone, "Hello?" Paul answered. "Hello I know where your children are at, but I need you to meet me somewhere?" the stranger told him. Paul was confused, "Who is this?" Paul asked. "Don't worry about who I am, you want your children back right?" The man asked.
"Yeah, we do!" Paul told him. "Good then meet me tonight, two blocks from here, but come alone!" he told him. "Fine what time?" Paul asked. "9:00 pm in the alley by the cafe." he finished. "Alright I'll be there!" Paul told him as the other guy hung up. "Who was that?" Shawn asked.
Paul shrugged his shoulders, "I don't know but he said he knew where the kids were." Paul told him. "How do we know he's telling the truth?" Randy asked. "We just have to take a chance!" Paul told them. They both nodded as they waited for 9pm to come.
Meanwhile, somewhere across town, Adam was sitting at a cafe wondering what would happen if Paul and the others found out that he was involved in the kidnapping. "Paul is gonna kill me!" Adam thought to himself. "But I have to do this, even if they do kill me!" he said to himself. As he left the cafe, he threw his spare cell in the trash.
What's gonna happen next?