"Okay tell me again." Stef said as she sat Jude down on the bed and had him answer all the questions once again, hoping that maybe she'd missed something before. "When you woke up..."

"Callie would take me to school and then she went to the grocery store for work. Then she'd pick me up after school and we'd hang out for a while then go home and she'd help me with my homework while she made dinner or we waited for takeout. Then I'd go to sleep and she'd go to the diner and come back before I woke up."

"And what about weekends?" Stef questioned.

"She only worked some Saturdays when she had to make up for missing a day. Then I would go with her and help her bag the groceries or sit and do homework. Sunday she didn't work." Jude answered.

"What if you had a holiday or if you were sick?" Stef asked, wondering if there was someone else they spent time with.

"She stayed home with me." Jude replied.

"Okay, what else?" Stef tried to think of what she was missing. "You said she didn't have a cellphone."

"No, we'd use the one in the corner store. Mr. Diaz doesn't even charge us to use it anymore." Jude answered. "Sometimes he even lets me pick something off the candy rack for free too but Callie gets mad at me for taking anything because she says it's wrong."

"He lets you use his phone?" Stef questioned, hope growing once again.

"Yeah." Jude answered. "Sometimes Callie has to call the school when I'm sick or when she needs a day off from work she uses his phone."

"Okay, let's go see if we can get any information there." Stef suggested as she got up and started walking, Jude and Lena following behind.

"Mr. Diaz. " Jude called out as he entered the half dark store. It was already past nine and the store was already closed. "Mr. Diaz." Jude called out again."

"Hey Jude." A grey-haired man called out as he came to the front of the store. "What's up big guy."

But the man stopped short the moment he noticed Stef behind the boy. "May I help you." He asked, looking worriedly at Jude.

"My name is Officer Stef Foster and I'm helping Jude here to find his sister." Stef explained, hoping the man wouldn't be too afraid for Callie's sake to answer. "We believe that something happened and she got scared and ran." Stef explained.

"She just left me." Jude said sadly looking up at the man who'd become his friend.

"I don't know where she is." Mr. Diaz said nervously to Stef before turning back to Jude - A look that didn't go unnoticed by the cop. "I'm sure she didn't just leave you." Mr. Diaz said in a less than convincing voice. "I'm sure she'll come back for you, why don't you go wait for her at home." He suggested skeptically.

"Honey, why don't you take Jude to the back and let him pick out something to eat, he must be hungry." Stef suggested to Lena as she motioned to the packaged food area in the back that had some ready to eat meals.

Lena nodded, understanding immediately at Stef wanted to talk to the shop owner alone. She gently placed a hand on Jude's back and guided him to the back of the store out of earshot of the conversation about to happen.

"Look, I know you're not telling me everything so I'm going to need you to start answering me immediately." Stef said firmly as she glared at the man in front of her.

"I already told you, I don't know anything." Mr. Diaz said without looking at Stef. "I don't know why you're asking me."

"Call it a hunch." Stef answered somewhat bitterly.

"Well you must be wrong because she won't just leave her brother - those two are inseparable." Mr. Diaz said in a confidant tone and Stef realized that he truly believed that.

"Well she did." Stef said sadly but gently. "She left him with my wife and me with a note asking us to take care of him." Stef explained as she pulled the note out of her pocket and handed it to the man as proof. She could see his eyes soften as well and realized that he was just trying to protect them as much as he could. "Look, I already know what Callie does for a living and I know that she's in some sort of trouble and she's afraid to ask for help. I also know that you know more than you're telling me so please, do these kids a favor and tell me what you know." Stef begged.

"She came in here about two hours ago asking to make a phone call." Mr. Diaz said hesitantly, still unsure whether or not he was doing the right thing. "Now I don't usually pay attention to people using the phone but this time I heard her asking for bus information and so I was listening out of curiosity."

"What did she say?" Stef asked, desperate for whatever information the man could give her.

"She asked for bus timings and prices to New York." Mr. Diaz answered. "I thought it was strange but I didn't think she was running away or that she would leave her brother behind."

"Did she book anything?" Stef asked worriedly.

"I don't know." The shop owner replied. "I only heard one side of the conversation and I was dealing with customers as well. Like I said, I didn't expect her to run so I wasn't paying too much attention."

"Okay thank you." Stef said sincerely, hoping that at least this information would be enough to give her a lead on how to track the missing teen down.

"You're not gonna arrest her are you?" Mr. Diaz asked worriedly. Now that he'd given them their information he hoped that he hadn't made things worse for Callie. "She's a good kid." He said sincerely. "Always polite, never asks to take something and pay later, takes real good care of the boy."

"I know." Stef smiled sadly, fully aware of just how well Callie had looked after Jude. "I won't arrest her." She assured the man. "I just want to find her and never let her out of my sight again." She answers honestly.

Mr. Diaz frowned slightly at the answer he received. He hadn't expected it from the cop but suddenly he could tell that Stef wasn't just questioning him as a cop looking for a missing person but more like a mother looking for her missing kid.

"I hope you find her and I hope she's okay." He said, his eyes kind. "And if you do, please let me know." He requested as he pulled out a piece of paper and wrote down his number on it. "If there's anything else I can do to help, just ask."

"Thank you." Stef smiled, feeling like crying all over again. She quickly pulled out a twenty dollar note and handed it to the man. "For whatever they took." She said, motioning to Lena and Jude in the back.

"It's on me." Mr. Diaz said, pushing her hand back gently. "It's the least I can do."

Stef smiled gratefully before pulling out her cellphone so that she could call the bus depot and find out what she could about Callie's whereabouts.