"I am sorry, I should have told you this since we met but I don't know how you are going to react to it" Tina said calmly.
Dele was looking lost as he was breathing heavily from the urgent call that made him rush down to the house.
"Princess was kidnapped while coming home for the mid term holiday" Tina's mother interrupted.
The call was put across by the neighbour's so that Dele can come around to see whatever he can do to help.
"But who is Princess? I... " Dele stammered in confusion as he pressed to know who Princess was.
He leaned on the wall checking his time and it was already few minutes from 2:00am.
"I'm sorry dear, Princes is our little baby" Tina cut in breaking the silence in the room.
"Wait, wait a minute, you have a baby sister that I don't know of? Or I'm not getting what's going on here" Dele tried to calm down and continued asking further question to know what the police said after they were informed.
"They asked us to come as early as 6:30am to the station to come and file an official report so as to start the search and investigation" Tina's dad, as he joined the conversation from the dining where he was formerly seated.
"It's late already Bamidele and the gate to your estate would have been locked since its past 12. Just stay over and we can get to the station together tomorrow" Tina's mom suggested.
Bamidele was shown the way to the visitors room but every time that he tried to close his eyes, he couldn't figure out who Princess was and the more he tried, the more headache it resulted to.
The night became longer as no one was sleeping deeply as they checked the time at different intervals so as to catch up with the meeting with the police.
"Knock, knock" Tina had said as the time was already 6:00am.
Bamidele quickly moved the blanket away and wore his palm slippers to walk down to the door.
"Good morning, dear, trust you slept well?" Tina asked as they both joined the family at the living room.
"Mom lead us in short prayer and let's set out to meet with the police" Tina's dad had said and the prayer was said briefly.
Few minutes after 6, they all set out as the nearest police station to the house was like 20 minutes drive away. Since the day had not fully formed, the cars moving were few compared to that of the day.
Twenty Minutes later, they all arrived at the police station. They exchanged pleasantries and in no time, they moved to the matter that brought them down there.
"But did you try calling the driver or someone to confirm their move?" One of the officers asked them.
"We tried calling the school and they said they left since 2PM but when we call the drivers number, it has not been going through" Tina's mom said.
Everyone looked so worried and since the car that was kidnapped was for a family friend whose child too was in the car. The car belong to Mr James Aminu who happens to be Tina's Dad best friend.
In the process of filing the report, Mr Aminu also came in sad and confused as no one could place where exactly their children could be at the moment.
"Its a Nissan Primera green colour car" Mr Aminu tried to describe the car to the police and as well as what his driver looked like.
The police assured them that the best would be done to make sure they help find their children.
"Let's also visit the Radio/TV station to tell them to help us announce four missing children in a car and a driver" Bamidele suggested.
All of this had been going on for almost 3 hours, no one even thought about food. How to get those children back home was all that was on everyone's mind.
An hour later, a call came through.
"Hello, who am I on to?" Mr Aminu holding the phone firmly to his ears.
Who called? What happened?
Watch out for the next episode
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