I Never Left You

18. Flash back

The stadium today is filled with all the kinds of noise as its Sports day. Trumpets can be heard from every corner, whistles and cheerful sounds are evident on the crowds' faces. Different sports will take place tonight. Me Azra being the non talented in sports decided not to miss out the Frenzy and that's how I ended up in this sweaty itchy and suffocating costume. Am the school mascot. Actec High school has a blue white hawk with yellow feet and blue wings. Being the school mascot that day was a big honor to me. I felt I represented the whole school, so I danced and shook my wings with all the dance moves I could come up with. The whole school spirit was flowing with me. But that's not the only reason I was a mascot that day. I was on a mission incognito. Being Sports day with so much activities and a large crowd, alot of good things were bound to happen and so we the bad ones. The Anti-Drugs Coalation Team (TADCT) was on watch mostly because most participants would use asteroids to win games. As the Co-captain of the Team, I had to gather as much evidence as I could so I had a wired camera on me recording everything that could be evidence to us. And  micro earphones to communicate with my fellow spies on different teams.
A couple of months we had gathered information that Clara Steven was the leading supplier of the "Toughest kind" of drugs and being a girl it was always hard to point to her. No body could suspect the blonde beautiful cheerleader. Having acquired information on her mode of operation, The only thing left was to catch her in the act. So as a mascot today my major role was to keep an keep eye on the prey. This hawk was on stand by. To every sport the cheer leading team went, this hawk danced along too.
As expected, soon Clara gave the cheerleaders a break and excused herself. My keen hawk eye never left her and when she came back carrying the bag that I suspected had the catch. I pretended to bump into her and surely the contents of the bag spilled revealing small white bags covered in pink wrappings to make them resemble normal candy. I quickly bend and help her pick up the contents accidentally made her spill. She politely stopped me and shoowed me away saying she can pick them herself. I walk away with satisfaction knowing that my long wings managed to grab one of the candy.
When almost all the sports were done and the excitement at its highest peak. Clara opened her bag and distributed her candy to her fellows. To a normal eye it was perfectly fine for a cheerleader captain to be distributing normal sweets to her gang. In the blink of an eye, the cheerleaders run off to their boyfriends and several players and distribute the sweet candy. Case closed, and all recorded and part of evidence safe under my feathers.
I take off my mascot uniform and hand it to its official owner and happily wander off to congratulate my boyfriend Ray on his double win. After showering him with enough kisses, I tell him of how TADCT also won. We briefly escape from the team and rush to the police and quickly hand them all the evidence collected. We come back in time for the celebrations like as if we did not leave the school grounds.
Towards the final exams, we get the news that Clara and the cheer leading team was arrested for selling drugs in school. Everyone in school was shocked including myself. That's how Clara Stevens got arrested . When I saw her again last Friday at campus, I thought maybe she had served her sentence and gone back to school. Not knowing that her Uncle had pulled so many strings to see that her princess left the coolers. Now revenge was boiling in their blood ready to lay hands on the person that caused them such a loss.
The memories of that sports day puts together all the missing puzzle pieces . It has taken them four years to track me down. That means Ray is equally being hunted.
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Ray's POV
It's been three days since I last saw her. Three  damn days since I saw and no body has seen her since then. I wish she had gone with her phone so I could track her down. We're all devastated, Leah thinks she's been kidnapped cause she never goes anywhere without telling her and what kind of a kidnapper brings back all her belongings. We tried to Trace the dude I last saw her with but his number is off. Azra's parents were informed and they too quickly joined in. The police has her posters all over the city .
I have tried kick boxing to kill the  anger inside of me but still nothing helps. The dummy am  boxing has had enough so I chill it.  I can't bear to lose Azra again. Not at least when I have just found her. On Tuesday I went to the orphanage she volunteers at but the orphanage only added to my already bad news. But it was at least a clue. She had requested a presentation for her proposal before the board meeting but to their dismay, she didn't turn up. That explained why she was smartly dressed that day. The time of her meeting was 2:00pm and on putting things together that afternoon it was around 1:45pm when I came running after her, It is crystal clear  that the Negro friend of hers knew where Azra is but he can't be reached.  I remove my kickboxing gloves and massage my temples trying to mitigate the headache rising.  My phone dings with a text and on opening it, it's a picture of the love of my life lying weakly on the ground. "Azra noo....." I scream loudly attracting everyone's attention in the gym.