The Search For Mystery Girl

A Stranger To Me

Anna
I am listening to this man who has yet to tell me his name and I finally ask him what his name is and if I am his daughter what is my name? Anastasia Rose Steele is the name of his missing daughter and my name oddly is Anna Rose Smith. He tells me everything as we head to the college and he parks and goes with me to register for my classes for this semester. I have everything I need and I get through the line quickly and he asks me to join his family for dinner. I am very hesitant to do that but he suggests that I choose the place and he calls to reserve a table for five people. I was off today so it wasn't an issue.

Ray
I call Carla and have her meet us at a restaurant out near where we live. I tell her to bring the kids and it is important. I found someone that may be Anastasia and I checked it out once I discovered she had been in foster care since she was about 8 years old. She starts crying and I tell her to hold it together and get the kids to come with her.

Carla
I go into the kids rooms and tell them to put some nice clothes on because we are meeting their dad at a restaurant they both like very much. I leave out that we might have found their sister. Isabel is going on 20 and goes to college and lives with us. Carl is just 18 and in architectural school. Both have felt guilty over not being there to protect Anastasia from being taken. At this point we thought she was dead but we kept up hopes and her life insurance policy and her trust funds. Her grandma Rose set up trust funds when they were born. I get dressed and we head out with Isabel driving us.

Carl
So what's the event that we are celebrating? We usually only go to this place when there is good news. Mom just smiles and tells us we will see when we arrive. I know dad was working on getting a building for his security and investigation company. The offices he has now is too small for their business.

Isabel
Unlike Carl I can wait to see what dad has in store for us. I smile because he's so impatient when it comes to good news. Mom rarely has me drive and she seems upset and looks like she has been crying. That's probably why she asked me to drive. We arrive and dad is waiting for us with a young female by his side, she looks like mom and Anastasia and it makes sense now. This is Anastasia our sister, the age looks right and she looks like mom. She was the only one who looked like mom. I have dads looks and moms eyes and Carl has dads looks. Dad introduces us to Anna Rose Smith and he says he is sure she is our sister, but DNA tests will show him to be right.

Anna
I am looking at an older version of me and I am sure that she wants to hug me, but I am not ready to be hugged by anyone I have just met. I don't know that these are my family members but they look like they could be, so I agree to get the DNA tests done in my time off. We sit and talk about what happened to me and when I disappeared. I tell them just enough about what happened to me during my time in foster care. They tell me about the missing persons file that said that I was found and the fire that burned all the files at the towns police department. They have been trying to find me every day, but there were no leads at all. According to court records Jack Hyde had me for over a year hidden in his house and no one knew about me until I tried to escape to get help for his mother, I couldn't get out and no one ever came to rescue me. Jack apparently admitted his guilt and took a lessor sentence. He made a mistake and the guy he sucker punched was three times his size and hit him with one blow and it broke his neck and he died shortly after he got hit. The attorney for his estate was contacted by my attorney and I was able to sue for damages and basically got half of the million dollars he got back from the grifters. So it is in a trust fund for now. My attorney is setting things in motion to get it to me before I turn 18. I of course only tell them my kidnapper is dead. He died three months ago. I was kept apprised of any important news regarding him.

Isabel
I listen to her story and I know that she's not lying about any of it. She did say that our dad's voice seemed to be familiar to her, but she didn't recognize him or any of us. She apparently has been trying to recover memories but it isn't working. She has a fear of car trunks though. Our dad seemed safe for some odd reason. So she let him drive her to register for classes. She said that she has been through so many foster parents that she knew the second she met a person if she could trust them or not. Our dad was a person she sensed was very honest and trustworthy, plus he gave her his cell phone and had it ready to dial 911 for her. So here we are.

Carl
I am definitely looking at Anastasia and I know this because the scar on her hand I had done something that left a star shaped scar on her hand and my parents didn't know about it. It is on her right hand and once she started eating I saw it. She never ratted me out about it. She treated it herself. I heated up a star and took her hand and she let me put the hit star on her hand. I removed it very quickly but the burn was there and started shaped. I never did anything like that again. She was crying and in a lot of pain. We got the first aid kit and a pill for the pain. I regret it everyday. Here she is in front of us and I know without the test that she is Anastasia. The star was done a month before she disappeared. I am glad we have her back and she is doing okay. We all thought she was dead.