Gone

Part 10

Chapter 10

Twos days had passed since Jo and Alex talked to Detective Morgan at their house. The couple hadn't been able to have a normal conversation without ending up screaming at each other, the more they tried to get to each other the more they crashed apart, everything seemed to be falling apart slowly between them. The detective had called them in the afternoon informing them to go to the police station to watch the security tapes they had gotten from the hospital. They went there having a silent contest in the car and came back the same way.

"How did it go?" Jane asked Jo kneeled on the floor while packing her luggage to go back to California where she lived "Your face is telling me it didn't go that well, did it?"

"No" Jo said shaking her head and walking inside of the bedroom to sit on the bed "It was a disaster, but I think I can take it, comparing it to everything else... Alex believes me less each passing minute. My daughter's fourth birthday is two freaking days and we don't know where she is... Every single person says 'The mother did it, can you believe it?' I actually heard that in there."

"I'm sorry. I can postpone the meeting and stay longer if you need me to." Jane said putting her hand on Jo's right knee and squeezing it.

"No, no, it's okay. Thank you. You need any help with that?" Jo asked pointing to the clothes that were on the floor.

"No, I'm almost done. So what did they say there?"

"Well, you know Camilla was taken around 4:13 pm." Jo said and Jane nodded at her "Well...I was 'caught on camera' leaving the hospital at 4:03 and only returned to the hospital like forty minutes later or so, and they really do think that I took my child out of the daycare and brought her here and someone finished the rest of the 'job'."

"Jo I know that you are beyond pissed her helpless and that you are trying to disguise that but you can't keep acting like the way you are right know." Jane scolded her due the fact that Jo was making air quotes and talking weirdly "I do get you because I do the same when I'm upset, but other people don't, and if you keep doing this it will get harder and harder for you to be believable."

"Are you saying that you don't believe me either?" Jo asked pretending to be shocked with what her sister had told her

"See? You are doing it again! It is okay if you break down a little, you don't have to put this fake wall in front of you. Your daughter is missing for Christ sake! Be sad, cry a little, yell, whatever but just stop pretending that everything is okay." Jane said raising her voice at each new word that was coming out of her mouth.

"I'm sorry. This is just too much. Are you done?" she asked pointing to her sister's luggage that appeared packed.

"Yes, let's go." Jane answered getting up and they both walked downstairs. Jane said her goodbye to Alex and left the house telling Jo that she'd be waiting for her outside, jo gave her the keys so that Jane could get inside of the car.

"Alex?" she said standing in front of him while he was watching the news.

"Jo..." he said pushing her a little aside so that he could keep an eye on what was going on the TV

"Look at me." She demanded "You don't actually believe it do you?"

"Believe what?" he said giving up of trying to push her away and looking at her in her eyes.

"That I would actually do what they say I did, do you?"

"No Jo. I don't" he answered her but not with a voice that convinced her.

"Oh, you don't? Goodbye Alex!" she said and stormed out of the living room and walked towards the front door to their house with anger filling every single cell of her body.