True Love (English/Deutsch)

Rules

I can't believe my ears. I am seriously damned to doing nothing but wait.

As soon as the Police was gone I sat down on the Couch, lost in thought. The rest of the day went by in slow Motion and yet before I knew it, it was time to get ready for bed. As if I could sleet while my familiy was possibly in danger.

As I pace up and down in our house I go through every room hoping for even the slightest clue as to where my Family could be.

After going through our kitchen and Office I go upstairs where our bedrooms are. The first room up the stairs is my wife's and my bedroom. It is painted in a light mint green and contains of course a king-size bed as well as a Dressing table opposite to it. On the right of the Dressing table is a door that leads to a Dressing room. As I am looking around in the dark the bright light of a street lamp enters through the huge window opposite of the door and all of a sudden a slight shimmer catches my eye.

It Comes from the other side of the bed and something lying on the floor. I quickly go around the bed following the shimmer. Something small is lying on the floor so I go down on my knees taking it. It's my wife's wedding ring.

Encouraged by my finding i continue to my daughters pink princess dream of a bedroom. With her 4 years of Age she wants to be all princess and puppets. Going through the endless piles of puppets and stuffed animals, checking the tiny teatable  as well as the bed not finding anything I'm just about to give up as my eyes fall on Tupples - Kacy's stuffed Giraffe. Never would she leave without it just as my Cameron would never take of her wedding ring. Both of them are way to proud of either one of These objects as they got them from me.

Was this a pattern? Had they really been kidnapped and had the guy left a clue for me in each of our bedrooms? Something left behind that would never be left behind on purpose?

The ring and tupples in my Hands I rush over to Justins room. His room looks like it was straight out of space. There are rockets and astronauts everywhere. Knowing what I guess to know now I go straight into his secret rocket - a rocket out of Card board we had built together and find quickly what I am looking for. On the floor inside the rocket lies a tiny puppet of Neil Armstrong.

Even though I wouldn't know what he could leave behind in the bathroom I enter it. As I do so my eyes fall on the emergency case. My heart skips a beat. Cameron has Asthma. Starting to Panic I open up the case and see what I was hoping not to see: Camerons Asthma spray.

I run downstairs checking every single room for further clues but the spray seems to be the last one.

As I re-enter the living room my phone rings. I pick it up:

"Hello?"

"Do not talk. Just listen. Your Job is very easy. There are a few People in my way to success and i want you Mr. Kerner to take care of them for me. I will always let you know on time about the when, where and how I want you to do that. If you do what I tell you to your Family will be home with you soon and save with me until then. If you don't do it or involve anyone on the outside of the two of us you don't wanna know what I'll do to you Family then - starting with the youngest. If you do not want to follow my orders and still want to save them here is a riddle. Solving it and going through with the instruction turning up as the answer will also lead to their safety. So listen carefully now as here Comes the riddle: True love only showes by an act of complete selflessness. "

There's a crack and the line goes dead.