30 Years Orphan--Outside

(Door knocking) ‘Sarah! I’m David! Are you there!?’. This has made Sarah jumped. She quickly pressed the stop button. ‘Coming!’. She quickly ejected the tape and hid it in her pocket.
‘C’mon Sarah, this is important’. The door opened, Sarah’s face appeared in front of the door. ‘What is it?’
‘It’s about Ben, the cops just called. They said they tried to call you, but we weren’t answering the call. So they called me. But when I saw that your car is still in the garage, I think that you probably still at home. Then I give it a try.’
‘Phone call? Maybe I didn’t hear it.’
‘What happened to you? Looks like you were just back from a marathon race. Is there anything?’
‘No…nothing, erm… what did the cops said?’
‘They found Ben’s car’
‘Where!?’
‘Wow…calm down. They said they found it in a wood 2 miles away from his office’. Sarah starting to felt weird.
‘(mumbling) I thought it’s at the orphanage’
‘Excuse me? You said anything?’
‘Huh? Nothing… what about Ben? They found him?’
‘No, it seems like he abandoned the car. But where would he go walking? No matter, the cops hope that we can get to the place now. We’ll talk in the car, c’mon.’
‘Oh…okay.’
The two of them then took on David’s car and ride on to where Ben’s car was found.

* * *

Sarah was having a mixture of many feelings during the journey. Nervous, worried, fear and many more. She can’t figure out how Ben’s car appear in the woods when it was supposed to be at the orphanage. She starting to feel strange for everything. First was Ben’s disappearance, then the tape and the letter and now this. She feared that she will not stand on anymore if more of these come, and she know that there will be. She needed someone to help her to share this burden. She was thinking of telling David about it. David’s a very best friend for the Cooper couple and she believe that he can be trusted. But what if he don’t believe it and think all this was just a bunch of nonsense? Sarah has no idea what will happened if things doesn’t go the way she thinks.
‘Erm… David?’
‘Yes? Anything?’
‘There is something I need to tell you, I hope you can help me.’
‘Okay, speak out and lets see what can I do?’
‘It’s like this. This morning….’
‘Okay we are here, I guess you gonna tell me later, right?’ ‘Right’.

* * *

Ben’s silver SLR McLaren was on the side of the road, and it is being examined by a few officers. The weather was cold that day, cold wind was blowing hard.
‘Excuse me, I’m David Flincher. It was Detective Susanne who called us here. I’m a friend of Ben Cooper and this is his wife, Sarah Watson.’
‘Oh, it’s you two. The detective is expecting you. Here please follow me.’
The officer replied and he lead the two to a tall, black and long-haired lady.
‘Detective, this is David Flincher and Sarah Watson’
‘Thank you Mario, now leave them to me. You can go back to your work.’
The officer nodded and walked away.
‘Sarah Watson, one of our officers found this when the team was searching the car. It has your name written on it, so I think we should hand it to you.’
Detective Susanne handed over a white envelope to Sarah.
‘Thank you.’ Sarah took it and put it into her pocket. She decided not to read it on the spot.
‘We had a police report that someone found this car today morning at 6.46a.m. We checked on the number plate and found out it was Mr. Cooper’s car. And so we called you guys.’
‘Was the car damaged when it was found?’ asked David calmly.
‘No, nothing was spoiled. The door of the driver seat was opened when we found it.’

While David and Detective Susanne was talking about the car, Sarah didn’t pay any concentration towards it. She looked around, and realized that the road that Ben’s SLR McLaren was found was a straight road with only woods around on the left and right side of the road, just like what Ben described in the tape. But the road was wide and its enough for even two trucks to go side by side, it was not like what she has been told. She tried to look more further but the sight was being covered with mist.
‘Where does this road lead to?’
Sarah interrupted the talk of the detective and her friend.
‘This road was used to be a highway lead to the city, but it was closed down ever since the new one was built.’
‘Then are there any buildings or towns along the way?’
‘From what I remembered… nope. Is there anything you suspect?’
The looked detective gave Sarah made her didn’t dare to look into her eyes, she was trying to find something in her. Sarah turned her sight back towards the road, she had a feeling that Ben maybe there in the far side of the road. Suddenly a touched on her shoulder by David made Sarah jumped.
‘There’s nothing much we can do here, lets go.’
‘O…okay.’
‘Thanks detective, if there’s anymore further information please tell us.’
‘I surely will.’
The two hopped into David’s car and head their way home.

* * *

‘David, there is something I have to tell you. I found this tape this morning at my bedroom door. It’s from Ben. I think you should hear this too.’
Sarah took out the tape from her pocket and insert it into the cassette radio.

*Dreamer*