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| Cloned Turtles: The slow turtles moved up the steps. By the grim expression on some of the faces, why they were here was very unclear to them. Some had been here for a while, and others were new to the whole place. The new ones got confused easily the first couple of times. By Friday they all looked the same. Sad faces with a bit of an excited glow of knowledge that the weekend was just around the corner lit their faces. Not remembering that Monday would be the same. Students, that was the correct term to call them all. With their book-bags filled to the top they looked like large multi-colored turtles that walked on their hind feet. All different sizes pushed though the hall. Huddling together like there was no room for one more they hurried off to their class on the third floor. At this point I am left alone standing to think of the day. "Another day." I tell my self, as I slowly walk to my own class. I hear the clinking of the change and then "thump". The sound of another drink that has been bought. The classroom is almost full by now. It is a small class but today the number of students is large. Which surprises me because it is Friday. I take my seat. The room is in a rumble for all the variety of chat that is going on. "Did you read the chapter?" I am asked, by the girl who has sit beside me the entire year. By now I know her all to well and I know that when Monday comes she will ask me this same question all over again. I attempt not to answer but feeling bad I turn to her to answer the way that I always answer when I am asked this question. "Yeah." I slowly speak. " I looked over it a little." Knowing that I had read the entire chapter three times. However by the way I have talked I have saved my self from more questions. Class is starting. For today I am saved from another clone. Class is over. So again the large turtles are huddling. They seem to all walk at the same hurried pace. "This must help them find the right place," I joke to myself. Kinda like how girls have to go in clusters to the bathroom in high school. I head the other way; my day here is done. As I reach my car and unlock the door, I laugh out loud. Today is over, I think, but I will return Monday just to do this all over again. My heart flutters because I know that even though it is all the same I am really happy to be here. Kayla Rogalseski; The missing baby The sky grew dark over the field where the rescue team searched for the three year old missing child. The wind gave a haunting howl in to the night air as the crew searched the field, where a caller had reported seeing the child. The little girl had been missing for five days. The rescue team had searched for all five days and not a trace of a clue of the little girl's location had been discovered. Hundreds of people had called in saying they had seen the young child but none had been realistic. The most recent caller had lead them here to the field where they were searching. She had seem to be truthful, and had claimed that she seen a car stop and dropped the child off in the field alone. "Lets call it a night." The chief Lanning radioed to the other search members. "Maybe daylight will bring us more luck." All of the crew headed back to the trucks. Part of their hearts were out there lost with the child and it caused them pain each time they returned with no luck on finding the child. Chief Lanning could already see the tears forming in Mr. and Mrs. Rogalseski's eyes when he would tell them that once again the crew had failed to locate their child. Each day the crew headed back out as soon as the sun come up, searching the whole county. The young girl's face was now on every local television station and newspaper. "Kayla Rogalseski , the county's missing baby," was what she had become. Her parents were left alone with the hurt and pain of their child as they seemed to forget that they had their other son. How could this have happened to them? Maggie Rosgalseski often asked herself. They had lived such a normal life, up till this point. They had lived in the area all of their lives. She had met her husband when she was in high school. Such a normal life neither her or husband could have ever thought something like this would ever happen to them. Each day both Maggie and her husband Gary woke up hoping that this would be the day that their daughter would be bought back to them. She could tell that her son Chris wandered where his sister was. Being only five himself, he still missed playing with her. Chris didn't like to see his mom and dad up set. They seem to not even care that they still had him. The day that Kayla's picture had been on the cover of the People's magazine, his mother had spent the whole day in bed and wouldn't come out even when he told her he was hungry. He had to wait till his dad got home from work before he got anything to eat. Each day seem to get harder for Maggie to live. She had quit her job and rarely got out of bed only to take a bath or when someone came over, Maggie forced herself to get up. By now five months had passed and most of the search crew had quit. Still Kayla's picture continued to show up on newspapers and magazines but no one really seem to look for her. Chief Lanning, who was now just Jack to the family, had become a house hold name. He was over at least once a week to check on them and see how they was doing. Jack to could see the hurt in the Rosgalseski's eyes and he could see how much Gary hurt not only from the lost of his daughter but he could tell that Gary felt as though he had lost his wife also. He had tried to find ways to get Maggie to realize that she had to keep going no matter how much hurt she felt. "You still have a family. Your son and your husb and need you now more then ever. Don't give up or you could lose them as well." Jack told Maggie one day when they were alone. These words had hit her and hit her very hard. She believe that he had helped her. After the day Jack told her them words she had started living or at least tried to. She would get up and fix Chris breakfast and then pile up on the couch as he sit in the living room playing and watching cartoons. She even would pay attention to him every now and then, as if nothing had changed. Then she would notice that he was playing alone and she would go back to being the same person who cared for no one. No matter how hard Maggie tried she couldn't put the lose away. Why did people expect her to. She wasn't as strong as her husband. She couldn't go to work every day and act like that their lives had not change. It had and it would never be the same again. The day Chris turned seven, a call was placed to the Lawrence Ville police department. The caller had claimed that she had seen a little girl who looked liked Kayla in face with an man at the mall in Clayton County. Jack was on the trail. He headed out to Clayton like a hound dog on a fox trail. He would have a long drive but it was worth it to him. Kayla would be five now, but chances are her face wouldn't have changed that much. The caller had told them that she seen the guy often and she knew that he lived near by. Jack knew if this was true then he wouldn't be going anywhere anytime soon, and if luck would have it that it was Kayla then this could be the best break that could have happened. Driving conditions were horrible. It rained most of the time. Sometimes the rain would be coming down so hard that he had to pull off to the side of the road and wait it out. He prayed the whole time he was driving that this was the little girl he had spent an entire year searching every area she was claimed to have been seen in. He kept seeing the joy that had filled the faces of Maggie and Gary when after a year of nothing a new clue had popped up. He also kept seeing how much Chris was hurting, on his birthday once again he had be cast a side because of his sister. It killed Jack to think of the pain Chris felt. Thoughts filled his mind and made the drive seem to take longer then it should have. He wanted to get to Clayton soon. He had promised that he would call as soon as he got there to let them know he was starting on the case Gary planned to stay out of work until the call came in from Jack. The next afternoon around five o'clock the phone rang. Maggie jumped to her feet and ran to the phone. "Hello." Maggie quickly said. "Yes. OK I understand. Yes, of course we will be here. OK. Thank you for everything." Maggie placed the phone on the hook. "Well. Was that Jack. Did he have anything to tell us." Gary ask with a twinge of nervousness. "Yes it was Jack. He just arrived at Clayton and is going to rest and then head out to the place that this guy is suppose to live." Maggie's eyes filled up with tears. "Oh God what if this is our baby? Oh god let him bring her home." Gary walked over and took his wife in to his arms. He had not held her like this since during the days after Kayla had first disappeared. It felt good to hold her close and she actually acted as if she want to stay in his embrace. He kissed her head. Her hair smelled so good. Why had he not done this sooner he wondered. Maybe she wouldn't have become so distant from him and Chris. "Maggie, I love you." He told her. He pulled her closer. He had not told her those words in so long. "No matter what, we are going to make it through this. We have come this far and we have to be here for Chris." "I know we do and I can only pray that our little girl comes home to us. I love you too." She told him as she pulled back so she could look into his eyes. He pulled her close again. He wanted to just hold her and take care of her. This was the first time she wasn't acting like a scared animal. She was holding him back. Maggie felt relaxed in Gary's arms. She hadn't felt this relaxed since the morning before her daughter had disappeared. Gary felt soft next to her. She was over come with warmth from his hold. The closer he brought her to his self the more she thought back to the day that Kayla had disappeared. They had all been in the back yard preparing for a barbecue. Chris who was five then was throwing a ball to Gary. Maggie remembered that she had brought Kayla's playpen out and she was laying asleep while the sun beat down on her soft skin. She and Gary had just walked in the house to get some things for the barbecue, they never thought that in a well secured neighborhood that their daughter would be taken right out from beneath them. When they had realized that she was missing they knew she had to have been taken. Even if she had gotten out, Kayla never waked off she was always truing to stay close to Maggie. Her and Gary had yelled for hours and had searched with the crew all of the first day. Maggie shook her self from the thoughts of that day. "Thank goodness!" She told herself. "All of my nightmares may be over soon." The ringing of the phone broke them from their embrace. It was Jack. He told them he needed any kind of dental records or fingerprints of Kayla that they had. Maggie thought, Kayla was too young at the time to have dental records but when she was two she had fallen and got cut very deep and had to have a blood transfusion so she had records of blood type. "Yes that should work. We need both you and Gary's blood type as well. As soon as you can get it done have it sent up here first class." "Okay. We will go right now to the hospital and have every thing done." She told him. She and Gary quickly gathered their things and was soon at the hospital having blood samples taken. "Mr. And Mrs. Rogalseski we will have the work done by this after noon and send it along with Kayla's records tonight. It should arrive by tomorrow night to Mr. Lanning." The doctor assured them. Jack sit in his hotel room waiting for the lady who had made the report to call him there at the hotel. She was suppose to give him the full details about the guy and what exactly the little girl that she had seen looked like. He had the exposure of a picture of what Kayla might look like now. He hoped that the woman would agree to meet him and identify the picture to see before he went and arrested anyone. Even though he had been given permission to arrest him, he still didn't want to arrest anyone without sure fire proof. Sure enough the woman called right on time. After getting the location of the man, he asked her is she would be willing to meet him and look at the picture. She agreed. They met a half hour latter, and she identified the picture to look exactly like the little girl that lived with the man. Now he had to make his move. He called the local police and together they arrested the man. The little girl was taken to the hospital to get the blood work done. After the work was done, Jack made it a point not to call the Rogalseskis. He would drive back to Lawrence Ville on Thursday and tell them all they needed to know on Friday. This time as he drove home it didn't seem to take as long. He hadn't even called them to let them know he was coming back. On Friday Gary had went to pick up some groceries. As he pulled in to the drive he seen Randy's Altima coming up the road. He stood out side of the car as Jack pulled in behind him. Jack got out of his car slowly. "Hello Gary." He said reaching to help him carry some of the bags in to the house. "Shall we go inside I have something I need to discuss with you and you wife." Soon they were all seated in the living room. The sun came though the window hitting on Randy's face. He was a heavenly object, sitting there in the sun's eyes. To Maggie he had been her guardian angel so many times. She could only pray he brought good news to her family. " Gary. Maggie." His words came slow. "The little girl in Clayton has been identified as Kayla." As he told them that he stood up. "She is in custody here in Lawrence Ville and will be released to you after you sit though some classes to prepare you for her return. The trial will be held and you must attend. The trail is to sentence the man who kidnapped your daughter." Never had they been so happy. This was the best words they could hear. Weeks passed and they took their classes. Then the day came that they were allowed to bring Kayla home. They had gotten to visit with her durning the week and she appeared to take up with them quickly. As they walked out of the foster home where Kayla had been placed, Gary put his arm around Maggie. "See I told you everything would be all right." He pulled her tight and hand in hand the foursome walked to the car together. They were a family again. No matter what happened they were all together and together they could get though anything. From this day on they none of them would look back. They had the future to look to. Copyright © 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 By Christie S. All rights reserved. |
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