BAD NEWS

HAZEL

At work, I had a very important meeting. It was a fourth meeting I was having for the day and I was in a hurry to round up so I could go out and call Miranda. She had already called my line but I couldn't take the call because I was about rounding up.

It was funny because the meeting would have come to an end a while ago, but it was my fault because Miranda occupied my mind, I kept missing out on important details with the new investors of my company.

Just as I began to round up, I noticed a phone call from Miranda once again, she kept calling me repeatedly until I was forced to excuse myself from the hall and go outside to take her calls.

"Baby, why do you keep....."

"Sir, you have to help Miranda," I heard Mel say. "They took her."

"What? Who? Who took Miranda?"

My heart began to race the moment I heard that Miranda had been taken.

"Is she okay? Has she been hurt?"

"I don't think she's okay. There were so many men, they were armed, they kept shooting at us and then they took