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Noah’s friends didn’t believe that he just up and left without telling anyone nor did his family. They all met up at our old house in Herber Springs so they can figure out if Noah actually moved if not what to

do next. His parents had a key so they entered the house first and looked around. They noticed that all of his personal items plus all of mine were still in the house. Caleb’s parents somberly stepped out onto the porch. ``Noah didn’t move all of the things he would have taken are still in there. We need to call the police and get them over here,” Ms. Hastings told us as her husband is already on the phone with the police. “They’re on the way over,” Mr. Hastings advised us.

When the police finally show up one of the officers stays outside and questions all our friends while the other officer goes inside the house with Noah’s parents. One of Noah’s friends tells the officer that the last time he had heard from Noah was the day before he had disappeared and told the Officer that Noah had found out who had kidnapped me. Officer Reynolds then tells Officer Martinez that was inside the house what he had just found out. “Did your son tell you that he had found out who kidnapped his wife,” He asked Noah’s parents. “No, he didn’t mention it to us,” Ms. Hastings replied. “Okay, thank you, we are going to get detectives in here and see if there isn’t something that will help us find your son,” Officer Martinez tells Noah’s parents as he guides them outside. “You need to just go home and we will get a hold of you when we find out something,” He advised everyone.

When detectives show up they search the house Noah’s parents wait at a nearby hotel for news on their missing son. One thing the detectives are

looking for is any information about my kidnapper that the police officers were told that Noah had. Unfortunately, they didn’t find anything useful inside Noah’s house. The only thing they know for sure is that he didn’t move away.

Noah’s parents go back home and leave everything in the hands of the police. The detectives start interrogating all of my and Noah’s friends and coworkers which included my kidnapper Caleb, who was not so keen on answering their questions. Which put him on the detective’s radar, but they couldn’t do anything to him without any proof. Yes, Caleb still worked at the same place with his actual name even though people in our town know us as Skyler and Grant Byers. It was as if he was asking to get caught and for me to be found shackled up like a dog. I didn’t know what he was thinking. “We need to leave, the cops are going to find us,” I tell him when he comes home from work one night. “We’re fine and nobody is moving anywhere, so just calm down,” He growled. How am I supposed to calm down? I don’t need Caleb to go to prison not now that I’m pregnant. Not until I can tell him that he is going to be a father. But I need to go see a doctor first to be sure I’m pregnant. I have all of the symptoms, but I need to be sure before I give Caleb the news.

“Caleb I need to go see a doctor. I haven’t been able to keep anything down for the past week. I think I might be pregnant,” I explained to him. He looks at me from across the kitchen table “No,” is all he says

as he gets up and goes outside. I remain seated at the table stunned. I can’t believe he isn’t allowing me to go to the doctor to get checked out. He comes back inside a little while later with a small bag that he tosses at me. “Here,” I look inside the brown paper bag to see different brands of pregnancy tests. I get up and start taking the tests one by one. It was no surprise all twenty that he bought me came back as positive. “Now will you take me to the doctor,” I ask as I lay out all the positive pregnancy tests in front of him? “No,” Caleb tells me yet again. I couldn’t take it anymore. “Why? Why won’t you take me to see a doctor,” I yell at him? “I can’t believe you have to ask me that question,” He declares. “They will have to take your blood and they will figure out who you are. So stop asking because you aren’t going to see any damn doctor,” He scared me so bad that I stopped mentioning seeing a doctor also being pregnant.

While I’m dealing with being pregnant, I see on the news that the police have found Noah’s pickup burnt to a crisp on a backroad. The police were able to find the burnt pickup’s vin numbers and found out that it had been registered to Noah, but no other evidence as to who had burned the truck and Noah wasn’t anywhere. I just wish I could call them and let them know where his body is located. I know if I do that Caleb would know that it was me who gave them the tip and I would end up dead. Not just me, my baby will be killed if I give them the tip. I’m so torn about what I should do. Noah was the love of my life, my

soul mate, but I’m in love with Caleb too. I just wish I knew what to do. It wouldn’t be too hard of a decision if it was just me that I had to worry about but I’m pregnant. I don’t want anything to happen to my baby.

With the stress of the pregnancy and from Caleb being cruel, on top of the nightmares I’ve been having. One warm morning I ended up with stomach pains so painful that I knew I had lost my baby. My pains hurt so bad I ended waking Caleb up with my screams. “What the hell is wrong with you,” He yells. “I’m trying to fucking sleep,” He gets up and flicks on the light. When I saw the blood on my sheets I knew for a fact that I had lost my baby. “Caleb I need to go to the hospital,” I cry. “I think I just lost the baby,”

“You don’t need to go to the hospital, you'll be fine,” He scoffs. “I’m sleeping in the guest room you stay in here and clean up this mess,”

I curl up on the bed and bawl my eyes out. I couldn’t understand how he could be so heartless at losing his unborn child.

I instantly knew that I had to tip off the police to where Noah was and that it was Caleb that had killed him. Caleb thought he could be cruel; he had no idea how heartless I could be. I got up off the bed to change the linens when Caleb burst through the door screaming at me. “Would you shut that crying up! I don’t understand why you're so upset since you obviously killed the baby. I should have taken a different woman since you're not even woman

enough to bring a child into this world,” He slams the door behind him as he storms out of the room. I fell to the floor crying at the words he had said. Was he right? Was it my fault that my baby was dead? I ended up crying myself to sleep on the floor.