Chapter 4

At Mirabella's......

Mirabella's and her neighbors returned back from police station by 4:47am.

She looked so pale and feeble from crying and thinking.

who would blame her, she's all she've gat since her real parents were assassinated.

Just like yesterday, the whole events were still fresh in Mirabella's head. She was in her Nanny's room then when they heard gunshot twice, her Nanny Anita had carried her then straight without thinking of what might have happened and past through the exit door which was through the kitchen. Thank God her room was the closest to the kitchen by the left, Anita managed to locked the exit door after they went out as one of the assassins probably their boss was shouting look for them they should be here in this house. Mirabella could not tell how Anita got the back mini gate key but she opened it and locked it from the back aswell. Immediately they went outside they grabbed the next bike they saw at the road facing there back gate, the bike took them to a taxi park close by and the taxi took them straight to one local bus park. Anita made transfer with her phone that was in her waist purse all the way. Anita had that habit of hanging waist purse around her waist because of important stuffs she kept in it like keys and her phone. whenever her bosses make jokes concerning her waist purse she'll always say she had bad habit of misplacing things. As they got to the bus park, the cab man dropped them and they crossed to the other side, but the cab man called out to them with his car horn after few minutes, when he had gotten there attention he shouted 'You forgot your phone ma'am.' She had dropped it when she did the bank transfer to the driver. Anita crossed back to get the phone but when crossing back to the bus station another dreaded event took place right before Mirabella's sight. Just few hours to that time gunshots had been heard in her parents sitting room and she couldn't get to see her parents state before leaving and now right before her two good eyes her only saviour has been knocked down by a car which doesn't even make a pause to see what has happened. Mirabella turned froze immediately she saw the accident, she couldn't move, all she could see in that darkness was red watery substance on the floor on the painted road and she could hear screams of different figures rushing to body on the road. All Mirabella could remember after that was they were at the hospital and the doctor said Anita won't be able to talk for a while because the accident affected her throat and also her eyes a bit. Luckily for them when she fell her phone wasn't crushed totally, the good Samaritans who took them to the hospital could traced her parents number through the sim that was removed from the half damaged phone.

Anita parents arrived at the hospital the next morning, they've been on the road since they received the call. After few days in the hospital she was discharged and they started another journey from that hospital at the City to a rural and isolated area and that was the last time Mirabella saw her parents and that was the last time Anita opened her mouth to talk. She ended up living with Anita's family in their small town home for years and since they were the only family she could see she started referring to Anita as her mother and her parents as grandparents. Even tho she was just 9years old at the time of the whole incident, those memories were unforgettable. But just 2 years ago Anita and Mirabella moved back to the city.

A slight tap on the shoulder brought her back from mind wandering land , her neighbors had been telling her to go rest that they'll continue the search the next day but she wasn't aware because of her deep thoughts. Aunt Ava watched them leave one after the other and appreciate them for helping and wished them a good night.

'Mirabella, common what are you thinking?, your mum will come back home.' Ava reassured her

'Aunt Ava, where's everybody?'

' That's what am saying you're lost in thought..... They all left saying we'll continue tomorrow.' she moved close to Mirabella and hold her right wrist slightly

'Let's go home, come and rest a bit the police will join us in searching for her tomorrow. ' Aunt Ava dragged her gently and they both moved ahead.