Chapter Forty-Seven

I smile at Sam as she whimpers and frowns all because of hunger and maybe a bit more hangover. 

" Calm down, they will be here soon I've already informed them."

" if you have informed them, then why are they patiently waiting for the worms in my stomach to eat their way out before they can attend to us?"

" Now you are overreacting Sam!" 

" Am I Amanda, Am I?" She acts weird and a little pissed.

" Hey! You are scaring the little girl, will you take it down a notch...hmmm?" Whispering closely to her.

" Urgh! I'm slowly withering here." She grumbles none stop.

The waitress appears, eventually, she then placed on the table a plate of pizza and a cup of soda, I help her put it in front of my little guest as I notice the tinge on her face as soon as the plate of pizza is seating in front her, she turns and gazes at me as though to get an approval from me to pounce on her meal.

" Go ahead, eat up!" I say to her with a smile of approval.

Without any more hesitation, she begins wearing down the pizza, however, someone on the table isn't finding it sweet to watch a cute little girl munch on a pizza slice rather I catch her giving a stabbing stare at the pizza. 

" Are you kidding me right now?" I snap my two fingers against one another and the sound it made brings her back to reality.

" what would you like to order ma'am?" The waitress asks gazing at both of us for a reply.

" Finally, please get me a double cheeseburger and a cup of iced soda!" Sam requests.

" Wait, I thought we were going to have something from the brunch menu?" I ask.

" you don't expect me to answer that do you?"  She talks at me.

" My bad! Please get a club sandwich and a glass of orange juice?" 

She notes our order down and continues out to get them.

Sam's patient is beginning to run out as I observe how she extends her neck every few seconds in search of her order, luckily, the waitress didn't take much time to bridge our meals and carefully puts them down on the table.

" Thank you so much! She takes hold of the burger and bites into it at once. Mmm, This is so good!" She mumbles with her mouth full, while I take mine from the waitress and join the table as we enjoyed our " Not so brunch".

After an hour, perhaps, it took us from enjoying our meals it was time we pay for our meals and head back home, however, the notion of what to do with the little girl that I had rescued from the sidewalks leaves us hanging in the air of nip and tuck, about how to find her parents or guardian or maybe where she lives.

" Sweetie, can you tell us where you stay so we can take you home?" I ask sweetly but she just stares at me without saying a word.

" Amanda, I don't think she can speak." Sam cuts in.

" What do you mean? She can hear me. I turn my gaze to her, you can understand me right?" She nodded her head slowly.

" If she can hear you then, why isn't she saying anything?" Amanda inquires.

At this moment, I feel something is wrong, however, the question of what could be the reason why this cute little girl can't speak keeps lingering on my mind. " was she born mute?" I ask myself.

" I don't think we will be able to find out anything about her in the state she is in, Amanda!" Sam's voice snaps me back to reality.

" But we can just leave her here and go," I respond to her.

" Then what do we do?" 

" I-don't-know. " 

" Amanda, I think we should hand the little girl over to the cops and go home? At least that way we will know that she is in safe hands and out of danger." Sam infers.

I look at her while wondering the idea she just dropped in front of me and as much it hurts me for not be able to find this little girl's family, I think she is right. The best thing to do for her is to hand her over to the authorities and she can be under their custody until they can find her parents.

 After a moment of introspection, I decided to approve of Sam's idea.

" Maybe you are right, let's take her there perhaps her parents would come in search of her over there," I say to Sam and thickly she called the waitress and pay off our bills before we headed out.

" Hey! Hold on, I need to get a cup of coffee to go. You can go ahead I will catch up with you guys in a split second!" Sam says while going back into the diner.

While on our way to the police station with the little girl walking next to me as I held her hand, the cops comes running from behind me and pointing their guns at me. " Don't move! One of them says out loud while he approaches me. Let go of the little girl and put your hands up!" The police officer yells as hurriedly walks up to me still pointing his gun at me and then cuffs my hands.

I am clueless about what is going on, I am in shock as to why I am being treated like some kidnapper or criminal, I couldn't say a single word as I just watched.

" Excuse me officer, what is going and why do you my friend cuffed?" I hear Sam's voice echo from behind me.

" Ma'am, whatever you have to say to us you can do that at the Station. Your friend here. Has been allegedly accused of child kidnapping and we found her we the mission girl." The officer states while he drags me into the back of the police car.