Lydia- The Pet Communicator

Chapter 24

Drake and I, searched for my father everywhere in the house, but he wasn’t there. We also hurried to our second home, the shelter, to look for him there, however we didn’t find him there too. I asked the pets if they had happened to see him, nevertheless they even refused to see him go out of the house or anywhere

I kept Garcon with all the other pets in the shelter and asked them to look after their new friend. All of them started to exchange a few words and Garcon seemed comfortable with the pets.

“Drake, where will we look for him now?” I asked curiously and heaved a sigh. Drake was completely quiet. I walked over to a bench in our shelter, and sat there silently. I was actually petrified, despite the fact that I didn’t want my fears to overpower me. I thought this was the right time to inform the police about everything. What if someone tried to harm my father, similar to Lucky?

I glanced at Drake, who was leaning on a tree at the shelter and shouted, “Drake, I need to call the police immediately! Could you contact Antonio?” Drake told me once about his friend Antonio, merely, about his profession while we were doing our studies two weeks ago. I never asked him more about his friends or family, nor he cared to tell me, which was strange.

Drake gave me a half nod and gave me a wave to wait, while sitting next to me on the bench. He shoved out his phone from his shirt pocket and called his friend Antonio right away. Antonio was a senior police officer, and Drake’s very good friend. Drake gave him each and every strong detail about my father over the phone, like, when he was found missing, about his appearance and regarding all the issues going on from before in our house.

After ending the call, Drake mumbled, “They are on their way. Actually, I wanted to call Antonio long back, but I was waiting for you to ask me. Everything will be fine now.”

Drake rested his head backwards on the bench and closed his eyes for some time, he seemed restless. I didn’t want to pull him along with me in my misfortune, and I warned him earlier about it too. He was only suffering because of me. I mumbled, “Drake?”

Drake looked at me apprehensively and replied, “Yeah?”

“You are still free to go. I don’t want to make your life a living hell because of me.”

Drake spanked his lap and laughed out falsely,“What?”

“I mean it Drake. You still have a chance to move on. Don’t spoil your future because of me.”

Drake shook his head in disappointment, and yelled, “So this is it? You don’t even know the depth of my love for you! Your life is my life! Your pain is my pain, you laugh I laugh, you die I die! Get it?” Drake got up angrily and walked out of the main gate.

I started weeping after he left, I couldn’t control myself anymore. My heart was filled with so much pain and everyone had to suffer because of me, including the pets. I couldn’t give much attention to them, nor they even complained about it. I wiped away my tears and strolled over to the safe haven. I started playing with my pets while, trying to keep myself cool, calm and collected. None of the pets inquired about my father too. It seemed they were helping me keep my mind away from his thoughts even though, it was impossible for me.

Just in a while, I heard a car stop outside our house. I moved up right away to check who came, expecting that it might be the police, but to my surprise, it was my one and only missing father. He entered the backyard with Drake next to him and they were too busy talking to each other. My father looked calm and Drake was listening to his explanations carefully, with a continuous smile on his face.

My heart demanded me to stride towards my father and give him a tight hug, but my legs were glued to the ground because of my temper. When my father looked up at me, he flashed off his whites, as if nothing happened. He was all fit and fine, but he could have killed me with tension. I looked away angrily. Only then, he stood in front of me with an apologetic look on his face. I spoilt my face at him, while crossing my arms over my chest in full disappointment.

Drake gave me a slight nod, giving me a signal to hear him out and I rolled my eyes at him. It wasn’t fair.

“Lydia, the situation didn’t allow me to contact you. I am really sorry sugar puff. Will you listen to me once?”

My dad used this word, sugar puff, after years. He gave me this nickname when I was watching the power puff girls at my early teens. With this thought, I wanted to smile at him, but I controlled myself and started walking away.

“Lydia, give me a chance to explain please?” My dad pleaded from the behind.

I stopped and turned back, whilst shrieking, “What now?”

“I went to the Blue Ink Travel and Tourism. Gibson asked me for some urgent help in the early hours, when he found out that the company’s server got hacked. I solved the same problem before since I was the CEO.”

“So, you went there after being thrown out? Have you lost it dad?”

“Baby, Gibson apologized from the bottom of his heart for the misunderstanding and offered me double for joining the company again.”

“Ah! You should inform us, at least.” I spoke in dissatisfaction.

“I didn’t want to disturb your sleep, dear. Other good news, I also got a call from the place I took an interview yesterday and I got a job there too. So, You will make the choice, as in, you will decide where will I work from now onwards.” I was really happy to hear the great news from my father. I hugged him tight and as I was about to speak further, I noticed a group of uniformed men coming out of their car, that had the alert sirens on.

The police had arrived.

Drake jogged to one of them, and pulled him into a cozy hug. He was really well built, heighted and handsome. I believed this was his friend, Antonio. As he approached us, Drake introduced him to us. “Lydia, Peter, meet my friend, Antonio.” Drake spoke nicely, whereas Antonio gave out his hands for us to greet. Antonio looked really sociable.

"Good to see Mr. Peter is back safe and sound. I thought a cell phone is the easiest way of communication Mr. Peter." Antonio mumbled with a smirk,  while my father glared at him furiously, and then shifted his gaze to me.

“Lydia, we need to talk alone.” Antonio demanded.

I nodded in agreement and walked off with Antonio, leaving my father and Drake behind. They both had a question mark on their face. Anyway, Antonio started giving me some information.

“Lydia, before coming here, we did some investigation. I sent some of my team members to find the water bottle from which your dog drank the water. To start the investigation, we gave a phone call to the company where your father works to ask some questions regarding the clean up, like when did they clean up last and who came to collect the trash this week. Fairly, someone called Mr. Gibson Grey gave us information that the parking lot has not been cleaned up since three months because of lack of labor. Aren’t we lucky?”

I just smiled at him and didn’t reply. He continued,

“The main point is, we found a blue color bottle which had some snake poison in it. I want you to come with me and recognize the bottle please.”

“What? Our bottle was blue in color! How did you get it so quick?”

“Do you believe in luck?” He responded quickly.

“I don’t anymore. I have to think about it now.” I teased, with a laugh.

“Okay. Let this be confidential between us for now. I don’t want anyone to know anything, especially your father. I heard he gets mad easily. Short tempered huh?”

Should I tell him about Clara’s messages? I wondered.

“Lydia? Is there something on your mind? Don’t hide anything from us, me.”

“No, nothing at all.” I replied Antonio with a half smile. Before showing him the messages, I thought to talk with Drake about the matter first, since he didn’t know anything. What if the messages put my mother into trouble? Clara mentioned in the message that my mother was the leader of all plans. Why do I care about my mother? 

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