An: repay for your kind act...
(She kept the photo and letter in her pocket)(Outside)
Al: I caught you Amy..
Am: uhh..it is impossible..nobody have ever caught me from here..
(Meanwhile Annie came out from the basement and prevented them from further quarrelling)
An: it,s just a game..we can play again.
(At evening)
Annie was lying on the bed reading the letter again and again. She was curious to know what the letter was about..
An: Amy do you know the person in this photo??
Am: ummm...no..well who is he??
An: don,t tell to anyone ok... actually I got a letter from the basement. The letter was sent to our dad 6 years back..
Am: a letter...let me see..14 July 2014...but at that time dad was in the hospital..
An: how do you know..
Am: did you forget..on 16th of July he was going to have a surgery..
An: oh..I forgot about it..then how did the letter came out in the basement. Someone has to sign in order to receive Such a letter...
Am: yes...at that time everyone was in the hospital..that,s strange..
An: look...the place in the photo... don't you think we have been there before??
Am: café corner...hey it is our dad,s favourite spot. During weekends he would loves to go there..
An: yes, he does..
(Alex came running into their room, shuts the door hardly and jumped into Annie,s bed)
Am: well..what do you think you are doing..
Al:me...I just want to hear some stories..
Am: now ...it,s evening only
Al: so...
Am: we can,t.. we are feeling sleepy now go and come back later..
Al: no...I want to hear the story now...
(He keeps crying as a baby)Am: urghh...this kid..
An: well then..let me tell you a story..
(After the story)
Al: umm..the story is quite good...it is like my dad saying to me...
An: oh is it....
Al: mmm..my mom never get the time to tell the stories..she was always busy working in the café...
Am: sorry to hear that...
Al: it,s ok..you know after the school... I would run into the café to go home with my mom..at that time I would spend time in the childcare next to it...I always feels sad when she works day and night in the café corner for us...
Am: wait...what did you say..cafécorner...
Al: yes...
An: how long she has been working there..
Al: that...I don't know...she has always been there when I goes to school...
Am: oh is it..
Al: yes
(Children, it,s dinner time get up...and have your food)
An: Alex, you can go we would come in a while..
Al: ok
(After Alex left the room)
Am: shh..don,t you think Alex,s mom have met our dad???
An: well...he might have..
Am: why don,t we go to the café and check about it???
An: but..she is dead..
Am: well...I know..I didn't, mean that..there would be a lot of customers who regularly comes to the café...we can ask if our dad have met the person in this photo...
An: well...we can even ask the people who works there...after all our dad was a special customer in their café..someone might have seen him with our dad...
Am: that,s true..
Annie, don't you feel like it is one of the investigation stories we loves to read??An: hmm.. I never thought it would happen in our lives too...
Am: (giggles)
An: well...then let,s have dinner..
Am: hmm..ok
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Mystery / ThrillerBORN TO SURVIVE is a story of two sisters who came from a middle class family. They were leading a very happy life until their father died due to a heart disease. But it turns out that it was a murder. After the death of their father the family were...