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Zion
she left go of my hands and headed to the couch.

"what, you just gonna watch tv?" i asked.

"yeah, i gotta get my mind off of it."

"how? it's your kid-"

"zion, i know, but i just wanna act like everything is okay for a minute."

"but everything is not okay. our baby is missing, b." i said with tears in my eyes.

"and like i said, it's in the police's hands. we already found something, baby." she said touching my cheek.

"blythe.."

"go rest. do something to distract you."

i rolled my eyes and headed upstairs. i took my phone and click on my mama's contact. i stared at it, before clicking the phone icon. the ringing keeping me in suspense.

"hey, zion!" she said with happiness in her voice.

i didn't respond right away. i took a deep breath and had tears flowing down my face.

"everything okay?" she asked.

"n-no....i..." i covered my eyes with my hand.

"zion? what's going on?"

"alanna....she's...."

"zion?" i heard behind me.

"blythe." i said and turned again.

"what are you doing?" she asked walking into the room.

"zion? tell me what's going on. what happened to alanna?" my mom asked.

"is that your mom?" she whispered.

"she's missing, ma. she's gone." i finally said.

i could tell that there was some disappointment in blythe's face.

"what do you mean missing? zion, talk to me."

"we went to the playground yesterday and i went to go get my phone and when i came back, she wasn't there."

"what? where was blythe?" she asked. i turned to face her once more.

she chuckled and left the room.

i told my mother everything that happened. there was only silence at the other end of the line.

"she wasn't watching her own damn kid?" my mom finally said.

"i don't think anyone would think that their child would get kidnapped, ma."

"doesn't matter! this is america and things like this happen all the time! how can she turn her back on her? tell a guy which one is her kid and let him touch her like that!"

"mom, she was probably scared of the guy. you know what she's been through in the past. blythe was raped by her father, ma-"

"don't find excuses for her! i'm very disappointed. now we got a missing kid on our hands."