We are very sorry to call all of you here. But we hope you can co-operate with us” Mr. Philip explained. The gang just stared at him impatiently, unable to believe the situation they are in. “Look, I have already told you. With no evidence, I cannot assume anything. Therefore it’s my job to weigh all possibilities! This, for all of your information, was my final guess” Mr. Philip replied apologetically. “Fine, we will co-operate. But we are telling you once and for all, we did not plan it just to kidnap them and for goodness sake, My Friend Was Kidnapped! They are also not ******** who would poison a friend!...me!” Vikram said, half wanting the urge to pounce on him. Mr. Philip sighed and replied. “Alright, we take that as your statement. Investigations will continue and until we have further evidences to proof all of you right, you all would have to come by the station whenever required, understood? Or it would be taken that you are running away and we may have to bring you here by force.” Mr. Philip warned.
“What the hell! Who does he think he is! Sherlock homes!?” Firdaus shouted in anger. “If he was Sherlock homes, he would have some evidences by now” Nisa replied. “Zahira, you have been silent from just now. What’s the matter? Is it about this problem? Don’t worry alright, it will be fine.” Nadera consoled Zahira. “…I know what I’m saying sounds very bad…but…Shafiq didn’t come to school. The two are missing. He’s our friend. You don’t think…” Zahira gulped, unable to say out the worst. “No way!!” Nadera exclaimed. “Come on, don’t listen to her. Remember when we were planning how to rescue Firdaus during the weekends? Then I said to rescue him on Saturday and come back by Sunday night?” Deborah asked Nadera. She replied, “urm…ya…then Nisa said that it’s impossible to find him by one day because it takes almost a day to get there and a few hours to find him…”. “And Zahira suggested to go to the cave on Saturday and search for the place where Firdaus is, give him food and return on Sunday to rescue him as we would already know where he is” Nisa continued. There was silence for a few seconds. Then Baihakki, “Hey…both are the same!” he exclaimed. “…but we all believed it blindly as we were too confused to realise that she was talking nonsense!” Deborah ended.
“Oh man…and I said it would take about one whole day to get there when it only took about 5 hours…” Nisa said, not able to believe what a big mistake she had done. “And I said that it’s school time…no holidays…but it was true! Holidays were 2 weeks away. We couldn’t wait 2 weeks to rescue him! Our parents were away on holiday in KL so didn’t need to worry about them. But like Nadera said, our teachers? So maybe that’s why I ended up suggesting weekends again…but what are you coming to Deborah? You telling me that Nisa and I talk rots!?” Zahira burst out in rage. “NO! I am saying that in times of panic, we tend to talk nonsense without thinking through carefully. So I am telling to stop jumping to conclusions. Why would they want to kidnap him compared to all the other closer friends we have!” Deborah replied, shouting back. “Like who?” Legolas asked, trying to make them change subjects. Deborah was about to shout again, when she realised…
“See? Our next closest friend is Shafiq! So you don’t think they escaped and kidnapped Shafiq to…well…lure us?” Zahira explained calmly to Deborah. “What about Faeez?” Deborah reminded them. “Oh my god! He didn’t come to school today either!” Nadera cried out in fear. Nisa immediately took her handphone and was about to dial Faeez number when it started ringing. She immediately turned pale and just stared at her handphone. “What are you waiting for? Pick up the phone” Zahira said. Nisa showed the screen of her phone to them. They all came closer to look. It was Ghazali trying to call her.
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