The 3 month search for my father has proven to be futile. I have gone through his laptop, I have gone through the contacts I could find and they all have the same response…they haven't heard from father or seen him at all.
The thought of him being in trouble has crossed my mind and it brings so much pain to my heart but I have to remain positive for him, that I will find him, but even that is proving to be difficult.
I don't know what to do anymore, he never told me anything about his job or anything pertaining to it, so I'm just running on assumptions and no facts cause nothing seems to be coming together.
I had asked so many times but he would always deflect the topic or he would tell me that it is better that I don't know. It's honestly so frustrating, but I know my dad would do anything for me,and he must have had my best interest at heart.
I hear my phone ringing and grab my phone from the bedside table and see 3 missed calls from my best friend Shelby, I see her name flash the screen as I swipe the green icon and her soft voice comes through
"Hello Al" she says. Shelby has always been my sister from another mother. We have been through a lot together. "Hey Shel, how are you doing? I saw your missed calls ." " Nothing much, just wanted to ask if you are at home". "Yup you can come over". " Okay be there at 15". I smile and cut the call, feeling hungry and knowing Shelby, she'll definitely be hungry so I order our favorite pizza and some shawarma and head over to the shower to freshen up .
Coming down just in time to hear the doorbell ring, I open the door and a 5'2 figure comes barreling into me. I look at my best friend and smile. "Shelly I've told you to be careful what if we had fallen". "Ally you know I don't care" she says putting her hands on her hips while rolling her eyes.
My eyes take in her short hourglass figure as my eyes meet her brown doe eyes and then her choice of hair colour of the week and I smile .
"You changed your hair color" I say. She raises her brows "Are you just noticing?" She laughs "well I just decided to try out this shade of red" "well it suits you". "thanks babe, now where is the food". "I ordered some pizza and shawarma, it will be here soon". I say looking away.
My mind racing with thoughts as to what would have happened to my dad. "What's wrong Ally". Shelly's soft voice startles me out of my thoughts. " What do you mean?". I say trying to look away.
" I can see it on your face, you are obviously not alright,tell me what's wrong".
I burst out crying. " Aww… Alana what happened, you can tell me if there is something wrong I'll try to fix it." I looked into her eyes seeing the concern and worry swirling in her brown eyes.
"It's my dad, he has been gone for a while now and I haven't heard from him or seen him. You know it's not like him, I'm scared what if something has happened to him, what will I do without him". I say crying even harder. " Alana, Uncle tobi usually goes for his work trip all the time- "I know that but it's never been like this. I have this feeling that something is wrong but I don't know where to start looking for him".
"Okay Alana let's calm down here, and try to break this down, when was the last time you saw him?."
"I can't really remember but I think it was after my last exam". "I'm sure he'll come back, maybe something is holding him back and you know he'll never miss your big day" she says smiling.
I smile too, I'll finally start practicing nursing. I'll officially become a specialized nurse in Anesthesiology.
I had started nursing school at the age of 18, I'd always been considered smarter than most but that being said, nursing school was tough and tested my mental stability more than I'd like to admit, but I did it and I'm graduating with the highest honors, and I want my dad to be there with me. Thinking about it just makes me cry harder.
We both snap our heads to the door as we hear the doorbell. "The food must be here". I say standing up to go get the door. I quickly clean my tears and blink my eyes as fast as possible to make my eyes seem less red.
I walk to the door and open it. "Hey Alana". I look up smiling. " Hey Joshua. How are you doing" I say looking into his pretty blue eyes. He blushes and replies "I'm good, how is Uncle Tobi" my smile falls "he's good" I say feeling bad all over again. " Are you sure?You don't look so good". Deciding to change the topic.
"Are you saying I'm ugly Joshua". I say feigning a sad face. "No no of course not, you are so p-pretty. How can I say you are ugly". He stumbles over his words while blushing. I smile and look at him " don't worry I'm just joking with you". He looks at me and smiles like he wants to say something but he doesn't . " Well I better get going," he says. " Okay Josh see you around". " Bye" he waves as he walks to his bike.
I enter the house with a smile and see my best friend with a knowing smile. "What" I say looking at her. "You know he has a crush on you right". I pause looking at her, I won't lie Josh is very cute and he has a great personality but I don't have time for a relationship and I tell her just that.
"Well even if he does, it won't work out, I have a lot going on in my life". I say looking at her. " Well that's why you need a man". " Drop it Shell, the food is getting cold and I don't like cold pizza". "Okay okay, let's watch some movies" she says grabbing the food.
We had a movie marathon, filled with laughter, crying, blushing for various male actors and critics from Shelly.
Shelly gets up and stretches like a lazy cat. " Al I should get going, it's pretty late and dad is going to be mad, and also my brother is coming back today".
"Oh okay, call me when you get home okay". I get up to hug her and walk her to the door. " Drive safe, love you". " Love you too girl, and Ally make sure you rest everything will be okay". I smile and nod even though deep down I don't really believe it.
She gets into her car and drives off. I shut the door and lock it, I go to check the doors and windows before cleaning up the food boxes and keeping the rest in the fridge.
I go upstairs to go to my room when I see my dad's office door. I usually don't go into his office but I just get this feeling to go in, maybe I'll find something on where he went or something.
I look around his office, and I can still smell his signature scent and it just made me feel even worse. So I just start looking around. I check his drawers and his files but there is nothing. I was about to give up when I saw a photo of him and I when we went to the beach last year and I walked up to it. Smiling, I reach over to brush his face on the photo when I notice…something is wrong, so I feel around and feel a button.
I press the button and it opens up to a safe and I'm not really shocked as my father can be rather mysterious sometimes.
I try to think of the pin to the safe, and so I try his birthday but it doesn't work, I try mine it doesn't work and then I suddenly remember the day I got into nursing school and I enter the date and it clicks open.
I smile and it immediately drops when I see 6 bundles of cash and like 4 guns. What was he doing with these?I think to myself, I quickly shake my head and focus on the task at hand. Reaching into the safe, I pull out the bundles of cash and the guns and then some other random stuff, when I see his diary, and then some papers and a flash drive.
I quickly go to my room and open my laptop and put it in. Loads of files start showing up and I try to go through them but it will take a lot of time. So I just surf through when I find the folder "Knightfall" and I click on it.
A lot of things pop up bank statements, strategies and God knows what but what really catches my attention are the emails between my dad and "A.A.K" the name doesn't seem familiar at all but I know if anyone knows anything about my father, it will be him.
Using one of the skills my father taught me, I track the emails, and it came from an uptown club called Euphoria. Shock filled me as I never expected the email to come from a club as my dad never struck me as a club person, but after all this I'm starting to realize I never knew much about the m
an I called a father.