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It was a normal Autumn Wednesday, Angie was sitting at the kitchen table with her warm oatmeal, staring out into the mountains behind her house. The phone rang and she could hear her mom rushing around upstairs to answer it, while getting ready for work. When her mom hung up the phone, she came downstairs and and informed Angie that her boss needed her to travel to New York for work on a business trip. Angie got a little upset because that was the weekend of her school homecoming, and she afraid her mom would miss seeing her in her dress with her date, Sam. Her mom told her she would be home Saturday morning and would have plenty of time to help her get ready. Although Angie feared her mom still wouldn't be home in time, she hugged her goodbye and she left for school.

__**Where Did She Really Go?**__

That day at school, Angie was talking to her friend, Sara, about homecoming. Sara told Angie she couldn't get ready for homecoming with her because she was going to be at her brothers wedding in Philadelphia. Angie was counting on her plans with Sara, but now they were canceled. At this point, Angie sent her mom a text and told her what had happened and how she really needed her home in time to get ready. She didn't get a response back from her mom, and didn't think anything of it. "She's probably just in a meeting." Angie thought to herself.

Friday morning, Angie tried calling her mom before school, but she still didn't get a response. She tried again during lunch, and again on the bus ride home from school, still no reply. Angie was beginning to get worried. Whenever her mom goes on business trips, she always calls to check up on her and let her know when she'll be back. Angie called her boyfriend, Sam and told him she hadn't heard from her mom. He told her not to worry and that she was probably just busy. Angie hardly slept that night, she was too busy over thinking why her mom hadn't called.

Saturday morning, the first thing Angie did was check her voice mail; Nothing. She had her breakfast and watched some T.V, then sat on her porch waiting for her mom to get home. An hour went by, then two hours, her mom still hasn't gotten home. It was 1:00 now and Angie felt she should start getting ready for her homecoming night. She started putting on her makeup, then attempted to do her hair, even though her mom was the only one that knew how to do it the right way. It was 4:00 and her mom still hadn't gotten home. At this point, Angie was really getting worried. She called Sam and told him her mom wasn't home and to get over to her house fast. When Sam got to Angie's house, she was debating whether or not to call the police. Angie starting thinking her mom was missing or something had happened on her trip. Sam told her to call the hotel her mom was staying in, so she did but the concierge said no one that had booked a room with her moms name. Angie asked about the other two people that were going on the trip with her, but they weren't checked in there either. At this point, there was no way Angie was going to homecoming. She was going to find her mom.

First, Angie called her moms office and asked her boss if her mom ever went on the business trip in the first place, he said she stopped by the office in a hurry on Wednesday, didn't talk to anyone, then drove away quickly. Angie asked if she was alone in the car, her boss said no, it looked like there was a man in the passengers seat. He said he thought it was my mom's husband or boyfriend. Apparently her boss didn't know my dad had passed away 3 years ago in a hit and run. I was with my dad in the car, and I got the license number of the other car. I was the one that put the guy away in jail. I left my mom's office and went home to tell Sam what I had heard. I decided I wouldn't get the police involved quite yet, because I didn't have enough information. She checked her mom's email on the home computer and found out her mom never bought a plane ticket to New York, but she did get an email about booking a hotel in Virginia. Virginia is only a state about where Angie and her mom live, North Carolina, so she most likely drove there. Angie asked Sam to take a bus with her to Virginia and as crazy as it was, he said yes.

The bus dropped Angie and Sam off about a mile away from the hotel her mom had reserved a room in, which was very lucky. Her and Sam started to walking to the hotel and when the hotel was in visual distance of where they were, they saw a ton of flashing lights, and hear police cars and ambulances. They started to walk faster, then began running to the hotel. When they got to the hotel parking lot, it was roped off, stretchers were being pulled out of the ambulances and she saw a man in hand cuffs being put into a police car. Terrified, Angie asked a police officer what had happened, and informed him that her mom was supposed to be staying in that hotel. He told her there had been a shooting in the hotel. As soon as he told her that, she saw a woman that looked a lot like her mom being taken out of the hotel on a stretcher, then, she realized it was her mom. She ran passed the officers and to her mom. Her mom had been shot. Sam and Angie rode to the hospital in the ambulance with her mom. When they got there, Angie wasn't even aloud to see her mom until the officer had talked to her and gotten information on what had happened that night in the hotel lobby.

When the investigator was done talking with Angie's mom, she came out to talk to the police officer. When it was Angie's turn to hear what had happened, she sat down with the investigator and listened. It turns out, the phone call her mom got on Wednesday wasn't a business call, it was a man named Jared. He was the guy that was put in jail for killing Angie's dad in that car accident 3 years ago. He wanted to hurt Angie for getting him put in jail, since she was the one that got his license number. God knows how he found that out. Angie's mom said he would give him in money instead, and to leave her out of it, he said 'okay' at first, but when Angie's mom got to the hotel to meet him, he told her he wanted her to bring Angie. He was planning on taking Angie, not the money. When he found out Angie wasn't with her, he shot her along with 2 other people in the hotel lobby. Angie was shocked to hear this story, and felt like it was all her fault. She went to talk to her mom, then got so overwhelmed her broke down and left the room. The doctor informed Angie that her moms condition was critical, and she may not make it. Angie didn't leave her moms bed side, until she flat lined. Then, she sat next to her crying for hours.

After many trials against the man who killed Angie's mother, he was sentenced to life in prison. Angie ended up moving to China Grove, NC, which was about an hour away from her home, to live with her aunt, who was her legal guardian now. Angie had been through a lot, and she will never forget all of those horrific events in her life, but she will be able to grow from them.

Two years later, Angie went to college and studied to be a crime detective. What happened to Angie inspired her to help people get justice for horrible things that have happened in their lives. She wanted to make sure no one ever got away with a crime as terrible as the one that had happened to her mother.

About a year later, Angie got a phone call from the person that had investigated her moms death.. "Jared escaped from jail..."

To be continued.....