Tilda's Promise by Jean P. Moore

Author:Jean P. Moore
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: She Writes Press
Published: 2018-10-22T16:00:00+00:00

“She’s missing, Mom. We’ve called the police,” said Laura. That voice message and several others from Laura were there waiting to be retrieved the second Tilda turned on her phone upon arriving at Miami International late Tuesday morning, the day before New Year’s Eve. Taken together, the frantic messages told the barest essentials of the story. The first call came early in the morning before the plane touched down. “Call me right away, as soon as you get in.” The next one was garbled, but Laura had apparently been talking to Mark when the recording began. “She still doesn’t have her phone on,” she heard Laura say before hanging up. And then the last one left minutes before they landed.

Tilly was missing, but for how long, Tilda did not know. George dropped her off at Laura’s and asked if she wanted him to come in, to stay with her. No, she had said, but she promised to call as soon as she knew something.

He carried her bag to the door, and, before she could go in, he grabbed her hand. “I hope you know how much you mean to me. I won’t rest until I know everything is okay.”

“Thank you, George. I promise I’ll let you know.” She turned, picked up her bag, and let herself in, leaving him standing there.

Laura was with Mark in the living room, talking to two policemen who were just leaving. Tilda put down her bag and ran to Laura, who nearly collapsed in her arms before they both sat on the sofa, still holding each other. Mark walked the officers to the door, and Laura, gaining some composure, pulled gently away from her mother and began to tell her everything that had transpired since Tilly had gone missing the day before. Tilly had seemed fine and had asked for a ride to Andrea’s. They were going to the mall, she said. Laura dropped her off, but later in the afternoon, when Tilly didn’t call for a ride home, Laura began calling and texting. Tilly didn’t answer, so Laura called Andrea’s and spoke to Kelly, Andrea’s mother, who said Tilly hadn’t been there all day.

“I just dropped her off. She told me to drop her off, and I did.” Laura’s sobs were beginning to mount. “I didn’t wait. I always wait, but yesterday I had left a cake in the oven, and I guess I was in a hurry to get home,” she said before giving in to her tears. “She must’ve waited till I was gone and then went . . . wherever she was going.”

She took a tissue from her pocket. “When she still wasn’t home by dark, we called the police. They came right over and took all the information we had, which wasn’t much, but they said they had to wait till morning to do a missing persons bulletin. Mark spent the night combing the neighborhood and driving the streets wherever he thought she could be. I kept calling her and texting, but nothing, no response.

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