To Find Grace

Episode 43

Jack got home humming to a song as he carried a plastic bag containing a dress he had purchased for Grace to wear for the meeting he scheduled with her parents Ben and Jena.

“I will bring her to your house this evening mam, don’t worry yourself” he had promised Jena and was feeling optimistic with what would be the outcome of the meeting, he desired more than anything for Grace to have a good rapport with her parents, partly because he wanted her to have a good home and somewhat he wanted to declare his intentions of marrying her to his parents and knowing how strict his mother was with marrying a woman from a decent home, he knew he would never get her to accept a woman who had so much conflicts with her family.

“Baby! Baby!” he called out getting to the door but he was answered with silence and the moment he took the first step towards the door, he noticed the door was still locked. He pushed his hands in his back pockets and pulled out the keys unlocking the door.

The following 30 minutes he paced around trying to get Grace to answer his call and now he was getting worried when the line could not go through anymore he was being told the phone was switched off.
“Where is she?” he asked himself feeling worried now that it was minutes to 19 pm.
Jena and Ben were watching the clock as they waited for the arrival of Jack and Grace.
“Are they coming?” she asked her husband sitting back in the couch, and crossing her legs she was all dressed up in a long nice pitch dress. Ben was nicely dressed in a plain white shirt and dark blue pair of trousers.
“Relax Jena, they will be here, Jack said 19 pm and am sure they are on their way as we speak” Ben sighed sitting on the arm of the couch were his wife was. The moment he wanted to say another word they heard a car driving in from outside and the sound of the gate closing.
“that must be them” Ben stood up walking towards the door Jena quickly followed him the kids too seeing their parents head out they followed suit excited at meeting a new member of the family.
“What is going on?” Jena whispered seeing Jack looking so disturbed he rushed towards them panting as he flipped the car keys in his hands nervously.

“Jack you came alone?” Ben stepped forward meeting him before he could get to the family.

“Am sorry, can we speak in private?” Jack spoke close to Ben he looked back at his wife and at Jack.

“Yeah sure, come on here” Ben signaled for him to follow him to the living room and closed the door back after telling his wife he would see Jack in Private.
“What is going on Jack” he asked upon facing him.

“Um, am sorry to come in like this but am worried and I think Grace is missing” Jack responded
“Missing?” Ben frowned not understanding his statement.

“Yes missing, the thing is I told her we will come see you and even though she hesitated a little bit we concluded it was good we came to see you and your family. I text her in the afternoon she told me the interview she had attended went on well and she was heading home. I offered to take her home but she declined saying she was going to get a taxi” Jack quickly explained

“Okey, I get all that, but why is she not here?” Ben shrugged in wonder.
“Well, I told you she is missing. I have tried to get in touch with her since I went back home but there is no response, her phone is even off now and I am worried something must have happened to her Ben” Jack sighed sadly.

“Wait, maybe she doesn’t want to come and she decided to go back to Diana” Ben suggested
“No, if it was that, Grace could have told me, she is not one to just run off like that, I can assure of that fact. If she didn’t want to come I could have not dragged her here. She could have told me point blank she was not interested. Am worried Ben, Diana`s line is off too which is weird.” He sighed looking at Ben who was now lost thinking of any ideas of what was actually going on.

They were still trying to ascertain what was going on when Jack Phone Vibrated and he slid it open to answer it.
“Hello” he answered
“hello is this Jack?” the voice on the other side asked making Jack look at his phone once again to make a confirmation he had no idea who was calling him.

“Yes it is mam, may I know the person calling?” he asked making Ben move closer to look at jack expecting to hear something from Grace.

“I got your number from my daughter Dingile. Am her mother and am worried with Diana, she has been acting up with the issue of Grace and yesterday I didn’t like her statement” the mother to Dingile stated making