Still not able to believe and digest the fact of her kidnapping. He just kept on saying to himself that this is her kind of pulling a prank on him. He went towards the beach to inquiry among the tourist who where there with them while watching the sunset.
After inquiring few people about her whereabouts, one tourist volunteered himself disclosing the fact of stalking her as she way very attractive.
Tourist " I saw her picking up her bag and belongings, she kissed you on your forehead and whispered something in your ear and left you talking to her phone". Tourist tried to play the whole scene in his mind concentrating on words what he heard during her conversation over phone. After few minutes of great struggling he was able to remember the exact words " Don't drag him to this, he has nothing to do with this...I said I'll do and I'm doing my job. You don't have to remind me about my responsibilities. I'm warning you don't mess with me".
Ray was not able to digest the whole news of Hope being kidnapped and she keeping secrets from him, as they always shared everything with them how silly or major topics it might seem to be.
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After carrying on the further formalities like filing the missing report, giving basic information about Hope and the whole incedent from the beginning till the end, he dragged his tried body to beach to the same spot where they spent their last minutes together happily.
Ray sat on the shore with a beer can in one hand and a photograph of both of them smiling sweetly in another one with her favourite song of Ed Sheeran's photograph
We keep this love in a photograph
We made these memories for ourselves
Where our eyes are never closing
Hearts are never broken
And time's forever frozen still
So you can keep me inside the pocket of your ripped jeans
Holding me closer 'til our eyes meet
You won't ever be alone, wait for me to come home.....
As he listened to this song, he felt his heart bleeding and someone ripping his heart apart, it was an unbearable pain. Series of tears made its way through his brown eyes which have already lost its shine and sparkle, fell on the photograph making it wet in the process.
Placing beer can on the ground he hugged the photograph to his heart as if his whole life is being dependent on it and poured out all of his sorrows out through those uncontrollable tears which he was holding from a very long time. And he made a silent PROMISE to himself and to her to find her and punish those bastards and give them a very painful death who took her away from him.