Malik and his son walks to the sitting room and Lola is still in tears.
"Can the girls still go to school today?" Abdullah asks immediately he sees them walk in.
"I guess they have to, I don't want them to know their elder sister is missing." He pauses and looks at his wife. "Or even see their mom crying."
The gatekeeper walks in. "The school bus is here to pick the girls sir."
"I will go get them." Shamim walks away and then returns some minutes later with the girls handing them over to the gate keeper and giving the girls strict warnings not to have anything to do with strangers. He exhales as soon as the girls left the room. "Where is Asma?"
Darifa clicks and tongue and replies. "She is in the room, just let her be I beg of you."
"Let her be?" Is she not feeling too well? Or did you guys have issues?" Asks Shamim.
"She is just acting too strange these days. I keep suspecting she is the insider because of the characters she is exhibiting." She replies.
"More so, she can't deny the fact that she knows we are looking for Ella, but still decides to stay in the room and act like nothing happened." Abdullah adds.
"She is such a snitch and an grateful animal. Even after Ella had done for in the past, she still had the mind to switch up on her that fast." Darifa spits annoyingly.
Asma walks out the room and bangs the door very loudly. "Enough of the talks Darifa." She says sternly and walks up to them. "You are doing too much already." She whispers staring deep into her eyes.
"I won't stop talking Until you stop acting up and let us know whose side you are really on." Darifa retorts and scoffs. "Chameleon and preventive swine."
"Don't call me names." Asma says sternly already fired up.
"Even if you get mad, even if you get frustrated? So? What you gonna do? Cause I guarantee you can't beat me up." Darifa replies fired up too.
"You girls should stop this now, we shouldn't be doing all these I think we should focus on how to find Ella." Malik cautions. "Every other thing should come after."
"If anything happens to Ella." Darifa looks at Asma scornfully for a second or two. "I will hold you responsible for it."
"What? Hold me responsible for what? Like I forced her out of the house or asked her to drop her phone?"
"Come to think of it, you are the only person that has come in contact with Jessica and yet no footages of her were caught on camera. I am pretty sure, she didn't do that alone. Someone was helping her, and I suspect you." Darifa persists.
"Mind what you say Darifa!" Asma warns at the top of her voice.
"Please stop this you are doing, it's so childish. We need to find Ella first." Abdullah whispers, tired of their conversation.
"Abdullah, come with us, I need us to check something outside." Shamim adds.
"Alright." He whispers and walks out with them.
"If Ella didn't make use of the main gate, then I am sure she made use of the garden gate." Shamim says to his father and Abdullah as they walk out of the building to the main compound.
"I guess so too, because I don't think she could have gone out through the fence or something." Malik says then pauses for a while , looking at the tall fence which is equipped with mighty barb wires. "She couldn't have used the fence."
"Garden gate?" Abdullah asks seeming lost already.
"Yes my dear. My job as a police officer made me build the house like this. You know, I catch the bad guys so the bad guys are always after me. Just for security purpose, I made a secret door at the garden which leads to an abandoned farm house very close to the next street."
"Ella knows about this place?" He asks again.
"Of course she does, she is my daughter, I don't hide or keep any thing from her."
"Father, what do you think we do now?" Asks Shamim.
"Let's go to the garden and see for ourselves." Malik whispers leading the way to the garden while the boys follow.