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Chapter 8 - Chapter 6

Later in the day, after a long time of job hunting and getting dissapointed as none of the jobs she interviewed for was able to accept her terms and conditions especially Alexa, she was taking a stroll with Alexa when they came across the hotel which they had seen the day before which the driver had said was now used as a living space by the owner, upon seeing it Alexa who had been looking forlon immediately showed interest and begged her "Tory please let's see this place its very beautiful" "okay, but just this once" Tory answered as she was curious herself and she also wanted to find out if they were employing or were in need of any workers as the place was very good and would need a lot of workers. Upon entering the compound they saw that the hotel had a lot of teaberry trees, it was all so beautiful and the whole scene looked like it was plucked out of a Christmas postcard just without Christmas lights and the snow, there was also a playground where she could see three little children playing, they were still checking out the place when a woman came out and asked " hello, please how may I help you" "hello to you too, My name is Tory Watson , and this is my sister, we are new in town, we passed by yesterday nd decided to check this place out, also I wanted to inquire if you were employing" Tory said, Alexa at this point had already wandered to the playing ground where the children were playing, suddenly one of the children turned and saw Alexa and stopped playing Alexa smiled and waved at the cute girl while the girl shyly returned the wave but kept looking at Alexa, meanwhile Alexa kept checking out the compound, when she got to a garden a picture flashed through her mind but in the picture the garden was filled with a lot of people, because of the impact of the memory she swayed on her feet buy her sister was there on time to catch her " what's wrong" Tory asked " I don't know what happened but I remembered something just now" " what was it" Tory asked " I saw this garden but it was filled with people" Tory was dumbfounded but she thought that maybe during the time Alexa had run away from home, she had come to this same hotel before it had been converted, so she dismissed it as nothing serious, as they were still talking the child Alexa had waved at came to where they were talking and was looking at Alexa, Tory who had her back to the girl turned to look at what had taken Alexa's attention and when she looked at the little girl she gasped as the girl was the splitting image of Alexa, she even had the color of Alexa's hair, anyone who saw them would think they were twins, that is if they were of the same age. The woman who had been talking to Tory then walked into the garden and called out " Laura aren't you playing anymore" that was when she finally saw Alexa and she was also left dumbstruck. That was when the girl Laura finally said " Mummy is that you?, Daddy said you were saving the worldand would soon be back, are you really back now" then the woman finally found her voice "are you really Mrs Moore, because you look just like the picture" at this point she had already taken out her phone and started dialing numbers, meanwhile the other kids had already huddled round them and Tory noticed that each one of them had one resemblance or the other with Alexa but what shocked her the most was the boy among them he had the face of someone she knew but she couldn't seem to remember who, while Alexa who was already pale as she was trying to remember what had happened to her and was trying to force her memories fainted and it was as if all hell was let loose as the kids started crying, the woman had to call some other people who took the children in and then she called for ambulance and not long after Alexa was taken to the hospital with Tory and the woman in tow.