I asked Sydney to make a call and I knew she'd do this for me. For my girls. She called the school, telling them that the twins had flu. Elodie never went into the school, she never spoke to anyone or saw anyone she knew. It was plausible and the school marked them as absent for the day. I had just four hours before their mother would expect to find them waiting for her outside school, ready to attend the meeting with me. Four hours to find my daughter, and I didn't even know where to start. I hoped twins really were connected on a psychic level because I needed all the help I could get.
I called Maryam next. I told her what had happened, and she defied her guidelines for us. She would state that I'd showed up to the meeting. She told me to make sure the kids were at that meeting or her n
