11. Phone Calls and Talks

CHINYERE LOOKED AT the phone on the table and ran to it without a second thought. 

She turned on the phone and fortunately for her, there was no password. 

She unlocked the phone by swiping upwards and clicked on the phone call app.

The phone was only nine percent and she knew she had to hurry. 

Mom's number or Amanda's number? Chinyere asked herself. 

"Chinyere, open the door," Mr. Oko said from behind the door. His voice snapped her back to reality and she knew she didn't have all the time in the world. 

Eight percent. 

She punched in her mother's phone number and brought the phone to her ear. 

Her mother immediately answered the phone. It was as though she had already been waiting for a phone call. 

"Hello?" her mom said. "Chọtala ya? Please tell me you have found my daughter. Sh–"

"Mommy," Chinyere interrupted her mother. She wanted to cry at the sound of her mother's voice and po