CATHERINE
“Are you guys even listening to me?!” I screamed but no one seemed to listen.
My voice echoed through the jail cell, empty, angry. I paced the small space, flinching every time I heard a drop of water, or shuffling of footsteps.
The jingling of keys made my spine straighten and I rushed to the front, wrapping my hands against the cold steel bars. An officer stopped a foot away, shoving someone else into the cell next to me.
“Hey!” I called. “A child is in danger and you guys aren’t going to do anything about it? I’ve been saying the same thing for the past hour, at least look into it.”
The man barely glanced at me as he shut the gate close, locking it. “Twenty four hours before we can officially consider a person missing.” He lifted his eyes finally, raking them all over
