Loveless Page #3

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- The school called right now,

they said he wasn't there

neither today not yesterday.

- What do you mean?

And who called?

- The head teacher.

- The head teacher?

And what did she say?

- That he wasn't there!

Neither today, not yesterday! Are you deaf or what?

- Had he been in at home?

- I don't know!

I came yesterday at night,

I thought he's sleeping.

Woke up late today.

I thought he's already left, as usually.

His phone is off, has he called you?

- No.

- Dear God...

- Stop panicking, he'll come back,

what else will he do.

We need to call that...

the friend of his.

- I already have, he hadn't seen him either.

Neither today, not yesterday.

- I see.

And where are you now?

- At home, where else.

- And you f***in cannot understand if he

had been home or not?

- I damn cannot!

- Why?

It's easy.

- Then come and see yourself!

- I'm at work, in case you didn't know.

- We haven't heard of him

for more than 24-hours,

do you get this or not?

- Maybe he's in the elevator

right now, for example.

I think you're exaggerating.

He must have done something

and is afraid now that

you'll give him a beating.

That's why he's roaming around somewhere...

- So, I'm at fault now, right?

- You even...

You don't even know if he had been at home or not.

He probably had.

Hello?

Hello?

- Listen.

I'm calling the police right now,

and you can keep sitting at your work

and speculate what may had been

and what may not.

Got it?

Blockhead!

- Dasha, look,

one office worker

says to another office worker:

"What car do you have?"

"Volkswagen Passat"

"And I have Volkswagen Credit"

- So funny.

- Look,

one office worker...

- Wait wait wait, Seryozha...

- It was funny.

- I've finished.

- Good, thank you.

Take that.

Wait for me in the car,

we have one more call.

- Okay.

- What can I say.

I see no crime here.

- What crime?

- You know, sometimes

the parents finish off their child

and then claim that the child got lost.

- You thought that way about me?

- That's the version we check the first.

Here we have a "runner", the usual case.

12 years old, a rebel-heart,

full of hormones.

He'll roam around for a couple of days

and will come back.

Well, we can, of course, go to the Department,

spend a couple of hours filling a detailed form -

and probably already not today.

At least because your husband

must be present as well.

And even then,

I think this case won't go further

than the material checking.

- You say there's no crime.

And what if he was kidnapped?

Cause I can't even imagine

where he can be now.

- He must be roaming somewhere around the block.

He won't last long.

He's used to the comfort, and it's right here.

They come back to such families

that you couldn't even imagine.

Cause the street is not a home,

no matter how shitty the latter is.

And considering the kidnapping,

This is how it goes:

First, there's the material checking. It means:

Examining the parents, relatives,

friends, possible witnesses and so on.

We don't have enough staff for it.

Plus, there are a lot of other cases -

robberies, murders, burglaries, thuggery.

Thus, collecting materials can last

a couple of days.

If by then the "runner" doesn't come back,

the searching operations begin.

And if during them we find reasons,

i.e. factual evidence of murder or kidnapping,

then criminal proceedings are initiated.

But it is initiated by

the investigating committee.

You know yourself, how long can it take.

The writing itself takes forever.

During this time they usually

come back and run away again.

- So, you won't do anything, right?

- Ma'am, I'm explaining the real situation.

We must react and we will.

But in this particular case

we physically don't have time or staff

to keep chasing every teenager.

- I got it.

The case will be thrown to a trash-bin, right?

And what do I do?

Just sit and wait till he returns?

And what if he doesn't return?

- Facts are stubborn things...

In most cases

the teenage "runners" come back

in a week's time,

in 10 days at most.

What I can advise is,

If you really want to start looking for him,

go to the internet,

to the web-page of the search-and-rescue squad,

call them, give them all the information,

they'll tell which information they need.

They are volunteers, not a government service.

They work 24-hours, for free,

without any bureaucracy,

A well-developed highly-efficient

algorithm of actions.

Where do I know from?

Have been collaborating, productively.

Look, here's my card.

Your phone number

has already been written down,

we'll stay in touch.

- Is that it?

- For now, yes.

- Unreal.

- Listen.

If it were any other officer,

it would have been

much harsher and less informative.

And it's not because I'm so kind.

It's because I save my time, yours

and volunteers'.

Who will start searching

the sooner you contact them.

And they will find your fool

somewhere in the streets or in a mall.

And most probably, at some place of his friend's,

whose parents went away for a day or two

so that he's alone now.

So, take actions.

Or keep waiting, it's up to you.

- When have you spoken to him last time?

- I just saw him leaving for school.

- Good afternoon.

- Good afternoon.

- I'm sorry, there are traffic jams.

- Take a seat, engage yourself,

my name's Ivan,

I'm the coordinator

of the search-and-rescue squad.

- Yes, my wife told me on the phone.

- Great. Then, let's start. I mean, continue.

So, I say it one more time

so that there are fewer questions.

Now I'm going to carefully ask you

about your son, Alyosha,

while other searchers are surveying

the neighbours, possible witnesses,

on the streets, in the shops,

everywhere where he could have been seen.

Yes, Lena?

- The neighbours got nothing.

- Nothing at all?

- Nobody has seen him, neither yesterday, not today.

They can't remember.

There are more of us now, in the parking place.

- Good.

- And we have the posters now.

- Oh, got printed? Good job.

- I'll continue with the neighbours.

- Keep surveying.

Right.

Depending on the results of the survey,

we'll focus on particular objects and tasks.

We finish with you now

and to to the police department.

Your detective officer promised

to help out with the security cam footage.

It's very important and it may help us a lot.

Next.

Since the night is coming,

the guy needs to sleep somewhere.

It's not summer outside.

We'll search the doorways.

We'll ask the same officer for the door-codes,

hopefully he won't refuse.

So. From the very beginning.

Alyosha Sleptsov.

12 years old,

around 1 m 50 cm tall.

Healthy, no specific marks.

Blond hair.

was wearing blue jeans,

a red jacket with a hoodie,

blue sneakers.

Had a blue schoolbag.

Left the house yesterday, as usually.

Hasn't come back since, as it seems.

The mobile phone is off

but we keep calling nevertheless.

Got it. Next.

Tell me, what kind of hobbies does the boy have?

Any sport clubs, maybe planning to go

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