Looking everywhere

Aina runs to wake her parents. Her voice trembles. "Ayah, Ibu, the necklace... it's gone."

Her father drives back to the hotel. Aina and her mother search the flat. They are very thorough. They check every pocket and every bag, and they look under the beds. Nothing.

In the morning, the hotel workers search the hall, and her father calls the police. Nobody has seen a necklace.

By Sunday evening they are desperate. They have tried everything, and they do not know what else to do.

Aina feels devastated, and she cries for hours. She is too exhausted to sleep. "Hana trusted me," she says. "What can I tell her?"

Her mother has an idea. "We'll buy the same necklace and give it to her. Hana doesn't need to know."

At first Aina says no. But her mother convinces her. "It's the only way," she says. So Aina sends Hana a message: Can I keep the necklace for a few more days? It's broken, and I'm getting it fixed.

On Monday they go to a big jewellery shop in KLCC. The man looks at Aina's photo. "We have the same one," he says. The necklace is very valuable, so he keeps it in a locked glass box.

"How much?" asks her father.

"Eighteen thousand ringgit."

Nobody speaks. Aina is full of despair. There is no hope now. Her family has never had so much money.

Then her father takes a deep breath. "We'll find the money," he says. "Somehow."