MrBallen

Jonathan was crying at this point, and so Alexia's family tried to assure him that, you know, Alexia would probably just show up at the house any minute here.

Like, nothing's going on.

I'm sure she's just running late.

And Jonathan, he wanted to believe this, but this was completely unusual.

Like, this was not normal for Alexia to be gone for this long without being in touch.

It just didn't make sense.

It was at this point that Jonathan's brother-in-law, Gregory, reached out and put his hand on Jonathan in a sort of comforting way and just said, look, if it makes you feel any better, I'll go back with you and we can literally go look for Alexia together or at least be together until she comes back.

Jonathan didn't really know what to do, but he was very thankful and said, yep, that would be great.

And so a couple of minutes later, the two men got in Gregory's SUV and they began driving back towards their house.

But Jonathan actually navigated him through the streets along the running route that Alexia usually took to see if maybe they could find her.

They drove down all the side streets looking for her.

And then when they reached the edge of town, Jonathan and Gregory got out of the car and began checking the paths leading into the countryside and also the ditches and the banks of the river.

But they didn't find Alexia anywhere.

And then eventually they just drove back to Jonathan and Alexia's house to see if maybe she'd finally come home with an explanation for all this.

But she had not come home.

At this point, Jonathan was completely beside himself.

And so Gregory, doing his best to stay calm, said, you know what, let's go to the hospital and see if Alexia had turned up there.

A few minutes later, when they stopped in the parking lot of the local hospital, Jonathan jumped out of the car and ran towards the main entrance, where two nurses were taking a cigarette break.

Jonathan told these nurses that he was here looking for his wife and that she'd gone on a run three hours ago and no one knew where she was now and maybe she's here.

So the nurses, who could clearly tell this was an emergency, they put out their cigarettes and went inside to check the register.