*This story will have multiple POV's (at least 4!)*
Prologue
I’m a good girl, Susie thought as she
made her way towards the garage where her bicycle was kept. At least, that’s what everyone tells me. And
if everyone says it’s true, then it has to be. She began to grip the rubber
handles of her smooth purple bike as she led it out of the garage doors. I mean, sometimes I’ll exclude a girl in
class, or maybe even tease the new-bees on my cheering squad, but that’s just
the fact of life, right? Susie had been thinking like this for a while. She
knew what she was doing was wrong, but she couldn’t really help herself. She
was the perfect child who never did anything wrong. Well, I have to get my anger out somehow. Susie thought as she
pulled herself over her bike, placed her feet on the square black pedals, and
began on her route.
When it came to
biking, Susie had a strict routine. She would take her bike out, ride two loops
around her neighborhood, and, if she was feeling lucky, she would ride up to
the front of her housing complex and then hurry home. There had been a lot of
disappearances in her town lately, so she was just trying to be cautious.
However, despite her efforts, her mom had still wanted her to stop riding. Over
these past couple weeks, they had been fighting over this exact subject, but it
wasn’t until last Monday when her mom had officially banned her from riding at
all. Susie understood – she really did – the kids that went missing were her
age, and frankly it scared her, but she wasn’t going to give up her biking
routine based on some idiotic superstition that she would get abducted on her
route. So when her mom practically dragged herself out of bed in order to go to
an early meeting at their local parish, Susie jumped at the opportunity to get
in her daily ride, one she had been deeply missing out on.
Unfortunately, Susie had barely finished her
first loop around her neighborhood when she knew that something was off. Stop being paranoid, Susie mentally
scolded herself, as she continued on her route. It wasn’t until she was about
halfway through her second loop that she noticed the black SUV driving rather
slowly, along the pavement beside her. Why
is this guy tailing me? Feeling panic starting to rise up inside of her,
she began to try to reason with herself. They
probably just need directions, or something. Just go up and ask. If they don’t
answer, then just ride home. Susie,
having made up her mind, climbed off her bike and pulled down the foot brake. As
the huge vehicle came to a stop, she proceeded towards the SUV and knocked
three times on the driver’s tinted window. Stop
worrying, she reminded herself, nothing
is going to happen to you. You are the captain of the cheering squad and the
head of five clubs at Ridendale High. Nothing is going to happen.
“Excuse me?” Susie said, attempting to
get the driver’s attention, “My name’s Susie, do you need any help?”
After Susie
ended her sentence, the driver rolled down their window, barely halfway, so
that Susie could hardly make out what the driver looked like. But, from what
she could tell, the driver was a woman, maybe in her mid- 30’s. She had light-toned
skin, and brown hair that covered the sides of her face, which fell way past
her shoulder blades. She wore dark, shady sun glasses across her face that
reminded her of one of those cliché cop movies. Well, if she is a cop, Susie pondered, then I have nothing to worry about. But as the woman kept staring at Susie, no
words forthcoming, she knew something was wrong.
She needed to get
out of there, and she had no clue how.
Her palms were
beginning to sweat, and she became abruptly shaky. She needed to do something.
“Alright,”
Susie started, “well then I’m just gonna g -”, but before Susie could finish
her sentence, the mysterious woman brought her own wrist slowly up to her lips,
and whispered one, barely audible, word:
“Teper.”
‘Teper’? What could th — Before Susie could react, no matter
respond, the SUV’s left side doors burst opened, and before she knew it two
strong brutes were tackling her to the cold sidewalk floor.
“Stop!” Susie
cried, “Stop it, please!” She continued to plead with the two men as she was
rigorously dragged towards the trunk of the car. That is, until a large rag,
filled with the smell of chlorine, was stuffed across her face. She began to
fight back by shaking her head, arms, and legs back and forth, forcing the two
men to try to restrain her to the pavement beside the car’s trunk. “Please…No,
no! No…” Despite the rag muffling her screams, she continued pleading and
struggling with her abductors, until everything went dark.
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