Run...

"My name is Armani Renee' Thompson.. I'm a straight A, B student, no enemy's.. no drama, lots of friends.. one day I wanna have my own business.. I'm 16 and and my best friend and only true friend is Danielle Abigail Seay. My boyfriend is Chresanto Lorenzo Romelo August... I've been missing for 2 weeks... (heavy sigh) I was abducted from Charles Oakley Grand Central Mall on Friday June 21st of 2014, my older brother Trey's birthday. I am missing... please find me... if not... please remember my story..,"

That was what I said into my tape recorder at the last rest stop last night. I wanted to leave behind something just in case I never come home alive. I was shopping for a gift since I had forgotten his birthday.. if I had never forgotten I would be home now... A strange man walked up to me at the mall hysterical, asking have I seen his daughter. He was crying and breathing heavy, so I felt bad.. so I decided to help.. I asked where she was last seen he said the parking garage and I didn't hesitate to help since the whole mall was crowded.. we went out he started calling out "Emily!" over and over then pointed towards a car.. we started leading further and further away from the crowd but I thought nothing of it.. I ran out in front of him to look behind the car but as soon as I did he knocked me on the ground then put a rag filled with chlourofoam and I blacked out.. soon I awoke in a back seat of a big SUV... assuming yesterday was a bad dream I tried to stretch.. but I was chained up.... my kidnapper turned around and gave a smug smile while saying morning beautiful.... since then we've been driving, just driving....

"Renee', you hungry?" asked David, my kidnapper, interrupting my train of thought...

"Sure.." I replied with a strained voice.. my throat is dry..

I'm currently unchained.. just handcuffed while in a seatbelt.. he threw a Burger King bag with a Capri Sun pack... I'm a vegetarian by the way... well I haven't been since I was kidnapped.. I took the Capri Sun and took a sip first to moisten my throat as I cleared it... I took bite after bite of the burger until it was gone.. I eat twice a day most of the time.. sometimes not at all...

It looks about noon since the sun is at its highest.. I wasn't sure though... I still have my cell phone.. from that faithful day... it was turned off and still is... I'm waiting for us to find a place with cell phone reception so I can call for help.. 

The truck slowed down and turned into a Holiday Inn Hotel... not a motel.. a Hotel.. he parked and got out the car.. walked around and threw my trash away.. He then uncuffed my hands and unbuckled my seatbelt. He lifted me out of the truck... I have on no shoes.. so I can't run.. my glasses are broken.. I can barely see.. he got the bags out of the trunk.. he brought me clothes in my size... weird right?

I took a shower 2 nights ago... so I'm a little musty... We walked into the building.....people looked at me funny.. I'm used to it now.. He got us a suite with 3 rooms.. I really don't know why we need an extra room... We walked to an empty elevator.. he pressed floor 4.. when the doors closed.. I asked,"Why 3 rooms?"

"You're gonna meet the man that told me to take you.." he said..  I stood their frozen with fear.. so we stood in silence until the doors opened and we stepped out onto the 4th floor and walked down to the east wing hallway to our room.. he swiped the key in the door and opened it as I entered first... we looked around and he chose my room...furthest from the front door, no escape...

"You have the freedom to jump outta the window and die or be a good girl and stay in here until Daniel gets here because you won't be leaving through the front door, I promise you that." he said as he left my room, closing the door behind him.

I walked over to bag and pulled out a black tee and some black sweatpants and under clothes... I grabbed my wash towels and soap.. I walked into the bathroom that's inside my room and locked the door behind me..

I started the shower, stripped and got inside... I washed and washed... trying to scrub away my predicament, my pain, and my problem... it didn't work... I finished after 10 min and turned the water off... I dried off in shower then stepped out while putting on my clothes... I put my dirty clothes in a walmart bag and walked back in the room..

I put the bag in the bottom of the suitcase as I sprayed on my deodorant, and rubbed on my lotion. I put my bag on the floor by the night stand and laid on the bed... thinking of ways to escape... I slowly drifted to sleep...................

I woke up to an unfamiliar man sitting next to me caressing my cheek, I jumped up scared and crawled over to the other half of the bed sitting with my knees against my chest... I was petrified..

"Sweetie its me Daniel, don't be afraid,"he said as he took my right hand and kissed it... He was a caramel toned teenage boy.. he was cute... but not my type.

"C'mon you guys, let's go for a ride..," said David. Then he slyly winked at Daniel...

Daniel grabbed the handcuffs and put them back on my wrist. "Can you grab me a pair of socks out of my bag?", I asked Daniel. He reached over and grabbed a pair, but dropped his wallet in the process.. his I.D read, "Daniel Dwayne Simmons, 18 years old"

... I literally froze then... I knew I recognized him.... we went to school together... I snapped outta my trance as I put on my socks and walked with them out of the room and down the Hall to the elevator... it was empty again as we entered it...

We made it to the lobby and walked to the truck..Its storming... I got in the backseat while David and Daniel got in front... then we hit the highway... We passed a road sign it read "14miles to Houston Texas" Holy shit... I mentally freaked out...

Then I said to myself, its now or never... Then I acted on my feelings.. when they rounded a bend in the road.. I opened my door and rolled out..

I landed in the grass on top of my handcuffs, breaking them... I got up and started my adrenal run into the woods.. I heard stomps far behind me, trailing after me..

"You can't run ,bitch!" yelled one of my kidnappers..

This was my first escape plan, and its working. Soon I stopped hearing them.. but I kept running..

Its still storming and I can barely see, I'm just running into darkness.. I slipped and rolled into a small stream.. I pulled myself out and and sat on the bank as my ankle ached and throbbed with pain... I had broken it..

So I ripped half of my shirt and wrapped it around my left ankle.. I saw far, far away.. streams of light.. I got up and ran further.... still in agonizing pain...

I swear I was about to stop until I heard my mothers voice in my head saying,"Run, Run Armani.. you're so close.." it kept repeating, adding the voices of my other loved ones... I cried as I kept running..... Run Armani... Run.....

Sorry for any errors!!