A Disaster in Paradise

Chapter 6

Jay

Jay help I've been kidnapped.trail.princess.

What? My brain trying to process everything. Is this real? Is Sophia in trouble?

"Jay? Bro, what's wrong?" I'm snapped out of my thoughts.

"Soph..ia..kidnapped..." I give Jcob my phone and fall to my knees, tears flooding the carpet of the hotel room. I just saw her yesterday. She..she can't..be..gone.

"Isaac call 911 now!" Jacob rushes, calling them himself, along with Isaac.

It alll happened so fast.

3 Days Later
Cops are all over the hotel. I can't speak. I can't think. My stomach is killing me, but I can't convince myself to eat. Olivia comes into my room and sits next to me, offering her shoulder. "Jay?"

I can't look at her. "I..she..must think I hate her." I sniffle, trying to pull myself together. I reach for my shoes.

"Jay what are you thinking?" Olivia stands up and motions for an officer to come.

"I'm not standing here. The text said trail. She sent her location. Princess? What does that even mean? I'm going to the trail and I'm going to find my best friend." I start to get up and walk over to the door before an officer stops me.

"Sir, I'm going to have to come with you. Call me Steve please."

"I'm coming as well." I turn and see Olivia standing there, hands on her hips, walking up to us.

The officer nods. We make our way down the hotel and into the squad car. I sit in front and Olivia sits in back. "So how do you guys know Ms. Keller?" The officer loooks into his review mirror, switching lanes.

"I'm her roommate. We've been friends for about five years." Olivia states, looking out the mirror. "I feel like a prisoner back here."

We ignore her comment. "I'm her best friend. We do everything together, but the past few days we haven't talked at all. I was kind of mad at her, so I din't talk to her." Tears start to well up in my eyes. "I really wish I could see her again. But Olivia, do you know what 'princess' means? She sent that in her text to me."I look at Olivia, who is thinking.

Her eyes light up."She said princess? It couldn't be."

"Olivia do you know something?" The officer asks, expressing his full attention.

"Everyday we would go on the trail there was a grey SUV parked somewhere, but we shrugged it off."

"Plate numbers?"

"No." Olivia says blandly and looks away.

"Ms. Barley, if you know anything you need to tell me now before we find your friend dead. Your friend's life is on the line." The officer pulls into the trail,and stops the car, pulling out his laptop.

"Princess. She mentioned it to me and Isabella. Sophia went on her own that day. She went to the trail and the arena where we are competing. She met Katherine Hathley. Katherine's family is known for cheating by paying off refs, or sabotaging opponents for Katherine. They're loaded. I think they just took cheating to a whole new level." Olivia trembles.

"What are you not telling us Olivia! My best friend could be dead, so you need to speak now to prevent that." I slam my fist on the dashboard and look at the officer, who is giving me a sympathetic look.

"Ms. Barley, are you saying the Hathley's are behind this?" The officer starts typing in his laptop.

"Sophia met Katherine at the arena. Katherine and her body guard. They told her.."Olivia was choking on her words, trying not to cry. "To watch her..back prin..." Olivia starts to cry, using her shirt as a tissue. "Princess."