Be Still

Chapter Two: Rivers

Pugsley groaned as he slowly tried to roll onto his back in the tight space. His head felt like it was just hit by one of his father's trains and his leg was cramped from lying passed out in such a awkward position. Suddenly he remembered his sister and quickly reached out to see if she was here with him.

"Pugsley?" A soft, frightened voice whispered from the near darkness.

"Yeah," he said back, relieved when he found her cold hand in the darkness.

"What's happening?"

"I don't know, but I think we can get out of here," Pugsley replied as he moved so his feet were flat against the right tail light of the trunk.

"How?" Wednesday asked as she watched him with a confused face.

"Help me kick out the tail lights; that way someone may see us and we can see where we are."

Wednesday nodded and began kicking with all her strength with Pugsley against the thin plastic surrounding the inner tail light. Cracking was soon heard, and with a few sharp pops the tail light flew out and began scraping against the blacktop as its wires strained to hold it. Wednesday quickly spun around and looked out the hole. Seeing a car not too far behind them, she began waving out her hands and shouting out to the approaching vehicle.

At first the driver didn't pay much attention until he got closer, that's when he realized that there were kids in that trunk. Suddenly their car made a sharp right onto a bumpy granite road and the driver behind had no time to react and sped right past the corner.

Slamming on his brakes, he quickly made a U-turn and approached the corner, but by the time he was there the kidnappers' vehicle was out of sight.

"Are you okay?" Pugsley asked Wednesday as he rubbed his elbow which took a hard hit on the trunk wall when the car made that abrupt turn.

"I'm alright," Wednesday answered. "But I'm scared, Pugsley. Where are they taking us?"

Pugsley looked at his sister who was trying hard not to cry then out the tail light hole at the deserted looking road. Their only hope of escape at this moment was on that car behind them and now they had nobody. They were alone with two strangers with intentions unknown and in a foreign area. Pugsley wished he had something encouraging to say to his sister but there was nothing good to say. All he could say, "I don't know, but Mother and Father won't stop until they find us. I promise you that."