SPLIT (2016)

CHAPTER 1: THE ABDUCTION

Claire's birthday party, supervised by her cheerful parents- father a stereotypical goofy white suburban movie dad insisted Casey in the name of decency, a charity invitation. As the party ends, Claire told to her Dad about Casey and her odd behaviour inside the class, the way she gets detention a lot, yelled at teachers and the rumor that she kept running away from her home. Casey suddenly showed up, insisting to take a bus after her car broked down, Claire's dad dismissed her idea and invited her instead to join their ride.

"Huh? Uh, I..." Casey hesitated in a low tone.

"I swear, you'll really hate yourself if you won't come and join us while missing how my dad shares his jokes. You'll probably enjoy the whole ride 'cause I'm a witness on how he laughs all by himself without you knowing about what he really means on his jokes—jokes that only him can understand." Claire said giddily while teasing her dad.

Casey followed them as they all moved towards the car.

"Wow! I got more gifts than I thought I would. Can I put this in here?" Claire shouted putting all her stuff in the trunk before helping her dad.

Casey rolled her eyes, and silently hopped inside the car, the other two followed. Casey stayed silent on her seat while waiting. Finally she hears the driver seat door being opened. Assuming it is Claire’s father, she turns to fasten the seat belt, so she does not notice that the person is not whom she expects. She noticed something unusual on the rearview mirror as abrupt sounds comes nearer on her side, she felt like someone's inside the car too.

All the time, Claire and Marcia have been giggling over fun postings on social media But now Claire has woken up, "Hey! Pardon me, sir. I think you have the wrong car." said Claire frowning, looking alarmed to the strange man who sits down in the driver's seat. Claire tries to be polite about it, but the man whips out a chemical and sprays turn the girls into unconsciousness.

Casey on the other hand stayed still on her seat while staring at the intruder sneaking her hand towards the door, the strange man does not seem to have noticed her at all,while he is continuing putting away the rubbish, she is pressing the door handle but since the motor is on, an alarm goes off, signalling someone trying to open the door that brings the atmosphere back to reality, it is as if the man has noticed her presence for the first time, Casey's  breath shallow and fast, frozen with fear as everything goes black.