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A Squirrel's Pledge

It was a normal day for me I was driving home from school just like any other day nothing out of the usual was happening, but then a squirrel ran into the road. I quickly swerved to avoid it and luckily there was no one else on the road so I didn't cause an accident. I pulled over and got out of the car just to make sure I didn't hit it. It was still in the middle of the road but when it saw me it walked over.

"Thank you for not hitting me you are very kind." It said as it came to me.

"Of course wouldn't want to hurt someone so innocent. I have to go make sure to watch out for cars in the future of you may not be so lucky."

"Of course miss..."

"Emma." I finish for him.

"Emma," the squirrel repeats. We part ways the squirrel to the woods and me to my car to continue the drive home. I guess I should tell you that I can talk to animals. Some people are born with the gift of being able to speak to animals and I was one of them.

Days and weeks went by as usual I went to school, came home did homework, went to bed, repeat, so my life wasn't all that exciting but in a small town there isn't much you can do. Now it was summer and I started my summer job up again, working in a local animal shelter. As per usual I was on my own for the first few hours after opening but it is never really busy then.

I was surprised when someone walked through the front doors not more than 5 minutes after opening. I looked up to the person who came in saying,

"Hi how may I help you..." the rest of my sentence died on my lips as I saw a gun in the man's hand.

"If you want the money just take it and go," I say with a hand up in the air and the other one texting 911. I can hear the dogs barking a warning to me from the back to be careful.

"I don't want the money I want you."

"Why would you want me?" I ask trying to stall him for as long as possible until the cops could get here.

"That is none of your business. Now come with me."I walk out to the car that sits outside the building. He shoves me into the car and there ties my hands and puts tape over my mouth. He closes the door and goes to the driver's side and pulls away at a speeding rate.

My life is over I thought to myself, have been kidnaped and will probably be raped and then killed. We drive for a while before he pulls over and gets out of the car walking around to come and get me. When I step outside the car I see an abandoned house it looks extremely dilapidated from the outside but once inside it is not bad at all almost as if the outside was made to look that way.

He brings me up to a room on the third floor of the house and in the room, there is a king sized bed, a couch, a chair and tables and a few bookshelves full of books in a corner.

"What am I doing here why did you want me?"

"Because I have been watching you for some time now and I want you." He speaks with a creepy voice as he walks to me and strokes my cheek with this fingers I turn my head away from his grimy touch.

"You will warm up to me you just wait. Get comfortable I will be back later." He says smoothly before walking out the door and locking it behind him. What was I going to do I was locked in this house with this creep who must have some sort of obsession with me. I walk around the room checking it out and seeing if there was any possible way to get out of the room.

"After a while, I gave up on my search and looked through the books that were on the bookshelves. I grabbed one that looked interesting and sat down on the bed and started to read. After what seemed like hours he came back to the room with some knives in his hands.

"Alright it is time to have a little fun," he says in a tone that made me know what was going to happen next and I was not looking forward to it but who would. " You will do as I tell you or you will die," he stats harshly making me flinch. But I do as he says hoping and praying that someone would find me and find me soon. Luckily before anything happened my prayers were answered just not in the way I had expected. There was banging on the door downstairs and my captor went to go see what it was I went to the door and heard a small voice calling out for me.

"Emma are you in there." The voice said I knew that from the man's reaction that whoever had come to me was an animal.

"I'm here," I call out. A second later the man was yelling then screaming out in pain and I heard small paws coming up the two flights of stairs and what I saw shocked me. The small paws belonged to the squirrel that I avoided those many weeks back and what looked like an army of squirrels.

"Hello, Emma we are here to rescue you."

"How did you find me?"

"I have been watching out for you since you swerved to miss me."

"Really?"

"Yes I had made a life debt to you and now it is repaid."

"Well thank you..."

"Ajax."

"Thank you, Ajax and all of your friends. Just out of curiosity what happened to the man who captured me?"

"Well my friends that came to help they bit the heck out of him and they might have tied him up with a rope and don't worry we also brought the police, someone one the force can talk to animals."
That's great thank you guys again."

"It was our pleasure." one of the other ones said.

"Let's get you home," Ajax stated after a minute

"Yeah let's get out of here it is quite creepy," I say and walk out the door with m new found friends.