The Lost Girl

Chapter 7: A Possible Goodbye

Sky's POV

After the lady kicked Ben and then threatened the other Ben she smashed my phone on the ground.
"Listen up you two. Since I am stuck with you, I might as well use you," the lady said. I gave her a look of fear. I was really scared of her. "Oh don't worry. I'm not gonna use you like that. No, I need you two to help me get my daughter back."
"W-who is your d-d-daughter?" I asked, stuttering with fear.
"That girl you two found," the lady said as she started to slightly pace.
"We never found her. Ben and Tommy found her," I said. That seemed to put a smile on her face. It seemed like it was good news for her.
"You know what?" she started.
"No, is he nicer than you?" Ben asked.  The lady gave him a glare and continued with what she was going to say.
"We should take a trip to Broadway. I think by the time we get there half of it will open again," she said.
"Why would it be closed?" I asked.
"Well, Broadway is sort big. There are a lot of theatres on it and you two could be in any of them. Of course you're not though," the lady said. I looked over at Ben. Then I looked at my surroundings. The ceiling was large and dome like. It looked like we were in a balcony and everything was run down.
"Where are we?" I asked.
"A theatre."
"Well duh, but where?" Ben said.
"I think I'm going to ignore you, Benjamin," the lady said.
"How do you know his name?" I asked.
"That doesn't matter. You two are going to bring the girl to me," the lady replied.
"What if we don't wanna?" Ben asked. The lady rolled her eyes and smacked him across the face.
"Leave him alone!" I shouted. I pushed the lady away from him. Then I got really ambitious and got up to run, but the man who kidnapped us was standing right in front of me. I turned around to the lady. I was cornered.
"Why don't you just let us go?" I asked.
"Because now you two are apart of this. And once you're apart of this you can't go back," the lady replied.

Quinn's POV

I wanted answers and no one could help me. So I decided that I would go alone, even if I didn't know where to go. But I'd need a plan of escape. So in the notebook Ben gave me I drew up a plan while I waited for him to get done with being questioned.
"What are you doing?" Someone asked from behind. I jumped and turned around to see Tommy standing behind me.
Nothing. I wrote on a different sheet of paper. Tommy didn't take the lie and grabbed my notebook.
"What is this?" He asked.
"Please give it back," I replied.
"What?"
"Please give it back."
"Tommy, what are you doing?" Kara asked.
"I think Quinn is planning to run away," he said. Then he showed the notebook to Kara. I didn't want to be around them, so I got up and ran out. And I didn't stop. Not even Andrew could stop me. But then I got lost after a few minutes. I tried to find my way back to the theatre, but failed.
After wandering around for a while I ran into Jeff. He seemed happy that he found me.
"You should come with me," he said. I was scared of him, but I knew the only way to pull off my plan was to go with him. So I did.

Ben's POV

When I got out of police questioning I went to check on Quinn. But when I got there, she was gone. Tommy and Kara were standing there with her notebook.
"Ben, you have to see this," Kara said. She handed me the notebook and I looked at the page it was opened to. It was a plan to get Ben and Sky back without the help of the police.
"Where's Quinn?" I asked.
"She ran out when I showed it to Kara. She could be with Ben and Sky by now," Tommy said.
"How are we going to find her?" Kara asked.
"Using her plan," I said.
"Ben, we have to know where they are first. How are we going to save them if we can't find them?" Tommy asked.
"I don't know. We'll just have to find a way," I said. Then my phone rang. I looked down and saw it was from Ben Cook.
"Ben, are you and Sky okay?" I asked. There was no reply.
"Ben?" A small voice asked after a few minutes of silence.
"Yeah," I said. Then it hit me. Quinn had gotten a hold of Ben's phone and called me.
"I need your help with the plan," Quinn said.
"Don't worry, Quinn. Tommy, Kara, and I will help. If you need more help, we'll get it. We just need to know where you are."
"I'm an hour outside of the city."
"In which direction?"
"Why don't I get Jeff to pick you up?" A lady asked. I knew who it was. It was Elaine.
"You better not hurt her," I said. I could feel tears come to my eyes in fear of Quinn being hurt.
"Oh don't worry, Ben. I won't dream of hurting my daughter," Elaine said. She sounded like this was all just an amusing game to her.
"If I agree to come alone will you release Ben, Sky, and Quinn?"
"Ben and Sky for sure, but not my girl."
"What is the point of all this?"
"The point is to get the girl you call Quinn back. And come to think of it, that's already been done. Thank you for giving her back."
"Can I talk to her one last time?" I asked.
"Fine, but just know that you have four minutes," Elaine said.
"Ben?" Quinn asked. I could tell she was scared.
"Don't worry, Quinn. I'll get you back and make sure they can't hurt anymore," I said.
"Please don't. I know they'll hurt you and I couldn't bear to see or know that it happened. So please, Ben, don't come save me," Quinn said.
"Quinn, I don't want to think that you're out there somewhere getting hurt."
"I won't be."
"What does that mean?" I asked. I wanted to know what she meant.
"I'll be out riding palominos everyday," Quinn said.
"Times up. I hope you said your goodbyes. You two will never see each other again," Elaine said.
"No, I won't let you do this!" I shouted, but Elaine hung up.
"Ben, what happened?" Kara asked.
"We might not see Quinn again," I said. Tears welled up in my eyes at that statement. Kara pulled me into a much needed hug.