Lucy

Two days ago, I was a clean cut, goody two shoes man. So how the hell did I end up in an interrogation room, sitting across from a detective. Then, again two days ago I never had to risk it all to save my sister Lucy. I had a plan to save my sister, from the hold of some sadistic individuals that had her locked away in psychiatric hospital.

I stood in front of the gates that had a sign swinging in the light Seattle breeze. It read "Cedar Place Aide". There was a gatekeeper posted, I could see it was a women approaching me in a security officer uniform. Well lucky me, I can flirt my way out of this one. I had been known to be a player back in the day, this will be like old hat. She wasn't bad to look at anyway, as she approached closer I could see her wavy blonde hair pulled together into a tight ponytail. She had emerald eyes, that reflected the streetlamp from above. No, this shouldn't be hard to sweet talk her.

" Good evening" She said in a sweet voice as she had clearly been taking in my looks, and from the sound of her voice she wasn't disappointed in my appearance either. "Do you have an appointment?" she asked with a smile.

" Yes, in fact I do, with Mr. Danssen."I stated as if I actually knew who Mr.Danssen was, and not like I just came up with that name five seconds ago.

"Okay, then let's go up here and check" she said motioning me to follow her back to the gates shack. She started typing into a computer, small beads of sweat started to form on my upper lip, I quickly wiped it away before she looked back at me. " hmm, I don't see a Mr.Danssen here?" She looked at me puzzled. I returned the same puzzled look

" hmm, oh you know what it is I spoke to a Mr.Danssen, over at our maplewood location. He must have forgot to book the appointment. I start work here tomorrow and I just needed to get some paperwork." I smiled at her "I am so forgetful, at the worst times!" I laughed, and she returned with a slight laugh back

" Okay, well why don't you give me your name, and we will see if anything comes up." She said with a grin.

" Okay, great its Liam Davenport." I said confidently. The first name is right, last name not so much. With every keystroke my heart skipped a beat.

" I'm sorry Mr. Davenport, there doesn't seem to be anything here." she said with a concerned look on her face.

" wow, really? That is so strange. I guess I could call my boss to double check, but it's already so late in the day he is probably gone already. I start tomorrow, and the paperwork was due yesterday. This will not make a good first impression, huh?" I look her with a smile.

" No, I guess it won't. I'm sorry that sucks." She says. I laugh and lean against the gate. "Man, that's always my luck." I lean in towards her " hey you don't think there is anyway you could buzz me in, it will just take a minute." She looks at me

" I'm sorry, I wish I could but I could get fired for doing something like that." I move even closer to her she doesn't back away from me either.

" If you get fired, I will personally speak to the boss myself, and I will take you out to dinner, to make it up to you." She blushes I take this as my cue to lay it on thick. " Hell, if you lose your job, that means you and me could spend all our days and nights together." I look at her longily.

" Well when you put it like that." She hits the button and the gates start to open. "Sounds like a win, win situation." she continues. I look at her trying to keep the shocked look from showing, that actually worked. I wink at her

" thank you!"

The fact that I had made it past the gatekeeper and now was making my way deeper into the building, I amazed myself. There I was though, looking at every door as I quickly walked past. It was too quite, something felt off, but I couldn't let that distract me. This prestien white hall felt like it went on forever, all I needed was to find the records room. So far all the doors just had numbers. There was an end to the hall and I was finally approaching it. I let out a loud sigh of relief as I looked at the last door. Its label read like a love letter "RECORDS", I opened it. Rows and rows of black metal file cabinets filled the small room. I went to the one I was sure had to be the right one, the only one without a label. The first file folder was labeled new. Well I mean they made it pretty easy to break in and find someone. It really wasn't my fault that they made it so easy. I grabbed my sisters file and quietly closed the door behind me. I started my brisk walk back down the hall. I could hear something in the distant, I quicked my pace.

The sound was getting closer, now I could make out the sound, it was the sound of a walkie talkie. That was all I needed, to get caught so close to getting out. There he was rounding the corner. He stood tall at least 6'4, 300 pounds. He wore a black uniform, with a taser gun on his belt. We were only about a foot apart now. " What are you doing in here?" He said in deep gruff tone.

"Oh I was just getting some paperwork, I left behind." I said in a matter of fact tone. He looked me up and down

" Where is your ID? He asked furrowing his brow.

" Oh, I forgot it in the records room, let me go back right now and get it for you." I said with a smile hoping it would help relieve the tension in the air. It didn't. I started walking away only to hear his footsteps right behind me, following step by step. He gave me no choice I had to get to Lucy. I turned and started to run past him, He grabbed me and threw me to the ground. I felt the air leave my lungs, but regained fast before he put his arm to my thoat, I sweeped my leg over his making him fall to ground like a great oak. I got up and started to run. Only to feel his hand on my ankle, making me fall face first onto the cold tiled floor. I used my other leg to kick him in the nose, an audible crake echoed. I ran for the door, only to see flashing red and blue lights.

"So detective do you have anymore questions?" I said to the suit wearing man sitting across from me.

"No, except there is something I need to tell you, we found Lucy."

-Leighann 

- Editor- Julia   jaibird19