The Taker

The Taking

Chapter 1

Hi, my name is Genesis Jones and I have a question for you. You ever have a feeling something's not right? Like you know something bad is about to happen, but you don't know exactly what. That's how I felt that day, the day my life would change forever. The day started like any other day, I went to school, went through boring endless classes that I felt like I shouldn't have to go to. I met my friends at lunch everything was normal, until it wasn't anymore. This is how it all happened.

"So are we still hanging out after school?" My friend Diana asked. Casey looked at her in disbelief as if she should've already known the answer to that. "OF COURSE YOU BIG NINNY! What else are we supposed to do?" she said, "Homework!" she whispered the last part like if anybody was to hear we would be sent to state prison with no bail and a life time sentence.

I just laughed at my goofball of a friend. "So we're meeting up after school in the parking lot." I said. We all knew who was supposed to drive because apparently I was a speed demon and Diana was as slow as Ms. Daisy, so we all knew that Casey was gonna drive. When the last bell rang for the end of the day. We met up at her car and set off on our way to the mall. We parked the car and got out, Casey thought it would be a great idea to take a selfie. Because everyone just had to know where we were and what we were doing.

"Oh come on Gen get on my right side, my left side is the best." I rolled my eyes and smiled waiting for her to take the picture. "Okay let's go." Diana yelled. When we went into the mall we were greeted by a gust of cold air. We said we'd hit up at least 2 stores before going to the food court. While in Sephora Diana and Casey stocking up on more face masks, when this weird feeling came over me. It mad me nervous, but I don't know why. But I guess I will in a couple of hours. ~time skip~ "Come on guys I'm hungry! We've been to at least five stores now and we were supposed to be in the food court eating. EATING PEOPLE!" I whined. They looked at each other and rolled their eyes finally agreed to quit for a while and let me eat. I smiled and headed toward the food court, but my smile faded when that feeling came over me again. This time I could feel what it was.

3rd Pov

She was being followed in the mall by a guy whose been looking at her for a while. She notices that everywhere she goes the same guy always appears. She has a really bad feeling about this particular fact. So to test her theory instead of going to the food court she tells her friend that she needs to go to the bathroom. Diana said, "Okay there is a bathroom right beside the food court."

She didn't want to that one because the guy was already there. She forced her friends to go the one all the way across the mall. Saying how it was gonna be too dirty and stinky because it was right beside the food court. When they reached the bathroom and looked around she didn't see him so she relaxed a little thinking maybe it was pure coincidence. When they walked out of the bathroom she saw him leaning against the wall waiting. Her heart quickened and she told her friends that she thought it best to go home. They looked at her confused,"Why? What's wrong?" She didn't say anything just pulled them to the exit. When they finally got outside Casey turned around asked " Okay what's wrong with you." Genesis didn't say anything until she looked at her friends and finally said " Okay there was a guy that was following us, at least I think he was. Look I'm really freaked out guys can we just go and come back tomorrow or something.

As if seeing how scared she was they agreed and decided it was best to just leave for today. Just when Genesis was about to reached for the car door, a hand came up to her mouth and a gun pressed to her back. She stumbled a little and her friends looked back and saw what was going on. They were terrified and started to move forward slowly. The guy must've noticed this cause he pointed the gun toward them and said, "Don't move or I'll shoot!" They knew if they tried to move they would get shot and that would do no justice as no one would be able to tell the police. They looked at Genesis to see her shaking her head crying as if screaming at them not to move. Her friends looked at her helplessly and she knew that that there was nothing they could do to stop this. He backed away slowly starts to back away gun still raised and his filthy hand still covered her mouth.

As soon as they were out of sight he pressed the gun to her back again, moved his revolting hand from her mouth. He told her to keep quiet and don't make a sound. They walked until they reached an old beat up truck. He opened the door and pushed her inside, then ran around and got in himself. He put the keys into the ignition and started the car. He pulled out of the parking lot and drove away. He drove with this smirk on his face which made her all the more terrified. It was like he succeeded in getting his trophy, like he won a huge prize for getting me. When he looked over at me his mile grew bigger and so did her anxiety.

The look in his eyes as he kept looking from her to the rode was disturbing. She kept looking at him out the corner of her eyes, and to the car door which was left unlocked. She took her chance when he turned back to the rode, she opened the car door and jumped out. He stopped the car when he noticed. She quickly got up holding her side and limping. When she looked back and noticed he stopped the car and was getting out she limped faster. She didn't care about her injuries at the moment she only cared about getting away. As she ran she didn't notice the log in front of her and tripped over it

She tried getting back up again but the fall hurt her leg even more, so she started to crawl as fast as she could grunting and crying. He finally caught up to her, he grabbed into her leg and pulled her back. He whispered in her ear "That wasn't nice."