Kidnapped

Chapter 7

As the sun rose in the morning sky, a new day has come, and with that life began awakening. In such a delightful and sunny day like this there just could be no place for gloomy mood. But not for the Cooke family. There was still no sign of Sherry and her whereabouts, and police still hasn't found a clue. Sharon Cooke suffered the most from sorrow, as every mother would after finding out about her child's disappearance. She was close to falling into depression and not even going to work, but her husband and son managed to persuade her not to that, explaining that work would at least keep her busy and make her think about something else, otherwise the situation could get worse.

Studies helped Richard to get at least a bit distracted from thoughts about his sister, and although he continued assuring himself that she's alive and fine, terrible thoughts about her never coming back plagued the back of his mind, and every time he mentally slapped himself on face for thinking this. And after the day in University was over, he didn't want to go home that soon, as everything there reminded him of Sherry, and pressure in his eyes began to increase, but he didn't let the tears fall down his face. He was sure that parents felt the same. Richard decided to walk slowly around the city before getting into his car, and maybe go to some café to have a drink and think about the next steps.

There was one café in the city center which he often visited in his free time, so Richard decided to go there. As he was slowly approaching his goal, he suddenly heard a man and a woman talking not far from him. The male voice sounded so familiar, that it couldn't be confused to any other voice. Richard realized at once that it was no other than Jordan and his bitch of a girlfriend, Vanessa. They were sitting at the table in the café and didn't seem to notice him, so Richard understood that this was his chance to follow them unnoticed and listen to what they talked. He had suspicions that Jordan and Vanessa might have something to do with Sherry's disappearance, but he had to be sure. If it results in him being right, there had to be proof, so Richard carefully walked closer to them, hiding among other people and turned on the digital voice recorder in his smartphone so each word of theirs would stay in it.

"So, have you decided about the exact date for going back to camp?" Jordan asked.

"Oh, of course," Vanessa giggled. "You could try to guess what it is."

"How should I know? I guess it would be weekend. Saturday maybe?"

"A bit faster. We're going there next Friday," Vanessa explained. "I hope you know what date it will be?"

Jordan pulled out his phone and checked the calendar.

"Well, what do you know, that's Friday the 13th," he laughed. "But what's the purpose?"

"Thrill," Vanessa grinned. "Haven't you ever watched the Friday the 13th movies?"

"No, I haven't. I'm not interested in horror movies as such. What do those particular movies have to do with our journey to the camp on Friday the 13th? I remember when we brought Sherry to Camp Crystal Lake, you mentioned some guy named Jason Voorhees that might presumably live there and he would take care of her. So, what is this all about?"

"Well, the movies are about teens going to Camp Crystal Lake which is supposedly cursed, and having fun there before getting killed. And this guy, Jason Voorhees, drowned there in his childhood. Later his mother went insane and chopped the counselors that were responsible that day for not watching him and having sex instead, but in the end she was beheaded by one of the survivors." Vanessa tried to remember the main line of the movies so Jordan would have a clue what they are about. "After her death Jason continued killing anyone who dared to step into the camp territory. He's some kind of unstoppable killing machine. A monster, if you want. Each time he is supposedly killed by the last survivor, but it's just for some period of time, and then comes back to continue killing. And every time things happen on Friday the 13th. It's like triggering his activity."