Abductor

Chapter 7

Mom gave out an ear-splitting scream and rushed over to them.

"Call an ambulance," she shouted on the top of her lungs to no one in particular. "Get help! Please somebody help me!" Pete rose from over the body and stood gingerly. Face dazed, scratched and blotched. He looked over at me. At a moment like this I did the complete opposite as anyone else; instead of fearing him and running away I ran into his arms. He smelled of iron and blood but I held him even tighter. Somehow there was this unexplainable and profound love inside for him. I looked up and saw tears.

"I'm sorry Kay-lee, I didn't mean to. I'm not that sort of person and-"

"I know," I whispered. The still present shock breaking my voice."Its OK dad, I know." He ran his hand through my hair and pulled me to him again. And we stood like that, for what seems like an eternity. But unfortunately, ruining the moment; over the sound of my mother's cries, my heavy breathing and my dad's heart beat hammering against my ear, I heard the distant sound of sirens..

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"All of you on your feet now and put your hands in the air," came a harsh voice out of s bullhorn. The sound of the whoo whooing was maddening; because it came from both the police car and the ambulance. And as two cops emerged from the cop car so did four paramedics from the ambulance. They took Lloyd's limp body and placed him on a stretcher. Then they lift him into the ambulance and was off with him. And it was our dealings now.

"Which one of you is responsible for this?" The man who'd spoken earlier in the bullhorn said.

"He is!" My mom shouted pointing at Pete, "that's the bastard that killed him!"

"Is it true?" The officer asked but I couldn't tell if he was aiming the question to me or Pete.

"Yes," both of us answered in unison. The officer gave a disapproving look then made his way over to us, pulling out the familiar twin joint-metal circles. My heart fell and somehow it was as if everything came gushing to me again and my mind was going into overdrive.  It came so sudden I couldn't even try to fight it. And then I was falling, to the floor and into darkness. Dad's voice shouting my name the last thing audible...

***

I jumped awake to the feel of water on my face. I blinked my eyes open to see that I was in an interrogation room of a police station. I looked at the thick wide-eyed lanky man before me, wiping the water vigorously off my face.

"You couldn't have just shaken me awake?"

"And you don't think I've been trying that for the last 20 minutes," his tone was harsher than mine. I sighed in frustration.

"Why am I here?"

"We need to ask you a few questions about what happened."

"Don't you have my mom and dad for that."

"We need information from all the persons present at the scene." Something about him really turned me off.

"Get back to me another day because I really don't feel like talking."

"Then get your make-up kit and curling iron princess because then you'd be spending some time behind bars for refusing to cooperate with an officer in the investigation of a serious crime." He got me there. I signed again with a frown and told him all that happened from when I reached to the gates to when I was splashed awake here. He exhaled deeply, running a hand over his nearly-bald head.

"Now you didn't mention to me where you were before you got home. And from investigations you've been missing for almost two and a half weeks."

"I was over a friend's house," even I could hear the lie.