The Kidnapper

Chapter 10:

"Jenny, you have to listen to me. Andrew is after you and he won't give up until your dead and gone." Jenny didn't respond. She was too shocked and happy at the same time to speak a word.

"Jenny, please answer me. I don't want you to die too!" Angela walked towards her husband.

She tried to hug him, but her hands fell through his ghostly body. She began to cry, but fought back as much as possible. Jenny hadn't seen her dad in years. This angered Jenny. All this time he could have visited her, but he didn't. Did he really love her or care that she missed him? Why would he do that to her knowing how much his death broke her heart?

"Dad?" Jenny finally answered, anger swelling inside her.

"Why?" she said before he could respond.

"Why what?" her dad sounded confused.

"Why didn't you visit me like you are now? You had to have known you could do this or you wouldn't be doing it now! Why would you do that to me knowing how broken-hearted I was?! I would have visited you!" Jenny let everything out, even things that had nothing to do with her anger towards her dad. Everything was making her mad. She couldn't take it.

"And why do I have ghosts haunting me?! I was little, okay! I couldn't help I didn't like him! I hope you hear me Andrew! I hate you! I'm glad your gone and I want you to leave me alone! And you...!" she pointed her finger to Cameron.

"I don't even know you! I know that for sure! Why are you here? Why were you eavesdropping on my friends and my conversation! Who are you!?" Jenny was almost in tears from all her anger. 

Nobody spoke. Nobody moved. They just stared, keeping quiet, not wanting to be next to be yelled at. Nobody would even make eye contact with her. They all kept their distance, even the ghosts as if she could hurt them, too.

"Well? Anyone going to answer me?" Jenny said.

"No? Okay. I see how this is going to work. You all think I'm crazy. You've seen the damn ghosts! Why am I crazy? Why isn't Andrew crazy for kidnapping me? Why isn't the guy that shot him crazy for shooting someone? Why...why isn't my dad crazy for never coming to see me after he died if he knew how?" tears swelled in Jenny's eyes at that last part.

She ran out of the room, down the steps and out the door. Left. Right. Left. Left. Left. She turned at almost every corner to make sure no one knew where she was. She ran through the abandoned streets and up the hill. At the top of the hill sat a bench with a dead tree hanging over it. She sat on the bench and began to cry. The hill was her quiet place that nobody knew about.

"Why! Why does everything happen to me?!" she screamed as if speaking to God.

"God, tell me what I did! Please!" no answer as she expected.

The idea of sacrifice came more and more appealing to her. She paced back and forth until she noticed someone at the top of the tree. It was someone she'd never seen before. It wasn't a ghost, it was human. Who was this watching her?

"Who...what...why?" Jenny couldn't find the right question, she had too many.

"Hi. I'm Jackson." Jackson. That name rang a bell, but no one came to mind.

"I'm..." before she could speak, he did.

"Jenny. I know. We've met." this was all too much. How did so many people know her? 

"How do you know me?" Jenny said as if she'd asked that question a thousand times.

"We've never met, but I've seen you around school." school. Its never dawned on her that some of these people could know her from school.

"If I've never talked to you, how do you know my name?" he sighed.

"We're in classes together and I've heard teachers call your name." that made since. At least he wasn't stalking her like everyone else.

"So, what's going on? What did you do?" Jenny looked up at him with a questioning look.

"Sorry. I didn't mean to get in your business or anything."

"No! No! It's just that... I don't know." Jenny began her story from the beginning. Jackson didn't say a word, just nodded.

"So... I guess that's the whole thing." she said.

"Wow!"

"What?" Jenny said with a small laugh.

"I just figured you were worried about a boy not liking you or what to wear for a date. Not an angry ghost haunting you!" he laughed at the end.

"Well, I'm different than most girls I guess." suddenly, out of nowhere, she heard her name.

"Jenny, Jenny! Come on! You know I'll find you!"

"Hey! Is that the ghost?" Jenny laughed.

"No. That's my boyfriend. Does he look like a ghost to you?"

"Kind of." they both laughed.

"Watch this! Will!" she laughed as he whipped around and started running back and forth.

"Jenny? Don't mess with me!" It sounded like a threat, but she knew better.

"You look like a mouse in a maze. Come on! Your smarter than this!" it felt good to have a little fun after what she's been through.

"Okay, okay. Fine! I'm on the hill." Will began walking up the hill. But when he got there, he watched as Jenny's body began disappearing into thin air.

"Jenny! What's going on?" Will yelled at her.

"I... I don't know! Help me!" Will jumped at her, but instead went through her.

"I have you now Jenny! Let's take a trip to the Underworld. There is where your death wish awaits." Jenny screamed, but it was too late! Andrew and Jenny were gone.