Kidnapped by Yours Truly

17-year-old Arora never did have a knack for ending up in the most popular of situations, especially being the clumsy, sarcastic pessimist she was. So why be surprised now to get lost in.. well God knows where.

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"It ought to get dark in a few hours. Winter really did suck. I turned another corner, then another and another. No, no, no!

I shoved my hand wildly into my pockets and pulled out my touch-screen with a slightly less disconcerted face. And of course the expression immediately returned when it showed I had no signal. Ugh. I should have come prepared with some easy-use, solar-powered brick phone or something. Not that I owned one.

But this sort of thing always happened in the movies. The no-good of an imbecile manages to get lost in the worst of circumstances, not to mention in awfully shitty weather, with no signal on her phone and lacking a source of nutrition to keep her alive. i.e. that heavenly ice cream. Vegetables or keep healthy, high-protein fruit bars don't count.

Suddenly, every bird humming or twig snapping was a serial killer or child rapist. My own footsteps scared the living daylight out of me at one point.

So imagine my shock when some idiot decided to gag me in the middle of the road, tying my arms together by which time I was almost falling asleep. I mean, come on! I'm an unarmed girl carrying shopping bags and a hopeless device for a phone. What harm could I have possibly done? Force-fed them to death?"