Tabitha's POV
"Tabitha honey, Briana is here come downstairs before you are late for school! Jared get out of bed it is time to leave Jonathan is here!" My mother yelled up the stairs or our mother
My brother, Jared and I go to the same high school. He is one year older then me wich makes him 16. Jared had been friends with Jonathan scince ever and that is were my BFF Briana comes in. Jared took me to Jonathan's 'crash pad' aka his parents housewhen I was 7 and I met Briana his sister.
I know you are wondering why we don't drive to school in Jared's super awesome (brand new) truck he got for his 16th birthday but the driving test ended badly when he asked what a traffic light was and thats in the first 3 minutes of the test. After that question the teacher kicked him out of the car. His olny experiance with driving a car would be one of his xbox games.
I glanced back at hy mirror one last time. I wore a stone washed mini skirt and a yellow t-shirt from Abercrombie. My shoes were black rugged converse. I wore my long slightly curly brown hair down. My skin was perfectly sun kissed and my blue eyes gleamed happily in the mirror.
I strode out of my room backpack on back and rushed into Jared's room. He was lazily pulling on a shirt and was still in his boxers. He was very tall with blond hair and stack after stack of muscle. No one would have known we were family but the eyes gave us away. Our color eyes were the same bright blue.
Jared was very muscled because he was the man of the house. Our step-dad is almost always away and girls in England dissapear like hotcakes. None of them have anything is common aside from thier prettyness. Jonathan felt the need to do the same too and step up pysically. Metally they were as playful as kittens.
I am not going to lie to you we were always making snide remarks to eachother and it never changed. Lets just say that we arent the friendly everything-is-great brother and sister. We are the I-am-going-to-make-your-life-suffer-with-every-breath-you-enhale-in-your-worthless-body type of brother and sister.
"Come on hury up!" I told him
"Get out of here Tabbi Cat before I get my spray bottle." he siad while pulling on his pants
"Get out of here Jar Head before I take what ever's left of your brain and flush it down the toilet." I mimiked
He grabbed his backpack and flung it over his shoulder. "I ready." he said eyeing my outfit
"Olny 15 minutes late." I said sarcastically
"Could you stop with your remarks?" he asked in a tone that really said 'I am desperate for a little time to make up a comeback'
"Hey well you are the one who's 'good mornings' have now turned into threats." I said while picking up a piece of toast from the table and heading out the door. This time he said nothing. I noticed it was overcast and big dark black and grey clouds were hovering above us.
I hopped into the backseat of Jonathan's Tahoe.
"Hey Tabbi . How have you been. Did you take a nice long shower then get a massage? Then after that did you go out for breakfast? Or maybe.." Bree was saying before I interuppted her
"I get it, I get it. We are a bit late but its something Jared is going to have to fess up to." I said
Bree and Jonathan's heads snapped to Jared who just got in the car.
"Have anything you wanna explain Jared?" Jonathan gritted out of his teath. Jared was about to shake his head when Jonsthan said "Before I beat it out of you?"
"Okay, okay. Start driving and I will tell you guys on our way to school." he said while flicking the time a glance
"Start now and it better be worth this delay." Jonathan said a muscle ticking under his eye
"John was investigating the missing girls and women and the burnings of houses. He called me last night and told me they were linked but it seemed everybody was withholding information. He told me to meet him here in town last night at 12 at the theater becasue he had discovered something big that be couldn't talk about over the phone. I sneaked out of the house and got to the theater but he wasn't there. I waited for 15 minutes then I called him. Do you guys know the allyway by the side of the theater?" he asked
We all nodded and grumbled yes.
"Well I herd a phone ring in the allyway so I went to it. At the end of the allway I found his phone his screen damaged in a pool of blood. John was nowhere to be seen. The blood was warm. I ran to the police and told them about everything that happened aside from the information of his case but they gave me that shit about wait 24 hours then practically kicked me out." he said his face contorting into a sneer.
John was our step-father and a private investigator and Jared wanted to be a private investigator.
"Oh my gosh you don't think that they took him?" I asked paniked
"I don't think, I know." he said while glancing at his cell phone
"Your keeping something out. Don't we want to know." I said fearing the answer
"You're right I am. Theres one more thing or rather a few. There is a video on his phone I'll show it to you in a second and carved in the wall frechly, trust me I know was a name. Basta." He took out our step-father's phone and tossed it in the back seat.
Bree and I watched in awe and fear. He was running many men in black were running after him yelling and cursing. They had knifes and guns and were all good looking and strong, could fit into any crowd. Men these days were all buff. Like I said because of all the disappearances of the girls and women.
Thier age ranged from about 16 to 35. There were 12 of them.
Bree started to cry. She was a voilence apposed. My step dad was tackled to the ground and one of them with a gleaming silver knife came up to him.
"You're about to feel some real pain John Reed. Lots of pain." The evil guy said and advanced on my step dad. I grabbed the phone and snapped it shut.
"No need to see anything. I think we have a pretty good guess on what happened." I said while handing the phone back to my brother.
"Tabbi did you realize anything anything in the video?" Bree asked in a shaky voice
"I did." Jonathan said his voice flat
"What?" Jared and I asked at the same time
"He said your last name Tabbi." Bree said
My blood chilled to ice in veins. I expelled air from my mouth in a shaky gasp. "Oh my gosh." I said from the corner of my eye I could see Jared stiffen.
When we got to school we were 10 minutes late and we all said bye and went to our first periods. Mrs. Unger was my first period Social Studies. I sat in my seat. Time flew by and olny 25 minutes left.
"What is the answer Ms. Reed?" She asked
"Huh? What? Oh. Mrs. Unger I um was not um paying attension." I said without any hint of embarassment. My brian was in overload with fear for my step dad, my brother, my mother. Oh God I was going to barf. My sweet innocent mother. Me.
"Are you okay Tabitha. You look a little pale are you sick.?" she asked concern coated her voice
"No." Yes. "Actually yes I am may I please be excused?" I asked while packing my bag.
"Yes of course dear." She said and I walked up to the front of the room and she handed me a paper and I hurried out of class. I went to the office and called my mom who picked me up and dropped me off at home before going back to work.
I trudgged to the door and went inside. I dumped my stuff next to the door and locked all the doors and windows then went upstairs. I toom a long shower but the water didn't wash away my fears. When I got out of the shower I was to scared to even whipe the steam off the mirror because in all the movies when you do someone is standing behind you.
I dressed in my pajama shorts which were short and cheackered and a black tanktop. I plopped on my bed and took out my ipod and listened to music and soon fell asleep.
I woke up a few hours later and looked at the time. It was 12:10 pm and rain was pounding hard on the house. My stupid ipod ran out of charge. I went downstairs and got a bottle of water from the fridge.
"Hey beutiful." I herd someone say behind me. I turned around and saw a man about 30. His pepperminty breath wafted under my nose. I shrieked but a rumble of thunder masked my cry. I dropped the bottle of water and ran into the den but stopped short.
There were two guys in there staring at me intently. One was 16 and the other was 17. The guy with the peppermint breath walked behind me.
"Were did you think you were going?" he asked me mockily "Oh sorry were are my manners? I am Basta, he," Basta pointed to the 17 year old ",is Collin and the other guy is.."
"Your worst nightmare." he growled "Basta, I have taken a liking."
"Then you shall have her Capricorn has been looking for a woman for you for a long time Justin." Basta said
"Whats your name girl?" Justin asked me
"Tabitha. My name is Tabitha." I said eyeing the door
Justin stepped in my vision."Lets leave." Justin said taking Basta's place behind me while he carved his name in the wall.
"Walk." Justin ordered
"No." I said trying to keep my voice steady
Justin flicked out a knife and rubbed it tauntingly against the back of my neck. "You will follow Collin and Basta
I nodded and walked forward. Out the door. I was on the porch but quickly stopped.
"Why did you stop?" Justin asked me menacingly
"Its cold, and raining." I said and directed his gaze to my clothing. I slipped on my flip flps that were outside but I needed my jacket.
He sighed and slipped off his jacket and handed it to me. I looked at it hesitantly then slipped it on and went out into the rain to the car. Justin opened the door to the black Sedan and ushered me inside. The heat was blasting and I took off the jacket and handed it back. Basta was driving as soon as we got inside and Collin was sitting shotgun. I sat as far away from him and buckled my seat belt.
The ride was long and as the car turned I flopped on the seats and driffted into slumber. I woke hours later and looked at the time. Twenty past five. We parked in a parking lot and I stared out the window. We were here.