The gas station was brightly lit and smelled of smoke. A blinking light from the security camera was making my head hurt and I rubbed my temple. The fat woman at the desk stared at me with a bored expression.
Edward was waiting for me in the car so I should hurry. I went straight to the produce section and faced the mountain of artificial looking apples. Bruised and tiny they sat there pathetically. My stomach rumbled anyway and I grabbed one and put it in a bag.
Then I noticed the girl staring at me intently through the potato chips in the next aisle. She was short and plump with matted dyed black-hair. Her eyes sat under a mountain of black eyeliner, powder forming in clumps underneath her stubby lashes. Her mouth was wide in an expression of shock and she clutched something under her hoody tighter and tighter. It seemed like a book with a worn shiny black cover.
When she noticed me staring at her she turned around mole-like to press something on her phone, then looked through the dirt-stained window to beckon to someone who must've been just outside or she wouldn't have been visible to the girl.
I went to pay, wondering if I should get Edward a new razor.
"One fifty," said the woman at the desk. The black mole on her double chin bobbed up and down as she talked. I reached into my purse, digging around for some spare change.
Suddenly a cold pair of hands accosted me, yanking my arm behind my back. I glanced up in shock. The chubby girl from the aisle along with three other teenaged girls watched me intently. In my astonishment, I let them man-handle me. One tall girl with a squished looking face and frizzy brown hair was digging a pointed finger into my side in an effort to hold me in place while a dark-skinned girl with braces reached up and covered my mouth with a clammy hand.
The last girl, blond, with small beady eyes and a long nose was reaching into a pill bottle gripped in her hand which was covered in messily applied black nail polish. They all held the same book under their matching black hoodies. I could just make out an apple on the cover which struck me as coincidental.
Before I could struggle against their prodding hands, the black girl gave me a loving gaze.
"Hi Bella!" she said in a voice like honey. All four girls were staring at me in awe.
"Mmmph!" I said trying to break free of their strong hold on my wrist. The black girl removed her hand from my mouth.
"How do you know my name?!" I gasped. No one answered me. The lady at the desk appeared paralyzed at my kidnapping so I didn't look to her for help.
"What are you doing to me?!!" I asked frantically trying to break free. The blond girl pushed a white capsule into my open mouth and before I could spit it out they forced my head back. It was either choke and die or swallow the pill which could be poison too. I took my chances and swallowed the pill. "Why are you guys…" She covered my mouth again.
"Shhh" they all whispered and I felt myself falling into a black hole. I slipped out of consciousness.