It was her fault really. If she wanted to blame someone, she guessed it would all come back to was the one who had wanted to go out, since she never got a chance to do that.
She couldn't blame Jake for letting her, he knew she needed a break. Thinking of him and Eli made her shake. She wondered if she would ever see them again.
She tried to think back and think of a way she could have prevented this.
She had been out with her friends, they were hanging out at one of the restaurant bars there in town, just talking, laughing, and catching up, something she hadn't had time to do since Eli was born.
The thought of her precious baby boy again nearly brought her to tears, but she knew she didn't have time for that right now.
She remembered she had went to the bathroom at some point, and that's where it all went fuzzy. Had someone drugged her? She didn't remember passing out, or even someone forcing her out of the restaurant.
But somehow she ended up in what seemed like a trunk, she could hear the engine and feel the movement of the car. When she first woke up, she screamed until her voice went hoarse. She tried kicking out the lights, but she couldn't get enough momentum in the tight space to kick them out.
Now she was exhausted and overwhelmed. She continuously pushed thoughts of her husband and son out of her mind. She knew if she started getting upset over them, she would never be able to think straight enough to get herself out of this. She wanted to think Jacob would come for her, but she couldn't imagine how he would know where to even begin looking for her.
Their lives were the complete opposite of, well, this. They were boring people. Happy, but boring. The only reason she knew about kicking out the taillight, was from watching some show on tv.
She laid there for what could have been hours or days, her mind spinning from trying to figure out what was going on, why it was happening, and what she was going to do when they got wherever they got where they were going.
She had already figured this wasn't just a date rape. They probably would have done something to her there in the parking lot if they were going to do anything at all. That actually left a lot of scary possibilities.
Visions of 'Saw' and other torture movies started running through her head. Suddenly date rape didn't seem so bad. Ugh, what was she thinking.
She couldn't feel her arms or legs now. She wished she could know what time, or even what day it was. She had no idea how long she had been knocked out, but she seemed like she had been awake for hours, and she couldn't remember if she had slept on and off in-between. This was torture in itself.
Finally she felt the car driving over rough ground. Thinking they were close she maneuvered to where she thought she would be able to kick out on the person as soon as they opened the trunk. She laid there, ready to kick for several minutes. Then she started hearing someone moving around in the backseat. Suddenly a ray of light came from behind her as someone pulled the seat down, but before she had time to turn around, she felt a needle stab into her neck.
Then everything went black.