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Chapter 3
"Sammuel Douglas." The principal called out. Taking a deep breath, Rocky walked across the stage, excitedly shaking his principal's hand and taking his diploma. He couldn't believe he was graduating; it seemed like only yesterday that he had been starting the 9th grade. Stopping briefly for a picture, Rocky smiled up at his family who were all cheering loudly, all except his dad who was taking the picture and his grandpa who merely nodded his head. Walking back to his seat, Rocky sat down in time to see Shanna walk the stage, getting as comfortable as possible, Rocky settled in for the wait, with so many students this graduation ceremony was going to take a while.
An hour later it was done, Rocky got up with the other graduates, and they tossed their caps, once the activity quieted down, and Rocky had his cap back, he made his way to his family. "You looked so cute up there you know?" Shanna asked, as she grabbed Rocky's hand.
"You did to." He replied stopping to give her a quick kiss. "Hey mom, dad!" Rocky called getting their attention. "Congratulations son, we are so proud of you." Sam Douglas said, pulling his son into a hug. "Thanks dad." His mom, who had a huge smile on her tear-streaked face, quickly replaced Rocky's dad. "Oh honey, I'm so proud of you" She said. "Grats bro." Colt and Tum Tum said in unison. "Thanks."
"Oh hello Shanna, congratulations." Rocky heard his parents saying. Turning back to grab Shanna's hand Rocky once again faced his parent's. "We're going to head off mom, I'll be home later tonight. "Ok sweetie, you two be safe, and don't stay out too late ok, we have a busy and long day tomorrow."
"Ok mom, bye dad, Colt, Tum" Rocky waved as he headed to his car with Shanna. "So where are we going to go? You made it sound like you had something planned yesterday." Rocky asked Shanna, as he climbed into his car. "Well I thought we could go someplace quiet, you know." She replied shyly.
"By quiet you mean that old shack in the woods, the one by the lake?" Rocky asked
"How'd you guess?" Shanna asked playfully with a slight smile on her face.
"Maybe it's the fact that it's one of the first places you took me too when we started dating, or the fact that it's your favorite place to go when you want to get away from things." Rocky replied smiling. "Well there is that." She agreed.
After that they sat listening to the radio for the 10 min it took to get to the lake. "Well here we are." Rocky announced unnecessarily as Shanna was already out of the car and heading into the shack. "Don't wait for me." Rocky called out, laughter in his voice, as he followed Shanna.
Walking through the door, Rocky was stunned with what he saw. Shanna pulled out all the stops, but how she had the time to do all of this was beyond him. The place was lit with soft candle light, as a number of candles were scattered around the room, in the center there was a soft blanket with a picnic basket and a bottle of what looked to be wine, and in the center of the blanket was Shanna, looking at him nervously.
"Do you like it?" She asked quietly, her body tense in anticipation of his answer. "I love it, but when did you get the time to do all of this, and is that wine?" Rocky asked indicating the bottle.
"Well I brought everything over here this afternoon, and set it up, and it isn't alcoholic wine, but I thought this night should be special, I mean we did just graduate and this will be out last night together for a while." She replied.
"Well, you had a great idea, so what's in the basket?" Rocky asked with interest, walking up to Shanna and taking her in his arms. "Nothing special, just a little dinner, and dessert." She replied, sliding her arms around his neck, and giving him a kiss.
"I have a surprise for you." She said looking up into his eyes, excitement clearly visible in her own eyes. "You didn't have to sweet heart, I don't have anything for you." Rocky replied slightly embarrassed by his thoughtlessness. "You don't have to get me anything, I just saw this and thought that I had to get it for you is all." She replied. "Ok if you insist, what is it?" he asked. "This!" Shanna said harshly, just as Rocky felt a sharp prick in his neck. Slapping his hand to his neck and turning his head quickly Rocky saw a syringe in Shanna's hand. "What?!" Rocky started to ask Shanna, turning to face her, he could have sworn he saw an evil glint in her eyes right before his vision started to go blurry, "Why?" he managed to get out, before unconsciousness claimed him.
Shanna felt a smile pull at her lips as she watched Rocky fall to the ground. 'Silly boy, he fell right into my trap' she thought. Pulling out Radio Shanna spoke into it. "Ok boys, get in here, we got him." Walking over to Rocky, Shanna rolled him onto his back. Turning around at a noise, Shanna found she was facing three men, "It's about time, get him loaded into the van, quickly!" She ordered them. Two of them men quickly followed her orders, grabbing Rocky and carrying him to the van parked behind the shack. The third man, slowly walked up to her. "You know, he isn't going to be happy about this change in plans, we grabbed him to quickly, now his father will be suspicious." The man replied.
"Don't think to question me! I had no choice but to push up our plans, the family is leaving tomorrow, what else were we going to do?" She replied.
"But Snyder won't be happy!" He argued again, "And what about his father?"
"Let me worry about both of them, my brother will understand why I had to move this little abduction up. As for the family, I will to it that they don't ruin our plans, I'll get them up there, don't worry about that." She replied smiling as she walked out of the shack, and climbed into the van.
