Kay guys, extremely sorry for the late update. I've been sick, busy, with tests and soccer and who knows what else. I just really didn't know how I wanted to write this chapter. I didn't want something too extreme, I wanted something just right. Which I think is what I gave you. So… I'm sorry in advance for what is going to happen. It's all planned out now.
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The Block Estate
9:06 PM
"I'm fine… ahh," winced Derrick in pain. Josh, Alicia, Cam, Claire, Plovert, Kristen, Kemp and Dylan were all sitting on the front steps of Massie's driveway. They reported Massie 'missing,' and were now trying to calm Derrick down.
"Dude, your gut's black and blue," pointed Josh.
"I see some yellow and green," noted Kristen.
"Guys… they just drove away," said Derrick. "He socked me, I went out cold, and when I woke up…" he shook his head. "It's all my fault.
"We have to figure out how to find her," Cam said to the group. "Any ideas? Anyone? Anyone… anyone…"
Silence was everywhere. Everyone was wondering what would happen if they didn't find Massie. Which really should have motivated them to think harder, but it didn't.
"GPS!" screamed Alicia.
"What?" asked Dylan, surprised by her outburst. "GPS?"
"Yeah," said Alicia, sounding blasé, but inside, she knew that she was onto something. "When her parents had me go with her to get a phone, they special-ordered one with a tracking device on it. So we just have to activate it!"
"I thought you didn't care about Massie," jabbed Kristen.
"Well… she might die… so…"
Derrick gave Alicia a death look, and then buried his head in his hands. "Just activate the thing, Alicia."
Alicia pushed some buttons on her phone and then scanned the screen. "Does anyone know how to read maps?"
"Let me see it," snapped Kristen, grabbing Alicia's voyager and studying the map. "They're just off the freeway, off an exit 'turnpike,' and then it looks like they strayed off into the canyons. Weird."
"Chris," pointed out Cam. "Come on," he said. Grabbing the keys to his pickup and gesturing for everyone to hop in.
Westchester
The Canyons
9:46 PM
Massie's hands and legs were tied up, but she wasn't gagged anymore. Chris had lit candles inside the cavern, and she was down to her bra and underwear. Her amber eyes glistened with hate as she looked up at Chris.
He was grinning at her. "I'm going to untie you," he whispered soothingly. His hands graced over the bonds that held her hands together. "but even think of running, and I will have to use force," he said, gesturing towards the knife on the shelf.
Massie braced herself for what was coming next.
All of a sudden, Chris' car alarm sounded. "Shit," he mumbled. "Stupid deer." He got up, took his knife and ran out of the cavern. Pausing, he turned back to Massie. "You leave," he laughed. "and I will hunt you down." Chris held out his knife.
"And my friend will help."
As soon as Chris' footsteps faded, Massie grabbed her T-shirt and pants and ran out of the cave. Her phone was still in the pocket of her jeans, and as she was running through the brush, speed-dialed Derrick.
Ring. Ring. Ring. Ri—
"Massie!" Derrick answered, clearly relieved.
"Derrick!"
"Where are you? We found Chris' car—"
"I don't know, I'm running," she panted. "He has a knife… Wait... You're here?" Massie stopped dead in her tracks. "I hear something," she whispered into the phone. "Don't hang up."
"I'm right here!" said a voice and a body plowing into her.
"Derrick!" Massie shrieked.
"In the flesh," he grinned.
"We have to get out of here," she whispered, content in his arms.
"Josh and Cam and the girls have the car a few miles away from here. We better go," Derrick said, getting up from where they were seated.
"I'm scared," Massie admitted. "He was going to—" She couldn't finish the sentence.
"You're safe now. We're here."
They ran for what seemed like hours until they came to a clearing where Derrick had his car parked. "Hop in," he told Massie. "I'm calling Josh, see where they are. We took two cars."
"Put it on speaker," Massie said. "I wanna talk to them after all you've done for me."
Ring. Ring. Ring.
"Hello?" said a voice that Massie recognized as Josh's.
"Hey, I've got Mass, where you at?" said Derrick, his eyes fixed on the road.
Massie loved that they had just rescued her from a kidnapper and how everyone stayed calm, as if there was nothing to worry about.
"Uhh—we might be having some problems… There's a black hummer following us. The one we broke into? Yeah…" Josh said something to Cam. "Yeah, Cam thinks we should split. Get on the freeway ASAP. This guy isn't slowing down."
Massie's stomache churned at the thought of Chris following her best friends, trying to ram them, anything. She pushed the thought out of her mind.
"Alright. Call us when you lose this guy… it's Chris, no?" said Derrick.
"Looks like Abeley. We'll call you," chimed Cam.
Massie's phone vibrated, the screen dispaying, "RESTRICTED." Hesitantly, she pressed accept.
"Hello?"
"You bitch," hissed Chris. "You've made it explicitly clear that I can't have you. And If I can't have you…" Chris paused and let out a childish giggle. "Nobody can."
"Fuck you," she whispered.
"Hear this?"
Massie heard a ticking noise on the other line. Her eyes widened. "Call Josh! Tell him to get the hell out of there!" she whisper-screamed at Derrick.
"Because that will be the last thing your friends will hear." Click.
"I've got him on the line… What's going on?" asked Derrick.
Massie was hysterical. "He's got a bomb! The last thing—no, it can't be—it won't be… Derrick…" she sobbed.
"Hello?" Josh said, on speakerphone.
"Josh you've got to get everyone out of that car!" screamed Massie.
"Massie—what are you talking about?"
"Get everyone out of that car, now!" she yelled, still sobbing. Faintly she could hear a ticking noise in the backround on the other line. "Get out now!" She screamed.
"Massie?"
And then there was a blast. Everything she heard resembled panic.
"What the--?"
"Kristen!"
"Alicia!"
"Claire, I love you!"
"No… no…"
Massie heard sobbing, and screaming.
All that brought back what happened on what was supposed to be the best night of her life, four years ago. And it had happened again.
But as she could hear the crackle of flames, the yelps of her best friends, car parts snapping in two because of the pressure of the explosion, the last thing Massie heard was something she'd never forget.
"Massie Block, I will always love you," Josh whispered into the revciever of his cell phone. She imagined his brown hair sweeping over and into his chocolate brown eyes, laced with pain from the crash. That's how she'd remember hi m for the rest of her life. And as she imagined his last moments, with him lying on the gravel, he said the words that killed her inside.
"…I …always have… always will… love you."
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