Tom had never been allowed to go at a speed as high as now. They were going miles faster than the speed limit, following the police closely. The fast rate felt thrilling for the whole family. Almost like a roller coaster ride.

Only that it wasn't ending in a thrill. It could end in finding Dawn, or it could end in nothing. They had no way of even knowing they read the notes right.

Those twelve notes could have spelled out something totally different, and the Harper's and the police were completely unaware of it.

After a while of driving, they finally took a turn into the Point of Pines drive. It was a long, long road, with houses and forests on the sides of the road. On such a long road you might think that it would be impossible to know exactly where Dawn supposedly was going.

But it wasn't. Cassidy and Jonathan had a pretty good idea of where Dawn and her kidnapper would stop. A half hidden away glade close to a gas station. It would be a perfect place to stop the car with Dawn in it, while the kidnapper could go an get something from the gas station. Or for all the group of seven knew, it could be kidnappers.

They pulled over into the gas station parking lot, and waited... and waited... and waited.

It felt pointless, as there was a chance they were waiting for nothing. Maybe Dawn wasn't coming there. They could be there all day, to no success. Dawn could be somewhere else, hoping that they got her message, and thinking they were coming to get her.

But none of the eight people in this situation knew if their wishes would come true.

They had been standing there for a couple of hours, and nothing had happened. Jonathan had told the Harper's to just act like they were a normal family, who was either getting gas, or on a quick stop on a road trip.

Tom and Anne had decided on the road trip idea. No one else was at the gas station for more than ten minutes, so that way nobody got suspicious on why they were hanging out there. The only person Cassidy and Jonathan had told what was going on, was the cashier.

And now they were all patiently waiting for everything or nothing.

Dicky came out of the gas station, happily opening a bag of sour patch kids. The others were still waiting outside. They couldn't miss anything. If all of them went just a stone's throw away from the place where they saw the glade, they could miss out on getting Dawn back.

"Want some?" Dicky held out the bag of sour candies to Nicky.

Nicky just shook his head, without even looking at what Dicky had in his hand. He had a horrible feeling in his stomach, making him not want to eat anything, in fear of his body rejecting it on the way down.

Dicky proceeded to ask Ricky the same question. He didn't get a direct response, Ricky just put his hand in and took out a blue candy. He felt like he needed some comfort food to help his process the situation.

Dicky went back to Nicky.

"Dude, you love sour patch kids"

Nicky shook his head.

"Not right now"

"Guys we're supposed to look like a normal family on a road trip", Ricky interrupted. "We look like a group of concerned meerkats staring at giant snake"

"It's kinda hard to act happy when your sister is gone, and you don't know if you'll ever see her again" Nicky sighed.

"Well boys, we have to" Anne had now joined.

"Why?" Dicky turned his head back to his mom.

"Because if whoever's with Dawn sees us standing here, staring at that glade, they won't go in there"

The three boys sighed in unison.

"How do we stare at a glade, without making it obvious we're staring at a glade?"

Anne thought for a second.

"We don't stare at it. We look if we hear any cars coming, and leave the staring to Cassidy and Jonathan"

Cassidy and Jonathan were a few meters away, talking to a blonde woman. Their excuse for being there was that they were interviewing local residents about the safety around the place. The police car was hidden on a parking spot that wasn't visible when you first reached the gas station.

"What do we do if we see the car?"

Anne bit her lip at Nicky's question.

"We..." She looked down at the ground. "We tell Cassidy and Jonathan... and they'll tell us what to do"

The sound of a car coming in the distance was suddenly heard. All of the Harper's, and the police quickly glanced over at the road. They were first able to see the vehicle when it was about fifteen meters away, due to trees covering their view.

A silver car pulled up into the gas station parking lot. The registration plate read 'LXT 442'.

They all sighed and looked down at the ground as a family with two kids stepped out of the car to get gas. The same thing had happened with the last ten to fifteen cars driving by.

They had all gotten hopeful and a wrong-colored car with a random registration plate number had driven by.

Tom and Anne were losing their hope, the boys were getting impatient, and the police worried if they were even in the right place... when it happened.

A distant car noise reached their ears again. The same hopeful feeling that they had gotten each time filled them as they discreetly looked over at the road. That feeling was hastily replaced though.

Adrenaline spread through their bodies, and their heart rates went crazy as a red car took a turn into the glade.

The registration plate had three simple letters, and three just as normal numbers.

DAH 207

Hello, I'm back from another lack of inspiration!

I really need to stop throwing myself into stories, without even knowing where to continue and end them, haha.

Well, hope you liked this chapter. The next one will probably be out tomorrow, because I actually know what to write.

See ya tomorrow!