Chapter 11
"Where's Allison," Joey said, looking at the clock. "She should be home by now."
"She's probably just hanging out with her friends at the restaurant," Jesse said, flipping through a music magazine. "She'll be back soon."
Joey normally would have been relaxed by this remark, but right now he had an uneasy feeling that something bad had happened. He hoped she wasn't angry with him about not accepting her 'gift' to make up the opera. He paced the living room a few times, then stopped and looked at the clock, then paced again, then looked at the clock. Jesse became annoyed with this and threw his magazine down dramatically.
"All right, if you're so worried about her, let's go look for her."
Joey smiled at Jesse and the two opened to the door to go look for her.
Allison was lying on the ground trying to kick her perpetrator with her legs tied together. She got him in the stomach. He hunched over having the wind knocked out of him and at the same time dropped his knife. This gave her some time to help herself. She army crawled towards the knife he dropped, grabbed it with one hand, and tried to cut the ties around her ankles one handed. Just as she got her legs free, he got his breath back and tackled her. She defended herself with the knife, stabbing him in the bicep. He yelled in pain, while she tried to stand up and run. He grabbed the knife and her leg and pulled her down. He crawled on top of her securing her legs with his own.
"Maybe, I'll wait to rape you until after I kill you," he said, his eyes looking menacingly down at her.
She couldn't move at all. He was so much stronger and larger than her, that she couldn't kick. If only she had gotten her hands free, she could try to grab the knife. She panicked and couldn't think of anyway to get out of this.
Just then, she heard the sound of sprinting feet. Her head snapped to the side. Joey and Jesse were running towards her! The man looked as surprised as she was.
Joey grabbed the man and threw him off of Allison. The man fell on his shoulder, let out a cry of pain, but still sprang up and attacked Joey.
"So this is your little boyfriend," he said to Allison laughing a bit. "I'm surprised he gives as much as a damn about you. You're just his little whore anyway."
Allison was going to scream something to defend Joey, but Joey acted himself. He ran towards the man, and hit him with all his might.
"You don't know anything about Allison!" he screamed.
Unfortunately the man pulled his knife out just as Joey collided with him. Being stabbed in the stomach, Joey fell on the man causing both of them to fall backwards. The man's head hit the cement ground and having Joey's torso on him caused his head to slam into the cement even harder. Joey rolled to the side, but also hit his head on the ground. They both lay unconscious.
Allison screamed and ran towards Joey. Her arms still tied together, she pet Joey's face with both hands and started crying. She looked back at Jesse.
Jesse stood there stunned the whole time, not knowing what was going on or what he should do about it.
"Jesse, go get help!" she screamed at him.
He snapped out of his daze and ran back towards the house to call 911.
Allison lay there on the ground next to Joey and her perpetrator and cried on his chest, until the ambulance came.