Chapter 12
Olivia ran outside and eyed the perimeter again. "KELSEY!" she shouted, praying that she'd be lucky and actually get a response, instead of dealing with the reality which she was suddenly faced with. "KELSEY!" she yelled again, while the people passing by stared at her strangely. She quickly reached and pulled her phone out of her pocket to dial Nick's number.
"Hello?" Nick answered after the second ring.
"Nick, I need everyone on the look out for Kelsey. Someone just took her," she voiced nervously on the phone. Her heart was beating so fast, it felt as if it were going to pop out of her chest. She was almost positive it would.
"What? What do you mean someone took Kelsey?" he asked, causing for Amanda and Fin's heads to shoot up.
She let out an exaggerated breath, "It was my fault," she answered. "There was this guy dressed up in a uniform and I thought he was a rookie so I told him to watch her. But it wasn't a rookie. It was a man impersonating one and now he's gone," she responded in a defeated tone, well on the verge of tears by now.
Nick could tell that the woman was distraught. "Okay, Liv, Just relax. We're on it. We're going to find her. What does he look like?"
She hoped that he was right. She had to believe him. "Tall, about 6 foot. Hispanic. He had on a former officer's uniform. The badge read P. Alvarez... Wait, wait a minute," she remembered something that could definitely help.
Kelsey sat Raul's vehicle and tried not to show the fear that was so evident in her eyes. But the truth was she didn't know where he was taking her. But what she did know was that Raul was Ray's best friend and that he'd taken care of Ray's dirty work before.
So when she saw Olivia talking to Raul outside of the interrogation room, the girl knew that there was no way the woman would actually be able to help her, no matter how badly she wanted to. These people were fearless. He showed that by standing right in the middle of the precinct.
She sat in the passenger seat and stared at the door, making sure that it was unlocked in case she actually did have no choice but to run.
He reached over toward the cup holder to grab something, but she flinched, assuming that he was going to strike her. He stared at her as if she was stupid and grabbed his phone.
He was definitely calling him, she knew.
A moment later, she heard his voice. "Hey papa, I got your girl."
"Which one?" she heard Ray ask on the other line.
"The kid. It took a while to get outta there since she was talking to the cops–"
"I wasn't," Kelsey was quick to defend in a loud enough voice so that Ray could hear. "Ray, I didn't say anything about you, I swear," she pleaded. "Please let me explain."
"Put her on the phone," Ray ordered.
Raul quickly moved the phone away from his ear and pressed it hard agains't the teen's as he drove. She grabbed it from him. "Ray, it's not what you think."
"You're in a police station when you told me you were staying in another foster home?" He voiced angrily. "You told me you would come find me as soon as you could. Remember that?"
"I know," she answered him. "But I really tried."
"What the hell did you tell them you little whore?" he interrupted again. "You told them I raped you? Is that it?"
"No," Kelsey cried. "I didn't tell them anything."
"Because I didn't rape you," he interrupted. "That's a fucking lie!"
"I know that!" she shouted back in tears. "I never said that! I had to be there because my sister works there. She made me go with her, Ray. That's who I've been staying with."
"What?" He voiced in confusion.
"She's my foster mom since Mom wouldn't come to get me at the station. They placed me with the detective and I had to go to work with her. I didn't even want to. Babe, this is not my fault," she continued to voice nervously.
Silence filled the line in between them.
This made her even more worried.
Ray was never this quiet.
"Ray, I swear I never said anything about you. Please believe me," she begged. She needed for him to at least say that he believed her. It couldn't be like this.
"I do," he answered simply. "Don't worry. You're going to be fine...Can you put Raul back on the phone now?"
She let out of a deep breath of relief before she handed him over the phone.
Raul snatched it from her and placed it over his ear.
"Yeah?" He answered.
"Take care of it," he whispered into the phone.
Authors note: if I get enough reviews, I'll update again today. I feel like no one is really reading this story...