Rosalia
Bounce. Bounce. Bounce.
"Stop it." Hannah said.
Bounce. Bounce. Bounce.
"Nelly!"
Bounce. Bounce. Bounce.
"I swear to God Cornelia Leah Renee, bounce that basketball one more time..." Hannah fumed.
"Your name is Cornelia?" Jillian asked laughing hysterically. Nelly looked Hannah dead in the eyes.
Bounce.
Hannah stood up and ran at Nelly. Caleb grabbed her around the waist.
"Come on, we are stuck here till further notice. We have to keep from killing each other please." Caleb sighed placing her on one of the sleeping bags the cops threw on the floor for us.
"Fine." Hannah said sitting up. "But bounce it one more time I'm throwing you and the ball out the window." I knew how Hannah felt. Her sister was dead, mine was assumed dead. Then again she was also missing Keith. I guess I had no idea how she felt. At least there was a slight possibility Isabelle was alive.
"So who do we miss the most?" A cop asked leaning his head in the door. "I can imagine everyone misses someone more then the others?"
"Shut the fuck up!" Hannah yelled.
"Hannah, Sweetie, calm down." I said sitting next to her. Hannah collapsed sobbing in my lap, I stroked her hair.
"A little angry?" The cop asked.
"Really shut up," Nelly said. "All of us are missing one or more people we love could you just leave us the fuck alone?"
"Well one of you obviously knows something that is causing your friends to go missing." The cop sat on a table we had set up in a corner. Each of us was allowed to bring one thing and they supplied chairs, a table and "beds." Everything we brought was in a little box in the corner of the room. I brought my drawing pad, Nelly brought her basketball, Jillian has a deck of cards, Caleb brought his laptop, and Hannah brought her pocketbook that had everything in it.
"Ever think maybe it's not one of us but someone who's already in the truck?" Caleb asked.
"Not until now." The cop unlocked the door and stepped out. Hannah got up, grabbed her purse and pulled at the door. It swung open.
"Stupid cop." Hannah said. "Look I have to go. I love you all. If I don't come back the will is under my bed."
"Hannah no!" Me and Nelly screamed and ran to the door. She walked out the door and pulled it shut. I grabbed on the door and tried to pull it open but it was locked.
"No." I started sobbing and fell to the floor. Caleb came and wrapped his arms around me.
"Shhh. Baby, it's okay." He said holding me.
"No it's not." Nelly said curling into a ball on her sleeping bag. "She's gonna get taken too."
"We don't know that." Caleb said trying to calm us all down.
"Yes we do." Jillian said getting off her chair and tucking herself into her sleeping bag. "Let's just sleep." She sighed.
"That's a good idea." Caleb said pulling me into his arms and setting us both down in one sleeping bag. He kissed my forehead. We all sat up straight when we heard Hannah's screech from outside. Nelly flung herself at the window and collapsed to the ground sobbing. Jillian got up and held her. I began to cry and collapsed into Caleb's lap. He just stroked my hair.
"And then there were four..." I muttered as I closed my eyes.