Chapter 21
Meanwhile her friends were at Emma and Ash's house discussing what to do next. Zane called the police
"What is your emergency?"
"My fiance has gone missing, we searched everywhere for her. Shes been gone a night and a day." Zane said frantically.
The group kept their eyes out incase they saw Rikki returning home. The police wouldnt do a proper search until it was confirmed she was missing, that she wasn't still on her way. So pretty much if she was still gone the next day, they would start their search. The group found it very unhelpful. Her phone was off. (Rikki's captors had taken it off her, learning from the last time) This made everything more suspicious.
Unknown Location where Rikki is being held against her will, 48 hours later...
Rikki's P.O.V
There it goes again. My stomach has been rumbling nonstop for the past few days. At least I think its been a few days. The man's workers have brought me a drink of stale water three times since I woke up. I guess this is to keep me alive and awake, feeling the hunger and lonliness. I had always been a loner before I met Cleo and Emma, before I became a you-know-what, this silence shouldnt be bothering me. But then I guess I always had my dad to talk to when I got home, and there was always noise about me, not this dead silence. No noise except for my ragged breathing and shivering and the occasional clatter and footstep from outside my prison. Oh, its so damn cold! If I don't starve to death, I think I might freeze.
As you can see with all this time on my hands and had quite a bit of time to contemplate life and think and plan my escape...
No one in particular's P.O.V (normal perspective)
"She's been awful quite over the past few days Rodney. I'd have thought she'd at least be screaming for food, crying or begging us to let her out...the lonliness and the cold would've got to me by now," One man said. All the men there were convicted fellons, most of them had recently fufilled their sentance and had promised falsely to keep on the side of the law. Most of them had been part of the conterfeiting ring or thugs. During theirrough five years imprisonment their leader had been doing a lot of thinking. Most of it regarding who was responsible for locking them away. They decided as a group, thier leader obviously with the most input, that it was that pretty teenage girl with the blonde curly hair and striking blue eyes. She would be their target when they left prison.
The police, satisfied that she was infact missing began to help with the search by beginning an investigation. They also helped with the placement of 'Missing' posters. The face of a very cheerful Rikki was pastered on poles and in shop windows and billboards all over town. Over the two days the friends had been beside themselves with worry. The mermaids would go for extra long swims incase they could find her. Zane was in the worst state. Noone had ever seen him this way before. It was terribly out of character for him.
"Its all my fault," he would mumble to himself, "If I had gone to the cafe with her or instead of her she'd probably be safe and still with us now,"
"Have you seen this girl?" A police officer asked the manager of the petrol station holding up her photo.
"Hmm," he said thoughtfully, "Actually, yes. I think I have...there was this ute who came to buy petrol. You could see a girl of this description in the back, asleep...the men with her said she had fallen asleep on the way home, it was very suspicious..."
"Could you give us a description of those men?"
"I'll see what I can do..."