What Happened to Zelda Last Night Part 2
Of all of the places that Willard Kraft could be spending his Friday night, the mall was definitely not a place he wanted to be. There were entirely too many teenagers roaming around. It was bad enough that he had to be around them at school. He definitely didn't need to put up with them during his free time. If his grandmother hadn't insisted that she needed a new sweater immediately, he wouldn't even be there.
Willard was digging through piles of sweaters to try to find something his grandmother would like when he heard a commotion at the front of the store. He put the sweaters he was looking at down and headed for the disturbance. He wondered what was going on.
"Someone call an ambulance!" a man called as Willard tried to get to the front of the crowd. He stopped and tapped a woman in front of him. "What's going on?"
"Someone found a woman unconscious outside of the store," she said. "Poor thing. I suppose she was mugged. People just aren't safe anywhere anymore!"
"Tell me about it," Willard grumbled as he peered over the woman's shoulder and stopped in shock when he saw who the woman was. "Zelda?"
He pushed his way to the front of the crowd and dropped to the ground beside her. Zelda's blue suit dress was torn and blood splattered and her shoes were missing. Her hair was hanging loose as if it had been torn down and there were bruises around her neck. He reached out and gently took her hand. "Zelda? Zelda, wake up." he whispered.
Just then Harvey came through the crowd. He had spotted Mr. Kraft and wondered what was going on. When he saw Zelda, he stopped in shock for a minute before running over. "Mr. Kraft, what happened?"
"I don't know," Willard muttered as he stroked Zelda's cheek. He was frightened by how still she was and he was very glad that he could hear the ambulance coming. "I just got here myself but someone said that some man found her like this outside."
"I think that I better go and call Sabrina. She's going to freak when she hears about this," Harvey said as he took off for the pay phone.
Harvey came back just as Zelda was being loaded into the ambulance. Willard was standing at the ambulance doors with a frightened expression on his face.
"Mr. Kraft, no one answered over at Sabrina's."
"Mr. Kinkle, could you please keep trying to get ahold of Miss Spellman or her aunt? They need to talk to a family member at the hospital," Willard said as he got into the ambulance.. He was just glad that he had convinced the paramedics to agree to letting him go to the hospital with Zelda.