Thank you Zoea for reviewing my story and being positive!!!!!!!!!! Yah..though I really didn't mind that person who told me that my story sucked because it wasn't Kai and Rei but still...
The note had told him not to go to the police or Shanna would end up hurt. Kai didn't want to take the chance of that happening. Besides, by the time the police got around to doing something, he could probably have Shanna back. Still, it would be nice to have a companion on this little expidition. Kai sighed and looked at the phone. Maybe he should phone April, just to tell her where he was going. That way she wouldn't have to worry about him AND Shanna. Then again, if he did tell her, she would worry about him and Shanna. If he didn't, she'd think that something had happened to him too. There was no way to win this situation. Unless...
No! Kai told himself mentally. There is no way I'm going to put April in danger. Kai's conscience sounded loudly through his head. But you wouldn't be putting her in danger. You'll just be taking her along on a mission. She wouldn't even have to leave the car if she didn't want to, his conscience told Kai.
Kai sighed and picked up the phone and began to dial April's private phone number before he realized what he was doing and hung up the phone. Kai walked away from the phone and picked up the backpack he had packed just a few minutes ago. Kai looked to his dresser and saw the phone again and turned away from it. Why did he want to have someone around so much? He never needed anyone before. Then again, he had never had friends before. At least not friends like April and Shanna.
Mentally kicking himself, Kai went over to the phone and dialed April's cell phone number. It rang four times before the voice message system kicked in. Kai sighed and hung up the phone without leaving a message.
Kai walked out of the room and closed the door behind him. When he was halfway down the stairs, his phone rang but Kai couldn't hear it.
Shanna opened one eye and then closed it again. Jerry was already drinking his coffee so there was no reason to be awake yet. After all, her plan would only work if he was asleep.
Her plan was simple. Move chair over to desk, grab knife with hands (the desk was low to the ground) cut rope and run away. Tests had shown that Justin was a deep sleep and more tests had shown that while Jerry would wake up, he would see nothing but a bunch of blurry images, rendering him useless. The only problem was, she couldn't put her plan into action unless they were asleep. The only problem was that she had never caught them both asleep at the same time. Shanna knew that they both slept at the same time but she had never been awake when they were both asleep.
Thoughts of Kai ran through her head and she sighed. Was Kai thinking of her right now? Shanna tried to picture him pacing his office worrying about her. Surprisingly, no matter how sweet she thought Kai was, she just couldn't see it. She could see Kai sleeping in his chair, waiting for some phone call. She could picture Kai taking a run in the park to unstress himself but she just couldn't see him pacing.
Her thoughts flew to April. It was quite easy to picture April pacing back and forth in their living room. Infact, on the occasional day, you could walk into the living room and find April pacing back and forth in the living room. Of course, usually she was pacing because she was frusterated but it still counted.
Shanna wondered if Kai had flown back from his buisness trip in order to help April out and to deal with everyone. For some strange reason she doubted it. Kai probably told April that she could handle it for the rest of the week and then he'd fly home as soon as he could. What a jerk! She was lost and he was in some meeting because his grandfather told him he had to be.
Shanna mentally kicked herself as she realized that she was getting all worked up over something that may not have even happened. Shanna made herself think about what was at hand. Her getting out of here.
April closed the door for about the thirtieth time that day. She was sick and tired of people coming by every five minutes to ask about Shanna. To ask if April had heard anything yet. To ask it the police were actually trying. To ask what she thought about the whole situation. April worked at a newspaper as a photographer and she realized that sometimes you had to get in people's faces in order to ask them questions but this was getting a little bit too close. It was like she couldn't breathe without having some reporter ask her something.
April leaned against the door and found herself wishing that Tala was here. Infact, she found herself wishing that anyone was here. Anyone that she could talk to that would actually understand what was going on in her head. She couldn't care less who it was! Even Kai would do at this point.
April found her eyes watering and she reached up to brush them away, her eyes moving upwards and she caught a glimpse of someone running away from the house.
Without thinking April ran to the screen door, opened it, raced out it, hoping to get a better look at the person who had just ran off. However, it was no good, whoever it was, was long gone. April turned around and slowly made her way back into the house and as she did so, heard someone beating on the door. April called for them to wait and hurriedly looked in the mirror to make sure she didn't look too bad. April decided that she didn't and swung open the door, a fake smile plastered on her face. Her smile quickly turned to look of fright when she saw who it was however.
April tried to slam the door in the person's face but they were too quick for her and stuffed their shoe in the door. Quickly they went inside and April just had time to run away. She ran out the door, taking a second to stop and try to think about where to run. However, that one second was her downfall and the person grabbed her from behind, put a handkerchief on her mouth and it all went black.
The phone rang even more constantly in the office. Finally the owner of the office picked up the phone. "Hello." He said, his voice deep and filled with concern.
"We have the girl." The other end told him. "And we're not about to let her go without getting something in return."
"What do you want?" The man asked, the feeling in his voice was intense, filled with emotion. Something his grandson had never heard before, something that the person on the other end had never heard before. "I'll give you anything, just don't hurt her."
"Ten million dollars my friend." The voice on the other end told him. "I want it sent to my place, you do still remember where that is, don't you? Oh and if you tell anyone what's going on. I think we may just have some fun with her first."
There was a fight on the other end of the phone and then some feminine whimpers could be heard through the reciever. The old man's heart almost broke in half as he heard her scream with pain.
"Stop it! Okay, I'll do what you ask. Just let her be. Don't hurt her anymore." The old man persuaded. "I'll have it down at your place by midnight."
"Good work old man." The other end chuckled. "I knew you'd come around to my way of thinking soon enough."
The phone disconnected and the older man slumped into his chair. What on earth was he doing?