Jerrica
Another night passed. The girls have been missing for two days. So far, there has been no news on the girls. After lunch the phone rang and it was Detective Jones. I ran and found the others.
"Detective Jones thinks that he may have found our girls." I told them.
"That's great!" Shana said.
"When do we go to get them?" Aja said.
"Detective Jones is on his way to get us. Aja, why don't you follow in the van because we will need it for the girls?" I said.
Before I knew it we were on our way to get the girls with any luck. We arrive at what look like an old abandon house. If the girls are in that dump, I sure hope that they are okay. The cops went in and arrested the men that were in the house. Detective Jones came up to me after they were done.
"Ms. Benton if you will come in with me to come in and get the girls." Detective Jones said and then went on, "I don't know your girls and they don't know me. Besides if someone was missing I wouldn't know who."
Detective Jones and I went into the house to look for the girls. We found them in the basement, all the girls came running up to me. I hugged the girls and sent them upstairs to the other girls. I looked at the girls, someone was missing.
"Becky, where is Lela?" I asked.
"I don't know, she was here and then they took her away." Becky said.
"When was this?" I asked her.
"It was a couple of hours after they took us here and we haven't seen her since." Becky said.
"Okay, you go upstairs with the others and I will look for Lela." I told her as I hugged her.
Detective Jones and I searched for Lela. I went into a room and I heard crying coming from the other sided of the door. The door was locked so I got Detective Jones and we busted down the door. Lela was facing the wall on the bed shaking. I started to walk over to her.
"Please not again!" Lela cried.
"Lela, its Jerrica." I said as I walked over to her.
She turned around looked at me crying and shaking. She threw her arms around my neck. "Is it really you?" She asked.
I held her and stroke her hair. "Yes it's really me."
"I dreamed of you coming to rescue me." Lela cried.
"I called an ambulance, they are on their way." Detective Jones said.
"You called for an ambulance, why do we need ambulance?" I asked as I walked toward him.
"We have a case of sexual assault here. They need to do a rape kit plus we need the results as evidence. " He said.
"Evidence, we are talking about a fourteen year old who has been sincerely hurt. I don't want to put her through it." I told him.
I went over to Lela who was still sitting on the bed. "Did anyone touch you, or hurt you?"
Lela nodded, "He said if I didn't, he will go after one of the younger girls. I couldn't let that happen, so I agreed. I didn't say no, so it is not rape."
"It is rape; he did not give you an option to say no. That makes it rape, even though you did not say no. However, we do need proof of the rape to use against him in a court of law." Detective Jones said.
Lela and I left in the ambulance for the hospital. Aja and the others took the rest of the Starlight girls home.