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Here is chapter 2!

"She still won't let you come?" Ashley asked incredulously. "Are you kidding me?"

Eden rolled her eyes and nodded. "Dead serious," she grumbled. The two girls were heading to their first class of the school year and was explaining that her mother still hadn't relented in letting her come to Ashley's back-to-school bash. Eden was positively fuming. All the time she tried so hard to please both her parents. She got great grades, she played soccer and was on varsity her sophomore year, she volunteered at a variety of places. Yet the one time she screwed up ruined her entire social life. And her dad had just taken her mother's side, the way he always did. "I swear, Ash, I'm totally fed up with my mom right now. She's been a complete bitch all summer!"

"Calm down, Eden," Ashley laughed. "Your look like you're about to blow a blood vessel." She snickered at her best friend. The girls went into their first class of the day just as the bell rang to signal the day was starting. The teacher at the front of the room was a pudgy looking man with greasy and graying hair, a terribly patterned and ill-fitting dress shirt, and thick black rimmed glasses. Eden barely glanced his way, but immediately glanced back when she saw that he was staring at her. His gaze followed her all the way to a desk and she felt a shiver go up her spine. This guy was giving her an uneasy gut feeling and she wanted to sprint out of the room.

Ashley and her settled into seats and waited for class to officially start. Their teacher had finally moved on from staring at Eden and she instantly felt better. She shook her head. It was probably just an accident that he'd stared at her too long. His gaze was now scanning the room. When he opened his mouth, his voice came out nasally and raspy.

"Alright, good morning ladies and gentlemen," he said. "I'm Mr. Leon. Welcome to Trig 2!" He looked at them with a big cheesy smile and no one said anything. He cleared his throat awkwardly and said, "Well, as most of you know, I'm new here and I just wanted to say how glad I am that I'll be teaching you all this year." The entire room just looked at him blankly and Eden felt her phone vibrate with a text. She pulled it out and smirked at Ashley's words.

This guy is a total fruitcake…

"Ms. Morgan!"

Gulping, Eden shoved her phone back in her pocket and looked up to see Mr. Leon striding towards her. There was something uneasy about the look he had when he came over to her seat and Eden shifted uncomfortably in her seat. She didn't know why but this guy reminded her of the creeps her parents caught for a living.

"Hmm?" she hiccupped.

"Care to share your thoughts with the class?" he said. "You seem rather amused with something."

She shook her head firmly. "No, sorry," she mumbled.

Mr. Leon shook his head and said, "Report here after the day is over, Ms. Morgan." He returned to the front of the room and Eden just stared at him, not believing what had just happened.

Halfway into the class period, she realized that he had known her name without her saying anything. Who the hell was this guy?

Penelope was just finishing her search for Hotch when her cell phone rang. She checked the caller id and was interested when she saw Eden picture pop up on the screen. Usually her oldest child texted, but what really puzzled her was why she was calling her at ten in the morning when she should have been in class.

"Hello," she said, removing her blue tooth headset and answering her cell.

"Mom," Eden said warily.

"Hey baby," Penelope said softly. "Is everything okay?" There was some hesitation on the other side of the line and she inhaled sharply. "Eden, are you alright?"

"Mom, I'm not gonna be able to take the others home from school," Eden said. "I, uh, I got a detention."

Penelope was shocked. Eden had never so much as gotten a scolding from her teachers in school and on the first day of her junior year of high school she got slapped with a detention? Something was extremely off about this. "Eden, are you kidding me?"

Huffing, her daughter replied, "No! Ashley made me laugh and our new Trig teacher, Mr. Leon saw. He wants me to stay after school."

A thought it Penelope as she listened to her daughter's story. Angrily she said, "Eden, are you lying about this so you can go to that party?"

Disbelief filled Eden's tone. "What? No! I'm serious. I have a detention."

"Teachers don't give detentions for something like that," Penelope argued.

"Mom, do you really think I would lie about something like this?"

"I don't know, would you?"

There was a tense silence and finally Eden snarled, "You know what, Mom? Go to hell. I'm not lying and if you want to call the teacher and ask, be my fucking guest!"

Gasping, Penelope said, "Eden!" But she got no response; her daughter had hung up. Immediately she felt bad. Eden most likely had been telling the truth and she was just so frustrated with her from the morning that she'd lashed out. Tossing her phone on her desk, Penelope felt tears in her eyes and she quickly wiped them away. Putting her elbows on her desk, she finally just let her tears fall. Would the hostility with her daughter ever end?

After School

Eden had cried after her conversation with her mother. She was ready to apologize and seek comfort from her, but she'd jumped immediately to the conclusion that she was lying. Now she was heading back to Mr. Leon's room for her detention.

"Ah, Ms. Morgan," he said when she showed up. "Come on in." He was sitting at his desk and he stood up when she came in.

"Hi," she said mutely.

Clapping his hands together, Mr. Leon said, "Well, today for your detention I'm going to need your help loading some things into my car. Does that seem reasonable?"

"Umm, sure," she said, dropping her bag. "Which way?"

Mr. Leon waved his hand and said, "Follow me." Eden nodded and followed her teacher out of the classroom and to the teacher's parking lot. She remained silent the whole way to the car which was a large black van. Her insides were churning as she looked at the van. What kind of teacher drove a van that looked like this? "Umm, Mr. Leon? What exactly am I helping you –"

She tried to scream when Mr. Leon grabbed her around the neck, but he clamped his hand over her mouth. She struggled to kick out against him, but he whispered in her ear, "Stop struggling, Eden. Mommy and Daddy won't want you hurt."

Shoving her hard into the van, he slammed the door and Eden sat up. She began to bang on the side of the van. "Let me out of here you bastard!"

From the driver's seat, she heard a vicious cackle. "Don't worry, little Eden," he said. "Mommy and Daddy will be talking to you soon."

Six O'clock

"How many times have you tried her cell phone?" Derek asked Penelope when he got in the front door.

"More times than I can count," Penelope said frantically. She was pacing around in their living room and had tears running down her cheeks. "I tried Ashley; she said she's not with her. Derek, what if she took off somewhere or –"

The phone rang, breaking Penelope's string of words. Grasping Derek's hand, she ran to the phone and picked it up. "Eden? Eden, please tell me if you're okay!"

The voice she heard made her blood run cold. "Hello Penny…"

Guess who is back…? Let me know what you think!