"Bo, why did he bury me for? Couldn't he have just drugged me and left Hazzard?" Megan asked, tightening her arms around her brother's neck and crying. Bo felt her tears fall on his neck as he hugged her tight. He was just glad that Mark hadn't stolen her virginity. If he had gotten away he would have. Especially if Megan was in a drugged stupor. She wouldn't have been able to stop him if he started to kiss her.
"I don't know. I guess he just wanted to see us suffer. He didn't try to rape you, did he?" Bo asked, stroking her blonde hair.
"I don't know. I was asleep pretty much from the time he took me. I felt something hit me in the head. The next thing I knew he was waking me up and putting me in that coffin. I wanted to go back to sleep, but he wanted me awake," Megan said groggily.
"Did he kiss you besides what we saw?" Brian asked.
Megan turned to look at him. "He said he wouldn't bury me if I said that I loved him and then he kissed me. I tried to push him away and told him that I didn't love him," Megan said, fresh tears falling down her face.
"Where did he inject you, little Cousin?" Luke asked, using his nickname for her. She normally didn't like the nickname, but she must have been too tired to protest.
"My neck. I asked him what he was doing while he cleaned a spot there. That's when he kissed me and when I refused him he stuck me in the neck," Megan said, falling back to sleep. Bo laid her back on her pillow and his mother covered her gently with a blanket.
"Maybe we need to get Doc Appleby out here. She might have a head injury from where Mark hit her," Jim said, wrapping his arm around Bo's shoulder.
"Probably right. I feel like going to that jail and knocking that kid against the wall! He buried my baby sister alive and drugged her!" Bo said, tears forming in his eyes.
"Calm down, Bo. Hitting Mark won't help," Uncle Jesse said in his calm voice.
"I know it won't, Uncle Jesse. But I want justice for Megan," Bo said.
"I know you do, Boy. Megan will get it. Right now she just needs her family to help her get through this ordeal," Jesse said. Jesse was right. His baby sister needed him to be strong for her. Laying there with her face all pale and her blonde hair spread out on her pillow like an angel she looked so vulnerable. She looked like a little girl who'd been hurt instead of eighteen.
Megan woke up off and on that night. It was hard to sleep. Everytime she closed her eyes, she kept seeing Mark and kept watching
him bury her alive and what she kept hearing over and over was the sound of dirt being shoveled on top of her grave. Mark
must have not wanted her dead, because he didn't leave her long enough in the ground. Megan believed he wanted to torture
her enough hoping that she would give in and agree to be with him forever. But Megan wouldn't. She loved Brian to much.
Megan felt hurt and betrayed by Mark. She had trusted him. She had thought that he was even a friend other than a boyfriend.
Back at the school, he had seemed so nice and knew music as much as she did if maybe even more.
How dumb had she'd been not seeing the signs that Bo did? If she'd been half as smart as Bo was, she wouldn't have put herself
in this situation. She would have stayed clearly away from Mark In the beginning.
Doctor Appleby the family Doctor visited her that afternoon and examined her. He immediately told them Megan was suffering
from a mild concussion and would be disoriented from the side effects of the drug for over twenty four hours. He had also told
them that they were lucky that Mark didn't leave Megan in the grave for to long. If she'd been in the grave for at least an
hour, she would have died from suffication. Megan wondered what would have happened to her if Mark hadn't dug her out.
Would her brother, cousin and Brian still rescue her from her trapped state. Megan read many fiction romance stories about a damsel
in distress being rescued from being buried alive. When she woke up, the rest of the family had gone to bed. But not
Brian or Bo.Both of them refused to leave her bedside. Bo and Brian looked like they hadn't slept any. Megan sat up leaning against
the pillows her mother set up for her. "Bo, I'm thirsty", she said sleepily just then waking up.