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Chapter 8: dangerous streets

9 PM Yesterday

"So yeah it's not actual Reeses Cups, it's actually corn based" Missy explained

"Man how do you know these things" Billy said more impressed than he should be

"I'm just that smart," Missy bragged. They reached their street and there was still no cars in her driveway, any other day she would be happy to have the entire house to herself but it's been a really long day and she just wanted to go to bed

She got her pajamas on, drank some whiskey off her dad's nightstand, closed her eyes and went to sleep ... .for maybe twenty minutes; she gave up trying to sleep after she just felt kind of anxious and went to watch tv. Message to all, there is nothing good on after 11 pm, everyone's either doing something more fun or sleeping.

She tried four more times to go to sleep but everytime the moment she lays down she gets this itch that won't let her stay down. Missy went outside to get some air that didn't smell like whiskey and something caught the edge of eye. Meemaw's car was still in the driveway. Why that caught her eye was a mystery so she shrugged off. She wondered if her mom got off, Dad went with her and Georgie must've went to talk her up to the cops. There's no way he'd stay with her this long-

BANG BANG BANG

A barrage went against the front door, maybe Georgie and her parents were back-

BANG BANG BANG

Ok now it was getting creepy, why would her family- a face appeared in the window, she could barely make it out but it looked kinda familiar. "SHE'S IN THERE" the voice she recognized

"FUCK" Missy stumbled around until Marcas's boot smashed through the front door. Missy ran into her room having a heart attack, she desperately looked around and blocked door with her dresser

"Where is she"

"She went in there" that psychotic asshole screeched giving her away

Missy sprinted to the window and threw it open…and The FUCKING BARS. She didn't have a lot of time because they were already smashing against the door and shaking the dresser. Missy pushed the dresser back only to have her hearing ruined when two bullets were shot a centimeter from her head

She stumbled around her room until she got somewhat reoriented and grabbed her stereo. She made it back to the bars on her window and smashed her stereo where it meets the windowsill, no damage. Her dresser was smashed deeper into the room and the door was pitched open. Missy shook her head and smashed the base again, this time cracking the wood. One more time, just one more time, Missy was trying to avoid having a panic attack as the door was able to open further and further. Missy smashed the base again… the bar broke through the windowsill. After a little more pushing the bar broke through the entire support and fell right off. She didn't even get a second to celebrate when that punk Marcas pushed his arm through the door gap.

Missy leaped into the window and pushed herself through the gap in the bars, it hurt but she pushed through. Marcas smashed her door open before she was even halfway through, he ran after her as she forced herself further outside. Marcas ran over just as she escaped and grabbed her shoe. Marcas yanked on her leg fighting for her to get back inside until her shoe popped off.

Missy was free. Not a second after Marcas shoved his fucking ugly face and arm through the gap in the bars. She sprinted away from her window and leaped over the fence as he got himself trapped "FORGET ME, GO AFTER HER" he yelled at his lackeys to go out the door.

Missy ran off, then froze at a crossroads; through the yards or the street, she didn't have all night so she just picked the street. She ran onto the street and almost ran by Billy's house but ran up and smashed the paint off his door knocker

"BILLY HELP" she screeched before she saw Marcas's friends burst out of her house and ran down the street. She sprinted as quickly as she thought possible but those bastards pounced and pinned her to the ground

"GET OFF!" she screamed as the taller one ripped her pajama pants off. She wanted to claw that grin off his face but they had her hands held down and their knee on her back. The taller one leaned down to her before he was knocked to the ground by a brick. They turned to see Billy charging to rescue her. The taller one got up only for Billy to tackle him, this gave Missy the perfect opportunity to kick the jerks nuts but he kept a hold on her. He forced his hand on her mouth to keep her from calling for help. Missy kicked him in the nuts three more times until his face teared up and turned red in pain as he let her go.

Missy squirmed away from under him and caught a glimpse of Billy smashing the others face into a cinder block. Missy grabbed a tree branch out of the yard and was ready to batter up. She swung it toward the jerk's head but he grabbed it and pushed her down. Before he could attack her again Billy grabbed him from behind and smashed a brick across his head. They both looked around making sure they were safe and ignored the stuff leaking out of that jerks head.

She immediately leaped to hug Billy, Billy gave her back her pajama pants to wrap around her. She immediately stopped celebrating and remembered that Marcas was still stuck in her room.

The two of them ran back into her house "alright so I'll hit him with this" she said grabbing Georgie's weights off the living room floor "and you…you hit him with this" she said handing him a lamp.

The two of them creped through the house until they made it back to her room.

CRASH

Missy kicked the door open and they both got ready to attack…but he was gone. They both dropped their weapons and looked around the house, nothing. Missy got some new pants on before she finally could sit down again

"WHAT THE HELL?" she heard Georgie's voice come in the door "what happened?"

"Marcas and his friends, that's what happened" Missy spat

"They broke in like 20 minutes ago" Billy explained as Missy showed him her torn pajama pants "almost went way worse"

Georgie immediately went into the closet and pulled out a baseball bat

"What are you gonna do?" Billy asked

"Oh simple, I'm gonna have a nice civil talk with him about how to treat kids Then I'LL CRACK HIS HEAD OPEN LIKE AN EGG" he sarcastically said, his blood boiling with anger

"As much as I'd love to see that, let's just let the police take care of him I've already seen two dead guys tonight and…I don't want to be alone" Missy assured

Georgie was confused at first but calmed down for Missy's sake "oh ah…right" he said putting the bat down "you're ok right?" Georgie finally asked as Missy nodded "I'm real sorry" he said as he sat down with her, Billy following

"Ohhhh" Sheldon moaned as he lifted himself and patted the painful bruise on his sideburn. His vision started a little blurry as memories slowly came back to him- HE HAD TO GET OUT OF THERE.

He leaped off the floor and ran to the door right in front of him, locked. He looked around but he was stuck in a tiny concrete room with only one door and a barred up window close to the ceiling, and an empty metal bucket in the corner. The sky was already lit up so it was at least past 7 am, and if he looked from the left he could see what looked like the Williamson tower right next to this place so at least he was still in Houston. He grabbed a hold of the bars and tried to pull himself up to view, but he wasn't strong enough.

Was he still in the hotel? It was morning so maybe he wasn't far. Unless he was passed out all day, how long was he out? It definitely looked like they drove him to a state prison or something along those lines. The only thing he definitely knew was that he needed to get out of there.

He inspected the door, no keyhole on his side and it was made of really thick metal with no slot or vent for him to see through.

He heard a sound. Sheldon pressed his hand ear to the door and heard footsteps approaching. What to do? What to do? He panicked as he hid behind where the door would cover. The door opened. There was a moment of silence…maybe she'd think he-

The door swung back with Stephanie looking straight towards him. Sheldon sprinted but she caught him and threw him against the wall, as she closed the door behind her "you chose the only place to hide in this room, not very effective" she said as if this was some cruel sick game

"I Want to Go Home" Sheldon insisted

"And you will as soon as you've done something for me" she said "of course that's only if you still want to afterwards" she said rubbing his cheek before he aggressively pulled back

Sheldon looked at her trying not to look afraid "Missy was right about you all along"

"Not completely" she said leaning against the wall more on his level, setting her bag down next to her "Sheldon I'm not a monster-"

"I beg to differ"

"Is that how we speak to adults?" she said standing high over him and raising her voice. "As I was saying, I am a flexible woman and if you simply agree to help me achieve a goal I've had for a long time" she said pulling out the pill bottle of sildenafil "than I will take you home and leave you be if you wish" she said keeping her voice calm "it's only fair Sheldon, I did all of this for you and yet you won't do this for me"

Sheldon was completely blown off guard by this 'offer?' "why do you want me, what is so important about me"

"Sheldon you are a very special boy, you're a genius, you can be funny, and most importantly you still look young…but you still function" Stephanie proclaimed. Sheldon was confused by what she meant until he saw her rubbing her belly and somehow became even more disgusted "and I won't be…'Fruitful' for that much longer so why not try now"

Sheldon took a step back and sat against the wall as he resisted the urge to throw up. She continued "It wouldn't take that long, just go through the…'process' with me until we know I'm expecting, then you're free to go" she said trying he best to sound comforting "it also is far more likely to work if it's consensual, course if you say refuse than I'd have to be the one to take charge which of course would be longer and harder" she threatened without raising her voice. She placed her hand on his "but you're smarter than that".

Sheldon was sweating off three pounds as this psychopath tried to sound even remotely credible. "So I imp…. Ugh, do what you want…then you'll let me go" Sheldon stuttered

"I swear" Stephanie said smiling and putting her other hand over her heart

"Well, ugh…." Sheldon said as he placed his other hand over hers.

SMASH

Sheldon took her hand and smashed it into the metal bucket until he heard a loud crack

"DAHHHHHH"

Sheldon pushed her out of the way but she of course grabbed him and he tripped over next to her bag. She threw him back to his side and smashed his hand into the concrete wall a few times before stopping to grip her hand in pain.

"YOU BROKE MY FUCKING FINGER!" she furiously looked at him, appearing as if she would snap and rip him in half at any moment "...I will give you two days to apologize" she said before kicking her bag out of the room and sealing the door

Sheldon flexed his hand to make sure it wasn't broken. It seemed fine enough before he reached in his pant leg and pulled out Stephanie's cell phone and opened up the antenna. He managed to grab it out of her bag and it was his only real chance of getting out of there.

Sheldon leaned the antenna towards the window hoping it would be enough to call someone. He lifted it up there but no signal, he moved it around until he found a faint signal, it'd have to be good enough as he typed in their phone number

Missy didn't sleep for the rest of the night, whenever she closed her eyes she thought Marcas would sneak up on her again. Eventually right before dawn mom's car returned to the driveway with Mom, Dad, and…..Meemaw? Wait but she took Sheldon to his-

They entered and Missy was still confused "what happened at Brenda's, there's some blood on her steps and the cops are checking it out- WHAT HAPPENED TO THE DOOR"

"Where's Sheldon?"

Mary sighed at not getting answers "Still at his presentation, now what happened to the door" Mary said in an accusatory tone

"Hey, your daughter was attacked last night" Georgie said sticking up for her

"WHAT!"

Georgie told on about how Marcas broke in but she couldn't really care to listen as Sheldon was hopefully all alone.

Mary approached her "Missy I am so sorry, are you inj-"

"Why is Sheldon still at his thing" Missy cut her off

"He asked Stephanie to bring him to a space thing, now do you need to go to the hospital?" Mary sped thru to ask her

"I'm sorry, He asked WHO?" Missy asserted

"She's fine, Billy stopped them before they could do anything bad" Georgie stepped in and alleviated her fears

"Oh that's good to hear" Mary said in relief

Meemaw stepped up now much calmer "Anyways I think it's safe to say your mom is out of trouble thanks to a few favors being called, though we still gotta get this Marcas punk-"

"AH HEM" Missy interrupted

"You were saying" Meemaw said taking a hint

"Yes um ARE YOU NUTS! You let Sheldon walk away with some ped-"

"Missy!" Mary said demanding caution

"You know what, Whatever" Missy said going to her room

"...wait, any chance we could like talk this up to the officers, make it seem like those punks were the ones who vandalized Brenda's house" George suggested

"Wha- You want to frame teenagers?" Mary said disgusted by that idea

Connie nearly face palmed herself "They tried to force themselves on your daughter"

"..Good point"

The four of them went out to try and spin this to the police, giving Missy some space to leave her room and lay on the couch. She thought about what might be happening to Sheldon right now, with her-

You know what, it wasn't her problem. If anything bad happened it wasn't her fault, she did everything she was supposed to, she warned him ahead of time and he was still stupid enough to get in a car with her. Anything that happened to him was what he des-

The phone rang and she was the only one in the house. "Hell-"

"Missy!" someone whisper screamed on the other end "you were right, I.. I'm trapped in a building near the Williamson tower"

"Sheldon?"

There was a scratching noise on the other end of the line "MISSY PLEASE SEND HELP, I'M-"

"Sheldon!?" she said, her nerves shaking with how scared he sounded

"GIVE THAT BACK-" the line was cut after she heard the woman's voice

"SHELDON!" Missy screamed in terror.

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