"Hey Maria can you come over later. I have absolutely nothing to do?"

"Yeah sure give me an hour and I'll be good," I say to my best friend Sarah.

"An hour, I'll probably die of boredom before then but ok," we laugh and each head home.

She gets her parents to pick her up but mine say I live too close to the house for that and I should walk. It's only a quarter of a mile but it feels so much further. I'm not athletic, that's probably why they make me walk. I start listening to music when some guy drives up to me trying to get my attention.

"Yes," I say to him.

"Can you please tell me where the school is my daughter is waiting for me. We're new to this place and it's the first time I've had to pick her up," the stranger says.

That sounded kind of weird I never saw that there was a new kid and I know everyone. Even people in other grades so I would have noticed her. "Yeah it's right down there, take a left at the stop sign."

"Thank you so much, but hey where are you going all by yourself." he asks.

"I'm just heading home it's right up there." I say trying to get him to leave.

"Well hey how about I take you home we can grab my daughter and you could get to know her she doesn't have many friends," he says in a strangely creepy voice.

"No thanks my mom's waited on my and I'm already almost there but thank you. If you tell me your daughter's name I can meet her tomorrow," I say just wanting him to leave.

"Her name is...... Jessica."

Why did that take so long.

"Ok I should probably leave now or my mom will worry. Bye," I walk of and start listening to music again. The next thing I know everything goes black.

I wake up in a strange room, no windows and 1 locked door.

"Hello.... Can anyone here me."

"I can," the door swings open and that same strange man that had asked for directions was looking at me. Staring at me. His eyes locked on mine.

"Now be quiet or else bad things will happen." he says in a menacing voice. I nod but inside I'm thinking that bad things are already happening.

He leaves and a hope he forgets then, click. The door locks.

I start looking around for something anything. In the drawers, nothing. The closet, nothing. Under the bed, noth.... wait. I see something and I pull out an old landline, jackpot.

I try to remember someone's number but I can't. I start to call 911 and someone picks up, "911 what..." "Yes please help I've been taken and I have know idea where I am." I say frantically but as quietly as a can.

"Do you know who took you." She asks. "No all I know is he was tall and..." I hear him and I hang up.

It was a false alarm so I call back. "It's me again please help me."

"Ok we can try to track you but you need to stay on the phone."

"Ok." I wait then I hear footsteps walking towards the door then a key in the lock.

I hang up hoping they found me. He walks in with a bowl.

"Eat I don't need you starving to death," he says almost kindly.

I get on the bed and he puts a bowl of soup next to me and all I can do is stare at it.

"EAT!"

I start to eat fearing him more than what he could have put in the strange bowl.

When he leaves I set the soup down and grab the phone to call them back. They don't answer they must think it's a prank. I try again nothing.

I try another number that pops in my head and it goes to voicemail. I try once more and someone answers.

"Hel..." he says.

"Help me."

"Who is this."

"Help me I don't want to die."

I hear footsteps again, I gasp, "He's coming."

I hang up jump on the bed and try to finish my soup and keep the mans number in my head.

My kidnapper walks in to take my bowl. One he leaves I carve the number into the side of the bed before it slips my mind and I call him back.