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- Authors: Ben H. Winters
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Wait a second, wait a second, wait a second,” Allie called from the back
seat.
The driver didn’t answer. The woman had said not one word this entire
time, which was part of what was so terrifying about the whole thing. She
just drove, not turning around, not answering Allie’s questions, acting like
Allie wasn’t even back here. Allie tried to get her to engage, Allie had been
trying the whole time, since the moment this lady had grabbed her from the
bench at the edge of the playground and forced her across the sidewalk and
into the back seat of her silver SUV.
“Hi, could you—I’m sorry, would you just talk to me? Can you look at
me? Please.”
Allie tried to stay calm. She was trying to stay calm. It had been—what?
—an hour? Two hours? The sun was going down. They were driving south,
or at least that’s what Allie thought, she thought they were driving south,
she had tried to look for landmarks but the windows were tinted and it was
hard to see.
“Can you tell me where we’re going? Can you just—I’m sorry, can you
just talk to me?”
The driver—the kidnapper—this strange and terribly quiet and oddly
witchy woman—still refused to answer. She just drove, keeping to an even
highway speed, no talking, no radio, no sound but the muted rush of the
wheels. Allie stared at the back of the woman’s head, at her long black hair
pulled back in a tight ponytail, at her pale thin neck.
Calm. Allie was working so hard to stay calm. You have to be rational.
You can’t panic. You have to stay calm.
“Okay, look. Here’s the thing. Whoever it is that you think I am, I
promise you it’s not me. You’ve got the wrong person. Can you—I’m sorry,
can you hear me?”
Allie knew it was useless. A waste of words. A waste of time. If this
lady, whoever she was, if she was going to respond, if she was going to take
pity on her, if she was going to pull over and untie her wrists and apologize
for the misunderstanding and let her go, then she would have done it
already. Right?
But Allie kept talking. Kept trying. Because, yes, she knew it was
useless, but she also knew that if she stopped talking, stopped trying, she
would collapse into despair, she would start crying and not stop crying until
this lady either killed her or dropped her in a dungeon or threw her in a hole
or whatever the hell she was planning.
“Can I just tell you something? Seriously. I’m not rich—okay?—I’m not
some, like, heiress or anything like that, if that’s what this is. I’m just a
person. I’m just some woman.
I’m a teacher.” And as if to prove that she
was a teacher, just a regular boring middle-school teacher, Allie was talking
in her most pleasant voice, earnest and teacherly, carefully explaining what
everyone needed to know for tomorrow’s quiz.
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