July 14th, 2018 at 07:10am
Anna had been found about a week ago, and already she was so sick of seeing her face plastered on the news, on the covers of magazines, and she was tired of hearing her name in the mouth of strangers. She had kidnapped from her mom at a local park when she was only four and now her twentieth birthday was in about a week. She had been gone so long from her family she didn't even know them, and she knew the feelings were reciprocated. Her father barely knew how to speak to her, every exchange was awkward and felt unwanted. Her mom pretty much just started to tear up every time she looked at her and all she did was constantly apologize for letting someone steal her away.
The only solace she found was when she was alone in her room, but even then it was so weird. It was completely empty, except for a toddler's bed and some toys. Her mom had finally put a larger bed in there for Anna, and she promised that soon they would go shopping for more clothes and other things for her.
It was weird, but when Anna was alone, she found herself wishing she hadn't been found, just because she had become so comfortable with her captor that now she felt confused and lost without him. Even though he constantly hurt her, and she still wore fresh bruises from their last encounter before she was found.
She had barely been home a week, before her mom was pressuring her to go out and try to make friends. They were driving around her home town when her mom brought it up again. "It's in the middle of the day, how about I drop you off at the movies? You should be out doing teenager things- as much as I want to hide you away to try and keep you safe, that's no way to live." Her mother said.
"A-are you sure?" Anna stuttered, feeling fear well up in her chest. Her mother insisted however and before she knew it, her mother was dropping her off in front of the movie theater. Anna couldn't help but think her mother just wanted her out of her hair for a few hours. She was sure her mother was happy to know she was safe and finally back at home, but it was just so hard for them all to readjust.
Anna walked into the movies with the two twenty dollar bills her mother had given her. She looked around, hoping no one noticed her as she walked up to the counter. "What can I get for you?" The attendant asked and Anna just stood there, looking pretty clueless at all the movie options. She didn't know what any of these were. "Hey! Aren't you that girl they just found that's been missing for like fifteen years??" He asked and Anna's face immediately twisted into a frown.
"Y-yea, can I just get a ticket to the super hero movie?" She asked and laid down one of the twenties.
Brian had lived with the impulse to kidnap for years without acting on it. He didn't know what was wrong with him, he was a handsome guy with a nice job and girls tended to throw themselves at him, but it never peeked his interest. He tended to tell himself he was just annoyed at how women carried themselves in this generation, walking around half naked, or believing they were independent. He assumed that where the urge to kidnap a girl and force her to bend to his will came from, but he knew it was wrong and never acted on it.
It wasn't until he woke up one morning and saw on the news that the California Police Department had taken a man into custody, who had had seven different girls kidnapped and hidden away in different safe houses all over the San Diego area. Brian sat there watching the news special, wondering how in the world someone could have the balls to kidnap seven different women.
"All the girls had been kidnapped when they were between the ages of 3-6, they've all been returned to their familes-..." Brian listened to the news anchor, raising a brow as they flashed the girls faces across the screen.
"Huh..." He thought, sitting back in his chair. All of these girls had been kidnapped when they were so young, how were they ever going to assimilate back into normal life? He couldn't help the idea that popped into his head and it was only when he noticed one of the girls that really caught his attention, that he felt the urge more than he ever had. Her name was Sadie and she was one of the most beautiful young women he had ever seen.
He remembered some friends he knew from college had had a daughter named Sadie that had went missing when she was just a child and he wondered if it was the same girl that was now on his TV screen. He picked up his phone and called his work to tell them he wouldn't be coming in that today, and picked up his car keys deciding he'd pay his old friends a visit.