That made me smile, I knew my crack about staying inside would make her retaliate, good, now I had an excuse to ride her ass, not that I needed one.
“Go on.”
“And I might have said something about her not being your usual type.”
“What the fuck Vanessa?”
“That’s not the problem, she left me over an hour ago to head to this one store but I showed up and she’s not here. I’m getting worried, it’s dark out already and she’s not answering her phone.”
“I’m on my way.”
I ran downstairs and hopped in my car, my heart was beating the fuck outta my chest. The fact that Vanessa had spoken out of turn I’ll deal with later, right now I just needed to find little lamb and make sure she was okay.
“Yo Josh what’s up bro you look fucked.” Matthew stopped next to my window.
“Carrie’s missing.”
“What the fuck?”
He ran to his jeep since I peeled off, I didn’t have time to wait for him. In the rear view I saw Andy and Patti climb in with him.
They followed me for the next forty minutes on a ride that should’ve taken an hour and some.
I’d tried calling Vanessa en route and knew where she was and the fact that she still hadn’t seen Carrie. I tried calling Carrie for the tenth fucking time with no answer, now I was pissed.
The streets were almost deserted since the stores were closing down. I combed the alleys around the store Vanessa mentioned looking for any sign of her to no avail.
Carrie
I’m such an idiot, how the hell did I get lost in this little piece of shit one horse town?
I’d spent way more time in the store than I’d intended trying to calm the fuck down
before going back to meet Vanessa again. When I got this fucking pissed it was better if I
steered clear of the human population.
Now it’s more than an hour later, darkness has fallen and I’ve become completely turned around.
There’s a group of what appears to be drunken college boys up ahead a ways. I decided to
slow down and let them turn the corner so I didn’t have to deal with any bull shit, but one of
them looked back and saw me.
“Ooh, hoo, hoo, what have we got here boys!”
They all stopped and turned to leer at me. The cat calls, whistles, and suggestive comments started and I started to psyche myself up to protect me.
Fuck Carrie how the fuck do you get yourself in this shit?
I reached in my bag for the pepper spray the Captain had insisted I carry. Good thinking dad.
Well, there’s no sense in trying to avoid them now, if I tried to head back the other way they’d just corner me in the alley and that would be worst.
I walked ahead, head held high, shoulders back. The picture of confidence.
“Come here baby, let me show you a good time.” The first idiot tried to grab my hand but I evaded him.
“What you got behind your back there sweet face?”
“Leave me alone assholes.”
“Ooh, she’s spunky, I like that in a woman, let’s see how feisty she is with my spunk in her ass.”
When he grabbed again, I brought up the spray and let him have it. This was no pansy ass little nozzle either, this was some police issue shit.
I sprayed three of the six in one fell swoop. They started screaming and grabbing at their eyes while the others tried to figure out how to get it away from me.
“Try it mother fucker, you’re next.” I faced the one closest to me.
While I was busy trying to back up from one, while keeping my eye on the other, the third one came around behind me and wrapped his arm around my throat. Fuck, how am I gonna get out of this now?
Before I could tell my body to relax and drop I heard rubber burning and a car screeching to a halt.
“Let her the fuck go mother fucker or die.”
Joshua; my traitorous body sagged in relief; I didn’t even care why he was here.
“Who the fuck are you?”
“Don’t worry about that asshole, that’s mine you have your fucking hands on, let, her, the fuck, go.........NOW.”
“Why don’t you come over here and make me?”
What did crazy boy do? He drew down on them.
“Where do you want it, your head, or your kneecap?”
I felt the arm around my neck loosen, the other two were already trying to help the three blind mice escape, but Matthew, and Andrew had arrived and was blocking their escape.
“Dude, it’s not that serious, we were just fooling around. No harm done.” He tried to smile his way out of it.
“Yeah? Tell that to the teenage girl you were just manhandling.”
He kept his gun out as he walked towards us; the idiot behind me started backing up, but way too slow.