Song: Find my way to you- Eric Arjes

Zayden:

Coralie gets up to go to the restroom. I want to go with her but she says she's got this and I know she doesn't need me watching her all the time. I stay at the table to finish off the order of fries. A few minutes later Maya gets up to go the restroom but within seconds she is running back over to the table scaring the shit out of all of us, especially me. She stumbles over her words between sobs and Daniel has to tell her to calm down.

"Maya...slow down...what's wrong?"

"It's Coralie...some...someone ju..just took her out the ba..back door."

"What?" His voice radiates over the place.

I don't stay to hear the rest. I jump down from the tall chair and run towards the restrooms. I go in the girl's restroom and no one is in there so I go to the men's restroom and only one guy is in there and he hasn't seen anyone. I come back out panicking. Where the hell can she be?

Carter runs over towards me. "She said they went through those doors." He points towards the back. So we take off running and the doors lead to a hallway and then another set of doors that go out to the parking lot. All of us start searching the lot but she is gone, nowhere in sight.

"Dammit! Who the hell took her?" I yell, frustrated, terrified of what will happen to her.

"I don't know...he had black hair and it was pulled back. I think I saw some kind of tattoo on his neck...I'm not sure...she looked scared...I'm sorry....I just don't know." Maya says and starts crying all over again.

This can't be happening, why would someone just take her. Then I thought about the tracker on her phone. "Hey Carter...does your dad still have the tracker on her phone; we could trace it see where she is?"

"Probably," he says and starts to call up his dad. "He said he does; his office is right down the road from here...come on let's go."

When we get there he is running out of his office like a bat out of hell. "What the hell is going on?"

"We were at the mall. Coralie got up to go the restroom but Maya seen some guy taking her out of the mall. We have to find her."

"Come on...get in my car...I have more room." We all pile in and take off down the road. Her dad pulls up the app and we can see where the phone is located. He speeds down the highway and then turns into a neighborhood. There is the old white house that we are now sitting in front of and a broken down fence all around it. Why even have a fence it's not like it's keeping anything out or in for that matter.

I jump out, not waiting on anyone. By the time I get to the door I look beside me and Carter and Daniel are right there with me. Carter knocks on the door. If it was up to me I would just kick the damn door down regardless of the damn consequences.

Some guy answers it. "Can I help you?" he looks rough looking with stained clothes and I think he is pretty messed up.

Before Carter even says her name, I push past him right through the door. I'm standing in the living room and she looks passed out. Thankful she still has all her clothes on but some asshole is on top of her trying to take them off. I snap. He didn't even hear us come in and within seconds I am on top of his ass pulling him off of her.

"Who the fuck are you?" He growls.

There is no reason why I should even have to answer him and I don't instead I hit the shit out of him and he stumbles over and then gets his balance to come after me but I hit him again. Carter takes on the one guy, while Daniel takes another. There is another guy off to the side but he is so far gone he must think that this is all for show. We are all punching the hell out of each other that I don't even notice all the red and blue lights lightening up the room. Before I even realize it we are all be hauled outside in handcuffs. I turn to watch her dad go in and when he sees her there lifeless he runs over to her and kneels beside her. I can't hear what is going on because we are being shoved in the back of a car.

I watch from inside the car; the EMT's bring her out on a stretcher. I keep banging my head on the window for them to just let me out. I need to see her. I need to know that she is alright. Her dad starts talking to the police officers and then they come over and let us out. No sooner than the door opens, I run up to her into the ambulance.

"Precious...Precious...if you can hear me...please let me know." I grab her arm and shake her a few times but she doesn't move. Nothing...not even the slightest movement. They start hooking her up to a few machines.

"Sir...you need to step out so we can do our job." One of the guys says to me.

I shake my head no but her dad comes over to me. "Come on we will meet them at the hospital."

By the time we get there, they have her in the ER checking her out. I can't sit down and all I can do at the moment is pace back and forth...and then something comes over me and I punch the wall. Everyone is just sitting around waiting and saying prayers silently. They all stop and stare at me when I hit the wall. I don't care if I put a dent in it or mess up my knuckles. Her dad not only looks at me with great concern and then gets up and comes over to me.

"You really love my daughter?"

"Yes...sir...more than anything. She has to be alright...I can't..."

His hand forms around my shoulder and he tightens his grip, not trying to hurt me but more like letting me know that he is there. "Son...she will be alright. Thanks to you and the others. You guys saved my girl."

Son...did he just call me son. Just like that and I'm in because he just now realizes how much I love her. I am head over heels in love with her...hell more than I love myself or anyone for that matter. She is my everything. I look up at him, fighting back the tears. "I should have walked her to the restroom. I should have..."

"Hey...you were all there. Stop beating yourself up over it. You did the right thing; you went after her...you saved her."

"But..."

We are interrupted by the doctor. As he walks over to us I feel my chest caving in. If it is bad I don't want to hear about it. I can't lose her.

"Mr. Alexander."

"Yes."

"We done several test; she had a few harsh chemicals in her body. I assume something that someone put together. We gave her something to hopefully counteract most of it. We will need to keep her over night just to make sure that she is going to be alright. "

My emotions are all out of wack and before I know it a few tears start to escape down my cheeks. I quickly wipe them away. "Can we see her?" I ask.

"Of course...but please not too many at one time."

I look up at her dad and he already knows what I want.

"Go on; we will wait."

"Thank you sir." I rush to her room and themoment I see her, my nerves start to calm down. Just knowing that she is goingto be alright makes everything better.