The Day Sara Lost Everything: Chapter 24

“MOM! MOM! Where are you Mom?”

Sara was running down the stairs screaming. Betty heard.

“Oh God. She found out…I guess it’s a good thing I was expecting this…,” thought Betty.

Betty walked out of the kitchen, wiping the grease of her hands using her starch white apron. Sara was thundering down the stairs, and when she turned the corner, ran straight into her mother. Betty wrapped Sara in her arms and allowed her to sob for only a moment before Betty pushed her to an arms length away.

“Sara, sweetheart, we have to get moving. Anthony thinks that you’re just going to come down and talk to me, but we have to leave now if either one of us is to have any hope of leaving this beautiful, dreadful place.

“But Mom, how can we just, leave. I mean we don’t have anywhere to go!”

“Sara, listen. This isn’t an option. There are two options, confinement or freedom. Its your choice.”

“Freedom.”

With that the two women walked into the kitchen. There four bags were waiting for them. Betty had packed the bags the moment she met Sara, just incase this happened. One bag was packed full with an air mattress, hand pump, pillows, blankets, and sheets. Another was filled with clothing and shoes. The third contained some miscellaneous things such as flashlights, Coleman lanterns, matches, candles, etcetera. The final bag was a gigantic freezer bag filled to the brim with assorted drinks, and food. Betty wasn’t sure how long they would have to be in hiding from Jim and Anthony. This should cover them for a few months as long as they found a small shelter out of sight.

“Pick up two bags. I don’t care which, but hurry.”

Just as they slunk out the back door, Anthony came downstairs, “Sara! Betty! What’s going on down here?”

Anthony ventured throughout the entire house, and still didn’t find them, “God dammit. I should have known something like this would happen.”

He reached inside his pocket and pulled out a cell phone, scrolled through a few options, and hit call, “Jim? Yeah its me. I found Sara, she was with her mother….Right by my house…About five minutes ago…Of course…Meet you there?…7 o’clock?…Ok….Sure…Bye.”

Betty and Sara were walking briskly through the woods. They had encountered a few hikers, but they were assumed to be doing the same. Betty had scoped out a small cave in a secluded area that was located near a pond. It would work perfectly.

At around half past four they arrived. The two immediately set about setting up the cave to be a functional living arrangement. The air mattress was put in the very back as was everything else. Luckily a large turn in the tunnel hid everything from view. It wouldn’t be a means of foolproof hiding but, it would prevent someone from seeing them at a glance.

Betty headed down to bathe in the pool of water while Sara laid down for a bit of rest. After bathing, Betty fell asleep naked on a smooth, flat rock next to the water. She was young, only 34, and still had an amazing body. A slightly older version of Sara if you will.

“You always were a slut.”

Betty’s eyes flew open to reveal a dark canvas spotted with twinkling lights above her. She could hear the water moving in the pond as a dark figure wadded across to reach her. Anthony.

“I thought you’d never come.”

“Well, you see I had to alert Jim. And then he wanted to meet up. It took me forever to convince him that splitting up was the best idea.”

“Well, never mind that. I believe we have some work to do?”

The two headed back into the cave. Sara was sleeping soundly on the mattress and Anthony reached into a bag and bound her limbs. He then took a pocket knife out of another back and cut her free of all her clothing. He was just peeling off his own boxers when she came to.

“Mom? Anthony? What’s going on?”

Anthony was rubbing her mother’s breasts, “You can shut up right now. I’ll let you go to wherever you want after this. But so help me God if you do so much as scream or say a word I’ll throw you in the pond just as you are. Sara immediately closed her mouth and shut up.