(Authors note: I do not condone acts of kidnapping, rape, torture or blackmail. All events in this story are pure acts of fiction and should be regarded as such. )
“Alexander Thomas!” Natalie bellowed, calling out for her brother. She panted, peddling faster on her mountain bike as her brother and his friends had gotten too far ahead, far faster than she was. The nature trails this far out into the metro park was dangerous, curvy, hilly, and quite frankly, horrific. One wrong turn, one wrong bump, and you could end up dead.
She brushed her blonde hair out of her face and used her emerald green eyes to scan about, loosing him around a bend. She noticed they had gotten off the main path down a lesser traveled path. How did she know that? The trees, bushes, plants, moss were overgrowing the pathway itself. She felt branches of bushes hit her arms and legs as she peddled.
“Alexander!” she called out. She may have only been 19 years old, but she was like a mother to her brother who was only 10. Her mother was a meth filled drunk who abused the governments payouts and watched Judge Judy and Maury during the day and getting indoctrinated by certain news shows at night. Their father had long left shortly after her mother became pregnant with Alexander.