Hostage

Zack’s POV

I waited for my meeting with Caroline and sat in the back of the small coffee shop with my sunglasses in place.
I described her how I looked and well I thought the tattoos on my arms would give away my personality pretty fast.
A tall blonde woman walked in and looked around, when she spotted me she seemed to think for a moment and I raised my hand in greeting.
She walked over to me, “Zachary?”
“Yes, and you are Caroline, right?”
“Yes, nice to meet you, call me Zack.” I told her with a smile and motioned her to sit next to me.
“Thank you, Zack.”
“Honestly Caroline, I don’t know if this will help us in any way, but I just… I had to try… maybe we can find some similarities about what happened or we could… at least just talk about this…” I shrugged my shoulders a little helpless.
“That’s more than I could ask for, really.” She smiled and looked down, her missing best friend weighing on her shoulder, exactly like I felt.
“So, who is your best friend maybe you can describe her a little… maybe you know what she did before she vanished… maybe Matt and her had been in the same place… maybe they were connected somehow…” I asked.
“Alright, so… what I know from her was, that she had a date on Thursday but she wrote me it didn’t went too well and I know she had an appointment at her doctor on Friday morning.”
“Did you call the guy she had the date with? Did she get home?” I asked her trying to sort through all possibilities.
“Yes, Gary he is a colleague from her. He told me he brought her back home and she had said to him that she had Friday a day of but they would see each other on Monday, but she never showed up at work on Monday. I also called her doctor, she had been there… It was.. an important appointment, I just hope she didn’t get a bad result… she always seems so strong but she had a really tough time.. she.. anyway… the nurse told me she was there, and they tried to call her and ask her to discuss her results, but they couldn’t reach her… not at home and not on her mobile phone. I tell you Zack, for nothing in the world she would miss the results of the test… I know she is scared… but she wouldn’t…” Caroline trailed off and I thought about this.
“The meeting at the doc had been early?” I asked.
“Yes, before 8.”
“Do you have an idea where she had gone to after that? Where is her doctor? Can you show me?” I frowned, the questions were when she disappeared and from where…
“Sure, should we just drive over?”
“If you still got the time..”
“Of course.”

We got up and I took Caroline along in my car, we drove over to the house of Alicia doc and I looked around trying to see anything where I knew Matt could also have been…
We got out of my car and walked down the alley when we arrived at the gym only a street from Alicia’s doc I got a small suspicions, this gym was where I knew Matt went to during the last month.
“Do you know if Alicia is a customer at this gym?” I asked Caroline.
“Hm.. she told me she worked out after work but I don’t really know if this is the one…” Caroline frowned.
“Let’s get inside and ask.” I walked inside and saw one of Matt’s old friends behind the desk.
“Hey Zack! Long time no see… I was wondering, Matt didn’t show up these last days where is he? I thought the tour was done..”
“Well, yeah it is done. We don’t really know where Matt is… I was wondering… when was the last time you saw Matt here? And could you have a look at the register, do you have a customer called Alicia-” Shit, what was her last name again.
“Davis, Alicia Davis.” Caroline filled in.
“Oh wait a sec. So last time I know Matt must have been here was Friday, cause he forgot to close the doors… before I arrived they were open and damn.. you can’t do that, what if someone gets hurt?”
On Friday this really could be a lead to something.
“Alicia Davis, yes… she mostly comes here after work, beautiful girl that she is.” The guy whose name I forgot grinned.
So this really was a connection between Matt and her?!
“Do you have security cameras here, would you mind showing us some of the videos from Friday?” I asked him.
“Ähhh.. Zack, I don’t really know if I can do that… you know…hm… wait a sec.”
“Zack? Do you think what I think?” Caroline asked next to me.
“That this is the connection between them and they both seemed to have vanished since Friday? Then yes.”
“Exactly.”
“Sorry, guys but somehow there are no videos from Friday.. everything is black… shit I don’t know… that never happened before…”
“That is really suspicious, come on Caroline we need to find out some more.”

Brian’s POV

I haven’t slept the whole night, I sat on the couch looking at the damn phone, waiting for another call.
They did that on propose I knew it…
Because I was so foolish to hang up on them… but how could I know that this wasn’t a prank call…
That this was real.. too real.
Chelle couldn’t stand the tension and went over to Val, they both were out of their minds… we all were.
My doorbell rang and my heart stopped for a moment, what if I got another message, a message that said they were sick of waiting and had hurt Matt even more…
Fuck!
I walked to the door and saw Arin and Johnny standing there, “Fuck you scared me.”
“We couldn’t sleep, we were waiting for your call, if you got any news… so… are there any… news?” Johnny asked.
“Nothing. I’m sitting on the couch staring at the phone… don’t know if I am willing it to ring so we have something new or willing it not to ring so nothing bad has happened…” I told them honestly.
We walked into my living room and then it really rang.. I nearly ran towards the phone and looked at the caller:
**Unknown**
Shit shit shit shit shit!!
“Hello?”
“Brian? Now you won’t hang up on me again, will you?” the voice on the other end says and I could hear the smile in his voice.
“No you made it pretty clear… I want to talk to Matt, is he okay?” I asked desperate and looked into Johnny and Arin’s wide opened eyes.
“No, sorry. Matt can’t talk right now… but let me tell you something, his head injury wasn’t that bad… but if you won’t cooperate, maybe I will make it bad… we clear?”
“What…” I swallowed, “What do you want?”
“I want what everybody wants the most… Money and I know you got enough of that to share a little with me… so I will send you a small note with information how this little thing will go down and then you might get your best friend back… oh and the girl too… you know he is in pretty nice company, maybe he doesn’t want to come back after all…”
What was he talking about? Which girl?
“So you want money… when do we get the note? What do we need to do?”
We would do everything to get Matt back and the girl.. Whoever the girl is…!
“Tomorrow, you will get the note with instructions and call the police off of Matt’s track or I sadly have to hurt him…”
“How are we supposed to call off the police?” I asked.
“I don’t fucking care, just do it!” the guy yelled.
Then the line was dead!

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