Twilight World All Over Again - Heather Lawhun (great books for teens .TXT) 📗

Those guys, if they got their hands on her, she would be dead in no time flat.” I said dead serious. Sparkles frowned.
“Daddy, what’s going on?” Nessie asked walking into the room. She looked like she had just woken up from a nap.
“It’s nothing Princess, Mommy is going to take you on a trip.” Bella looked at him alarmed.
“Really, where are we going!?” Nessie asked excitedly.
“Ireland.”
“Are you coming with us?” Sparkles we can handle things here, so go with them. I know Bella can take care of herself, but she can’t take care of herself and Nessie at the same time. He sighed.
“Yes, I’m going with you.” Nessie squealed with excitement and then Bella took her and they went to their cottage with Sparkles right behind them. He paused at the door. Then he looked over at me and said, “Thanks.”
“No problem.” I said a little shocked. Then he left.
“So what are we going to do about those guys?” Shay asked.
“I’m not sure yet, but I’ll think of something.” Carlisle said sighing a little.
“Oh, what happened with Abby?” I asked curiously.
“We persuaded Becky to let her stay the night and she’s upstairs taking a nap in my room.” Shay said looking proud of herself. I chuckled.
“That’s good.”
“You need to go rest and that’s a doctor’s order.” Carlisle said sternly. I sighed.
“Okay, you’re the doctor.” I said shrugging. Then Emmett picked me up and pretty much carried me to my room, even though I told him to put me down and that I could walk. He just grinned and kissed my temple. He put me down on the bed and I got under the covers and lay down on the bed. He smiled and left. I have a feeling he’ll be listening for me. I sighed and painfully turned over on my side and fell asleep. I was a little exhausted.
Abby
Abby woke up about the same time Jade got home from school. Jaz had been doing research all morning. We immediately went to Charlie with the information after we got Abby cleaned up. I also had pictures of Becky with her, but never the guy. When we got to the police station, Charlie looked stunned. “This little girl has been missing for three years. How on earth did you find her?”
“The people who moved into our woods are the ones who took her. We told them we would have her sleep over with Jade and Renesmee, so they don’t know we are on to them.”
“Okay,” Charlie said with a sigh. “First off, state your full name.”
“Abigail Rachel Marks.” Abby held my hand through every moment of her story. “It was Christmas day 2007. Mommy and I were looking at Christmas lights in town. One of daddy’s friends kept calling to her. The more he called, the faster we walked. I remember it was snowing and I kept slipping and falling. Mommy picked me up and ran. The last thing I heard the guy say was ‘you can’t hide her forever, she’s gonna learn the truth.’ I remember Mommy starting to cry. She just kept patting my hair and telling me I’d never lose her. WE went to Becky’s house. She and my mom were best friends. Becky said she’d watch me for the night. Then as soon as my mom left, she took me to the guy in the street. I don’t know him very well. All I know is that Becky keeps saying he’s my daddy.” Abby looked very upset, so Charlie stopped recording.
“Are you okay?” Charlie asked worriedly.
“I’m scared.’ She whispered, starting to cry. “What if Becky finds me again?”
“We won’t let that happen.” Charlie said promising her that they’d find her parents.
“What can I do to help?” I asked wanting to help Abby as much as possible.
“You can go and look for evidence that will hold up in court that Abby was kidnapped. Here is a warrant. Go through e-mails, texts, rooms, wherever you think there is something to find. I’m going to call her parents.” Abby wanted to talk to them, so Charlie agreed to call me when they were done. I ran back to Becky’s and immediately hacked into their computer. There were e-mails from a doctor in Tallahassee that were almost seven years old. They talked about Abigail’s mom agreeing to carry Becky and a guy named Bob’s baby. There was another one from the day Abby was born stating the baby was being kept and Becky and Bob only had visitation rights. As the baby grew, Bob became more aggressive to the point he lost all visitation rights.
This was followed by archived pictures of Abby that looked like security footage. There were shots from winter and summer every year of Abby, always with Becky. The last picture was actually a poster; a missing person’s photo with Abby and Becky from three years ago. Then another one with Abby age progressed to now. I printed out everything. Then I cleared the memory so no one could track what I had found. Then I searched the rest of the house. When I walked around I started feel bad for all of this. Abby wasn’t in any kind of danger here. There were pictures of her smiling with Becky while taking ballet lessons, going to amusement parks, soccer games. She wasn’t being neglected or abused. If I didn’t know the truth, I’d think they were her real parents. My phone rang, so I stopped. “Hello?” I said.
“Can you get me some of my Barbie’s and my teddy bear?” Abby asked.
“Sure.” I said smiling. Toys were another that she had plenty of. I got dolls and her teddy bear and added them to my pile of things to take. That’s when I saw it. Under Abby’s pillow I could see the corner of a letter. I opened it:
Dearest Abigail 1/1/08
I made them promise me you’d read this as soon as you knew how to read. I miss you very much, but you must stop fighting them. I’m not in a position to take care of you right now. Daddy lost his job and has no money. But keep an eye out. If you see a poster with your face on it, call the number. Becky will understand. If you can’t, try and find help. Bob will not be around much, but what they say is true. I’m your mommy but he’s your daddy. I don’t expect you to understand sweetie, but he’s not supposed to see you. I will try and write more.
Love,
Rachel (Mommy)
This was an important piece of information. I stuck it in the middle of all the stuff I’d printed and left for the police station. Someone had slashed my tires while I was inside. I cautiously started walking away. I ran full speed when I heard footsteps behind me. They threw something gat me and it knocked me out.
Pyper to the Rescue = Scolding and Lecturing
I’m still recovering from getting the crap beaten out of me. I know that Shay and Abby are at the police station. Sparkles, Bella, and Nessie left at five thirty this morning so they’re already gone. Right now, I’m in the kitchen eating some lunch. It hurts to walk and move but I’m hungry. Emmett still carries me around to where ever I need to go. It’s sweet, but I don’t feel comfortable with him standing outside the bathroom door, when I have to go. I rolled my eyes at the thought. He won’t let me leave the house or do anything on my own. SO I was stuck inside all day doing nothing. What’s bad is that my craving is sneaking up on me and no amount of food or drink made it go away. So I ended up having to tell Emmett and so he took me hunting. When I had my fill, Emmett took me back to the house and, at my request, took me to my room. I was tired. Carlisle has been monitoring me as well, making sure I didn’t push myself too much. I fell asleep and sometime later I was being shooken awake. I opened my eyes to see that it was Emmett. “What’s wrong?” I asked sleepily.
“I’m sorry, but we went looking for her and couldn’t find her.” He said looking guilty.
“What are you talking about?” I asked fully awake now.
“Shay, they got her.” I froze and blinked in surprise.
“How?” I asked shocked.
“From the looks of it, they’ve been following her around. How did we not notice?” He muttered shaking his head. “Anyways, Carlisle wants to talk to you downstairs.” I nodded. He picked me up and took me downstairs. Abby was crying into Bree’s shoulder. Emmett put me on the couch.
“What do you remember about the place that you were taken to when you were kidnapped?” Carlisle asked.
“I was in a basement-like room chained to a wall. There was a water heater up against one of the walls. It was dim, uh, I heard water dripping. All I could smell was mold and dirt.”
“Were there any windows?”
“No, but I heard some arguing from upstairs.” Then I remembered the day Sparkles heard that Becky person and whoever arguing. “I have a feeling that Shay’s a lot closer than we think.”
“You mean to tell me that they’re in our neighbor’s house?” Jasper asked.
“Possibly, but I don’t know what Sparkles heard when he heard those two fighting, but I did hear some people arguing.” I said trying to remember as much as possible.
“Can you thin k of anything else?” Carlisle asked.
“No.” I said after awhile. I couldn’t think of anything. Carlisle took a moment to think.
“Let’s just watch the house for now to see if there’s any suspicious behavior. I’m sure Charlie is conducting an investigation of his own, so I’m sure he’ll let us know if there’s anything suspicious.” I could tell Jasper wanted to go busting down the door of Becky’s house and turn the whole place upside down and inside out to look for Shay. I wanted to do that too, but I wasn’t in the condition to do it.
“Jasper I know what you’re thinking.” I said sympathetically. “But if you were to barge in there right now, then they would’ve killed her right then and there and then we would’ve wasted our chance to get to her.” He sighed but nodded. Esme hugged him tightly. Emmett hugged me and I hugged him back. Carlisle sighed.
“They’ve caused quite a ruckus.” He said shaking his head. Seth walked in with a depressed-looking Jacob. Emmett and I let go of each other.
“Man, what happened to you?” Seth asked me.
“You didn’t tell him?” I asked Jacob.
“Whatever it is, he’s been moping around and hasn’t told me anything. I can’t get a single response out of him.” Seth said shaking his head.
“Oh really?” I said smirking. I got up, ignoring the pain and Emmett’s protest (which resulted in Emmett pouting and me chuckling) and walked up to Jacob and punched him in the gut.
“Ouch!” He yelled and glared at me.
“Well, we got a response out of him now.” Seth rolled his eyes.
“What was that for? And what do you mean by response?” Jacob asked still glaring