Miss Jackson

“Breaking news tonight, Eliza Lelorey-Nunez who had gone missing in December of last year has been found tonight at the side of the road just on the outskirts of town. No trace of her kidnappers were found near the site she was found in. officials have yet to release any details or theories on who could've kidnapped her, but they have at least confirmed that Eliza is ok-”

A fourteen-year-old girl would turn off the hospital television and set the remote to the nightstand nearby. Long unkempt dark brown wavy hair would cover her face up, her eyes showing that she just wanted to sleep and be away from the cold. Looking around the rather empty room, not bothering to get up from the stiff bed. She could hear a faint familiar voice outside her room along with some guards that she had talked with earlier.

“Where is she? Please, I'm her sister!”

“Camilla?...”

The wooden door would soon open quickly, Eliza flinching back a bit as a tall beautiful woman opened the door. Thick eyebrows, simple silver piercings with long dark brown hair with honey colored tips put up in a ponytail.

“Eliza! Oh my god! You're ok!”

Camilla had rushed to the girls side quickly holding her as close to her as she could. Eliza flinched just a bit but melted into the hug and held onto her older sister for dear life. The security guards peeking in to make sure they were ok, one of them reaching over to close the door but stopped once they saw detectives and the doctor walking over.

“I do hope we are not interrupting anything here?”

“Not at all doctor, I'm sorry for rushing in like this I just, you know.” Camilla would carefully break away from the hug and look over to the doctor and detective, carefully wiping away her tears as to not mess up her makeup.

“It's completely fine Ms. Lelorey-nuñez… we were coming in to check up on miss Eliza here either way, I’m detective Yao Huang by the way and this is doctor Hernandez.” Eliza looked down to the side keeping quiet and trying not to be seen.

“Oh, I think I met you before? At one of the search parties wasn't another detective in charge of the case?...”

“Well detective Rasmon had uh passed away last month”

“Oh I am so sorry I didn't know…”

“Its fine, but I'll be taking the case from where he had left off and hopefully we can find the people who took your sister and put them away.” Detective Huang spoke in a nice calm manner as he stepped aside showing the open door.

“If you would join me outside, so we can discuss what we have found so far ms. Lelorey-nuñez.”

“Oh of course… just please keep the door open to the room?”

“Of course Ms. Lelorey-nuñez I’ll just be doing a quick check up on her.”

Camilla carefully got up from the bed and gently kissed Eliza's forehead leaving the room with Detective Huang. The two walking down the hallway into a small office of sorts with another detective inside, sitting at the table and with a couple files in hand.

“Please sit ms. Lelorey-nuñez”.

“There wasn't anything too serious that happened to her right?...”

“Well thankfully she shows no signs of sexual abuse, and she has said that she wasn't sexually abused as well, but we only found a couple small scars on her arms along with some on her stomach” yao sat down on the table and pulled out some pictures from one of the folders showing her the scars on Eliza's arms and her stomach.

“We suspect they are mainly knife cuts that weren't self-inflicted, along with that we found some small bruises on her sides and back, Which might have come from a BB gun.”

Camilla kept quiet as she examined each of the pictures, horrified that someone could just do that to her baby sister. The detectives would go to pull out another photo and look at it one time before taking a deep breath and sliding it over to Camilla, flipping it over, so she wouldn't see it.

“And the doctors also found out she got a tattoo?... a brand?... we can't tell what it is just yet considering the properties of the mark.” detective Huang spoke softly as he would look to the side pondering to himself as the thoughts rushed to his head.

Camilla would flip the picture over a bit surprised by the mark. It certainly was an interesting looking one to say the least. A mark etched into her skin in dark red paint?ink? Blood? Who knows what it could be.

“Of course I have my suspicions about the mark but its way out there”

“Oh please yao, there's no way they could do that?”

“It's a suspicion detective.”

“What suspicion do you have detective?”

The two would glance over to Camilla a bit surprised but calmly answered back to her.

“I Think she might have been kidnapped by a cult or a gang....”

The other detective rolled his eyes and carefully reached over grabbing the pictures Camilla wasn't examining anymore.

“If she was kidnapped by either they would have sold her off or trafficked her somewhere by now, heck I'm kind of surprised she didn't end up dead.”

“Detective!”

“What?-”

“Outside,Now”Yao glared at the other younger detective a bit disgusted at him for even saying that. Camilla took a deep breath and relaxed a bit putting a hand over Yaos.

“It’s fine detective… thank you for telling me all of this… you know what's next?”

About two weeks would pass from when Eliza was found once more. Her town would celebrate her coming home. Coming to spoiling and pitying the girl while she stayed away from them all away in the hospital. Of course a couple of news stations managed to get an interview with either the police department or Camilla but no one could manage to get an interview with the girl herself. The town was on edge to hear from the girl herself but the only ones who ever did were the detectives, Camilla and her best friend.

“Are you sure it's ok to see her right now?...” a tall fourteen-year old boy with golden blonde hair, tan skin with a massive amount of freckles all over. His eyes seeming to be a mix of red and a light blue, wearing rectangle red rim glasses as he walked besides Camilla. A small red basket full of sweets and small gifts he had bought himself.

“I’m sure of it Alfred… you’re her best friend, I see no reason she would want to see you!”

“Maybe she doesn't want to see me because I let her be kidnapped.”

“Alfred it's not your fault… we’ve discussed this before you couldn't have known that she would've gotten taken up.”

“Yeah but I could have walked her home instead of letting her go alone”

“I know its hard Alfred… but it's ok that's in the past now… she's back and… if you did walk her home maybe something could have happened to you.” Camilla spoke in a soft tone looking down to his level putting on her more motherly front. Alfred relaxing just a bit as he took a deep breath, looking off to the side.

“I-I guess you’re right…” Alfred looked back to her with a small smile as Camilla stood up straight ruffling up Alfred's hair a bit.

Camilla happily greeted the nurses passing by as she went to Eliza's room, gently knocking on the door. Alfred nervously waiting at her side fiddling with the small red bow on the basket.

“Come in”

“Eli, I brought a guest!”

Eliza looked away from the business show playing on TV she was watching a realtor company popping up on the screen. Quickly she put away a journal she was writing in setting it under her pillow. Alfred stepping out from behind Camila smiling a bit at Eliza.

Eliza perking up from her bed and quickly got up going over and hugging him. Alfred laughing a bit and carefully hugged her back, moving the basket away as to not squish it up.

“It's so good to see you Alf!”

“It’s good to see you to El, how are you holding up?”

“Tired...very.tired.” Eliza smiled nervously glancing back at the bed a bit before looking back at him and Camilla.

“I’m sorry about what happened…”

“It’s fine Alfred, I'm fine now and that's all that matters now…” Eliza smiled and sat at the bed again glancing back at the TV for a brief moment managing to listen in a bit before Camilla spoke up a bit.

“We’ve got good news by the way, the hospital and police are saying you might be able to go home by the end of the week!”

Eliza jumped up a bit surprised by the news seeming nervous at just hearing about it. Carefully gripping at her clothes a bit tightly.

“No! I mean… everything still hurts why take me home now?”

Both Camilla and Alfred looked at her weirdly sitting themselves on the edge of her bed. Both of them trying to think of her sudden response.

“Eliza you’ve been here for two weeks already, I can’t keep you here forever not to mention you missed a whole year of school…”

“That doesn't matter… I don’t need to go back, especially when everything still hurts…”

Alfred looked over to Camilla clearly worried about his best friend before carefully reaching over and holding her hand.

“El...Camilla has a point, you've been here for too long… detectives have given the ok and so have the doctors… are you maybe scared to go back?” Alfred asked in a hasty manner as Eliza gently nodded looking away from the duo.

“Eli you know we’re going to be here for you… no matter what happens we understand it's scary to go back but trust us we will be here for you… we are here for you. And as your older sister it's my job to make sure you’re ok.” Camilla smiled and gently lifted her sister chin a bit to look up to her.

Eliza nodded and sighed looking towards the screen seeing one of the commercials from the realtor company playing in the show. A boy with slicked back hair and in an elegant well put together suit, speaking in a positive tone.

“We are all here for you”

“Alright… I guess it’s time to go home…”