Plan B (Girl, Stolen)

Author's note: This is an extended scene that I wrote from the book Girl, Stolen. Cheyenne was stolen by accident from a pharmacy parking lot. She is in the car with Griffin (who stole her) and she wants to be able to escape. Now she needs a plan. One more thing you might need to know. Cheyenne... is blind.

Cheyenne felt as if she were going to pass out at the thought. She had been lying down on the seats in the back of the car. Worried. "Where are you taking me?" she wailed to the front seat where a man had been driving.

 "I can't tell you," Griffin replied "I can't give you any information to where we are going." He said this knowing that he didn't know where he would take the girl either. Where will I keep her? I can't let her go now. My description would be on every channel on TV and broadcast on every station over the radio. These thoughts kept occurring to him.

"You will find out soon enough where I will keep you. And I will let you go. Just not anytime soon."

"Well you cannot keep me for long. Everyone is probably wondering where I am." Cheyenne replied. 

"And that's a problem. You will tell them everything that you know."

"I swear I won't! I promise you."

"I don't think so. What else will you tell them? That you took a trip to candy land? No. You won't."

"I could..." Cheyenne mumbled and trailed off her words. Griffin took a huge strenuous breath. Not of relief but of worry and stress. He was trying to think of a plan for the girl, while worrying about the girl, while stealing a car with the girl in it. Not a time for rainbow thoughts. I just needed a car. I was sick of working at the same pharmacy for so long. I know I could have gotten in trouble for stealing the car, but stealing a child? That's breaking a federal law and I could be in huge trouble for it. Maybe 15, 20 years in prison?

"I just want to go home. With my family. If you claim that you're such a great person, then why won't you drop me back off at the pharmacy? And either take the blame or drive away then?" Cheyenne was desperate to be let free. She was trying to be very cautious at the same time, about what she says to the well built horse voiced man. Cheyenne knew that if Griffin kept her for 2 or more days, then she would have to think of a plan on how to get out of this kidnapping. The problem is her blindness. How could it possibly be easy for her to run away? If she can’t see?

Cheyenne’s mother always told her that she was smart. “You could figure things out with your eyes shut, that’s how smart you are,” her mom once told her. Before the accident that is. Now her mother isn’t around anymore, and Cheyenne had lost her sight.

“When do you think you will be able to let me go?” Cheyenne asked with innocence in her voice. Just ignore it Griffin, just ignore it. She is trying to outsmart you and make you feel bad. Don’t fall for it. It’s all a trap. Griffin had a hard time fighting the emotion. What to do? He was for sure not wanting to fall for any little “tricks” that Cheyenne was trying to pull on him.

She had a feeling it wouldn’t work. But she had Plan B. Cheyenne leaped into the front seat and took the wheel. On the middle of the highway. And blind.