Family Night by Tim Miller Page B

though that made no sense. She had no leads at all; it was a total dead end. He sat in his car for a few more minutes before his phone rang, it was Pena again.
         “What’ve you got?”
         “Last place her phone was located was way south of town. I’m texting you the coordinates. I’m texting you the coordinates for the area. She would be within a quarter mile of that tower.” Pena said.
         “Ok, got it.” Johnson said as he hung up. Looking at his phone he pulled up the numbers Pena had sent and punched them into his GPS. Starting his car, he backed up and headed toward the location, hoping he could get some answers.
     

Chapter 25
     
         Julie’s skull was on fire. A t least it felt like it. She lay there with her head in Sarah’s lap, her eyes stinging from the blood oozing into them. Sarah had been singing to her for a little bit. She recognized the song, but couldn’t stay focused long enough to listen to it. In her years as a police officer, she’d dealt with many crazy people. She’d often wondered what it was that had pushed them over the edge.
         She couldn’t look at her feet. The one time she did, she fainted, as they now looked like a pair of grapefruits sticking out of her legs. She had never known so much pain, didn’t even know this existed. She knew the damage that had been done to her was beyond repair, even if she did make it out alive. At the moment, Sarah was holding her quietly.
         “Sarah?” Julie asked.
         “Yes honey?”
         “How bad do I look?” Julie tried to force a smile.
         “You look great babe. You’re always beautiful.”
         “Liar.” Julie replied. “Do you think we’ll make it out of here?
         “Of course we will. I won’t let them kill you.” Sarah said.
         Julie was impressed with Sarah’s strength. Through their relationship, Julie had always been the strong one, the fixer, or problem solver. If the landlord was giving them shit, Julie went and dealt with it. When it was time to buy a car, Julie did the talking. Not that Sarah had no guts, she was just more timid. Julie was seeing exactly how brave this woman she loved truly was.
         The door slid open causing both women to jump. All three of their captors were standing in the doorway. The man walked in, headed right for them. Julie tried not to look, but saw Sarah staring him down. However, he walked right past them over to Ben’s body. He cut the body down and signaled for the kids to join him. They came walking in carrying sheets of plastic and a bag.
         Julie didn’t want to watch, but she could figure out what was going on. Based on the sounds, she heard the cutting, squishing sound of flesh and tissue being cut and torn. Please God, don’t let them have another cannibal cookout. She clung on to Sarah who held her even tighter as they listened to them cutting Ben’s body to pieces. It went on for several hours. Julie must have fallen asleep for part of it, when she woke up, she saw them carrying body parts wrapped up in smaller pieces of the plastic.
         As they walked out, she noticed for the first time they had left the door open behind them. She had no doubt this had been done on purpose. It was his way of taunting them, reminding them of the fact they were both now crippled and helpless to run away. She only had to look at Sarah’s knees to be reminded of how bad off they both were. As their tormenters walked out, the man stopped and looked at them through his mask.
         “Bye for now ladies. I’ll be back later with a tasty lunch for you. Need to get some meat on those bones of yours.” He said and slammed the door closed.
         At least they got Ben’s dead body out of there. She felt horrible for what they had done to him, and hated seeing him hanging there like a piece of meat. Though that’s all he was to them. That’s all any of them were was meat.
         “Jules?”