Connie stood barefoot on the linoleum floor, staring at him. "What do you want?" She whispered. "I want you," he said. Your coming with me Connie.
Connie didn't know what to do or say, she just stood there scared and confused. She thought, "what am I going to do? I have to do something, I can't just go with him."
Finally she spoke: "Alright Arnold, I'll come with you, but first can I go pack a small bag of some clothes and things? Then I will leave with you piecefully."
OK, be a good girl and go get your things quickly, then come straight outside to me.
Connie went into her bedroom which was just down the hall from the kitchen where she just left. She picked up a bag and some clothes to make it look like she was packing just in case Arnold broke his promess and did come into the house. What Arnold did not know, is that Connie has a house phone in her bedroom as well. Connie picked up the phone which was covered in last nights laundry and called her Aunt Tillie's house where her family was having a barbecue.
Aunt Tillie answered the phone, "Hello."
"Aunt Tillie help me! Theres a man here trying to take me out of the house.
Please send dad and mom home and call the cops. Please help me, I'm at home and theres a man here, hes going to take me away and kill me. I don't know whats hes going to do to me please just help me."
Tillie did not even get a chance to speak before Connie hung up. Connie was hiding the phone back under her clothes when Arnold yelled, "Connie, you had better hurry up my dear, before I come in there.
Connie came out with her bag. She told Arnold that she wanted to go get changed since she was wearing her lounging clothes. "I never knew I was going out any where today'" she told Arnold.
Connie was trying to by some time. She was trying to wait till the cops got there so she wouldn't be taken away from her home.
Well Connie hurry up and get dressed, you can leave your bag here with me.
Connie went into the bathroom with a change of clothes. As she was changing she noticed that the bathroom window was just big enough that she would be able to fit out it. Maybe I could get out the window and hen hid in the woods in the backyard until the cops or my family got here, Connie thought to herself.
She opened the window quietly and started making her way out the window, when she got out the window she ran into the woods as fast as she could. She looked for somewhere to hide that she would still be able to see when the cops got to her house. She could hear Arnold yelling that he was going to find her. Finally Connie found a good hiding place, high in a tree, where she could see her house but where no one could she her.
Arnold was still looking for her. His gold jalopy was still in the driveway.
Connie was scared that he was going to find her but she had to stay strong, her parents would be here soon and everything will be ok.
Connie waited and waited, and finally she seen her parents and two cop cars pull into her driveway. Connie climbed down out of the tree and ran as fast as she could out of the woods. Arnold say her and ran after her. He didn't know that cops were in the driveway, so when Connie ran out of the woods with Arnold running after her, she ran right into her mothers arms. Arnold stopped in his tracks, looking surprised, he tried to turn around and run but the cops got him and arrested him, along with his friend who was being hauled out of the jalopy by another cop.
Arnold was charged and put in jail and Connie was reunited with her family.
She was never happier to be with her family. She realized how important her family really is.
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