I heard my mom curse under her breath as she opened the fridge and surveyed its contents. “Is everything ok?” I said lifting my eyes from my sketch book, “Its fine, I only forgot the main course for tonight’s dinner party.” my mom said her voice stricken with sarcasm, jokes aside this was a problem. Everything was lying on this dinner party. My moms boss had said that rather than have a meeting-regarding my mom getting a much needed and deserved promotion- in his office, he said he wanted to have a nice dinner party with his wife, my mother, and I. Well to be fair he all but said it, he dance around the idea for at least 10 minutes. “I’ll run to fry’s real quick, its no problem.” I said as a got up from the table, “ Are you sure?Its already dark.”. I simply nodded my head, slipped on my hoodie, and grabbed the “key chain of doom” that my mom insisted I carry. The key chain had a bunch of item to ether escape something or injure an attacker. I unlocked the front door and stepped outside before my mom could change her mind in letting a 15 year old go to the store alone.I walked with my head down and hood up, in the fastest pace I could that wasn’t confused running. The whole way, shadows danced in and out of the sides of my vision making me more paranoid than I was typically. Wow, didn’t know that was possible. Before I knew it I arrived in the fry’s parking lot. I slipped off my hood and stopped dead in my tracks. There were three large men dressed in all black looming near the door. I debated my opinions on soon decided my mom would rather have her daughter than some ham, and quickly pivoted and started to walk back home. I heard the mens heavy foot steps on the asphalt behind me I started to speed up to a run so did they. My brain tried to think of the closest, and most populated place to go and get help. I ran to the mall, a full two miles. No idea how but I did. I saw a woman walking with her kid. She must have know what was happening because she trapped me in a hug then placed her hands firmly on my shoulders “Rebecca! I am so glad to see you! Hows your mom?”. I was certainly not named Rebecca and she didn’t know my mom ether.