Lanterna Rally

Author: Cindy Stilwell

Publisher: Xlibris

Published: 2008-11

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781436314824

It was in the early morning and the sun was just rising when Alexis heard whispers in her ear. At first she thought she was dreaming. As she sat up she could hear the whispers clearer, "Get up! Jessica needs you! You must go help Jessica! Get up! Jessica's in trouble!" Alexis jumped out of bed and ran to Jessica's room barging through the door without knocking. Jessica was not in the room and the covers on her bed where a mess. Alexis ran into the hallway calling Jessica's name. The screaming woke Autumn and Lola as they came out of their rooms to see what the commotion was. Autumn wiped the sleep from her eyes as she stumbled down the hallway, "Alexis what's wrong!" Alexis was panicked with her hands shaking, "Where's Jessica? I can't find her!" Autumn tried to calm Alexis by offering suggestions that Jessica might be at the horse stables. Alexis wasn't listening and left Autumn standing in the hallway as she ran back to Jessica's room and placed her hands on Jessica's pillow in hopes of a vision. As her hands touched the pillow she saw Joe with a crazed look in his eye, he enter Jessica's room through her bedroom window, by climbing up a ladder. Joe had duct tape and bound Jessica's arms and legs so she could not run. As Jessica tried to scream Joe put a piece of duct tape over her mouth to muffle her sounds. He picked her up and carried her over his shoulder out of the window. Alexis woke and screamed, "Call the Police, Joe kidnapped her!" Lola ran down the hallway to grab the phone and call the Police. Autumn could not move it was like she was frozen in time. Alexis grabbed Autumn by the shoulders and looked her in the eye, "Autumn you have to stay with me! I need you to be strong right now! We will get her back!" Alexis grabbed Autumn by the wrist tightly and pulled her behind her down the stairs and out to the van. Alexis grabbed her gun and all the clips and put the holster on her hip. Alexis grabbed Autumn by the wrist again and drug her with her to the outside of Jessica window. The ladder was still there and leaning against the house. Lola yelled out, "The Police are on their way!" Alexis placed her shaking hand on the ladder as beads of sweat dripped from her forehead. Alexis had a vision of Joe carrying Jessica down the lane and out to the gravel road. Alexis grabbed Autumn's wrist again and took off running with Autumn having no choice but to follow. They reached the end of the driveway and Alexis got down on her hands and knees touching every piece of gravel running it through her fingers. Autumn snapped to, realizing that Alexis was using her visions to try and find Jessica and looked for something she could touch from Joe, Autumn yelled and pointed in the gravel, "Right there! That's the kind of cigarettes that Joe smokes! I bet that is his cigarette butt! Alexis grabbed it and had a vision of a red explorer with Indiana plates on it. She saw Joe open the hatchback and put Jessica face down covering her with a blanket, Jessica had a terrified look in her blue eyes that were full of tears. Joe drove in the direction of New Orleans. She woke from her vision as the Police were pulling up with their blue lights on. The Policemen pulled in front of Alexis and jumped out of the car. Alexis ran to them in a panic telling them that Jessica had been kidnapped by Joe and that he was taking her in to New Orleans. The police ask how she knew all of her information. When Alexis told them about the visions they laughed at her and called her crazy. They told Autumn that they would not even fill out a police report until she searched the plantation and was sure Jessica was not there somewhere. Alexis grabbed Autumn's arm and pulled her to the side, "The Police are not going to help us we have got to do this ourselves. Come on we got to go Jessica needs us! " Autumn and Alexis thanked them for coming out while cursing them under their breaths. Autumn and Alexis ran up the lane and back into the house. They got