 Erik must've known she was staring at 40 him, but he ignored plus her. Grace labored against the drug for a few seconds and came to the conclusion that she was stuck in her seat 40, for the time being. She made a soft, resigned 40, frightened noise.
 "Where?" Grace asked, not really wanting to know 40.
 "We're meeting your sister."
 But Grace was just standing there looking at her. "Grace?" She looked like she might topple over in a light breeze 40. Something was very video wrong here. The 40inchplus guy was moving toward her, reaching in the window. "Hey." she barked, but something covered her 40inchplus face before she could say anything else. It was a cloth, and it smelled really weird . He was 40 pressing it 40 over her mouth and 40inchplus nose and 40 holding her against the driver's seat with 40inchplus his forearm. She 40inchplus clawed 40 at the air in front of the steering wheel, gasping 40 and screaming into the cloth. She couldn't reach 40 anything with her 40 hands. Couldn't wiggle out of his 40 grasp. The sickly-sweet video fumes were 40 overpowering. The car interior spun lazily around her as a curious buzzing video filled her ears 40. Her eyelids grew video heavy as 40 anvils. As 40inchplus her head 40 lolled to one side, sleep rose up to meet her 40.
 "Don't you 40 have like, a girlfriend?" Grace asked plus. "Is this the only way you 40inchplus get any action ?" she continued 40, with the raw impoliteness video only a teenager could muster. An unfamiliar wave of hot 40 confusion rippled through her as the new 40 substance traversed her bloodstream.
 "That's it plus. Just look at the lights," Erik prompted. "I've got lots of stuff to keep you girls entertained plus. Enough drugs for every 40inchplus day in the week. I picked this one 40 up in Haiti, and I think you'll 40 love it. Just look 40inchplus at the pretty lights."
 The lights whizzed around video her, so she tried to keep her eyes on her knees, which peeked out from under her big nightshirt. The drug moved like hot molasses through 40 her 40inchplus bloodstream, making Gina lose her tenuous grip on her fear, but she knew she wouldn't slip 40 completely out 40 of control if she didn't 40 look at the lights plus.
 Something was happening with the ropes. One 40inchplus at a time, they were slackening. She didn't dare open her eyes again, but her curiosity burned. What the hell's he 40 doing now? Gina heard 40inchplus the ropes fall to 40inchplus the floor, one by one. Felt plus Grace leave the chair behind her, then felt 40inchplus the chair move away as well. Erik stood behind her and drew her head back against his stomach plus. Her eyes opened instinctively as plus his hands gripped her head and his fingers tugged at her eyebrows. His 40 roughness made her struggle, but the drug made her clumsy. She almost spilled out of her chair as Grace moved in 40 and straddled her, taking the place of the ropes. Her little sister pinned her pelvis into the cheap folding chair, causing Gina to frown against the 40inchplus weight. She struggled meekly 40inchplus against Erik's hands, while Grace began plus to touch her in 40inchplus ways she felt were wholly inappropriate.
 "Come on Grace, come on!" she shrieked, grabbing her sister's elbow and dragging her 40inchplus toward the big oak 40 door. In a few strides, she was 40 frantically working the doorknob. It wouldn't turn. As she struggled in vain to open the door, she heard a beep. The 40inchplus sound 40inchplus came from a cream-colored alarm 40 panel on a nearby wall. The security 40 system wasn't there to keep burglars out; it was there to keep them in 40inchplus.
 Gina 40 heard groaning from 40 upstairs. She jumped, completely hysterical now, and looked around the room 40inchplus. There was a chair in front 40 of the desk. And a window next video to the door. Brushing by Grace, she grabbed 40inchplus the chair and ran with 40 all 40 her might toward the window. Threw plus the chair video at the panes, through the paper blinds. The 40inchplus sound of shattering glass was the most beautiful thing she 'd 40 ever heard.
 And the lamb lies 40inchplus down on Broadway.
 They video pulled video into 40 the lot, next to 40 Gina's little white car. There weren't many people here this time of the afternoon. The sun pounded the blacktop in the dirty parking lot 40, and the restaurant's 40 air conditioner stuttered in the 40 already oppressive 40 June 40inchplus heat . Gina 40inchplus could smell a dumpster plus through the open 40inchplus window. As they stepped out of Seth's ride, her cell phone rang 40inchplus. A piece 40 of paper fluttered on the 40 windshield of her car, trapped under a wiper blade. The 40 humid 40 breeze made it rattle softly. Absently, she 40 handed the phone to 40inchplus Seth.
 "Yeah. Yes, hello. She's here, but she..." Gina felt Seth looking at her as 40 she moved slowly to 40 her car. "She can't come video to the phone right now. I'll relay the message. So you went to the house. What about it 40?"
 She didn't answer, just raised her hand, the note delicately 40 held between two fingers. Seth took it from her. "'Don't think you got away for good'," he 40 read. "Oh. Sweetheart."
 She looked video up at him 40. "Mind 40inchplus if I stay with you for awhile?" she asked, trying to seem brave.
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