They found her in a ditch.
Unconscious, but alive.
I guess that after 6 months of searching, that is more than I could ever ask for.
Rowena Callaghan, age 18, disappeared February 29th, 2017 at 8 o clock. Long brown hair that framed her round face, hazel eyes that had always sparkled with life and a smile that could lighten the darkest of moments. Her missing poster, evidently, wouldn’t be nearly as poetic. Mid-back brown hair, hazel eyes, average height, light skin. Didn’t do her any justice, but the best we would get.
The roar of an engine took me away from my thoughts briefly. As Alma tore into my driveway with her deep green jeep, beeping her car horn incessantly, and as I shove my things into my purse, memories came back to me again.
The last time I saw her, the last time any of us did really, was a Sunday afternoon. We had been downtown all day. It had been fun. But then night came and we all went separate ways. She lived the farthest away from the city, so it made sense that her bus stop was a few blocks from ours. We stopped in the middle of the boulevard and said our goodbyes, never knowing they were going to be the lasts for a while. We saw her walking up the street. She waved, a grin on her face, and then disappeared into the crowd.
Two days later, her mom called. She never came home. We called her boyfriend, her university classmates…no one knew a thing. They shut her case a month later, after nothing was found, ruling it as a classic runaway case.
That is…until they found her phone…and wallet…and clothes, shoved hastily into a corner on a pit stop down route 35. They opened the case again, but they still found nothing until 5 later. Today.
I run out my door, yelling at my brother to shut it behind me. The passenger door was already opened and I just slid in, noticing the guys in the back seat. We didn’t waste time with greetings. The moment I shut the car door and put my seat belt on, Alma floored the gas pedal; the force shoving Alex, Xander and I back into our seats. The sound of tires screeching were the only thing left.
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