Mephistophelily
Crazy is...
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Her mother had always told her to never talk to strangers, to stay away from odd vans, to not take candy from curious men.... The warnings every mother gave their young daughters. Danielle Kaufman took her mother's words to heart all through her childhood, but as a college student, she figured that she had a well-enough sense of those around her that could and couldn't be trusted. Her judgment thus far had been pretty good, only a few mistakes on boyfriends that ended up being the epitome of an asshole or a couple of friends that were only out to have fun at her expense.
Case in point: her current situation.
Standing outside the college library, huddled beneath the leather coat pulled taut over her head to act as an umbrella against the increasing downpour, she was waiting for two supposed girlfriends to come back around to pick her up.
They had promised to be here an hour ago.
"Crap." With a hard sigh, she kicked at one of the broken bits of brick on the sidewalk, moving cautiously around the developing puddles to peek further down the drive. Maybe the storm held them up. Maybe they needed gas...
Maybe they had flat off ditched her.
Danielle frowned once again, reaching for her cell phone- Only to get drenched by a van that pulled up a little too closely to the curb. She gave a horrified cry, dropping her phone at the frigid splash that left her thin white button-up soaked, clinging to her skin and pastel bra beneath. Her jeans were no better; doused in water and just as clingy. She was already freezing from the water, shivering as the van's sliding side door opened.
"Oh, SHIT! I'm sorry! Jesus, Mark- You fuckin' DRENCHED her! I told you that was too close!" The guy who opened the door began to shout both out the door and into the van, a softer tone in reference to Danielle and a far more annoyed voice to his friend at the wheel. "Were you waitin' for someone? Here, get in with us- this storm is going to get even worse. We got hit coming on the highway, and that was a friggin' flood. You need a ride? It's the least we can do because of dipshit here."
"I- My friends should be here soon," She replied hesitantly, pointing back up the driveway.
"At least come get warmed up. I can see you shivering from here. Look, I even have a blanket. We'll wait with you." The guy smiled at her, holding up a fuzzy old brown blanket. "They should be here soon, right? Where's the better place to wait, in a warm van or in the rain?"
He had a point. "I guess... getting warmed up isn't going to hurt anything..." She went over to the van, taking his offered hand and stepping inside. There were two others; the driver- who he had called Mark... and another guy in the passenger seat. She smiled hesitantly at them, taking a seat next to the one who helped her inside as he wrapped the blanket around her. "Thanks, guys. It was getting kinda cold out there."
"...So I see...," Mark mumbled under his breath, his eyes locked on the rearview and Danielle's chest.
"Fucker." The man next to her slapped him in the back of the head. "Ignore him. He's a dick." He smiled again, placing a hand rather uncomfortably on her shoulder before leaning in a bit closer. "You're okay, though, right? He didn't, like, hit you or nothin', did he? I'll fuckin' kill him if he actually hurt you."
"Um.. No.. Just- Just wet. Really... really wet." Danielle smiled again, now a bit nervous. Maybe getting in here was a bad idea...
"Good." He grinned again, his other hand raising to pull down the blanket covering her arm. A sudden pinching pain in her skin caused her to yelp out, Danielle glaring at him as she tried to shove away, spotting now the small syringe in his hand. She fell against the side of the van, her head reeling as the man pulled her back up onto the seat. "Hey, hey, it's ok. Like I said.. I won't hurt you... Now go to sleep... It's ok..."
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