Couldn't Understand Why

At seventeen, he knew better. Don’t take things from strangers. Don’t talk to someone you don’t know. Don’t get into someone’s car if they offer you a lift. They didn’t tell you what to do when someone was on top of you, ready to chuck you into an awaiting van. It was just “stick with friends” which clearly this night, he didn’t. How many people were interested in kidnapping random seventeen year olds off the streets anyway? And if so, not raping them, not killing them, or even requesting ransom? That’s what he couldn’t understand. Why they were holding him.

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