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3 True Ice Cream Truck Horror Stories That Will Make You Think Twice About Street Vendors · True Horror Stories

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  Speaker 1: I still remember the sun spilling through the windows as
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  Speaker 1: I straightened the guest room, folding the last of the
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  Speaker 1: freshly washed sheets. My hands were trembling slightly, a mixture
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  Speaker 1: of excitement and nerves. Today was the day my first
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  Speaker 1: foster child was arriving. I stared at my reflection in
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  Speaker 1: the hallway mirror, brushing down my shirt. My mother would
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  Speaker 1: have been so proud of me for taking in a
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  Speaker 1: child in need.
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  Speaker 2: After she passed.
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  Speaker 1: I felt lost alone, but helping a child was supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be healing right. When the knock came, I excelled
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  Speaker 1: sharply and opened the door. Ronnie Bateman stood on the
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  Speaker 1: porch holding a tattered plush bear with a missing eye.
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  Speaker 1: He was smaller than I expected for a ten year old,
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  Speaker 1: pale and then with unkempt brown hair falling over his eyes.
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  Speaker 1: The social worker introduced us, but Ronnie never spoke a word.
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  Speaker 1: He simply stared at me with unsettling stillness. The doors
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  Speaker 1: shut behind us. He finally spoke, You have pretty hair,
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  Speaker 1: he said, softly, his voice barely above a whisper. It
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  Speaker 1: should have been a sweet compliment, but the way he
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  Speaker 1: smiled afterward made me feel strangely cold. I made grilled
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  Speaker 1: cheese sandwiches for lunch, something simple that most kids would enjoy.
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  Speaker 1: Ronnie didn't touch his food. Instead, he stared at me, unblinking,
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  Speaker 1: dragging his knife across his plate, slowly, making a faint
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  Speaker 1: scraping sound that set.
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  Speaker 2: My teeth on edge.
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  Speaker 1: Not hungry, I asked, forcing a warm smile. Without a word,
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  Speaker 1: he suddenly shoved his plate onto the floor, sending shards
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  Speaker 1: of ceramic and crumbs skittering across the tiles. He glared
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  Speaker 1: at me with a flash of something dark in his eyes.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want this, he muttered coldly. I knelt beside him,
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  Speaker 1: trying to keep calm.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, it's okay, you don't have to eat it. What
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  Speaker 2: do you want to do?
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  Speaker 1: His lips hurled into a grin, a slow, deliberate smile
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  Speaker 1: that didn't reach his eyes. Let's play hide and seek,
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  Speaker 1: Thinking it would lighten the mood, I agreed. Okay, I'll
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  Speaker 1: hide first, I said, masking my unease. I tiptoed through
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  Speaker 1: the house and slipped into the hallway closet, grinning slightly
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  Speaker 1: at the stillness of it all. For a moment, it
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  Speaker 1: felt almost normal, But as I pressed my ear to
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  Speaker 1: the door. I heard something that sent a chill through me,
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  Speaker 1: soft deliberate footsteps. But there was something else, the faint,
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  Speaker 1: metallic scrape of a blade dragging across the wall.
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  Speaker 2: Carol his voice sings song through the house. I'm Gonna
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  Speaker 2: find you.
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  Speaker 1: I held my breath, willing myself to believe I was
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  Speaker 1: imagining it. But when I peeped through the narrow crack
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  Speaker 1: of the door, my stomach turned to ice. Ronnie was
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  Speaker 1: holding a large kitchen knife. His small hands clutched the
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  Speaker 1: handle tightly, his knuckles white. Come out, Come out wherever
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  Speaker 1: you are, he crooned, softly, dragging the tip of the
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  Speaker 1: knife along the hallway wall, leaving shallow scratches. I slowly
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  Speaker 1: pressed the closet door open, creeping out barefoot, careful not
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  Speaker 1: to make a sound. My heart slammed against my chest
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  Speaker 1: as I moved down the hallway toward the back door. Suddenly,
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  Speaker 1: a tiny hand grabbed my wrist from behind. I spun around,
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  Speaker 1: and Ronnie's face was inches from mine, his grin wide,
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  Speaker 1: his teeth bared in a grotesque, almost animalistic snarl.
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  Speaker 2: Gotcha, he giggled and slashed at me.
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  Speaker 1: The blade missed my stomach by mere inches, but it
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  Speaker 1: tore through my shirt, grazing my skin. I gasped in
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  Speaker 1: pain and sprinted into the kitchen. My bare feet skidded
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  Speaker 1: across the floors. I yanked open drawers, searching for something, anything.
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  Speaker 2: I could use.
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  Speaker 1: But Ronnie was fast, too fast. He came barreling around
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  Speaker 1: the corner, slammed into me with surprising force, knocking me
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  Speaker 1: into the counter. The knife sliced into my shoulder, making
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  Speaker 1: me cry out, You're not fast enough. He sneered, his
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  Speaker 1: eyes wild. I stumbled backward, gripping my bleeding shoulder. My
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  Speaker 1: hands shook as I grabbed the heavy ceramic fruit bowl
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  Speaker 1: from the counter and.
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  Speaker 2: Swung it at him.
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  Speaker 1: It smashed against his arm, making him drop the knife,
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  Speaker 1: but instead of crying out in.
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  Speaker 2: Pain, he laughed.
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  Speaker 1: You're fun, he whispered, blood trickling down his arm.
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  Speaker 2: Want to play again.
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  Speaker 1: I bolted for the front door, but he was right
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  Speaker 1: behind me, his small footsteps slamming against the hardwood floor.
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  Speaker 1: I yanked the door open, only for him to slam
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  Speaker 1: it shut with shocking strength, nearly crushing my hand. No leaving,
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  Speaker 1: he hissed, his face only inches from mine. Desperate, I
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  Speaker 1: shoved him back and sprinted toward the laundry room. I
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  Speaker 1: barely managed to slam the door shut and lock it.
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  Speaker 1: Hanted against the wall. My heart threatened to explode out
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  Speaker 1: of my chest. Through the crack in the door, I
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  Speaker 1: could see his small, bloodied hand running over the handle.
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  Speaker 2: You can't hide forever, he whispered.
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  Speaker 1: I frantically dialed nine one one with my blood slipped fingers,
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  Speaker 1: barely able to speak.
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  Speaker 2: Please my foster son. He's trying to kill me.
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  Speaker 1: But before I could give them my full address, the
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  Speaker 1: door burst open. Ronnie stood there, his face blank, emotionless.
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  Speaker 2: He cocked his head slowly and strolled toward me.
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  Speaker 1: I scrambled backward, throwing whatever I could at him, a
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  Speaker 1: detergent bottle, towels, anything. He lunged on top of me,
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  Speaker 1: his small hands shockingly strong, pinning me to the floor.
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  Speaker 1: He raised the knife high above his head, his eyes
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  Speaker 1: alight with something vile.
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  Speaker 2: I screamed in desperation, you don't have to be like
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  Speaker 2: your father, but he simply smiled.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not like my father, he whispered, his lips curling
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  Speaker 1: into a sinister grin.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't kill anyone. I froze my breath caught in
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  Speaker 2: my throat. I did.
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  Speaker 1: He sneered every time he brought home a woman after
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  Speaker 1: Mom died. I didn't like them, so I played with
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  Speaker 1: them with knives. He only confessed so they wouldn't take
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  Speaker 1: me away. His eyes glimmered with triumph, feeding on my horror,
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  Speaker 1: he swung the knife downward. I twisted my body just
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  Speaker 1: in time, the blade barely missing my throat, instead slicing
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  Speaker 1: into the floorboards. I kicked him hard in the chest,
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  Speaker 1: sending him flying backward. His head slammed against the wall,
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  Speaker 1: but he scrambled back to his feet, giggling. You're good
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  Speaker 1: at this, he taunted. Blood poured from my shoulder and
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  Speaker 1: my limbs trembled from exhaustion, but I managed to grab
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  Speaker 1: a broken lamp base and swung it. It cracked against
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  Speaker 1: his skull, sending him crumpling to the floor. I stumbled
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  Speaker 1: to my feet, my vision swimming, and kicked the knife
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  Speaker 1: away from his hand. I sprinted to the front door
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  Speaker 1: just as the police arrived. The officers tackled Ronnie to
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  Speaker 1: the ground. He didn't struggle. He simply smirked at me
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  Speaker 1: from the back of the squad car, his eyes wide
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  Speaker 1: with glee. See he's seeing Caroline, he whispered, lips curling
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  Speaker 1: into a grin. You're my favorite playmate till now. The
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  Speaker 1: paramedics wrapped my bleeding shoulder, but I barely noticed the pain.
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  Speaker 1: I stared into the distance, the weight of the horrifying
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  Speaker 1: truths sinking in the wrong man was going to die
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  Speaker 1: for the murders, and somewhere deep down, I knew Ronnie
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  Speaker 1: would find another game to play. Lily and I have
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  Speaker 1: stayed at this foster care for only a week. Our parents,
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  Speaker 1: the old Martin, were leaving for dinner, leaving us home alone.
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  Speaker 2: When their tires rolled out.
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  Speaker 1: Lily jumped on the couch with a tub of popcorn
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  Speaker 1: to watch the TV. The house was quiet except for
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  Speaker 1: the faint hum of the TV. Around twenty minutes later,
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  Speaker 1: Lily was half asleep on the couch. I was scrolling
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  Speaker 1: through my phone when the lights flickered off. Huh, I frowned.
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  Speaker 1: The TV screen was black, except that nothing was on.
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  Speaker 1: Total silence. Lily, I called as I stood up. She stirred,
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  Speaker 1: What the hell? She said groggily. Then I heard it
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  Speaker 1: a faint click from down the hallway. The front door
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  Speaker 1: creaked open. I froze, my stomach twisted inside me. For
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  Speaker 1: a second, I wanted to believe the Martins had come
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  Speaker 1: back early. But then I heard the heavy footsteps. Not slow,
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  Speaker 1: heavy steps or familiar, no heavy boots. Lily shot upright,
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  Speaker 1: her eyes wide open. All of a sudden, I looked
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  Speaker 1: through the curtain. Two men, masks, crowbars, douffle bag, all
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  Speaker 1: slipping inside. I saw one of them twist a screwdriver
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  Speaker 1: roughly in the lock until the door frame cracked.
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  Speaker 2: Lily grabbed my arm, whispering, as we need to hide.
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  Speaker 1: We sprinted down the hallway, and here Lily hissed, yanking
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  Speaker 1: me into the coat closet.
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  Speaker 2: I could barely breathe.
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  Speaker 1: My heart was hammering in my chest so loudly I
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  Speaker 1: was sure they'd hear it. We crouched low, huddled beneath
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  Speaker 1: a pile of jackets, trying to stay as still as possible.
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  Speaker 1: From outside, I could hear them moving through the house, chattering, glass,
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  Speaker 1: tossing furniture, grabbed the silverware. One of them muttered, find
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  Speaker 1: the safe, the other growled. Lily's fingers dug into my arm,
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  Speaker 1: her knuckles white, and then my phone buzzed A stupid
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  Speaker 1: spam notification. I fumbled to silence it, but it was
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  Speaker 1: too late. The footsteps stopped. You hear that, one of
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  Speaker 1: the whispered yeah closet. I felt Lily's entire body tense
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  Speaker 1: against mine. My stomach turned cold. The door creaked open slowly,
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  Speaker 1: and for a brief, horrifying moment, my eyes met one
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  Speaker 1: of the robber's eyes. He grinned, gotcha. Before he could
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  Speaker 1: grab us, Lily yanked me out of the closet. We
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  Speaker 1: tore down the hallway. The robber's heavy footsteps thudded behind us,
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  Speaker 1: closing in fast, faster math. Lily screamed, pulling me toward
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  Speaker 1: the stairs. We scrambled to the second floor and slammed
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  Speaker 1: a bedroom door shut behind us. Lily shoved the dresser
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  Speaker 1: against the door, her hands trembling violently. I remained there, gasping,
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  Speaker 1: with my heart pounding in my ears. We need to
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  Speaker 1: get out the window, I shouted. But before we could
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  Speaker 1: even move, the other guy kicked the door down. The
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  Speaker 1: dresser screeched as it moved across the floor, but it
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  Speaker 1: didn't stop him. Where do you think you're going? He laughed,
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  Speaker 1: eyes wide with excitement. We ran for the attic with
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  Speaker 1: Lily shoving me ahead of her. I grabbed the shaky
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  Speaker 1: ladder and climbed with my hands shaking while my feet.
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  Speaker 2: Slipped off the wood.
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  Speaker 1: She pulled the ladder up behind us, leaving the robbers
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  Speaker 1: under us.
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  Speaker 2: You can't hide forever, kids, one of them said, with
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  Speaker 2: a sick amusement in his tone.
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  Speaker 1: We have all night. The attic itself was dark and
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  Speaker 1: so hot. I was soaking, wet with sweat, my hands
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  Speaker 1: slippery with fear. Lily's breath was short again, and her
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  Speaker 1: skinny arms were trembling.
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  Speaker 2: What do we do? I hissed in a whisper the vent.
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  Speaker 1: She panted and motioned to the small, bent, rusty grate
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  Speaker 1: in the corner of the attic. She pulled open the
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  Speaker 1: grate with only her hands and bled a little from
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  Speaker 1: the jagged edges co mat. She urged, shoving me inside.
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  Speaker 1: I crawled into the metal shaft, my knees scraping against
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  Speaker 1: the rusty surface. My chest felt tight. It was too narrow, claustrophobic,
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  Speaker 1: but I kept moving. Lily squeezed in behind me, her
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  Speaker 1: breath hot against my back. From below, I heard them
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  Speaker 1: discuss we need to find another way up the vent.
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  Speaker 1: Led us to the garage crawl space. We dropped down
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  Speaker 1: with a thud, hitting the cold concrete floor. My knees
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  Speaker 1: burned from the fall. Lily grabbed my hand, trying to
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  Speaker 1: pull me toward the side door, but suddenly one robber
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  Speaker 1: was there waiting smart kids. He sneered, his eyes glinting cruelly.
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  Speaker 1: He lunge at Lily, grabbing her wrist. Without thinking, I
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  Speaker 1: snatched a rusty screwdriver from the workbench and plunged it
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  Speaker 1: into a skigh. He screamed in pained, stumbling backward run.
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  Speaker 1: Lily shouted. We bolted for the garage door, but his
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  Speaker 1: partner appeared blocking the exit. He had a crowbar in
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  Speaker 1: his hand, swinging it slowly back in full going somewhere,
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  Speaker 1: he hissed. Desperate, Lily grabbed a bottle of turpentine from
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  Speaker 1: the shelf and hurled it at his face. It splattered
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  Speaker 1: across his eyes, making him howl an agony.
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  Speaker 2: Clawing yet his face.
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  Speaker 1: Just when we thought we were free, he tackled Lily,
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  Speaker 1: slamming her against the concrete floor. She screamed as he
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  Speaker 1: held her down, his hand resting on her mouth. I
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  Speaker 1: saw the wounded guy limping toward me in rage. There
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  Speaker 1: was a heavy garage door handle, and I smashed it
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  Speaker 1: down on his arm.
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  Speaker 2: As he tried to grab me.
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  Speaker 1: He screamed and his bones cracked under the weight of
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  Speaker 1: the door. I turned just in time to see Lily,
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  Speaker 1: her face and chest covered in blood, sink her teeth.
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  Speaker 2: Into her attacker's hand.
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  Speaker 1: He roared in pain and loosened his grip just enough
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  Speaker 1: for her to shove him backward. The sound of sirens
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  Speaker 1: broke the night. It was sound of comp cars. We
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  Speaker 1: run out, screaming for help. The neighbors heard screams from
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  Speaker 1: our house, so called the cops. Cops tackled the robber
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  Speaker 1: down onto the ground. Lily and I settled into the
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  Speaker 1: back of an ambulance, trembling under silver thin blankets. My
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  Speaker 1: hands won't stop shaking. You saved me, max, she whispered.
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  Speaker 1: I shook my head, still gasping for breath. No, you
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  Speaker 1: saved me. I squatted on the carpet, its fibers worn
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  Speaker 1: and frayed between my fingers, picked at the edges. A
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  Speaker 1: faint scent of pine scented cleaner and old wood permeated
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  Speaker 1: the air, A huge change from the thick dampness that
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  Speaker 1: greeted me at the group home just a week ago.
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  Speaker 1: I'd only been with Roy, a middle aged foster father
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  Speaker 1: with soft eyes and a friendly smile, for five days.
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  Speaker 1: At first, I felt thankful. He brought me some new clothes,
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  Speaker 1: allowed me to choose my own meals, and even said
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  Speaker 1: that I didn't have to have a fixed bedtime. Everything
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  Speaker 1: felt safe. Still, I'd been in foster care long enough
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  Speaker 1: to tell when things didn't feel quite right. It started
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  Speaker 1: with the rules. You want to keep the basement door
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  Speaker 1: locked all the time. It's just storage, nothing there you want.
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  Speaker 2: He said, you.
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  Speaker 1: Can't use the landline. It's not working, so if you
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  Speaker 1: need to call someone, just let me know. The landline
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  Speaker 1: thing was odd, but I didn't ask any questions until tonight.
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  Speaker 1: The moment Roy left the house at eight pm, I
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  Speaker 1: heard it, thought, a heavy, dull bang from somewhere down
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  Speaker 1: the hall. I ripped the earbuds from my ears and
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  Speaker 1: sat up, straining to listen.
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  Speaker 2: Bang bang.
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  Speaker 1: It was coming from the locked hallway closet, the one
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  Speaker 1: Roy was always locking. I hesitantly approached the door, my
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  Speaker 1: palms sweaty. I pressed my ear to the door and
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  Speaker 1: listened closely. Soft uneven breaths, shallow, desperate.
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  Speaker 2: My heart skipped a beat.
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  Speaker 1: I tried to handle it was locked, of course, but
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't a rookie at this I had run away
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  Speaker 1: from enough foster homes to know a thing or two.
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  Speaker 1: I pulled out a bobby pin from my pocket. My
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  Speaker 1: hands were shaking. Then I jigged it into the lock.
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  Speaker 1: My hands were sweaty, making it difficult to keep a
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  Speaker 1: steady hand. A couple of shaky attempts later, I felt
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  Speaker 1: the lock click slowly. I pulled the door open, super slowly,
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  Speaker 1: until my stomach dropped. Huddled in the corner was a
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  Speaker 1: young girl, no older than ten, with matted brown hair
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  Speaker 1: and filthy pajamas. Her wrists were raw from the shackles
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  Speaker 1: clamped around them. Her wide, terrified eyes locked onto mine.
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  Speaker 1: Help me, she whispered, her voice hoarse and cracked. For
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  Speaker 1: half a second, I just stood there, my brain frozen.
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  Speaker 2: What what the hell? I choked out. I knelt down,
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  Speaker 2: fumbling with the shackles.
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  Speaker 1: Her small arms were trembling, sticky with blood and grime.
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  Speaker 1: She clung to me with what little strength she had left.
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  Speaker 1: But before I could even breathe, I heard it the
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  Speaker 1: click of the front door unlocking.
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  Speaker 2: Roy was back.
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  Speaker 1: I slammed the closet shut, but I wasn't fast enough.
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  Speaker 1: The door creaked open. Our eyes met across the hallway.
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  Speaker 1: For the first time, I saw the kindness drain from
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  Speaker 1: his face, replaced by a cold, calculating fury.
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  Speaker 2: What are you doing?
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  Speaker 1: His voice was low and measured that I could hear
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  Speaker 1: the edge of it. I took a step back, pulling
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  Speaker 1: the girl behind me.
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  Speaker 2: You you, you lied.
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  Speaker 1: I stammered, my voice cracking with fear. He sprang into action.
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  Speaker 1: His hand covered my mouth and jerked me backward. The
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  Speaker 1: girl screamed an awful, shrill wail that pierced my ears.
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  Speaker 1: I kicked and flailed, but Roy had more strength. He
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  Speaker 1: dragged me down toward the basement, his nails digging into
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  Speaker 1: my arm. I thrashed. I bit down on his hand,
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  Speaker 1: tasting blood. He let out an enraged snarl, but didn't
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  Speaker 1: loose his grip. He tossed me back against the basement stairs,
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  Speaker 1: and briefly everything was a blur. I saw stars circling
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  Speaker 1: my head as it made contact with the wood. A
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  Speaker 1: girl was sobbing from the hallway. The sound raw.
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  Speaker 2: And terrible, destute me me, she cried.
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  Speaker 1: Roy grabbed a coil of rope from the corner, his
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: face twisted with rage. You shouldn't have opened that door, Clara,
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  Speaker 1: he growled, his voice eerily calm. I thrashed and kicked
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  Speaker 1: my fingernails, dug into his face, leaving red weltz.
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  Speaker 2: You're not taking me down here, I screamed.
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  Speaker 1: He shoved me against the cement floor, pinning me by
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  Speaker 1: my shoulders. His hand wrapped around my throat, squeezing my
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  Speaker 1: lungs burned, my vision tunneling. Desperate, I scrambled blindly for anything.
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  Speaker 1: My hand found the broken glass from a fallen jar.
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  Speaker 1: Without thinking, I plunged it into his thigh. Roy let
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: out a strangled yell, his grip loosening. I scrambled to
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  Speaker 1: my feet. Blood splattered on my hands. He lunged again,
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  Speaker 1: but I kicked his wounded leg. He staggered, cursing, his
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  Speaker 1: face twisted in pain.
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  Speaker 2: I ran.
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  Speaker 1: I grabbed the girl's hand and sprinted toward the front door.
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  Speaker 1: My legs ached, my lungs burned, but I didn't stop.
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  Speaker 2: Roy's footsteps thudded behind us. Good back here, he roared.
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  Speaker 1: I threw the front door open and pushed the girl out.
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  Speaker 1: My finger struggled to lock it. The girl has already
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: started screaming, attracting the neighbors. Within a few minutes, three
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: men rushed into the house and pinned down Roy on
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: the floor. I was finally free from his claws. The
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: cops came and arrested Roy. The neighbors spoke in our behalf.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: When the house was searched, two more girls were found
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: in the house, hidden from plain sight, tied with chains
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: and padlocks. I don't know how successful I'll turn out
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: to be in this life, but I'll always be proud
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: of myself.