Missing
In 1895 America held many new opportunities for everyone. The young girls of New York City that wanted a proper education had to go to “McKee School for Girls”. That is where Anna Penning and Molly Sidle had been sent by their relatives to become governesses. Neither of them had any close family; all that they had was each other. Anna was the most beautiful girl at the school; she had mounds of brown curly hair that always looks like she spent hours to get it perfect. She also had a doll-like face, with innocent blue-grey eyes. Molly was beautiful, but not the sticking beauty that was Anna. She has blond hair that never seemed to want to stay in a bun. All of the girls at “Maykee School for Girls” had to wear the same school uniform: a white button top, a corset to make them look more lady-like, with a navy blue skirt that goes to the floor.
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Over the years the “Maykee School for Girls” farm boy, Charles, has been watching Anna. Charles had sun-calloused skin, scraggly, unkempt hair and deep sea blue eyes. In the past year he has become more in love with Anna.
On a bright summer day, after two days of horrible thunder storms, Anna decided to go horseback riding. Charles sees that Anna is coming to get a horse, so he tries to get his hair under control and straighten up a bit.
“’Ello miss” Charles says clumsily.
“Hello, I would like to borrow a horse. May I have that one there, with the black and brown spots?” Anna asked.
“Yes of course.”
As Charles fetches the horse that Anna requested, he tries to find something clever to say to her when he brings back the horse. All that he can think to say is, “’’ere is your horse miss, ‘ave a good ride”, as he helps her get on the horse. As Anna is riding off Charles asks himself “what was I thinking, I could ‘ave come up with something better then ‘ere is your horse, ‘ave a good ride’”.
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Later that night, after dinner Anna and Molly are talking to each other about how their day went.
“Today I went on a ride around the grounds, it was very refreshing”, Anna said to Molly, who was crocheting a blanket.
“That sounds lovely, are you going to go for a ride again tomorrow?”, Molly asks as she finishes her blanket and holds it up to see if she missed a stitch.
“I hope to take a short ride tomorrow before French with Mademoiselle Leer”, Anna says as the clock strikes ten o’clock and signals them that it is time for bed.
After breakfast, Anna heads out to the stables. As soon as Anna is in eyeshot of Charles, he gets her horse all ready for her; he gets a second horse ready as well.
“Thank you, good day”, Anna said as she slowly gets on her horse.
“You’re welcome”, Charles said with a little smirk on his face.
Charles waited for Anna to be about 50 yards away before he mounted his house and fallowed Anna in to the woods. A soon as they had the cover of the woods, made his horse go faster to catch up with her. Once Anna turned around to see who was behind her, Charles threw a rope around her and a handkerchief covering her mouth so she wouldn’t be able to scream. Anna fights as hard as she can, but it isn’t hard enough because he has her tied up and on his horse.
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Once they arrive at a cave that is near the school, Charles helps Anna get of the horse and puts her on the floor of the cave.
“If I take the ‘andker’ief off, do you promise not to scream?” Charles said as he takes it off. As soon as it’s off, Anna starts to scream as loud as she can; Charles stuffs the handkerchief back in her mouth and slaps her across the cheek.
“Do you know why I kidnapped you?” Charles asks as he paces around the cave. Anna shakes her head no violently.
“I did it because I ‘ave loved you ever since I laid me eyes on you, I ‘ave wanted to tell you….but I never got the ‘erve to”, Charles said as he walks over to Anna.
“Don’t you understand? I want to be with you always”, Charles says as he takes Anna’s chin in his hand and kisses her. Anna turns away from him in disgust.
As Charles grabs Anna by the shoulders with his strong arms and makes her stand up a few inches from the floor and shacks her so hard that her hair falls out of the bun, “you WILL love me” then he throws her back on the floor and turns around. When Anna begins to cry, he gets down on to her level, and softly brushes the hair away from her face and kisses her on the forehead. This time she doesn’t turn away.
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At French class the next day with Mademoiselle Leer, Molly is getting a little worried about Anna because she still hasn’t returned from her ride.
“Mademoiselle Sidel, do you know where Mademoiselle Penning might be?” said Mademoiselle Leer.
“No, she did say that she was going to take a ride around the grounds, but she said that she was going to be back in time for your class, Mademoiselle Leer”, Molly said nervously as she looked out the window.
“Well, we cannot wait forever for her, but if you do happen to see her, please tell her that we missed her today”, Mademoiselle Leer said as she began the class.
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Later that night, Molly saw somebody coming back from the forest with two horses, one of them was the same horse that Anna always uses. Molly put on her robe and silently ran down the stairs and out the back door in the kitchen. When Molly arrived at the stables Charles was there putting away the saddles and reins.
“Excuse me, but I saw you coming back with Anna’s horse from my window right up there,” Molly says as she points to her window on the second floor ,”have you seen Anna? She’s been missing all day”, Molly said as she plays with her robe nervously.
“Urm….. no I ‘ave’nt, but I did see ‘er yesterday”
“Oh…... alright….. if you do please tell her that I miss her terribly”, Molly said as she started to walk away.
“I really am sorry”, Charles said as Molly ran back to the school with a tear stricken face.
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When Charles was walking back to the cave, he was thinking to himself about how Molly reacted when he told her that he hadn’t seen Anna with food in hand for her.
“’Ello miss, I brought you some dinner”, Charles said to an empty cave, all that was there was the rope and Anna’s handkerchief. At the sight of this Charles drops the plat and runs out of the cave and jumps on to his horse and rides off in to the forest to look for Anna.
OK thats all I have as of now, if I see some thing that you have posted and I think it will tye in to this nicely, I will add it and post the new copy of Missing!
