Walking Vs. Shelly: The Walk

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The Walk

It was a cold dark night down in Fred, Texas as Shelly begin her nightly walk. She walks every night through the woods for exercise. There is a bike trail that she takes and its about 2-3 miles long. Most nights her husband Donald will tag along with her for the walk but tonight, Donald is out working late, and Shelly is going to exercise by herself. Its later than it usually is because she was waiting on him to come home. Finally, she decides to go ahead and go without Donald. The start of the trail is about 200 yards from her house. She’s dreading this, but she’s been doing good on this little routine she has so she can’t skip a day. She starts headed toward the trail and she put her headphones in and starts jamming to her favorite
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She already is moving fast because she is a little scared because she usually doesn’t go by herself to go walk. She starts walking and she gets about a mile in and her husband Donald suddenly calls her phone. She picks up and he is freaking out asking her if she is okay and why she is out there by herself walking alone, she replies and says yes, I’m fine why are you freaking out so much? She also adds that she must get her exercise in a and she’s dedicated and not skipping a day. He said he just had a bad thought about her and was just making sure. So, she continues her walk and now she starts having this weird feeling that someone is stalking her or following her. She looks at her surroundings to make sure and she doesn’t see anyone or anything. After taking a break and getting a drink of her water she’s looking at her phone and scrolling on social media and she gets a random text message from some random number and it says, “don’t stop …show more content…
She doesn’t stop though, she keeps walking towards town, she really messed up when she dropped her phone. Its super late now so there will not be a lot of stores open in town. The guy driving the car looks familiar to Shelly, but she doesn’t know exactly who it is. She’s trying to get a picture in her head so if she makes it to the police station she can tell them a description of the face and the person. This time when the car past by they stopped, and they were just staring at Shelly when she was walking, she starts running and they are just driving with her down the road looking at her. They finally trap her in a corner and she start balling her eyes out and screaming saying “what do you guys want from me”? They just looked at each other and smiled and started going after her. The guys try to grab her but she puts up a little fight but there is no way she will get out of the arms of the guys. They tie her up and put her in the back the car and they think they are fine. The whole-time a by stander was watching and went and got the cops and she starts hearing a siren and sees the lights. The guys just aren’t going to give up easy, so they take off on a high-speed chase and they get about one mile down the road and finally give up and turn themselves in and

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