Kidnapped Part 3

"Alan?" Pearl said into the phone, gripping it as if she was gripping him.
"Pearl, where are you? Are you ok? What happened?" Alan asked, Pearl could hear the worry in his voice. She looked at her masked captor. Who held up the gun to her face and nodded. Pearl started to say exactly as he had told her to say, she knew what the consequences would be if she didn't.
"Alan, I've been kidnapped. I'm safe, but he wants ten thousand dollars for my return."
"Ten thousand?!!!!" Alan shouted. Suddenly another voice came over the phone.
"Miss Edwards, my name is Officer Griffin. Where are you?"
"I can't say," Pearl said looking at the gun nervously. "Put Alan back on," after a moment she heard Alan's voice again.
"Pearl? Ten thousand dollars? Where does he think we'll get that money? Put him on the phone." Pearl held out the phone for him, and he took it keeping the gun on her. He put the phone on speaker.
"Hello?" he said.
"Why Pearl?" Alan asked simply.
"Her family has money, I know that,"
"She doesn't talk to them anymore,"
"Well that's not my problem. If you don't come up with the money by this time Monday, you'll never see Pearl again," he ended the call, and threw the phone outside of the van. He gagged Pearl again, got in the front seat and drove off.

Alan stared at phone in his hand. The call ended so suddenly, he never got to speak to Pearl again.
"What happened? What did he say?" Fred asked coming up along with Tana.
"We have three days to come up with ten thousand dollars," Alan said simply, putting the phone in his pocket.
"Ten thousand dollars in three days????!!!!" Tana exclaimed. "How are we going to do that?"
"We have to go to her parents."
"Oh great," Fred sighed.

to be continued.....