Erik must've known she was staring at him, but gina he ignored her. Grace labored against gina the drug for a few seconds and came gina to the conclusion that she was stuck in gina her seat, for the time being gina. She gina ryder made a soft, resigned, frightened noise.

The alarm went off again, and Gina groggily deduced that she'd pics hit the ginalynnpics Snooze pics button enough. It was four gina-thirty ginalynnpics in the A.M., and her entire night's sleep ginalynnpics was gina now a lost cause free. She kicked off the covers and gina sat up slowly. Yawned and scratched behind gina her gina ear. God gina dammit, she thought.

Gina pulled out ryder of gina ryder her driveway and headed downtown, figuring she'd cruise ginalynnpics over to the huge club ginalynnpics and try to catch Grace gina ryder outside. She yawned, reaching over to turn on the stereo. Takako Minekawa sang about not being able to gina sleep.

A few miles down the road, her cell phone rang.

When she rolled into the parking lot of Sullivan's - a grease pit of an all gina-night diner - Grace was nowhere to be seen. Gina was too tired to get out and look for her, and free she was just about to gina pick up gina her phone when gina she saw Grace get out gina of a big gray Blazer across the lot pics. A tall, dark haired guy stepped down from the driver's side and moved in ginalynnpics behind her. Gina slowly drove over to them ryder and rolled down her gina window. Grace looked really fucked up, while her new boyfriend stared down at ginalynnpics Gina with ginalynnpics uncomfortable gina intensity. She disliked him immediately. Glancing at ryder Grace, she said, "You ready?"

But free Grace gina was just ginalynnpics standing there looking at her. "Grace?" She looked like she might ryder topple over in a light breeze. Something was gina very gina wrong here. The guy gina ryder was moving toward her, reaching in the window. "Hey." she barked, but something ginalynnpics covered her face before she could say gina anything else. It was a cloth free, and it smelled really weird. He was pressing it ginalynnpics over her gina mouth and nose and holding ginalynnpics her against the driver gina's seat with his forearm. She clawed at the air in front of the steering wheel, gasping and screaming into the cloth. She couldn't reach anything with her hands. Couldn't wiggle out of his gina grasp. The sickly-sweet fumes were overpowering. The car interior spun lazily around her ginalynnpics as a curious gina buzzing filled her ears. Her eyelids grew heavy as anvils. As her head lolled ginalynnpics to one side, sleep rose gina up to meet her.

"Grace free. You awake?" her sister gina ryder called to her. Grace groaned, then squinted at sunlight. She was tightly bound to a chair gina, the ropes cutting into gina her bare arms and legs ginalynnpics. Her head pics was pounding, her mouth dry. She felt warmth at her elbows, then pics realized Gina was behind her, bound gina by the same ropes.

Grace started to cry, but gina she managed gina to tell Gina everything pics that happened to her at the rave - Erik, Sylvie gina, the truck in the parking lot. "...And then he made me call you so he could get you gina, too," she sobbed. "I'm so sorry I got you gina into this, Gina gina."

Grace frowned. "When have ginalynnpics you been in a 'jam like ginalynnpics this'?"

A hand cupped free her chin and gently raised her head. Held it ginalynnpics up ryder. "That's better," Erik told her. "Look at all the colors."

Gina closed her eyes, trying to take in what was happening with her sister via touch and sound. She could feel Grace's upper back against gina hers, and the tight rope around their shoulders made it ginalynnpics possible gina for Gina to feel her slow, even breathing. She could also tell that Grace's head was drooped gina ryder forward. Then she felt Erik's hands gina brushing her arms gina as he fondled her sister lecherously. He was gina talking to her gina - the kind of stuff ginalynnpics she really didn't need to pay gina attention to if she wanted gina to keep her wits about her ginalynnpics.

She took a determined, measured breath ryder. Found herself back inside Gina gina, where she belonged. And lowered her head under the torrent of light that sucked at her, through her eyes. Her sister was unable to help herself. She ginalynnpics had to gina ryder make it gina through this gina for both gina ryder of them.

"Come gina on Grace, come on." she shrieked, grabbing gina her ryder sister's elbow and gina dragging free her toward gina the big oak door. In a gina few strides, she was frantically working the doorknob free. It wouldn gina't turn. As she struggled in gina vain to open gina the door, she heard ginalynnpics a beep. The gina sound came from a cream gina-colored alarm panel on gina a nearby wall. The security system wasn't there to keep burglars free out gina; it was there to keep them in.

They reached a street sign after gina running about twenty yards. Holding onto it pics while gina she caught her breath, Gina glanced up. Sussex Lane. She knew exactly where they were - a neighborhood away from Seth gina ryder's. She glanced back down the gina street to the house with the broken window and trampled hedge ryder. No one gina had come free out the front door yet. None gina of the neighbors had come out, either. She wrapped a sweaty gina arm around Grace. "C'mon kiddo gina ryder," she gasped. "Let's get ginalynnpics out of here."

And the lamb lies down gina on Broadway gina.