All The Pretty Girls Ch. 04

"What?" Steve sensed Penelope's panic.

Penelope shook her head and began to madly text. A few seconds later her phone pinged with an incoming text. Penelope pressed dial and put the phone to her ear.

"Jaylene! Yes I know you're in class but this important. Stay at the college. Stay in a pubic area like the library or the cafeteria, can you do that for me please honey? Please just do it for me. Stay there until I come get you; I won't be long," Penelope pleaded into the phone.

She nodded and hung up.

Steve could only hear one side of the conversation but he picked up on the word honey.

Penelope pulled out her tablet and tapped it, swiping and typing frantically. When Steve stopped for a red light Penelope put the tablet in front of his face. The screen was split. On one side was a picture of Jaylene Foster on the other was a picture Pauline Sanders. They didn't look like twins but they looked similar.

"Pauline lives only a few doors down from Jaylene. They both work Bridge Street. They have similar features and a similar build and they dress the same. They would both use Bolen Alley as a convenient shortcut to get to work. Remember what I said back at the Texaco? What if it's a case of mistaken identity?" Penelope had to pause to take a breath.

"He was stalking her Steve! He was waiting for Jaylene to come down that alley so he could abduct her," Penelope said excitedly.

"That's one hypothesis but how would he know about Jaylene? How would he know that she was the one who saw him in the car the night he abducted Loretta Dubbin?" Steve sounded sceptical.

"Exactly Steve! How would he know?" Penelope slammed her palm down on the dash.

To be continued

Author's Note: Some of you will recognise the abandoned Texaco gas station from my story 'Fair Trade'. It was just too good of a plot device to be used only once so I decided to take it out for another outing.

Hugs and kisses, Michele