They had been on a run along the edge of the forest. As always she had outpaced him in the beginning only to slow down after 10 minutes, keeping up with him for a while but then to wheeze out:
"Don't wait for me Henry, just loop back and pick me up on your way back."
Selena had trouble pacing herself. Even now, after they had been running regularly for two years she would bound off like a dog let off the leash only to end up walking along slowly, panting and sweaty.
It made him smile every single time. Although, most men would smile if they found themselves running behind Selena in those tight fitness shorts, he knew the next part of the story: On his way back she would be waiting for him. He would stop and she would touch his skin, rest her chin on his chest and looking up at him with those big blue eyes she'd say:
"Hello sweaty."
Usually they would make it home. Otherwise, the forest provided some privacy.
But not this time. She was nowhere to be seen. Not where she'd normally be waiting on a fallen tree and not anywhere else either. He ran home expecting some sort of surprise. It wouldn't be the first time he'd walk in to find her pushing a plug into her ass.
"Sorry I had to go home. My ass was feeling lonely."
But she was not at home either.
Images of a girl alone, idling around along the forest with dusk approaching flooded his mind. In the clothes she wore, it was pornography just to see her walk. It had worried him before, but when he brought it up she had smiled that naughty little smile and said:
"Really? You think some guy would just want me so much that he would drag me into the bushes and do whatever he wanted with me?