Sofi Batres English: agosto 2010

The Kidnap of Mischa Cooper

          Mischa Cooper was a party hard, 17 year old who knew how to have a great time; whenever she entered a room there was no man or woman who didn’t turn their heads to see her. She had brown-blondish hair, she was tall and beautiful. Her green eyes seemed to pierce your soul when you talked to her, and her smile was warm, she smiled to everyone she bumped into. Mischa lived in the Orange County with her older brother Jake and her dad. Her life seemed to be perfect until the summer of her 17th birthday. This was when she started to see the world as a different place. This was the summer she was kidnapped.

         After their last day as sophomores Mischa and her friends went to Buffalo Wings for lunch, they talked about her birthday which was only a week away. She wasn’t sure if she wanted to have a party but her friends insisted she must. She arrived home to find Jake with some friends over, she had never met them and when they noticed she was there they left immediately. She couldn’t help but notice one of them was extremely attractive. She asked her brother who they were but he changed the subject.

         A couple days after her last day of school Mischa went shopping with her best friend Blake; who was also breathtakingly beautiful. After hours of searching for the perfect outfit for the party they decided to take a break. They went to Baskin Robins where they bumped into the hot guy who was at her house with Jake. She recognized him and introduced herself and Blake, “What brings you to the mall today” he asked them. Blake told him about the party and invited him; he seemed very excited about it and said he’d go. Mischa knew she was in love after he laughed about some comment she made on the last store they’d gone to, she would never forget that laugh it was perfect. They added each other on bbm and then he left.

       The girls told all their friends about it and they were ecstatic! “How hot is he!? Like on a scale from 1 to 10!?” one of the girls asked them, Blake answered “He’s definitely a 10!” while Mischa said “He’s a 15.” The rest of the week the girls planned the party, while Mischa and Neil talked every day via bb. Jake hadn’t been home in the last few days which worried Mischa because he and his dad always took her out to dinner the day before her birthday.

        The day right before her birthday Jake came home, and like their tradition went they went to dinner. But her brother was acting weirder than usual, he was really quite. Her dad gave her the new ipad and Jake gave her a diamond bracelet. Jake said something really odd “It’s not ready yet the surprise will start working like in a week or two.” Mischa couldn’t ask him what it was about because her dad started asking her about the party; but se decided that form that day on she would never take it off, it was dashing.

        It was THE DAY in Orange County. Mischa Cooper’s birthday party was in 8 hours and everyone was talking about it and getting ready. Mischa was the only one who wasn’t worried about the party; instead she was wondering why she hadn’t gotten a message from Neil. Around 6 o’clock she finally did, “Happy birthday princess. I have a surprise for you; wait for me around 9 at the back door of the party. See you then, love Neil.” Mischa wasn’t the only one who was getting messages that day though, “You owe us big time Cooper. From now on we choose how you pay. -Caffrey. ”

       They arrived at 8, they were all flawless. The sight of Mischa’s party was enthralling. It looked like it was a celebrities party, and everyone was there. Around 9 she asked one of the waiters were the back door was and he took her there. She opened the door and nobody was there. But there was a chair, and she sat and waited. Jake was in charge of the door, he and a bouncer had the list of the guests he wasn’t really participating in any of it he was sitting next to the bouncer with a beer and his blackberry. While texting he heard something, a name that made him break his beer. Bouncer “name?” guy “Neil. Neil Caffrey.”

       He opened the door, Mischa sighed, and he was there. He was there with a bouquet of blue roses in this hand, her favorite flowers; they were blue like his eyes. “Happy Birthday” he said to her with a smile and he came closer to her and hugged her handing her the flowers. “Thank you” she whispered to his ear, he whispered back “Sorry.” And in a quarter of a second she was on the ground being attacked by a gang of men, Jake was looking for her everywhere it was almost 12. And this was the time she was suppose to blow out her candles and everyone would see the awesome slide show her best friends had prepared as a surprise for her. When Blake got up on stage to present it there was a complete and utter silence at the huge party. Rooney had just finished playing their last song and everyone was ready to see Marissa and her cake. Blake read her speech and finished off with “And Mischa where ever you are enjoy this, we made it for you with all our love, and we adore you!” The slide show started but was then interrupted by a message, “We have your princess.” The girl every guy wanted to date and the girl every girl wanted to be had been kidnapped.

       Once out of the OC, Neil decided to tell Mischa what was going on. Jake was a drug dealer and owed his boss more than 45,000,000 dollars. She was shocked, the brother she admired and loved had gotten her kidnapped; his mistakes had ruined her party and broken her heart. For the first time in her perfect life Mischa Cooper was lost. She cried for three days in a row. She didn’t see Neil for a month. The only person she spoke to was the man who guarded her room, he was the one who gave her food. She was fed three times a day and was given a bottle of water. Even though she didn’t see it, she wasn’t as bad as other people who are kidnapped by the California mafia gangs. Her room had a window, air conditioning and her bed was pretty big, she had her own bathroom too. They didn’t take anything from her apart from her phone.

        After the first three weeks of her kidnap Mischa started thinking about her life, and she discovered how she had never thought about anyone but herself. She thought all she had to do for people, “what she owed” to them was a smile, she was a hypocrite. Mischa set a goal for herself, if she ever got out of that room, she would dedicate her life to charity. Some would agree it was a pretty stupid goal; but at this point anyone could see Mischa wasn’t the brightest bulb in the tanning bed.

      First of all, how couldn’t she even suspect Jake was into selling drugs? Why would she start talking to some guy? Not to mention why would she go outside with him all alone on her birthday, in her birthday party?

      It had been two months, Mischa was disgusted with herself, she hadn’t showered. While she slept after lunch; which was her daily routine, she noticed her bracelet had a red beaming light. She freaked out thinking it had something to do with aliens and threw it under her bed.

      A day or two after that, somebody knocked on her door between lunch and dinner which was not usual. Her typical day during her captivity was breakfast at 7, exercise (run from one end of the small room to the other) from 8 to 10, try to convince the guard to let her out from 10 to 10:30, cry from 10:30 to 11 end talking to the guard about some trip or store or her friends, the lunch, a nap and dinner. She ran to the door and said she was descent and heard a familiar laugh, it was Neil.

       They talked for about an hour and she cried and yelled at him, and he cried. HE CRIED. She couldn’t believe it, he cried saying he was sorry and he loved her. After that they got high on weed which was the drug Neil and Jake were selling around. They bracelet started to beam with red light like crazy, but they thought it was the drug which was causing colors all around. A couple of minutes later they heard gun shots. Jake was there! He came to save her. He came storming into her room and took her by the hand and ran like crazy to a van, Mischa wouldn’t stop laughing. Once in the car she did, Jake spoke for about an hour, after finishing his abnormally long speech, Mischa just said “let’s go for a burger I’m starving.” Jake stared at her for a while and told her “dude I just saved you from the mafia and your acting strangely cavalier.” She told him she was high and he gave her speech another very long speech.

      A few days after being on the road they met their dad in some remote country called Honduras to start a new life. Neil died from a drug overdose a few months later, they heard about it on the news. And that’s the story of the kidnapping of Marissa Cooper.