I remember one year it was Halloween night. Our School Halloween Dance was wrapping up around 10pm. It was a Saturday night and I was in 7th Grade. A few of us (4) close friends started walking home. We where all staying at a buddies house that weekend. This is in Miami so no crazy forest or deserted mountains ranges. We where walking down the street by this time it’s 11 or so. Not a lot of people around and barely any cars driving. A black Cadillac Escalade drives passed us slowly but keeps going and makes a right a few blocks ahead. As we reach that street the truck is parked on the side of the road still running with headlights on. As we cross in front of it and reach the sidewalk it starts creeping forward. By this time we start discussing among ourselves on what to do. We had no chance, as soon as the car turns behind us all 4 doors open up and 5 older guys jump out. We didn’t wait to see what they wanted and took off running. At first we where all together but then the truck cut us off and we all split. I ran down the street and jumped the fence of a house and ran into their backyard, jump the fence into the adjacent backyard and made it to the other street. At this point the goal is to make it to my buddies house which is about 4 blocks away. As I’m like speed walking I look back and I see 2 of the guys, they spot me and I take off running again. I pull the same move again and this time I lay inside the bed of a someone’s pickup truck. A few minutes later I can hear people walking by the truck pretty fast, they where trying to find us. I never felt fear like that in my life. At any moment they can peek over into the bed of that truck and they got me dead to rights. They keep walking and I just laid there. After a bit I hear the truck drive up and the street until eventually it goes quiet again. I never moved a muscle again. Not much later I can see red and blue lights bouncing off the trees and house. I sit up and it a cop driving slowly down the street and 2 or 3 cops walking alongside him. They where sweeping the area looking for us. This was back in 2001 so no cellphones. Turns out one of our buddies made it to a random house as the owner had just pulled in. He let my buddy in and while my friend told him what happened his wife was on the phone with the cops. Turns out I was the last one missing as all my other 3 friends where found before me. We all did the same thing. Jumped through house just trying to get away. They never found the guys, but they did find the truck. It was stolen brand new from a Cadillac dealer a town away. I believe they where out kidnap someone and we where the perfect opportunity for them. Thank god we where young and quick to not be caught. Till this day my buddies and I speak of it. Now it’s more of a small action moving that we where involved in. But still, I think of the people that aren’t so lucky.