Gone Baby Gone

Submitted by Ben:

Kristen came across as shy at first, but once I found some interesting topics, she would be talkative. We met at a party and seemed to hit it off.

I asked her out to dinner at a Chinese place, and thought it would be nice to take a walk first. On our way there, we passed some street musicians. I was in the middle of a sentence when she suddenly broke away and started dancing to their banjo music.

I'm all for being fun and free-spirited, but this was a little rude. For now, I let it go.

After her 5-minute dance session, she returned to me, telling me how much fun it was. We continued on to dinner, and passed a store with pig heads hanging in the window. She ran to look at them, amazed.

When I caught up to her, she turned to me and said, "I love shit like this."

"Dismembered pigs?" I asked. She didn't answer.

We were very nearly at the restaurant, when we came upon a crowd of people, all yelling and cheering, but I couldn't see what it was all about. I turned to Kristen, but she had disappeared.

I looked through the crowd and even called out for her, but she was nowhere to be seen. I walked a block away and tried her phone. No answer.

I kept looking for her, probably for another forty minutes, but she was gone.