I was kidnapped by a man I trusted as a child.

When I was 4 I spent a summer with my grandparents in the mountains. They lived in a small house close to town and I would spend most of my days playing and running around the city. <br><br>One day I was walking home from my favorite park. It was only a couple of blocks and I would do it often. I had made a friend in the neighborhood, he was a grown man but he was always nice to me. He had talked to me before and I would occasionally go to his house with my grandmother to eat dinner.<br><br>As I was walking, he was walking towards me. He asked me why I was so sad, I wasn’t sad I was just thinking about my parents and missing them. He said he had to go to the market and asked me if I wanted to go with him. I told him I didn’t but he insisted. Something inside me screamed to run, but I felt safe with him and trusted him since my grandpa also trusted him. He convinced me to come with him and said he would give me a cookie and that we would be back before my grandpa got home. I agreed.<br><br>We walked towards the car and he put me in the back seat, he gave me the cookie and told me to not make a mess, he left the door open and stood outside talking to someone, when I finished I tried to open the door to throw the wrapper out but it was locked, I told him so he opened it and took the wrapper from me. When he opened the door I saw my chance and I ran.<br><br>I ran back the way I came, I can’t express how terrified I was, in hindsight I think he could have easily caught me since I was just 4 but for some reason he didn’t. I got home safely but when I told my grandpa he got really mad and initially didn’t believe me but he took me to his house and told him what I said. He was really upset and apologized for it. <br><br>A few days later my grandma told me he was inside the house when I did it and that he had packed his bags and left town. She told me he couldn’t stay after what he did and that my grandpa and other townspeople were looking for him. I never heard about him again and it was like if he never existed. I don’t know what his intentions were but I’m just glad I got away and nothing bad happened to me. I don’t even remember his name but I hope he never did anything to a kid again.