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Chilling note left by model student, 17, before vanishing from her home as stricken mom says she has a ‘bad feeling’ about what’s happened to the youngster

A missing teenager left a note saying this will be the last time you’ll hear from me for a long time, and then disappeared.

Geneva Hodge, 17, ran away from her home in Bellville, Texassometime Wednesday morning and left the handwritten note on her pillow.

Her mother, Frances Schrader, discovered the note that morning and has not heard from Geneva since, and fears she has been kidnapped.

‘I’m completely devastated. The day she went missing, I couldn’t breathe. It felt like my heart was being ripped out of my chest. “I miss my baby so much,” she said.

Geneva Hodge, 17, ran away from her home in Bellville, Texas sometime Wednesday morning, leaving the note on her pillow

Geneva Hodge, 17, ran away from her home in Bellville, Texas sometime Wednesday morning, leaving the note on her pillow

Geneva with her older brothers, both in the military.  Her family said she planned to join the Air Force after high school

Geneva with her older brothers, both in the military. Her family said she planned to join the Air Force after high school

Schrader shared the note with DailyMail.com and said it was nothing like her daughter, who was excited about her senior year of school.

“Dear mother, I love you very much and I know that my leaving will kill you. It goes well! “It was no one’s decision but my own,” it said.

‘I’m going to do online education and finish everything. I’m with a few people I trust very much.

‘I will always be your little girl. I grew up and became a wonderful young lady. Just think of Mom, I love you so much!!

‘This is a farewell for a long time! I’m sorry. Bye mom, I love you! Love, Geneva.”

Schrader said the note contained spelling mistakes despite her being a good student, meaning it was written hastily.

‘It’s not my daughter. “She just became color guard captain for her senior year, she got A’s and B’s in school even with her learning disability,” she said.

“Maybe it was her handwriting on the note, but the words weren’t hers.”

Her mother, Frances Schrader, discovered the note that morning and has not heard from Geneva since, and fears she has been kidnapped.

Her mother, Frances Schrader, discovered the note that morning and has not heard from Geneva since, and fears she has been kidnapped.

Schrader discovered the note that morning and has not heard from her since, and fears she has been kidnapped

Schrader discovered the note that morning and has not heard from her since, and fears she has been kidnapped

Schrader said her daughter was a “good kid” who had never done anything like this before, and she feels bad about what happened to her.

Schrader said Geneva reset her phone to factory settings, took out the SIM card, put it in another phone case and hid it in a drawer among other old phones.

Geneva also left without clothes, medication, her asthma medicine or even a toothbrush, and her bank card had not been used since her disappearance.

“She has a really bad case of poison ivy, she’s very allergic to it, and she didn’t even bring any medication for it,” his mother said.

Schrader told DailyMail.com that the teen was spotted with an older man about 26 miles away in Brookshire, Texas, between 8 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday.

‘I’m so scared she’s been kidnapped. I think he talked her into coming with him,” she said.

Schrader explained that the owner of D’Lux Donuts on the corner of Bains and S Front streets said the man arrived with Geneva in a white Honda Civic.

He was between 30 and 40 years old, about 6 feet tall, thin and “dirty” and had glasses, said the witness, who initially thought he was her father.

Geneva was a model student and will be captain of her school's color guard next year

Geneva was a model student and will be captain of her school’s color guard next year

Geneva with her mother and stepfather at her brothers' graduation

Geneva with her mother and stepfather at her brothers’ graduation

Schrader said the man “rubbed her back and touched her buttocks and made her look uncomfortable.”

“She just stood there still and didn’t move, like something was really wrong,” the witness said.

The man also had a work name tag on, but it was turned upside down so you couldn’t see the name

Police are still confirming the girl was from Geneva, but the witness identified the missing teen in a photo, Schrader said.

Schrader said Geneva showed a photo of the man to a co-worker at her local Brookshire Brothers, where she worked for two years, four or five days before disappearing.

“She said he ‘looked like he was on drugs’ and told my daughter, ‘That man doesn’t look good,’” she said.

“Geneva said he was 21 and says he’s going to take care of me.”

Schrader said the coworker gave her a detailed description of the man in the photo, which matched that of the donut shop owner.

The man was lying in bed, wearing a wife beater and oval square glasses with metal rims.

He had dark brown or dirty blond short curly hair, a mustache and a patchy beard and a scruffy face, a thin nose and a square chin.

His name started with an E, but she couldn’t remember exactly what it was.

Geneva went to work normally on Tuesday and was seen with a teenage boy in his truck during her lunch break.

Schrader said the pair were just friends and that police interviewed the young man and cleared him of any involvement in Geneva’s disappearance.

Her mother picked her up from work and the family went to bed around 10:30 PM, after which it seemed as if nothing had happened.

“She was happy, she was smiling, she ate dinner, she showed us the poison ivy that was all over her,” she said.

Schrader and her husband, Kelly, got up early the next morning for work and she let Geneva sleep because she had no work or school that day.

She said Geneva must have left before Kelly got up around 5:45 a.m., while her chihuahua named Baby sleeps in her room all night with the door closed – but was instead on the couch.

Schrader went home for lunch around 11 a.m. and discovered Geneva’s note when she went into her room to check on her.

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