1. Get off the phone with Rachel and call 911. Tell them you are being watched by a strange man you don't know. Describe his vehicle. (I know, I know, African American teens don't trust the police, but being taken into custody might be a little better than being at the mercy of a man you don't know and, who in Florida, could be packing heat.)
2. Keep hidden. At the end of Zimmerman's call to police dispatch, he didn't know where Trayvon was. He was afraid to give the cops his address because he thought Trayvon might still be around, but he didn't know for sure. It was dark and raining.
3. When he first ran off, Trayvon could have run all the way to Brandy's house and locked himself in. (Her house was not that far from the mailboxes; it seems to have been at the opposite corner of what was a rectangular arrangement of houses.) Once locked in, he could have stayed hidden and called his dad or Brandy at the restaurant where they were having dinner and gotten them to come home.
Of course, these are all Monday-morning quarterbacking things. In the heat of the moment, Trayvon was probably terrified. His first instinct, to run and hide, was the right one. I don't know how Trayvon and Zimmerman came upon each other again in the 2 minutes between the end of Zimmerman's call to the police and the first calls to 911 about the fight. If Zimmerman did look for him, then Trayvon's best option was to stay hidden, or, if found, run like hell. He easily outran Zimmerman the first time and could have done it again.
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