Red. All I can see is fucking red, as I stare into the unnaturally bright blue eyes of the masked man that’s been ruining my entire fucking life for the past few months.
“You son of a bitch,” I spit and as he smiles at me through his mask. “You’re going tofuckingpay for this.” I cough out, and all he can do is laugh.
He’s fucking laughing at me. He opens the car door and leans over me as if he’s going to kill me right here. A part of me hopes he does. The other part of me knows Maddie won’t be able to handle it. I need to fight back for her, but I can’t, not trapped like this.
“Hello, Miles. It’s nice to finally meet you.” His eyes flicker over towards Julius and I can feel the rage as it courses through my veins. “Such a shame about your friend over there. I’m sorry I didn’t get the chance to meet him beforeI killed him.”
That son of a bitch. I have to make it out of this. I don’t have a choice. I fucking have to. Because as soon as I do, I’m going to make him wish he wasn’t breathing.
His eyes glance towards the back of the car, clicking his tongue.
“Well, this isn’t exactly how I planned for this to go. I was kind of hoping you were the one driving and Maddie was the one sitting here, but since she’s not here?—”
“Don’t you fucking touch her,” I growl, interrupting whatever plan he was about to announce to me. He pulls his mask down and my eyes widen at the unmasked man before me.
It’s fucking him.
“Don’t you understand, Miles?” he laughs. “I will do whatever I want, whenever I want, and there isn’t anything you can do to stop me.”
I spit in his direction, and it lands directly in his face.
Good.
He deserves worse. Wiping the spit from his face, he gives me a disgusted look before pulling his arm back. That’s the last thing I see before everything goes black.
Blinking a few times,my eyes attempt to adjust to the bright white light that faces me. I woke up with a headache and I can’t move my arms. What the fuck? I’m sitting in a chair, my hands zip-tied behind my back, and there’s a red velvet curtain in front of me.
What the fuck is this?
My body is sore from the car accident, my head's still spinning and the ringing in my ears hasn’t stopped. I look down at my legs and notice that they’re zip-tied too, one to each leg of the chair I’m sitting in.
Oh, that's fuckingfantastic. I try to yell, but my mouth is duct taped shut.
Goddamnit!
I frantically look around, trying to figure out where the hell I am. All I see is the red curtain in front of me and the wooden floor beneath me.
What is this place?
It almost looks like some sort of stage. I don't know. I don't think I've ever seen this place before. Actually, I'm certain I haven't.
I try twisting my hands to free them from the zip-ties, but it’s no use. It’s too tight. There’s still shards of glass in my left arm and they dig deeper into my flesh the more I rub against the arms of the chair, trying to break free. I grunt, dropping my head in defeat.
How the fuck am I supposed to save Maddie from this crazy person if I can’t even save myself?
Dread sinks into my chest the longer I sit here. So many scenarios are playing through my head. Maddie is probably worried I haven’t made it back to the hospital yet. I don’t even know where my phone is. I look down at my jeans and I don’t see it in my pocket. For all I know, he’s probably using my phone to text her and convince her it’s me.
God fucking damnit, I hate this. I hate feeling so goddamn helpless.
I hear the faint noise of slow clapping coming towards me in the distance and I pick my head up, looking around to see where the fuck it’s coming from. Loud, heavy footsteps make their way up what sounds like a set of stairs, moving closer and closer in my direction. My heart begins to pound loudly in my chest and all I can feel is rage and dread that there’s nothing I can fucking do but sit here and wait for the asshole that’s walking toward me.
The right side of the curtain in front of me begins to move and out comes the lunatic that fucking brought me here, tied me up, and taped my mouth shut.
The guy I saw standing next to Maddie in her high school picture.
Fucking Austin.
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