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One
EMILY
Ican see bright lights through my eyelids. I can feel the sharp pain in my back. My eyes snap open and the nurse’s face is in front of mine.
I look around the room, the light blinding me, but the panic to figure out where I am is killing me, overwhelming me.
She touches my arm and I scream loudly not wanting this person to touch me.
She snaps her hand back and she is replaced with a huge, imposing man. I gasp when the memories of everything return. He reaches out and touches my face. I can see his mouth moving and I know he is trying to talk to me, but my brain is lost in the memories.
A few days ago
I laugh at the sight of this dog with the zoomies running through the park. I look down at the reader in my lap enjoyingmy book.
It's a beautiful fall evening. The air is cool and the leaves are falling around me every time the wind blows.
There isn’t anyone here. I yawn and pick up my blanket and tablet stuffing them under my arm. I need to go home.
I live right down the block. I hear the small dog bark and I look back smiling one last time but the owner with the dog is gone and two men are standing on the edge of the woods, staring in my direction.
Okay, this is weird.
I turn around and look away from them so they don’t get the idea that I want to talk to them.
I turn the corner feeling relief when I see my apartment complex. I push my hair behind my shoulder hurrying myself along.
The streetlights are coming on in sync in front of me. I push in the code to get into my building when an arm bands around my waist, lifting me off the ground.
My blanket hits the sidewalk and my reader cracks in front of me. I scream and try to spin around to see who has me in their arms.
It’s one of the men from the park. I push at his face trying to pry him away from me and drop me.
“Stop! What are you doing?” I scream, hoping that I can get someone’s attention to help me.
“Shut the fuck up, bitch,” he hisses in my ear and another man comes in front of me, slapping his hand over my mouth, hard.
My eyes widened at the hard slap he just gave me. I kick my legs out and push him away from me, his hand slipping off my mouth. I scream once more and fight with everything in me to get away from them.
In the distance I see a woman holding the dog I was staring at earlier. I scream for her to help but she smiles and walks away.
With the distraction, I’m thrown into the van and we are speeding away. I look at my kidnappers, screaming and trying to fight my way to the door, wanting to jump out of it even if it's moving.
“Why are you doing this?” I ask them.
“Why the fuck do you think we have you?” he fires back and grips the belt buckle on his pants, starting to pull them off.
My whole entire body freezes to my core at the terrifying and the sinking realization. They lunge for me and everything goes dark.
~*~
I shift my wrists of where I am hanging from the ceiling of a building, my toes barely touching the floor.
I gather myself, not wanting to make a sound to give them the satisfaction of knowing they have hurt me in ways that I can’t even think about right now.
But they haven’t broken me.
