Beauty and the Beast ⋆n.h

Chapter three

•Charlie•

I groaned as I turned over on the couch. I fell asleep watching Netflix on the laptop.
Here's a lesson for everyone. DO NOT sleep on the couch. It hurts after a while.

I checked my cellphone, to find a missed call from dad. I furrowed my eyebrows. I pressed the call button and heard his voice ring through the speakers.

"Charlie! Charlie, please pick up darling! I need your help!! I don't know where I am exactly and there's this strange man. He took the car and my machine. Please call as soon as to get this message!!"

You may think I'm weird by doing this but, I always, since I got a phone, kept a tracking chip in my father's cellphone just in case anything like this ever happened.

I clicked on the tracking app and gut the address. I made my way up the stairs and took my coat and my purse.

I scurried into my car and placed my phone in the cup holder beside me. Typing in the address. I waited as the voice began to tell me where to go.

**Later**
I finally took a right into a big house. **On the side**

It seemed pretty decent. No cobwebs or creaky stairs. I climbed out of the car, wrapping my coat tighter around my small frame. I walked up to the front porch and held my hand up to the door. Should I knock? I won't. He'll definitely know I'm here. Instead, I pushed the door in slightly. I took a look inside.
Dust covered every inch of the living room.
I cautiously walked in.
"Papa?" I whispered.

"Charlie?"I heard a voice say. "I'm here darling!" I followed my father's cries to a corner where he was placed in a cage. I ran closer to the cage, his hands reaching out to touch my face.

"There's the lock," papa said and pointed to an object right above my head.
I fumbled with the lock of the cage. I took a bobby pin out from my hair.

"Hurry!!" Cried papa as footsteps were heard. They began to get closer. I began to panic when the pin would not go in the lock.

I suddenly felt someone grab onto the back of my shirt and pull me away from the cage. I let out a scream. I fell roughly onto the ground and found myself starring up at a pair of pricing blue eyes.