Stockholm Syndrome

7. Numb

Don't kill me for this chapter! It's sad, depressing and everything that I don't like.😭😭

                      ARIA'S POV:

The second I opened my eyes, I felt a cloth wrapped around them and I wasn't on a bed but on a chair, with my legs and hands bounded. A cloth was fit inside my mouth so that no sounds escaped me. Was he going to kill me?

"I see you're awake, again.", His voice reached my ears. I knew I was in deep shit.

The blindfold was yanked away from my eyes and I felt momentarily blind at the bright lights. Was this some kind of theater or what?

His hand grabbed my cheeks in a tight hold making me wince. Pointing towards the screen, he pushed a button on the remote and it started. A girl was tied up just like me. This motherfucker!

A man came and pushed her face upwards and slapped her hard making her scream. Those eyes..she was Iris. I thrashed in the ropes and shouted at him and he just laughed. She was begging to let go but the men kept beating her and touching her mercilessly. She will die like this. Sobs escaped my mouth as my moved the chair in anguish. I didn't care if my hands get broken or anything, but I won't let anything happen to Iris.

The chair suddenly fell forward from the force I was using and I landed right on my face but I didn't feel a thing because the monster caught me before it.

I shook my head at him to let her go and finally he removed the cloth from my mouth.

"Don't do this H--Hades. Please. Don't hurt Iris. I beg you. P--please leave her. I will obey you..please l--let her go.", I sobbed as I saw an unconscious and bloody Iris on the screen. His hands grabbed my hair as he shook me from side to side making me cry in pain.

"You made me do this. SHE IS IN THIS STATE BECAUSE OF YOU.", He shouted making me nod. Yes it was my fault. If I wasn't being so selfish, my bestfriend would have been fine.

"Yes, yes it's my mistake. I--im sorry. Let her go. I'll take all the punishments but let her go.", I begged again and his hold loosened on my hair.

He dialled a number and the men untied her and left her there, maybe they were going to call a doctor. I closed my eyes in relief. Iris was safe. She was safe. But my eyes flew open when I heard a gunshot. Iris's face was downwards and a man had shot her on her head.

I screamed loudly as I moved my hands and legs here and there. My whole body shook as I kept screaming and screaming in pain. I felt myself dying with her. It was all my mistake.

"IRIS...IRIS GET UP....P--LEASE. you can't d--ie..don't leave me Iris. I'll give you every cloth from my w-- wardrobe, I p--romise.", I cried as I saw her bleed out. The monster had left me alone. It was better this way. My breathing got laboured as I saw the man dragging her body away. I couldn't move. I couldn't feel. I felt dead inside. I cried and cried, I should've died the day I was born. I killed Iris, my only friend, my sister.

Why was my heart not stopping now?? Why was it beating? I want to die. I should die. I should die. I repeated the sentence like a mantra in my head. I'll die. I'll kill him too. I'll not leave him. It is my promise to you Iris, I won't let him live.

I sat there bounded for hours or days I don't know. I couldn't feel a thing. My mind had stopped working and my heart was in pain. I couldn't speak or shout.

Someone removed the ropes but I didn't look or move. I was dragged from my hair to somewhere. This time I didn't even wince. I took it all silently. This is what I deserve for killing my only friend. Uncle and aunt Brook will be heartbroken. I killed their daughter. I wanted to hit and hurt myself but I couldn't. I'll kill that evil monster first.

The man threw me in front of shiny black polished shoes.

"Look at me.", A voice came but I couldn't move. I tried so that he didn't kill my family but it was as if my brain has stopped registering things.

His cold hands grabbed my face and pulled it upwards. His eyes searched my fave repeatedly for God knows what but at that time I didn't care. I saw as his lips turned into a smirk. I'll make him fear the day he was born.

"Was it that easy?", He asked more to himself and then chuckled.

"Have you learnt your lesson?", He asked me in a softer tone. I couldn't nod so I just looked at him dead in the eye. His eyes darkened and he backhanded me making me fall down. I wanted to feel that pain but I couldn't. I was numb, numb to everything.

"FUCKING ANSWER ME DAMN IT!", He shouted near my face.

"You won't answer? No? Well I'll fucking make you.", He snarled and threw me over his shoulder. I felt nauseatic all of a sudden making me puke over his back.

"WHAT THE FUCK.", He roared angrily but I wasn't going to give a fuck.

"ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND!", He shouted giving me a glare which clearly said 'I want to kill you.'

He sighed and took me to a room and helped me clean my face. When I looked into the mirror, I found my face sunken, my eyes dead and a lots of bruises on my whole body.

His hands travelled to the shirt I was wearing and tore it open. I wanted to feel something but I didn't. My hands never went to hide my shame as I stood naked in front of him. He glared at me as if asking me to fight but he didn't know the severity of his crime. He had killed my family. Iris is.. was family.

Her beautiful face and cheery personality were some of the best things about her. We had made a lot of memories from running away from school bus to drunk driving. I didn't even know that I was crying until I tasted my own tears. Sobs wreck through my body as all the emotional and physical trauma struck me all at once. My hands scratched my wrists to draw blood but he kept holding them. I tried hitting him but he was too fast. I wanted to just hurt someone.

"CALM DOWN RIGHT NOW. STOP ACTING LIKE THIS.", He shouted as he shook me to wake me up from the hysterical movement that I was having but I was too far gone. His words stopped entering into my ears as a small bell like sound filled them instead. I started hearing my heartbeats and my eyes could only see a bloody Iris telling me that I killed her. I ran behind her but she kept going away crying. Her body disappeared from my sight and my eyes shut automatically leaving me unconscious again in the arms of a killer.

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I had an actual scare...this chapter suddenly got deleted from the place where I write and I was so scared but then I got it back!!😭😭😭

I'll kill Hades.😃🔪

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