Left To Survive

XXXVI

꧁ Jaden ꧂

There she was. My beauty, my beautiful little rose. Finally mine.

She looked at me with fear in her eyes, fear... for me. But that would change soon, when she would know how much I love her, and how I planned on being with her until my dying days. Then she would finally trust me, and fall in love with me. The only thing standing in between us and our plans... was that bitch. Her "best friend", who seemed to do anything to tear us apart. But I knew that we were meant to be together.

And getting rid of her was just a little help for the universe.

Too bad I couldn't kill her immediately. Alisha might not forgive me that. Instead I had another plan.

When I found out that Yara's ghost energy was bound to the strange plant, seeing how she got less transparent when she was close to it, a plan started brewing in my mind. That same night I had broken in through her window, stolen some leaves from the plant and went to a blacksmith. He made me chains, a knife and a bat from iron, mixed with powder from the moon plant. If I'm being honest, I was surprised when I saw I could actually knock her out and chain her up so easily with it. Everything went exactly to plan.

"Jaden..." I heard Alisha say with a soft voice. It sounded broken and cracked because of her crying. I walked up to her chair, but she didn't look up to me. That made me irritated, and I grabbed her chin firmly with my hand, forcing her to look up at me. The tears only made her face prettier, and I told her: "Don't be scared, my love, it's all going to be fine. Trust me, I will not hurt you."

But alas, I didn't think my words had the right effect because she looked even more scared and tried to shake her head our of my grip. With a sigh I let her go and she bent down her head, breathing heavily.

While my girl got her breath back, I looked at the disgusting mess on the floor behind her. Yara was sitting there, her hands chained up above her head, a devilish look fixating me. Hate was written in her glance, and she did not let go, she wasn't done fighting. Not this time.

꧁ Yara ꧂

I was going to kill him. I was going to kill him so slowly, ripping his flesh apart and making him bleed out for hours. The only thing keeping me alive, for as much as I was, was the anger rushing through my veins. And trust me, I felt alive. I hadn't felt this much alive since years. And I did not fucking plan on giving this second chance of life up.

So I kept on staring at him, making sure to show him I was not afraid. I didn't move much, or resist the restraints. That was pointless, at least for as long as Jaden was around. I had to spare my energy.

And Jaden stared back. The sweet, innocent eyes were gone, replaced by blood-curling ones. It gave me shivers, and I couldn't deny I was partly scared of what he'd do to Alisha. But the anger was bigger.

꧁ Alisha ꧂

I took a deep breath. Finally it hit me what happened to us. We were kidnapped, for God's sake. Kidnapped, restrained in a basement, and God knows what he'll do to us.

I made the biggest mistake of trusting this guy, and now I would pay for it. Now Yara would pay for it. Stupid.

"What do you want from us?" I asked Jaden, and I was glad my voice sounded a bit more stable. The guy slightly chuckled. "Oh come on, sweetheart, I-" I interrupted him. "Don't. Call me sweetheart," and I looked up to him and stared in his eyes to show how serious I am.

"Your eyes are so beautiful..." He answered. Excuse me, what? This idiot-

I moved my body and tried to get out of the ropes, but they were tied tightly to my ankles and hands. No way out. "Let me go!" I yelled at him, bouncing so hard that the chair almost knocks over on the ground. "Let us go, Jaden! What the fuck do you-" He grabbed the chair and squatted down, so that we were on the same eye level.

"I want you, Alisha, that is all I want. And the only thing I ask for you, is for you to love me back." Again with this bullshit? He had to be kidding me... "But then why Yara? Why keeping her here too?" I asked him. He lets out a sigh. "Yara has the power to free you, and knowing from our last memories of me showing you love, she would do anything to stand between us. This way, she can't."

"But don't worry!" he continued, probably when he saw the disgust on my face portraying my inner feelings, "I will let her go as soon as you stay here voluntarily. I'm not a monster, Lisa, you know that." In shock I looked at him. But I needed to act smart.

"Can you at least make the knots in my ropes a little bit looser?" I asked Jaden, in my sweetest, begging voice. "I'll even do you better, sweetheart," and he untied both my hands and feet, then picked me up bridal style. "Wha-" I started, but Jaden stopped me by putting a hand over my mouth. "Don't say anything, my love, just trust me. I'm taking you to a more comfortable place." Struggling out of his arms was useless, my whole body still felt weak.

He took me out the basement door, and I squinted my eyes against the sudden light. I tried to look behind me, but Jaden held me in such a position, that I couldn't. We went up a stairs. Instead I tried to look out of the windows, and to my disappointment there was barely a street, no other houses or people.

Jaden took me again on a flight of stairs, and then through several hallways. His house seems so big, It was like a maze. How was I going to get out of here? Finally he opened a door, and a big room was revealed before us. "This," Jaden stated proudly, "is your new home.

I gasped for air. At this point I wanted nothing more than to leaving the room. The bed was in a cave. A fucking cave? Did he expect I went in his bed, locked up? To fulfill his stupid kinky needs?Hell no. I tried to escape his arms, but Jaden was stronger than me. Much stronger. It had no point, but I kept on fighting him until he pushed me on the bed. He held me there until he clipped one handcuff around my wrist, the other around a pole of the cage. Then he closed the door of the cage.

Totally sick and lost his mind.

Breathing heavily, I tried to figure out a way to escape this prison, but I couldn't seem to know what to do now. And Jaden was smiling. He was enjoying this, the fucking sociopath.

There was only one way now to try and get out. I looked at him with big eyes, let my tears of frustration and fear go. "Please, Jaden, just let me and Yara go, we did nothing wrong... And I don't want to be with you, you're just a friend, you can just let us go, please..." Jaden chuckled lightly and said: "Oh you sweet innocent thing... Don't worry about not loving me. You will learn to love me, we hit off as friends, right? Imagine how much better we'd be as lovers..." I widened my eyes. He was not going to- Oh God. With the same evil, inhuman smile, he left the room.

Taking my hope with him.