You Got This?

Chapter 1: We Would've Noticed a Whole Other Person in the Car

I slowly woke up, still feeling drowsy. I blinked a few times to get my eyes adjusted to the completely new surroundings. I was tied down to a chair and it was dark, not pitch black but hard to decipher what was around me. It was a rectangular shaped room and-

*thump*

Ok, I'm in a truck. The roads around were obviously bumpy and uneven, possibly leading to somewhere in the woods or elsewhere along those lines.

Soooo, my surroundings aren't actually that new.

Fuck, my head is pounding.

Someone was obviously close to finding out again, but do they have to knock me out every time? Now all I can do is guess where I'm going to end up. I mean obviously a new facility but the last few places weren't exactly... friendly.

"You're awake." A voice I know too well interrupted me from my thoughts.

"Ah, and you figured that out?" I turned to face him. "Two miracles, wouldn't you say?"

He scowled and I suddenly felt a sharp agonizing pain that spread through my entire body.

Is it bad that I'm used to being tasered?

He pulled away the taser and my side snarled in my ear "Don't be smart with me."

As he sat back down I let out a soft laugh.

"What the hell are you laughing at?" He snapped

I turned to him, still laughing. "If I didn't have this thing on my head I could quite easily and literally rip you to shreds."

Then he had his turn laughing, but it was nothing more than sadistic. "Well it's a shame you have that thing on your head then." He fake pouted before forcefully ramming the taser in the same spot as I cried out once more.

"You still haven't learned not to threaten me, huh?"

Nope.

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(What I assumed was) around an hour had passed by when I heard the sound of rain. It got heavier and heavier until I started hearing thunder.

I hate thunder.

The roads had smoothed out and I think we were on some kind of highway. After being drugged and put into a truck to move who knows how many miles away more than a few times you don't really have a choice other than to get good at guessing your surroundings.

They always say 'if I knew where I was it would be easier for me to escape or get help' or whatever but it's all bullshit.

That piece of shit guard had fallen asleep and was faintly snoring a few feet away from me. He had been 'taking care' of me for a few years. The last guy pissed me off while I wasn't restrained and I mean...

Lets just say things didn't end great for him.

The rain was getting worse and worse and I hated being inside a dark, small closed off room. It's a feeling that really never gets easier.

Suddenly the thunder from outside roared. I bowed my head down and shut my eyes, my hands in fists, almost as if bracing for impact.

God I fucking hate thunder.

After a few seconds I slowly opened my eyes but instead of it being dark, I was greeted with a very brightly lit environment.

Huh?

My hands weren't tied? I quickly brought them up to my head and only felt my hair. I didn't have that stupid thing on my head either. My eyes were still adjusting to the light, I somehow don't think I'm dreaming.

I slowly took notice of the things around me, I clearly wasn't in that truck anymore. I looked up to my right outside the window and noticed I was still on a highway but there were plain fields around us.

I then turned to my left and what I saw was not as great: a dirty blonde haired boy with his headphones plugged in looking outside his window.

What is happening?

I then looked and noticed I was in the backseat of a car with (aside from the boy next to me) a brown haired boy in the driver's seat and a black haired boy with a beanie in the passenger seat. They looked to be around my age if not a couple of years old-

"What the fuck." The blonde haired boy sitting next to me (which I now noticed had green eyes) muttered under his breath, cutting me off from my thoughts. His face showed a mix of scared and confused, which I assume perfectly mirrored mine.

"What." The guy driving asked before looking through the rear view mirror and repeating what his friend had just said.

"What the fuck."

"Who the hell are you?" Asked the boy in the passenger seat when he finally turned around.

I did some (very) quick thinking and let out my answer.

"Que porra é essa?" (What the fuck is this?)

Thanking the GODS that my native language isn't English right now. If there were any secrets (or anything they wanted to keep from me in general) they would've said it in front of me thinking I didn't understand.

Adapt to your surroundings, am I right?

"Quem são vocês? Como eu cheguei aqui?" (Who are you? How did I get here?)

(Blonde: G1, Brunette: G2, Black haired: G3)

Guy1: "Does she not speak any English?"

G3: "Obviously not or she would've answered in English dumbass."

G2: "How the hell did she even get here?"

G3: "Was she there the whole time?"

G2: "I think we would've noticed a whole other person in the car."

G1: "I know for fact your dumb ass wouldn't."

G2: "Shut up, you were the one in the backseat with her, you moron."

I noticed we had pulled into a dirt road and stopped the car as we all continued to collectively freak out. They got out of the car and I followed, turning my back to them to completely take in my surroundings but still listening attentively to the three strangers arguing behind me.

"Dude, how does this even happen?"

"Don't look at me, this shit is insane."

"What do we even do with her?"

"Oh yeah Zack, don't worry, I know, I'll just do what I always do during my weekly Sunday afternoon finding random people that don't speak English sitting in my car after being in it for 2 hours!!" One of them whisper-screamed.

His sarcasm was ignored by his friends though, and they continue arguing back and forth. "Can we just leave her here?"

I now turned back to face the three of them. Man, for real?

"Are you dumb? Of course not."

"I mean, unless..."

They all turned to me now,

Then back to the car,

And now back to me.

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AN: hehehehe HIIIII how are y'all. If you're reading this right now I just wanna give you a big fat smooch on the forehead for reading the first chapter of my book MUCH APPRECIATED MY DEAR. I started writing this book in like 2019 but I only had to courage to post it now cause I didn't really have a name or a cover ready. (The names still kinda iffy to me and ya girls still gotta make a cover BUUUUT no matter) If you have any input on the name or if you think some parts didn't make sense PLEASE comment cause I swear i've been proof reading this shit for a HOT MINUTE I don't think I'M gonna pick up on any mistakes after all that but in case you do I would love your criticism,,,, as long as it's constructive lol. Thank you for reading dear see you next chapter!!