TAKEN

Terror

I slowly start to wake up. My ears are ringing and I have the worst headache I have ever felt. Confused about what happened, I look over to see Milo. He's hunched over in his black and red checkered pajama pants with a white shirt that had dried blood on it. We are both tied up to metal chairs. I weakly call out for Milo, but he doesn't respond. I kept saying his name for what felt like a lifetime.

Finally, Milo lifts his head and weakly says

"O-Ophelia, is that really you?"

I respond almost crying "Yes, do you know where we are?"

"I have no clue, how long have I been here" Milo responds  

"I don't know... last time I was conscious it was the day that you had been taken."

Milo says "How is mom holding up? I need to get home to her. She can't handle losing me too, first, it was dad now me."

I think to myself. If I tell him the truth, I don't know how he will take it so I quickly come up with a lie. "She is pretty upset but handling it better than expected." I look at Milo when he doesn't react to what I said. He was hunched over and non-responsive. I started to scream his name over and over until I saw my brother walk into the room with a baseball bat.

This was my turning point when the scared in me turned to rage pure rage. I started screaming my head off, telling him how he was the worst brother and how I wished he was never born. That's when he looked me dead in my eyes and said "why do you think we are doing this to you guys?" I responded sarcastically "because you want to destroy my life." He opens his mouth and shuts it like he wants to say something but can't. Then walks up to me and puts his face a foot from mine kneeling with tear-filled eyes and says "you think we are doing this to destroy your life? It's the complete opposite we are doing this to save our family".

I look at him with a puzzled look on my face. Jackson looks at me with his are you stuped face and says "Dad took your phone one day while you were sleeping and saw what this Little 'sunshine' was sending you and knew you were going to stay with him and our plan was flawless till you were home and made us postpone our plan."

I started getting angrier and angrier as he kept talking so I kicked him in his stomach. Which pissed him off to the point where he took me by my hair and dragged me by the hair over to Milo. Then whispered in my ear, "you're going to regret that you little b-" then cut himself off still being my older brother at heart. He walks over to Milo and raises the bat to hit him and hits him right in the thigh.

Milo lets out a blood-curdling scream then whimpers "w-why are you doing this to me Jackson?" he then pauses and looks at me with tired eyes and whispers to me "I'm glad it's me and not you princess" that's when Jackson changed. He looked at me and I could tell he was gone. I no longer had a brother. He picked up the bloody bat and said to Milo. "If you close your eyes even to blink, I will start all over again," Milo said just louder than a whisper.

Jackson then untied my hands and told me to get on my knees in front of Milo when he started to hit me with the bat. I could feel my ribs breaking and the bruises forming. Milo never took his eyes off me. He was now balling when finally my Dad came and took the bat from Jackson. I was now screaming in pain. My dad came to try and help me but as soon as he touched me I turned and scooted towards Milo and screamed.

"DO NOT TOUCH ME YOU HAVE NO RIGHT I AM NOTHING TO YOU YOUR DAUGHTER is THE MOMENT YOU TOOK ME!!!"

I could see the hurt in my dad's eyes but I don't care anymore. He hurt Milo and that was unforgivable. He looked at me and said, "I understand you're mad but once he is gone we can be a family again." Then he paused and I thought he meant he was going to let him go but then he said:

"so enjoy what time you have left on this earth with my daughter and is there anything you would like me to tell your mom because you will not be seeing her again." This sent chills down my spine I turned to grab Milos's face when he just closed his eyes and went limp.

TO BE CONTINUED

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