Chained

Chapter 01

Those eyes. They were all I could remember from the incident. We had just tried to escape the camp for the second time when we were captured and brought in again.

He had the look of a madman. "Oh! How I'm going to enjoy killing you" he said while tightening the knife on my neck.

"Please don't hurt her" Em screamed.

"Shut up, or I will kill you too" Max spat.

We both kept quiet and after about a minute or two he told one of his men to take us to our "chambers". Which meant that we were being escorted to the tent that they held us hostage.

4 months ago............

Me and Em (short for Emily) have been best friends for as long as can remember and had both just finished our final exam for the year and were so eager to spend time with each other. So naturally the both of us decided to go on vacation together. After so much of going back and forth on different vacation spots we both finally decided to go to the Maldives for a month. After arriving at Maldives we spent so much time surfing, snorkeling, sunbathing and shopping. It was the most fun I'd had in years. But it was very short lived.

On the sixth day at Maldives, we planned on going on a boat ride in a glass bottomed boat to watch jelly fish. It was just the two of us and one guy who drove the boat. After about one hour into the journey we realized that another boat was following us. The guy on our boat (I think his name was Yusuf, or something like that...)said that it was the coast guard and that it was a norm for them search tour boats for illegal substances. So Em and I stood quiet while the supposed coast guard approached us. The boat stopped next to us and we saw that the men aboard did not look Maldivian at all. In fact they appeared to be American. We still kept quiet.

"Oh! you've done well my boy" a man on the other boat patted the driver of our boat on the back as he boarded our boat. "They fit the job perfectly"

"Wait I don't understand. What is happening?" I said.

"Oh you don't?" the man asked "Boy, I thought you explained it to them that you were capturing them in your boat to deliver them for slavery" the man said sarcastically while chuckling. "Oh and by the way good job pretending that you were taking them on a jelly fish watching tour"

"Jim give this young lad his money" the man told one of the men on the boat with him.

"You did this for money?" Em spat "Somebody help us please" she screamed

"Shut up "the man said "somebody get these two on our boat and let's get the hell out of here before the coast guard comes"

Two men came aboard our boat and one of them grabbed me by the hands while the other was trying to gag Em. I used all my strength and kicked and thrashed about but it was no use. The man was too strong. He dragged me to the other boat.

I was so scared for my life and Em's. Where are they going to take us? What were they going to do to us? Will we be rescued? Will our families lose their minds when they realize that we had been kidnapped? Millions of thoughts were running through my mind. I looked at Em she had passed out after the heavy dosage of chloroform they made her inhale. Being the strong sporty tomboy she was, it was almost impossible for the men to bring her on the other boat because she was kicking and kneeing everybody demanding they let us go. But I on the other hand was too terrified to even squeak in fear of being killed.

I held Em's hand. "I will find a way to get us back home Emily. I promise." I whispered to Em as tears poured down my cheeks.

Present...........

"Oh my god Lilly we were so close" Em sobbed as she grabbed onto me as soon as the guard left. "We are never going to escape this hell"

I held onto her as I watched her sob her heart out. No matter how physically strong she was, she was always the first one to emotionally break down out of the both of us. She was the captain of the school basketball team and would make the boys cry for their mommies if they dared to cross her. She was tall and had a toned, athletic body with light brown eyes and dirty blonde hair.

I on the other hand was a straight A's student who was the chief editor for the school newspaper. So it was kind of obvious that I was sort of a nerd. I am kind of short compared to Em and very skinny with long dark brown hair and green eyes.

"Listen Em, everything will be fine as long as we are together" I tried consoling her. But honestly I didn't know if I was talking to her or myself.