Lost

Chapter 1

"Hello?" I called out. "Anyone there?" I'm blindfolded. I'm so scared I don't know where I am. Most likely a basement, or a cellar. All I know is I'm pinned up against a cold, cement wall. The cuffs on my hands are tight. I can feel blood trickling down my arm. I've been here for a few hours. I've been struggling with these cuffs but I'm just making everything worse. What did I do wrong? What did I do to deserve this treatment?

My name is Allison Youth. People call me Ally for short. I'm 16 years old and I'm a foster child. Before I ended up here I was walking down an abandoned road looking at a beautiful cornfield with a burned down barn right next to it. That's all I remember. I think I got hit by something because there's a huge throbbing sensation at the back of my head.

Thump... Thump... Thump

Someone's coming. Oh no. I start panicking. I hear someone grab a knife and begin to sharpen it. I could hear the blade moving back and forth. I'm scared of knives. I heard the person move closer to me. From the sound of the heavy breathing and loud footsteps, it's a man. I felt the tip of the knife poke mt neck. I let out a small scream but that just made him press harder. I raised my head to try and pull away from the sharp blade. He backed away because of the footsteps in the hall. The door swung open. More screaming. Two girls, I can tell by their muffled screams. "Got em' boss!" I heard a man with a deep voice say.

"Good, good. Why didn't you knock them out? Do that now then tie them up like I have this one here. This is your last chance. If you cant do the job right, men, then you're fired. You're going to get all of us caught then we're all going to go to prison. Maybe even executed! Do as I say and knock them out! Understand?"

"Understood, boss!" The men say in unison.

I heard the door slam shut and the girls screaming stopped. How cruel these men are. Wait until I get out of here. The door swung back open. I acted as if I were passed out also. "Looks that one passed back out." One of the men pointed out as if he had found a pot of gold. There were three men in this room. How big is this place? How many people are working for this man? I remember on the way here- well on the way down the abandoned road- there was a huge asylum looking thing. It looked run down. I could be inside of that. Who knows? I hear bodies being dragged across the ground. It's obviously the girls. The temperature dropped below zero. I think I'm the only one who has noticed. I start seeing something behind the blindfold, it's fuzzy. Like freshly fallen snow. I try to reach up and touch it. That just reminded me that I'm cuffed still. Oh no. I'm getting really light headed and it's ice cold in here. Screaming. Screaming is all I hear. Where's it coming from? My head starts to hurt. Trying to make out one of the voices, I hear it say, "He's coming! Hide! Hurry, he'll get you!" Everything vanishes. No more voices.

I wake up a few hours later to find myself lying in a hospital bed. I look around the room. In the chair beside me sat an unfamiliar woman or a teenage girl. "They said you can see us?" She asks carefully.

"Who are you? Get out! I don't know who you are!" I started panicking. I pressed the 'call nurse' button. The nurse came running in. The girl disappeared. "She was just there, though?" I said questioningly and terrified.

"Who was? Honey, you were just imagining things. You need to rest." She gave me a small cup of water. I sipped it slowly. She must have put something in it because I fell right asleep. Just like a baby.

After  what seemed like days, I finally woke up. There was a familiar scent in my hospital room. I looked around. Someone got up to pull the curtains wide open. I flinched as the light flooded my room. As my eyes adjusted to the light, I looked around. Where am I? The wight walls were reflecting the suns rays. I looked beside me and there were daffodils beside me. That was where the smell was coming from.  I glanced over and noticed someone sitting quietly in one of the chairs. She had brown, curly hair, that hugs at about her shoulders. She was in a red dress with a light brown sun hat on. Her makeup was faint. She had pink lips and pinkish red eye shadow. Her fingernails were red and so were her toenails. She had her legs crossed as her hands lay delicately in her lap. Her eyes were fixed on me. "Well good morning. We've been waiting for you to wake up. How do you feel?" She grinned.

"I-I feel fine.. Um, Miss.. where am I?" I asked shakily. 

"Oh, Sweetie. You poor thing! You're still in the hospital," she went on "you were kidnapped. You were badly injured so the doctors did some surgery on you. A couple of boys noticed some men took you away so they called 9-1-1."

"Are the boys okay?" 

"Yes, dear. They're fine." The nurse came in. 

"Ah, sleeping beauty has awaken." She said with a smile. "Good morning darling. How did you sleep?"

"Fine, I guess,"

"That's good." She spoke softly. She put down a tray of food in front of me.