Finding Red

Chapter 11

Nadia

"Mommmmm!" I groaned, "I don't wanna wear the dress–" My mom tucked my bright yellow hair behind my ear. "It's too poofy" I laughed

"Oh, but Nadia, you look beautiful!" She kissed my forehead, as she took a step back to examine my new dress. She had just bought it, it was pink and had golden sparkles on the bottom. "Your father is going to love this!" She grabbed my hand and led me out of my room. Donny and Jase were already in the living room. They had white shirts and black pants on. They matched besides Jase's messy hair. Donny had his hair slicked back and his glasses on. His glasses were to big for his face so he was constantly shoving them back onto his face.

"Oh my darling, you look beautiful!" my father picked up off the ground and spun me in circles then he placed a kiss on my head. My mother picked Donny up and held Jase's hand in the other. "I guess we're ready to go then!" My father started out of our house with me in his arms. When we all were outside I wrapped my arms around my father's neck. The wind was blowing hard against my skin. I could feel goosebumps grow along my arms.

"Oh Nadia here," my mother took off her long purple scarf and wrapped it around me. "I love you Nadia."

"Nadia!" someone called my name out of the darkness. I couldn't answer the voice, but what was the point? "Nadia!" the voice came again. I couldn't see anything, there was a thick heavy bag over my head. My hands were tied behind me trapping me to the floor. "Nadia!" there it was again. I don't know whose voice it was. It was unfamiliar and raspy. I could only imagine the type of person calling out to me. Maybe he was tall? Maybe he had Gage's fluffy hair. Maybe it was him.

"Nadia, there you are!" the raspy voice had found me. I was so caught up with the fact that it could be Gage it didn't occur to me that it would be someone bad. The bag was pulled from my head and the light blinded me. I blinked as I tried to regain my sight as a tall silhouette moved in front of me. "Nadia, we have to hurry. We can't stay here any longer." the same raspy voice came. The silhouette came close as I could see his pale skin. He had eye bags that could carry a thousand pounds. I didn't know this man. He snapped his fingers in front of my face. "Nadia, hello? Hey, pay attention, this could be our only chance." He picked up a knife and started walking towards me.

"Woah woah woah no stay the fuck away from me." I screamed. I was not about to let his stranger come anywhere near me. My voice came out as screehy. The guy looked at me as if I was crazy, and had just spoken gibberish. I'm pretty sure at least I spoke some english.

"Nadia please, calm down. I know you don't know me but I'm here to save you. I'm a good guy." He lowered the knife.

I let out a small rusty laugh. "Good guy? Listen, you're coming at me with a knife and I don't know who you are. How does any of that make you a good guy?"

He sighed "You're right, Nadia, I'm Davian. I'm friends with your oldest brother and we need to get out of here before Kiana burns the place down with us inside." He pushed his golden hair out of his face. "So just let me do what I need to do." I nodded, if he knew my brother, and Kiana he must be telling the truth. I walked behind me and started cutting the ropes. The rope dropped and I stood up.

"Well, look what the cat dragged in." I turned my head to see Eden. She stood in the doorway holding a pistol. "Davian, it was nice for you to drop back in. I missed you so much when you left."

" I didn't leave, your crazy father tried to kill me." She walked further into the room. I backed into the wall getting whatever red liquid that was on them on me.

"He didn't try to kill you." She laughed. "I love you Davian, why are you helping her? You know how much money we're going to get for her death." She looked at me and held the gun pointing at me. I froze, I couldn't move.

Oh my god this was it. I was going to die. I was going to die before I got to talk to my family, before I got to talk to Gage again. Davian threw himself at Eden, knocking her to the ground. He pulled the gun from her hands and drove his knife into her side. The only noise left in the room was his heavy breathing. For a second I thought I saw a tear fall down his face but when he stood up there was nothing. He pulled the knife out and handed it to me. He kept the gun in his belt loop.

"Oh my god-"

"Come on, we need to go." He grabbed my hand and started pulling me through the halls.

We ran through the halls passing moldy door ways. The smell of rotten wood was the only thing I could focus on. He pulled me into the room Eden had brought all of us into. He stopped and started to fiddle with the lock which was the only thing stopping us from freedom. Every few second a he would curse under his breath. I looked around the room. The windows were still painted black, and the blood spots on the floor were still there. I looked around and my brother's and father were no longer there, just the man and women who took Vanessa and Elijah. Only they weren't moving. Or breathing for that matter. The sounds of fire starting to crackle filled my ears. Kiana must've gone ahead and lit the house on fire. Davian cursed louder as he started kicking at the door. He kicked three or four times before he got it. Then he grabbed my hand again and basically dragged me outside and into a car I didn't recognize. Me and him threw ourselves into the back seat and the car took off.

"Nat!" My brother threw his arms around me and started crying. It only took me a moment before my arms were around Jase. We sat in the car crying with each other. "Oh my god Nadia. I thought I would never see you again!" He said between sobs. He let go of me an wipes tears away from his eyes. " Dad is already half way back to your house. He's with Elijah and Donny.

"We're only a few hours behind them." Jase cupped my face in his hands.

"My little sister is all grown up" He wiped another tear away from his face.

I turned around to see the house slowly glow with the flames.

"Where's Gage?" Everyone' faces dropped.

I turned to Davian "Where is Gage?"

"I couldn't find him. I'm sorry." My world came crashing down. My shoulders fell and all of the happiness that I had just got from seeing my brother had left. Gage, the one guy I loved. The only person who knew and understood me was gone.

"Mom," I muttered, Jase and Daviain turned to look at me. "Where's mom?"

"Listen, Nadia" Davian started, "You're mom–"

"Kiana is mom." Jase cut him off.

"What?" I looked up at Jase with tears in my eyes. What did he mean 'Kiana is mom?' My throat went dry and my vision blurred. The spinning came back and the whole car was turned upside down.

"Our mother, the one who raised us. Is trying to kill us." His brows lowered, "Our mother is Kiana D'los."