Second Chance

Chapter 6

E M I L Y ' S POV

My head and side hurts something awful. I can't move or everything hurts.
"Hey girl.. you awake?" The familiar voice of Norman whispers next to me.

I slowly flutter my eyes open, squinting my eyes trying to adjust to the bedroom light. At first I was a little disoriented, it took me a minute to figure everything out... What happened and where I'm at.
I groan when my head starts to throb.

Norman reaches over on the nightstand table and grabs a bottle, handing it to me. I realized it was Advil and popped the lid off, swallowing two pills without even drinking water.

"Damn.. your head must hurt bad girl" Norman chuckles ever so slightly and gently sits at the foot of the bed.

"Why do you keep calling me girl?" I ask and rub the bridge of my nose. After almost every sentence he calls me 'girl'

"Well.. I don't know your name" he answer, scooting further back on the bed.

"Emily.. my names Emily" I tell him and give him a painful smile.

"Emily?" He repeats, looking at me with his gorgeous blue eyes.

"Yeah" I mutter, trying to hide my blush from his intense stair.

"That's a pretty name" Norman says and looks at his hands. His neck and cheek flushing a slight shade of pink. I feel this weird feeling in my stomach as he says that and I know exactly what they are ... stupid fucking butterflies! I don't even know him why am I feeling this. I just need to drown them butterflies because nothing is going to happen.

"Why did you stop him?" I ask.

Norman looks back up at me, scrunching his eyebrows together in confusion.

"Why did you stop Sean from killing me?" I repeat.

Norman sighs and scoots closer to me, resting his hand awkwardly on my shoulder. "We're not killers"

"You didn't have to bandage me" I whisper looking down onto my bandaged stomach.

"I wanted to" Norman says and gives me a sad smile.

"Thanks Norman" I sigh and smile back at him.

He gives my shoulder a quick squeeze and drops his hand, my arm immediately missing the warm contact of his hand. Why? Why am I feeling these ways! I can't fucking stop it and it's making me mad!

"Also why are you so nice to me?" I ask.

Norman looks up at me and I can see pain in his eyes. He sighs and looks down at his hands.

"You can tell me" I assure him.

Norman looks back up at my, his blue eyes glossed over. "My.. My little sister she was.. Kidnapped and th-they raped her and killed her.... she was only 15" Norman confesses, his voice shaky and weak.

My eyes widen and I place a hand over my mouth. "That's horrible.. I'm so sorry Norman"

Norman scoffs and wipes his eyes "kinda ironic you know? I spent so long trying to find the guys who would do such a thing and here I am, kidnapping a girl myself"

"But Sean told you to do all that right? Everything I've head is orders from Sean" I say, placing my hand on Normans shoulder. Maybe he wasn't as bad as I thought.

"Doesn't matter.. I still did it.. my sister is probably ashamed of me" Norman whispers, a few stray tears falling from his eyes every once in awhile.

"Were you close?"

"Yeah.. we were only 2 years apart.. she was my best friend" he admits, finally looking up at me. "I'm sorry for all this"

I give him a sad smile and rub his shoulder. "We can get out.. both of us" I whisper, scooting closer to him.

Norman shakes his head and puts his hand up. "No.. no we can't"

"Do you know the code?" I ask, moving even closer to him. I can tell he's getting nervous by the way his eyes dart around the room.

"Yeah but we just cant!" He exclaims.

"Norman we can.. me and you we can leave!" I whisper placing my palm on his cheek.

"You don't understand do you?! You don't know how dangerous Sean is! He will kill us faster than you can think" Norman argues, grabbing my wrist and pulling my hand off his now pink cheek.

"You don't want this Norman ... I can tell by the way you act you don't want to be here" I push on.

"You're right I don't but I don't have a choice!"

"The world is so big Norm.. there's so many places to hide"

Norman's head snaps up and looks at me "dont call me that" he whispers, his voice weak.

"Norm?" I ask confused.

"Yes.. my sister called me that" he whispers, tears coming to his eyes again.

I found his weakness. His sister.

"What was her name?" I ask sitting right next to Norman.. he was facing the wall and I was facing the door but our hips were touching.

"Gracie" he whispers.

"What did she look like?" I ask tracing patterns with my finger on his leg.

Norman swallowed hard and pulled out his wallet and opens it, inside was a picture of a girl who looked 15. She had blonde hair and looked like a girl version of Norman, she was pretty.

"She's pretty" I compliment.

Norman nods and puts his wallet back in his pocket. "She was.. one time I got in a fight with one of her exes because I caught him cheating on her"

"You were a protective big brother" I smile and he smiles back.

"Yeah"

"You know, your sister would want you to leave" I say, hoping this will break him.

Norman groans and puts his head in his hands. "I can't... I can't leave why can't you understand that!" Norman yells into his hands. "I know my sister hates me now! I know she does I failed her! I fucking failed her and I just don't know what to do anymore Emily.. I have nightmares almost every night" Norman starts crying into his hands.

"Hey I'm sorry I brought it up.. Norman I'm sorry" I whisper and gently wrap my arms around his shoulders as he cried into his hands. I rested my head on top of his while he sobbed.

"I'm sorry" I whisper.

"I failed her" he says again.

"No you didn't" I comfort him.

Who knew this scary looking kidnapper had a soft side.. a very soft side.

I guess the saying "never judge a book by its cover" is true.

The rest of the night Norman and I ended up talking about funny and sad stories about him and his sister. The smile on his face while he told him made them damn butterflies re surface again.

Will they ever go away?

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