A Web of Spider Bites

Chapter 1

"It's a new day, but it still feels old. It's a good life, that's what I'm told." Good Charlotte started singing through her alarm clock making Bell get up from her deep slumber.

"3 hours sleep, new record." She thought to herself. Creeping to her wardrobe so her mother wouldn't hear, she pulled out her prison clothing also known as a school uniform. All her life Bell didn't mind wearing school uniform but then she got a new head teacher which enforced it above all reasons making her hate wearing it. She would always do something wrong: Like not do her top buttons up, or wrong shoes, or skirt is 2mm too short. These are all things she would over look because life isn't worth that much care and attention.

Sighing a big sigh, Bell placed her white shirt with black tights and black skirt on. She then went into her draws and pulled out her oversized black jumper with her grey tie. "What am I still doing this for?" she asks herself. She doesn't just mean school, she means life in general. What does she have to live for? Who actually loves her? These are the questions that she asks herself every morning before doing anything.

Calling her name was something sitting under her window; her school bag full of pointless papers covered in silly scribbles. Realising she is fully ready, Bell grabs her black bag with half a heart on the front and jumps out her window and walks to her bus stop. Why does Bell leave through her window? Because her mother is a drunk after her father left and in the morning her hangover is so big that if Bell makes any sound her mother beats her. Stupid but it's something Bell has to do to not hurt her mum any more than she already has.

As she reaches the bus stop she looks over the quiet boring road and sees a man wearing black ripped jeans, on his knees there is a simple smiley face saying "wtf" and "LoL" as she looked up she saw a white top with some writing on it but Bells eyesight isn't good enough to pick out what it actually says. Over the top he is wearing a black leather jacket to keep himself slightly warmer from the harsh cold breeze. As she continues to look up she sees he has the same facial friends as she has: spider bites. Unlike Bell, his skin wasn't ghost white and his lips weren't bright red or plump. They are nice simple lips that look a lot nicer because of the piercing. It's hard to describe what his lips are like because they're just average. Sticking out from his black beanie is the ends of light brown, slightly curly, hair. Bell then looks further up and her eyes meet with the strangers. Before either of them have time to react with the eye raping they have been doing to each other Bells bus pulls up. Logging back into her headphones she can hear the voices of Bring Me The Horizon are flying into her ears "Who will fix me now? Darling when I'm down. Save me from my self, don't let me drown." These are some of Bells favourite lyrics because she always wonders if anyone will fix her when she's down. Every day she feels like she is drowning so will anyone stop her?

Stopping her from getting lost in her deep thought, the bus pulls up at her school and Bell drags herself off the smelly, degrading bus. Bell is usually late for school because the bus is very temperamental so it turns up when it feels like it.

"Bell Tweedy to the head teachers office please. Now!" The voice boomed through the shocking speakers.

"I swear she holds her noes when she speaks into that thing." Bell thinks to herself again. Already, Bell knows the day is going to be bad because she has already been summoned to the office. Once she arrives and walks through the blue door with a shiny silver handle she is greeted by her head of year.

"Bell, that skirt is too short." He snaps at her like he's been telling her since she was born.

In reply Bell just shrugs her shoulder; she's fed up of being picked on because she doesn't focus on school work.

"Bell, we're fed up of telling you this I'm going to have to send you home." He sighs like he doesn't want to but Bell knows he's happy she has done that. "Go. Now!"

"You do know everyone else in the school wears their skirts shorter? It's just because that mine is a pencil and not a skater skirt that makes it look like a belt. Maybe you should look at them instead of me." Bell snaps and then does an about turn and stomps down the hallway back to the bus stop, pulling her skirt up on the way.

The bus timetable tells her that she has to wait 40 minutes to get the bus. "Screw that" She thought and sets off walking down the lonely, forgotten road.

Once again she logs out of the world and turns on some music. This time it's Fall Out Boy Alone Together. Knowing that no one else is around she starts to sing like no one is listening.

"I don't know where you're going

But do you got room for one more troubled soul

I don't know where I'm going
But I don't think I'm coming home and I said
I'll check in tomorrow if I don't wake up dead
This is the road to ruin
And we're starting at the-"

Before Bell has time to finish the first chorus that is filling her body with music, a hand is pulled over her mouth and round her waist and she is thrown over someone's shoulder.

"Let me down. Please." Bell tries to persuade the strange strong man but it's no use. He just giggles underneath her.

Bell knows she needs to sound tough if she is to stand the slightest bit of chance with this skinny man. Normally anyone would be thinking "How can I get out of this persons arms?" but Bell isn't thinking that. She's thinking how on earth is this man holding her up? There's nothing too him so what's making him walk with a girl on his shoulder?

Deciding she'll just go with it because she has nothing left to live for she flops down and enjoys the ride.

Around 20 long, painful yet numbing moments later they both arrive at a cabin in the woods not far from her home. "Typical" She thought "If there has to be anywhere to hide someone is has to be in the woods" she never said this of course, she didn't have the guts and she knew it.

Creeping inside the long forgotten wooden shed the strange man carries her down to the basement. Obviously. Where else would they go? Stepping down the screaming stairs, they reach the wall with chains attached.

"You'll be staying here from now on, until I get bored with you." He says as he attaches Bell to the dark gloomy chains. As she is placed down she can finally look at him face to face. She gasps. "Yes it's me from this morning, calm down" He clearly picked up on what she was feeling.

After attaching her, he walks over to his table covered in many things. He's over there for a few minutes but to beautiful Bell it feels like hours. "You know, you're very quiet." He says to her slightly confused.

In reply Bell sighs. Her cage has broken and tears start to come down her face as it sinks in that she'll never leave here and get her own place like she wanted. Being snapped out her thoughts by the man walking back over to her, she notices that he has a knife in his hand. This is it, the moment where the pain comes in.

He starts slowly gliding the shiny silver blade along Bels clothing ripping it to shreds so that she was pretty much in her underwear. All through doing this he was smiling. This worried Bell deeply. On saying that, the main thing worrying her was her body. Now all her school uniform is pretty much been torn from her, the man can look at her in full and she hasn't let anyone do that for at least a year.

"So it's been around an hour and you haven't said anything. Do you not have words at all?" He asks Bell.

If the truth be told she has a lot to say but she knows not to say anything. Apart from one thing she is dying to know from this tattooed God-looking guy. "What's your name?" She asks through terrified teeth that are chartering due to Bell being scared of the response.

"Really? That's all you want to know? Fine, it's Ben Bruce. Now I have a question for you." He says and his grin drops so a sympathetic look. "What are all those cuts on your arms, legs and hips for?"