A Web of Spider Bites

Chapter 2

Bells face drops so she is looking down at her abused temple everyone calls a body. She is determined not to tell him because it doesn't matter; in a few weeks she'll be dead and no one will care about her past. A single tear falls from her green eyes that have been losing all glow over the days. The tear roles off her pale cheeks and off her chin, down to her wrist where the chain meets her skin. Ben picks up on the fact it's a rough story that she doesn't want to talk about but he doesn't want her to think this is going to be heaven so he puts his hand under her chin and lifts her face and their eyes meet once more. "I asked you a question." He clarifies to her.

"I don't wanna answer." Bell bravely replies more to herself but, because Ben is so close to her, he hears her little mumble.

"I don't care what you want. Answer it." Ben was starting to get more angry by the second and this was annoying Bell. Ben was about to rant when he was interrupted by a noise coming from outside the shack. "Don't make a sound or I will kill you." and with that Ben ran back up the screaming stairs to go act "natural".

Ben made it into the living room with a beer in his slightly shaky hand and managed to put the TV on before someone knocked on his door. Ben slowly walked over to him door saying the traditional "2 minutes" before he opened it.

"Good day sir." The first person spoke like a posh person who has a 3 layered house in the middle of the country side. He was also wearing a matching tweed jacket, hat and trousers with brown ankle high leather boots. He removed his brown smoking pipe so he could talk better and more polite. However, after he took one look at the man dressed all in black that opened the door too him he didn't really care about how he came across. "My good friend here and I were wondering if we have your permission to hunt around this area. It will be on Sunday all day."

Ben took one look at his "good friend" and thought it over. If he said no it might look suspicions as to why he wouldn't allow it but if he said yeah then the girl might shout for help and he would be caught. On saying that, she hasn't said anything yet. After thinking for a few seconds Ben knew it would be risky but he knew that it would be the better option.

"Yes you can, as long as no one knocks on my door for anything. Don't come within 3 meter radios of this house or I'll do my own hunting." Ben stated with a warning look on his face. "Is that good enough?"

"Yes sir. We won't actually be coming near here, we just needed to tell you in case you came out in the middle of the hunt and got injured yourself." The second person said who is wearing the exact same only without that hat so you can see his hair which is light black colour. Like black jeans that have been in the wash so many times that they lose their colour slowly. "Well that is all. Thank you for your time and remember: It's this Sunday coming."

All 3 men nodded and Ben returned back to his basement with Bell whilst the others went back to their open ended black Volvo car.

"Well, you are a good girl" Ben laughs as he skips down the screaming stairs. "You didn't even move a muscle from the look of things. Anyone would think you want to be here." He continues to laugh.

Bell lets out a weary chuckle because she knows that statement is at least 75% true.

"Why didn't you move?" Ben asks Bell

"I didn't want to make a sound Sir." Bell spoke softly and politely to which Ben snaps his head around in shock because of how he has been addressed.

"Why would you call me Sir?" He asks as he takes a few steps closer.

"Well you are kind of my master, aren't you? You pretty much own me now, you could do whatever you want and no one would stop you. Sure, I'd say no but it wouldn't matter because this isn't meant to be heaven. You are my Sir now so I should address you as that." Bell spoke a bit more confidently.

"You're right I can do whatever I want. Doesn't mean I will. Don't call me Sir though, I don't deserve it, I don't like it and it's just not right. Now, tell me why you didn't want to make a sound." He states back to her.

"I don't know, thinking about it I wish I had made a sound because maybe they could have saved me. But do I really want to be saved? I mean, I've got nothing to go back to. I have to sneak-" Bell stops because she knows she has said too much. The more Ben knows the more he can use against her. "It doesn't matter why I didn't, you're safe-I'm down here. They'll be back on Sunday, I'll just sleep so they won't hear me and everything will be okay." Bell says trying to fix it.

"Why would you say you had nothing to go back to?" Ben is really confused. He thinks she is beautiful so wouldn't she have boys dropping at her feet? She looked really happy until her saw her scars upon her. There was something behind Bell that Ben wanted to know, why would she harm herself? Why does she question if she wants to be saved or not? Normal people would take any risk they could to get out because they want to be saved. There is so many unanswered questions that Ben wants to ask and he is determined to find all the answers before he does anything to her. Bell is sticking to being stubborn and won't tell him about her life, this annoys Ben.