《Captivated by Hatred》(Vance hopper)

the glasses

Melina and Vance were sitting on the bed. Melina slowly nodding off, but that was when the door opened. The two quickly looked up, there was one plate of food and a sprite in the grabbers hands.

"Oh, your finally awake!" The grabbed said happily as if he didnt kidnap two kids. "I brought you some food" he said slowly walking in and closing the door behind him.

"what'd you put in it" vance said coldly and the grabber chuckled and shook his head.

"salt and pepper" the grabber said putting it on the floor. "I have you here. I don't need to drug you" he said sitting in a chair nearby. Melina stayed close to vance and the wall. the grabber gave a sickening smile to the two and they both subtly shivered. "eat it or dont" he said, his smile dropping. "your choice" he said before getting up and leaving. the door closed and there was no click. the steps slowly got quieter. Vance looked between Melina and the door, he got up and walked go the door before Melina spoke up.

"I wouldn't do that..." she spoke quietly. Vance turned around.

"why, the stupid guy left the door unlocked" vance said slightly annoyed.

"he's done this before, it could be a trap" she said moving slowly to the eggs. her eyes red and puffy from crying. Vance looked between her and the door and he put his hand on the handle. as soon as he did, a phone, they never noticed was there, wrang. they snapped their heads towards it. Melina let out a small yelp.

"w-what the fuck!" She said looking from the phone to vance who was equally confused. once it hit what it was, Melina ran to the phone and answered.

"hello?! hello! someone help!" She yelled and all there was, was silence.

"don't go upstairs" a small voice said, she couldn't tell who it was.

"who are you?" She asked. it sounded like a girl. there was a brief silence.

"you'll find out later. Just don't go upstairs. got that?" the voice said through the phone.

"but wai-" and the girl on the other side hung up. Melina turned around to vance a really confused look on her face. "um, don't go upstairs" she said and vance walked towards her.

"what the fuck was that?" he asked stopping a few feet ahead of her.

"I don't know, just don't go upstairs" she said walking past him to the eggs.

"that's bullshit!" he yelled and she flinched but turned to him.

"whatever, are you going to eat or not?" She said gesturing to the plate. half of the eggs that were there were gone and she seemed like if he gave her the go ahead she would eat the rest. he felt his stomach growl but did he really need to eat? he didn't want Melina to be hungry so he shook his head.

"I don't want your stupid food" he said sitting on the bed. that was his excuse for not eating but he just wanted her to get enough food. she looked him up and down and shook her head before eating the rest. she grabbed the sprite and brought it to him. once he grabbed it he took a drink and she began to walk away to where the toilet was, but she wasn't going to use the bathroom, she went for water. she pulled the top off of the toilet and when she went to scoop water, there was something in there. she pulled it out and shook it off. they were glasses. they had traces of mint green paint. they were isabellas... Melina stared at them in disbeleif. Melina felt so many emotions. She would have cried if she had more tears to cry, but her head hurt and her eyes were already sore and puffy, so she didn't. she just held them closer to her and slowly walked back to where vance was on the bed. he looked up and saw her hand. it was tightly wrapped around the glasses, holding them to her chest.

"what's that?" he asked, drinking more sprite. she didn't respond, her face stayed the same as she sat down on the bed next to vance. "Melina? Hey? you there?" he said waving a hand infront of her face. she took a breath and swallowed the spit pooled in her mouth.

"um, the-theyre isabellas. um. they are her glasses" she said and vances face washed over with sympathy.

"oh..." he said simply, not knowing what to say. he went to grab them but she quickly pulled them away.

"I am not letting you ruin these too." she said, snapping her head at him, her words sharp and to the point. Vance just stared at her for a second then continued drinking the soda. she messed with the glasses in her hands. she ran her thumb over the lense and she felt it was scratched, it wad only when she looked closer that she noticed something. it had times written on it. she jolted up a bit. Vance looked at her weirdly.

"the fuck was that?" he asked and she didn't say anything but she put the glasses up to the light to be able to see what numbers were etched into the lense.

'10am-5pm' was all it had. she looked at it wondering what it meant.

"are you going to answer me?" vance asked impatiently.

"these glasses. they're isabellas she, or someone, etched something into them. it says 10pm-5pm.." she answered quickly, still trying to figure out what it ment. Vance looked at the glasses from where he was.

"does it have anything else?" he asked, knowing she wouldn't let him hold them close enough for him to see anything important. Melina put them up to the light again. all she saw was a 'W' and what looks to be half of a 'O' but it was just the left half so it could be part of an 'a'. she explained that to vance and he nodded.

"could it be when he goes to work?" he asked. Melina thought and nodded.

"but It could be when he wakes up and goes to sleep" she said sadly. vance groaned and set the sprite bottle down by the bed.  The two sat there in silence for a while.

"do you think there looking for us?" vance asked and Melina looked at him.

"of course they are" she said as if it was super weird for vance to ask that question.

"well I know your uncle is but do you think my mom is?" he asked. Melina looked at vance, for the first time. Melina thought vance was broken. for the first time, vance and her were both broken with no way out. Vances eyes were watering and melinas were very puffy.

"yeah, I know for a fact your mom is looking for you" she said confidently.

"how do you know?" he said. "how can you be so confident?" he asked. Melina took a breath.

"remember when we decided we would never play hide and seek again?" She asked and vance looked at her confused.

"yeah what does that have to do with my question?" he asked and she rolled her eyes.

"I'm getting there, calm down" she said. "you were hiding for 2 hours and I couldn't find you. your mom thought you had been kidnapped. she tore your guyses whole house apart. she had called the neighbors. she walked all around the block, she looked so hard just to find you and make sure you were okay" she explained while putting her head back. Vance just looked at her. he didn't know she did all of that. He just sat there silently. they both sat there quietly as Melina looked at the glasses and vance stared at the ceiling.