Captured

chapter 2

• Renae's POV•

"Why would we? It's not like we're leaving the doors open" Vanessa says. I look over at the clock and read the time, 3:00 am.

All of a sudden the lights go out. The only lights were from our phones.

"What happened?" Vanessa asks with her face lit up by her phone. "I have no idea" I answer back. "Do you have flashlights?" Vanessa asks. "Umm..yeah in the garage" I tell her. Vanessa starts walking out of my room. "What are you doing?!" I shout in a whisper. "Going to get the flashlights" she says calmly. "You really want to leave the room when it's dark all over the house?!" I say. "What's the worst that could happen?" Vanessa tells me. "I don't know! You could be killed, kidnapped,-" Vanessa cuts me off. "Relax! Stop overreacting." My phone vibrates and I unlock it. I read the message aloud to Vanessa.

'Don't think light is going to help because it is not.'

Vanessa stares at me waiting for me to do something. "We need to get out of here" I suddenly said. "I know, I'm thinking the same thing, but how if we don't know if something is waiting for us" Vanessa tells me in a whisper.

I look back at the message and began to text back. When I try sending the message it wouldn't send. "What are you doing?" Vanessa asks. "I'm trying to send a message to the unknown person" I say. "Don't you know that you can't send a message back if its blocked?" Vanessa says. I realize that what she said was true, so I just put my phone back on my desk.

It slowly starts to rain and flashes of lightning illuminate the room, and thunder strikes every now and then. "Don't look now, but when the lightning flashed I could have sworn I saw a reflection of a person in the mirror" Vanessa stutters. But knowing me, I look and see the figure leaving the mirror going into the hallway. "You looked! Didn't you?" Vanessa scolds me in a whisper. "Sorry I had to!" I say. My phone lights up with a message, Vanessa takes my phone and reads the message aloud.

'I know you saw me as well as I saw you.'

I take my phone from Vanessa and reread it. "What are we going to do?!" I ask Vanessa as my heart beats fast.