Strong Vocals (Shawn Mendes Fanfic)

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A/N: This chapter contains material that will affect some readers, Do not read beyond this point if you are affected by sensitive subjects, (child abuse, torture, ect.)

If Shawn was going to be my new boyfriend then he needed to know what I've been through. We talked for a long time about our different issues and what our pet peeves were.

"Okay, I'm ready to tell you." Shawn took my hand and my hand shaking. "If you don't-" "No! I have too tell you." I sighed. It's so hard telling the story, "I was taken from my family at the age of thirteen. I wasn't the only one captured, Yumi and Sam were there with me, that's where we first met." Shawn sighed. "The man that captured us was using girls as prostitutes and as sex slaves. But I was in the "special" group. Yumi, Sam, other girls as young as the age of ten, were tortured and raped." A tear dripped down my face. "I remember it all so clearly, like it was yesterday."

Flash Back...........

"NO!" I heard Yumi shout. The chains clattered against the ground as I reached for her hand. Two men grabbed Yumi from our cell and took her to the upstairs. All of us girls were chained and trapped in the dark cell, under the man's house. We didn't know if it was a house but we knew it was a bad place. I snuggled up to Sam and Candice. "How do we make it out of here?" Sam asked in fear. "I don't know."

All I heard was grunts and screams from upstairs. "Sam, what does he do to us?" She shook her head and started crying. I was upstairs once, but before anything there were rules. We had to follow orders or die. There is a gun always pointed at our heads, if we don't listen, we don't get to live. A girl our age of fourteen, has said that there are three stages. One is that you will get whipped. Two is that you will be cut. And three, rape. She said that was phase one. I don't know what phase two is, or maybe there are even more phases!

I started shivering as I heard Yumi scream from upstairs. The boys outside the cell were shivering too. "Candice, when will it all be over?" Sam asked. She held my hand. Sharing body heat. The only girls left in the cell was Yumi, Candice, Sam, Gina, and I. Gina was only ten. The youngest of us all. She barely spoke. There were other girls before us, like Heather, and Fabi. Andrea, and Natasha. Savannah and Wilma. But those girls never came back from upstairs.

After three hours, the cell door opened, and there a sweaty Yumi only covered in bed sheets was laying on the floor lifeless. "Yumi." I hugged her so hard and I could see her big bruises.

"You!" A man grabbed my arm. Candice and Sam grabbed my leg and pulled me back but, the man whipped her hand with his whip. "Let go you little brat!" Sam couldn't hold on. I was taken out of the cell and was on my way to the upstairs. By the time I got up the stairs I was knocked out with a bat.

I woke up chained to a bed. Stripped from my clothes. "HELP!" I shouted. "HELP!" There was a bright light in my face so I couldn't see anything. "Shut up you brat!" I grunted as the whip slapped my skin. There was a pinching sensation on my arm and all of a sudden, my body felt numb and I fell into a deep sleep. I woke up to feel pain inside my uterus.

The man laughed and laughed. He stared at me while I was in pain, strapped in a chair, the only thing on me, a loose bed sheet. My legs were stinging with marks and my arms covered in scratches from being, violated. The men brought me downstairs back in the cell.

End flashback......

"Sirena? Sirena! Are you okay?" I gasped. I looked at Shawn with wide eyes. "You've been staring at the wall for fifteen minutes." I sighed. "I'm sorry." Shawn have me a huge hug. "No I'm sorry, I wish I was there to help you." There was a knock on the door. I got up and opened it to see Carter and Yumi. "Hey!" She said. I smiled. "Sirena, can we talk?" Yumi asked. I nodded. I walked outside and close the door behind me. "Did you tell him?" She asked. "About?" I asked with a shiver going down my spine.

"About the kidnapping?" I nodded. "Did you tell Carter?" I asked. With hesitating she nodded. I heard Sam walking out way. "You shouldn't be talking about the past like that out in the blue."

"What its not like anybody is going to hear us." Yumi said. "Look, I haven't told Taylor yet, but I plan to some other time, just not right away."

Meanwhile......

Shawn POV

"Did she tell you?" Carter asked me. I held my hands at the back of my head still absorbing the story. "Yeah, what do you think?" Carter sighed and rubbed his face with his hands. "I don't know, I can't imagine living like that, what they felt what that man did." The door swung open and I saw Sirena. She smiled. I can't believe she can smile after what she's been through. Well she's sixteen now, it's been three years. I fell like it just happened, three years ago.