Stockholm Syndrome (BECHLOE)

Chapter 7

Beca POV

I want away from here! I can't go on anymore! They're holding me hostage, but Chloe is so nice. No, she isn't! She just uses me for whatever. I don't know what they want. Okay, they want my brother, but why Chloe is doing this? They could have my brother, but why she kisses me and spends the night with me. Why she's holding me tight, but than leaves me alone again? Why it's her? I am fallen for her and I can't get out of this! I just want to tell her to leave, but I watch it go round and round each time. She comes back just to hurt me another time, but when she's gone I miss her. I need to get her out of my head. I need to get out of here. In this moment the door opens and Aubrey comes in. I wish it was Chloe. No, I don't. Chloe is bad. She's such a jerk, I don't want her. Aubrey grabs my arm and takes me over to another room, where Chloe is already waiting.

"Here she is. You can start now."

Aubrey holds me tight so I can't move. I didn't expected that she is that strong. Slowly Chloe comes over to me. She wears black skinny jeans and a red top. She's kinda hot. Come on Beca, get her out if your head! I see something reflecting the light in her hand. It looks like a small knife. I feel her one hand grabbing my left arm, than she strokes over my arm with the other. Blood runs out. I see a small cut next to her hand. I start to moan, but I want to pull myself together. There it is again. Pain running through my arm and blood falling down to the ground. I wince and want to free myself, but I am frozen. Chloe paralyzes me. I can't take my eyes off her, but she's just going on, making one cut next to the other. The pain let my arm burn and the blood running over my arm drops down to the ground. It's burning red. I can't see clear anymore, just the burning red around. Everything is becoming one. My blood, Chloe's top. Chloe's hair. I only see the burning red around. It's hard to keep my eyes open. The pain makes my stomach turning around and my heart pulling together. I try to stand straight, but I can't. More and more I fall into Aubrey's arms, but she's holding me up.

"It's enough Chloe."

Aubrey says, but Chloe goes on. One cut next to the other. I don't feel it anymore. It's only a huge red spot where my arm used to be.

"Chloe! It's enough! You did a great job, but now it's enough!"

She still doesn't stop. So Aubrey let me fall down and take away the knife from Chloe. I can't see her clear, but she looks sick. Her face is pale and her eyes are widen.

"Are you okay?"

Aubrey asks her, but Chloe just sinks down to the ground next to me.

"Honey, what's up?"

Aubrey says, kneeling in front of Chloe. She opens her mouth, but nothing comes out. I try to keep my eyes open to see what's happening, but I can't. Suddenly I loose my mind and everything turns black.

Slowly I open my eyes. At first everything is blurred. I blink and my surrounding becomes clear. I am back into my room. The lights are dimmed and I guess it's late. How long did I pass away? I can't tell how long I've been sleeping or what happened in this time. I look down on my arm to make sure, that I wasn't dreaming all this. There's a bandage over the cuts. So this wasn't just a dream. Chloe really did this? I can't believe that she wanted to do this. That's not her. But she did. She's changing her mind like a girl change her clothes. I don't understand her. I start walking around while I am making my thoughts. She seems so innocent, but nevertheless she hurt me again. She doesn't do anything else than hurting me and I still love her. What she has done to me? I will never stop loving her, even though she hurts me again and again. It is not her fault. It is the way she lives. It's Aubre. She got Chloe under her control and Chloe has no chance. She's only human. I can't be angry with her. It is still hurting, but I still love her. I never knew I could feel that much, but I love her more than everything else. What's this? As I pass the door for the third time, I realize that it's open. It is just a small gap, but it is open. Carefully I open it and look out. No one's there. I could run away. That's my chance. I could get out of all this. I listen if someone is near, but there's only silence. I make one step out of the room and start to run. Run out of this crazy life. Run through the grey corridor, trying to find the exit. I pass all the doors and just hope no one is finding me. I run faster and faster and suddenly there's a door with exit written on it. I open it and see a stairwell. Up or down? Shit! I run the stairs up and suddenly an alarm starts. It's screaming through the stairwell and make my heart beat even faster. If they will find me, they will kill me. Oh my god. What I just did? I am still running the stairs up,but I feel how i am becoming breathless. The stairs seem endlees. Suddenly I hear someone under me open a door. I try to be quite, but they're coming upstairs so I keep running. After some time there's a door. I open it and enter a total dark room. I open the door again and a beam of light lights up the room. I see another door at the end of the room. Quick I make my way through the dark and feel for the door. As I find it I open it and see a grey corridor. It can't be the same corridor, but it looks similar. I run trough it, but it has no ending.

"Beca."

I hear Chloes sweet voice through the speaker. She's calling for me. I left her all alone. I am running away without her. My thoughts are torn. Should I go back to her? I can't leave her like this. But it's my only chance.

"Beca. Please don't leave me."

There it is again. How she can expect me to come back. She doesn't need me. She hurt me, she locked me out and she only plays with me. Suddenly my legs start to run forward. Is it right or is it wrong? I don't know. I can't go on. I can't leave Chloe.

"Beca where are you?"

Suddenly Chloe starts to scream. It hurts my ears to hear shrill screams through the speaker. She screams again. It's a scream full of pain and I feel my heart pulling together while I hear it. What they are doing to her? That's all my fault.

"Beca, my dear. Come back or I can not guarantee what will happen to Chloe."

I hear Aubrey's voice yelling through the speaker. I start to panic. What should I do? I mean Chloe doesn't care about me. She hurts me again and again. But I can't tell what Aubrey will do to her. I hear Chloe's whimper. Full of pain. What the hell is this bitch doing to her? I can't leave her alone. I have to leave her alone. My life or Chloe? If I run away now I am free. I will be save, I could go back home. This horror will end. I just have to run out of this. Suddenly I turn around. Chloe. Hundred percent Chloe! I go back into the dark room and run to the other side. I open the door and a man grabs me. He holds me tight and I can't free myself. I start to kick, but I have no chance.

"Let me go! I need to go to Chloe! Let me go!"

The man slowly goes the stairs down with me.

"Where is Chloe?"

I scream so loud, but he ignores it. That it comes up to my mind. I put my foot between his legs and he starts to stumble. He looses his balance and starts to fall. In this moment he opens his arms and I stumble the stairs down. Than I run. I run as fast as I can. The way back to where I came from. I pull the door of my room open, but no one is there. I start pulling all the doors at the corridor open. Most of the rooms are black and empty. In some rooms are people, but no Chloe. She's stoll whimpering. Than I finally find the room with Chloe and Aubrey. Chloe is lying on the ground with just pants and a bra. Her back is full of bloody strips. Next to her is standing Aubrey with an whip in her hand. Now I know what happened to her back. I run over and fall down on the ground next to Chloe. Aubrey starts laughing, but I just keep her in my arms.

"You shouldn't have come. Now it's all over Beca."

Chloe whispers.