Chapter Two
JEN
It didn't matter how loud I screamed or cursed or struggled to get away, nobody noticed that we were, in all senses, being kidnapped and drug forcefully from the building.
"Let go of me you bastard!" I shouted, shoving my elbow into my captor's ribs and struggling to get free.
"Bastard?" said the guy holding Ella's forearm. He glanced at the guy holding me and laughed. "Bet you can't say you've been called that before, can you Ob?"
The second guy's voice sounded deep and close to my ear. "Girls from home usually do have better manners. It's true."
"Who are you?" Ella snapped, trying to turn around to get a look at them as we were marched across the street towards Ella's bug. How did they even know which car was hers?
"We know lots of things about you," said the one holding Phin and me. It wasn't until later that I realized I hadn't actually said my question out loud because I was too shaken up and shocked to notice. The silver haired boy holding Ella released her and pushed her towards the car, ordering her to unlock it.
"And don't even think about running away, because it's no effort for me to catch you," he said simply. "Unlock the car and everybody get in."
"But---"
"Just do it, Ella," said the second guy.
"How did you know my name?" she asked, her hands shaking as she tried to insert her key into the door lock. Before anyone could say anything, we all turned towards the guy walking down the street towards us and shouting at us. He was dressed in the same medieval clothing as the other two.
"What took you so long? I thought you said you were coming out the back door." He reached us and glanced quizzically at the guy behind me.
"These girls chose to put up a fight," he said, annoyed. "We had to---"
He didn't get any farther before I cut him off, having spotted a patrol car cruising down the street towards us slowly. "Help!" I screeched, yanking away from my captor so quick he didn't have time to catch me as I ran towards the patrol car. "We're being kidnapped!"
But the car didn't slow. The cop just passed us, showing no sign of seeing us at all. "What did you do?" I snapped, stomping back towards them. For the first time I could see the face of the man that had been holding me. In the light, I could see that they looked younger than what they had seemed. The two tall ones looked about twenty. One had silver hair, silver eyes, pale skin and a lanky, wiry body. The one that had grabbed me was just as tall but more built, with broader shoulders and black hair and eyes and olive skin. The third one was shorter than the other two, covered in freckles with sandy hair and sharp features with a friendly, less malicious look to him. But all three were wearing those ridiculous leather clothes, mostly black, looking like Merry Men gone bad. "Why can nobody see us?" I said, standing right in front of the one called Ob and looking him dead in the eye. I was tall, but I still had to crane my neck to look at him.
"It's called magic, sweetheart." The silver haired one winked at me. "Now open the doors! I can't glamour you all forever."
Ella glanced at me, terrified. Her hood had fallen off and her dark blonde curls spilled out of her bun, framing her face in stray ringlets while she chewed on her lip ring. I shrugged my shoulders and she opened the driver's door and leaned the seat up. The dark haired one pushed Phin into the back seat, then grabbed me and tossed me in, too. He climbed in next to me, his knees almost reaching his chest in the back of the tiny car while the silver haired one climbed into the front seat, leaving the third guy stuck with squeezing in next to the three of us.
