Taken

Being Discovered

It's been a week since I got kidnapped and started school. I go to school, go to a café to do all my homework and stayed out walking around the city before going back to hell. I could barley stand to sleep there, let alone spend needed time in the pent house.

At first I had started going straight back to the pent house, doing my homework in the room they keep me in and stay in there till way past time for them to go to bed and sneak food. But Paul had grown angry about it after two nights and forced me to eat dinner with them and make me do my homework in the living room where him and Sarah could watch me.

No matter how miserable I was, I couldn't stop myself from doing the work my teacher assigned me. Although the name I write on the paper is not mine, it's in my hand writing. All the ink on the white papers are my thoughts, Casey Miller, not Bella Green.

It was late in the week, Friday I think. I don't not know. I have more pressing things on my mind then keeping track of the dates. I had to get home. I have to find a way to get home. That's the only thing that matters.

My chest aches when I think of home. A jolt of pain shoots through my chest when I think of my parents, Brandon and Jessika. I gasp and wrap my arms around my chest, as if I can hold myself together.

"Are you okay?" I deep voice ask above me, startling me. I look up through the sunlight and falling snow to see Aj standing above me, concern writing across his face.

"I'm fine." I say, my voice empty. I no longer care about anything but getting home. School is a waste of time if it is not the school I've have grown to know, if it does not teach the people I have grown up with and learn to love.

"You don't seen fine." Aj says, his voice rich and deep.

"And how would you know?" I snap. I don't care that I'm being rude. Talking to other people is another waste of my time. A waste of time I could be spending thinking of ways to get home. To get back to Florida with the my family and my friends.

"I've been watching you. Your very closed and won't talk to other people." AJ says softly, who would've know, someone so popular and surround by girls all day would have the time to watch me. "But as I watched you, I say how you sat alone on these steps everyday, and everyday you seemed to grow sadder and how you would hug yourself as if you were keeping yourself whole. As if there was a hole in you chest threatening to break you apart."

I was struck dumb by AJ's words. How could he know that I was thinking just that before he got here? How can he know these things when he does not know who I am? He thinks I'm Bella Green, not Casey Miller.

"How?" I whisper, it sounded more like I was letting out a breath than a word.

"I told you. I've watched you. I watched you watch the video on your first day and how you cried as if you knew the girl they were talking about." AJ says, he's eyes piercing holes through my face, as if he can read my soul. "But then I thought how stupid it seemed, although you were both from Florida and you both could easily pass as sister if it weren't for you short, blonde hair and green eyes."

"I have to go." I say suddenly. This guy is to smart. How could he have possibly figured this out? How could he know?

"Wait." AJ says, scrambling after me. "Please, I can help you."

"Help me? I do not need help." I snap at him, before turning on my heel and running down the steps.

"Bella! Bella, please." I can hear AJ call my fake name out but I refuse to answer to it. "Casey."

I freeze on the last step. My hands held into fist at my side. If Paul and Sarah found out AJ knew, they'd kill him. They'd think I told him and they'd kill my family.