Always

Always - Prologue

Prologue

"Liam?"

It was so dark wherever this was. Teegan tried to get up and groaned, feeling groggy. She was cold, sore all over, and her head hurt. Where the hell am I? She could have sworn she'd just heard Liam call out to her. She tried feeling around and whimpered, "Oh my God." The confined space seemed to close in on her, and panic set in as what happened came back to her in a flash. Kissing Liam, picking out and buying pizza ingredients, the grocery store, Dylan and LJ, the truck, and Oliver.

The ceiling was low, she could barely see, and she didn't have much space to move around. "No," she whispered and began to cry. Her throat was dry, and she licked her cracked lips. How long has it been? She shifted her body so she could try to squirm toward a small crack of light to her right. It turned out to be the bottom of a door.

She was weak and had to try a couple times before she gained enough strength to sit up and feel around for a knob, but she came up empty-handed. Whatever kind of door this was, it was sturdy and unable to be opened from the inside. There wasn't enough room to stand, so she sat on her knees and pushed her shoulder against the door. Her hope dwindled as the thing refused to budge. With a cry of desperation, she ignored her sore muscles and tried spinning around to kick the door in instead, but it stayed shut. 

She was stuck. Dear God, why? Whatever Oliver's plans, she'd probably have a better chance of trying to escape once she was out of her confined prison cell in God only knows where than she would while being stuck here. Maybe if she could see where they were, a plan would come to mind. If pissing off Oliver again would get her out, then so be it. She'd endure her punishment but would be damned if she allowed him to break her. There had to be a way to get out of this alive, a way that would bring her home to the people she loved. So she decided to get loud.

"Oliver?" She kicked at the door repeatedly. "Come on, let me out." Bang, bang, bang. "Somebody please help me. Anybody? Please, please, pleeaassse..." Bang, bang, bang. When no one answered, she leaned her head against the dirty floor and sobbed harder than she ever had before. She was at his complete mercy, and there was no way to warn her family.

Please tell me this isn't how it ends.