Stray

Chapter 5

“Round and round, I won’t run away this time, till you show me what this life is for…

Round and round, I’m not gonna let you change my mind, till you show me what this life is for…”

-Imagine Dragons (Round and Round)

                A bloodcurdling scream left my throat. The all blacked-out Audi S8 2013 swerved onto the shoulder of the road gracefully. I whipped my body up so I was sitting, the seatbelt was cutting into my neck painfully, but the pain was washed away with fear.

“Well. You’re up.” Ryhet said as he stopped the car. What the hell was he talking about? I mean I know I was awake but why did he make it sound so casual, like this wasn’t actually really messed up. He reached back to the back of his neck and scratched it nervously. I just stared a hole through the back of him.

We sat in silence in the dark car, me leaning forward from the seat and Ryhet had both hands hanging on the bottom of the wheel, looking out the window at the few cars which passed. The blue clock on the polished dashboard read 2:27am and my bare legs stuck to the leather uncomfortably. The fear had paralyzed me.

So many things were running through my head. Why was in this car with Rhyet Thompson? Where were we going? Where are we now? How was I out for so long? Was my mom looking for me? Was I being kidnapped?

There were so many questions and I couldn’t answer any of them for sure. That scared me, I didn’t like that. It was a terrible feeling, being unsure. Unsure of everything that was going on around you. What was happening to you?

It was like I was going through a tunnel in the mountains.  It was light and beautiful and rather easy, but then you got farther into the mountain. A point as to which you could still see light but you couldn’t turn around and it was getting darker yet. Finally you reach the point where you’re into the mountain so far, it’s dark and unnerving. You don’t know how long to the end and the beginning is much too far to tell. You don’t know anything. How much longer? How deep you really are?

This was where I was with myself now. It was dark and unnerving. I didn’t know where then end was nor did I know how deep I was…

The dark confusion reminded me of a time when I was five. It had terrified me for six years and I could never drop it. It played over in my head over and over and for the first time in years… it was back, but the end was something all new…

“What the hell Talia!” a huge crash came from the kitchen. Pots falling everywhere. I could feel the floor shake from all the way down the hall.

“I’m sorry Omrey!” my mother screamed. I could hear the tears in her voice more than anything else in her pleads. I heard a cupboard slam and my mom howled again as I heard a teapot shatter on the floor. Her Great-grandma’s pot, it was worth a good fortune.

“You’re not fucking sorry! I’ve given you everything Talia! I gave you a life you would have never had without me!” Dad was screaming, I was used to yelling, but this was worse than ever.

I curled myself into the ball in the hallway closet even more. Curious, I had come out of my room earlier when I heard them yelling. They had gotten worse though while I was eyeing them from behind a corner, up the stairs and I became terrified when I heard someone moving towards me, so I stumbled into the linen closet behind me, burying myself in the linens on the ground. Using them as my shield

But my shield was weak, it didn’t stop, and neither did the tears which where were once filling my eyes, were now steadily running down my young cheeks soundlessly.