Captive

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"Everything is temporary." — Unknown.

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Octavia

       "You look like shit." Demi tells me as I stumble into the dinning room the next morning, and I sighed as I rub my face as I look over to her. She was sitting at the large table with a mug of coffee in her hands, wearing a blouse with jeans, and she raised a brow at me as she lifts the mug to her lips.

       "Well, shit happens to you when you're almost raped." I tell her, and walk further more into the room. I could not for the life of me sleep, like at all. I just laid in my bed and stared up at my ceiling, trying to get my mind to quiet down but all I could think of was that another man could come into my room and try to take advantage of me. I locked the door and hid under the covers, trembling with fear.

       "I guess it does." Demi nods and sets her mug down in front of her. I look around, seeing the faint light of the sun coming into the room, it was very early in the morning. The sun had just risen and I had enough of sitting in my room, waiting in fear, so I took a shower, got dressed and left to get something to eat. I thought I was the only one awake but I thought wrong. Demi is awake.

       "Is anyone else awake?" I turn my attention back to Demi, standing behind a chair as I look to her as she sits across from me.

       "No, it's just the two of us." Demi shakes her head. Her fingers curled around her mug as I nodded, and awkwardly look away from her. She was studying me quietly, the silence between us was quiet and awkward as I just stood there while Demi watch me. "Come on, let's go. I want to show you something." Demi stands up, pushing her chair back as she grabs her mug and motions for me to follow her.

I didn't know what to expect.

"Uh, okay." I walk after her as she moves to the kitchen. She sets her empty mug on the kitchen sink before moving to a back door. I follow her quietly, wondering where she is taking me. We walk out of the mansion and started heading to a red barn. I furrow my eyebrows a little bit but didn't said anything as Demi made her way over to the barn.

"Do you know how to ride a horse?" Demi asks me, turning her head to look back at me. I nodded.

"Yeah, I actually do." I tell her and she smiles.

"Great, because we're going horseback riding and the place where we are heading is better getting there on a horse than a car." Demi says before stopping before the big wooden red doors and pulling it open.

"Where are we going then?" I ask her as we walk in and I look at the horses she had inside. They were eating or drinking water, there were maybe ten to fifteen horses each.

       "You'll see when we get there." Demi says, and she walks down a couple of horses stables, I follow her while looking around at all the horses in awe. All of them looked beautiful. I know how to ride a horse since one of my Uncles has a horse barn in Alabama and every time I went there for the summers, he would get me on a horse and made me ride. It was a really awesome experience. "This black beauty is mine, his name is Diablo."

Of course it is.

I look at the black horse, and smile slightly at it, Demi reaches forward and rubs her hand on the black horse nose. The horse neighs softly as it leans into Demi's touch and she smiles widely at him.

"Take that horse over there, the white one." Demi points over to the horse across the stable and I look over at the horse. I smiled as I walk over to it.