When Travis finally walked back in, the guys were setting up the game and yelled at him to hurry. He walked over and I could feel him looking at me, he sat down, and they all started to play. After a while they got me to play and it was really fun, after I won about 200 bucks I decided to quit, and just watch. By the time they took a break, it was 10:32. I decided to go outside for a breath of fresh air instead of staying in the alcohol and cigarette infested oxygen. When I walked out, I noticed a black van drive by slowly, I hurried and turned around then walked back into Travis’s house.
When I got in his house, the smell of alcohol was a lot stronger and as I shut the door, I saw Shelby and could already tell that he was completely wasted.
“Shelby, how much did you drink?” I asked, and then looked sternly at him.
He looked at me for a moment before answering, “I haven’t had anything to drink! What are you thinking?” He was laughing through that whole sentence, and at the last part, he patted my head.
“Don’t lie to me, I know you have been drinking, now tell me how much.”
“Let’s go outside, okay?” He looked behind me then sighed. I started to turn around but was stopped with Shelby’s hand on my arm, gently dragging me to the door again.
When we got outside, he grabbed the bridge of his nose and closed his eyes. After a few minutes, he let go, and opened his eyes suddenly looking sober.
“Sam, I really am sorry, it’s just the guys were and I thought that I would be able to stop, but I won’t anymore, I promise.” He gave a slight sheepish smile, but I had already made up my decision.
“I’m going to head home okay? I think that it would be best, for you and for me. I’ll see you tomorrow. Love ya.” I gave him a quick peck on the cheek and turned around to walk home.
“Love you too asshole, see you tomorrow.” I could hear the amusement in his voice and all that I wanted to do was go back and slap him, but then again I would never do that… unless I was angry with him.
I started to walk home and in the pit of my stomach I felt kind of sick. I looked around and saw the black van once more. I started to walk a little faster, but I watched as it took a right turn, and I am going left. I let out a breath that frankly, I didn’t know that I was holding, and felt relief wash over me. I felt my phone vibrating in my pocket, so I hurried and answered it.
“Sam, Travis will be there soon to walk you home, so don’t go anywhere. He said something about a weird black van that has been driving around all night. I don’t want you to get hurt, so wait for him, please.ST”
“Why don’t you come? S” I texted furiously because, that is exactly how I felt.
“Look, he’s the only one here that can walk straight right now, and I don’t want to be defenseless if you really need my help.ST”
“Fine, I’ll call you when I get home. S”
I thought about walking by myself, but I knew that the next time I saw him; he was going to flip a bitch on me. I waited for about five minutes until I heard heavy footsteps behind me.
“Hey, long time no see huh?” At those words, I immediately felt outraged.
“Leave me alone will you?”
“I would, but I am going to make sure you get to where you’re going, safely.” I saw his lips curling up at the corners into a slight smirk.
“Its fine, you can just tell Shelby that you walked me home.”
“Actually no, I need you.”
I felt him grab my arm, and I immediately felt scared. I turned to look at him and I noticed that he was too busy with something in his pocket to pay too much attention to me. So as I felt his grip loosen, I took the opportunity and ran for it. On the other side of the street was a small park, with a bunch of trees. I thought about running there but thought it better just to run close to it for now, in case I would need to use the trees as a hiding place. I heard a very colorful string of curse words before I heard him run after me. I didn’t turn to look because common sense tells me that that will just slow me down, so I just tried to think of how far he was. I heard his footsteps get louder and louder until I was shoved roughly into a huge tree. Travis grabbed both of my wrists and put them above my head.
“Run again, and I won’t hesitate to shoot you.” He gave me a stern look, then reached around to his back pocket and pulled out a long piece of rope.
“Take this and tie it around your ankles.”
“HA! You think that I’m going to listen to you, and help you kidnap me?” I sounded crazy and hysterical, but if he thought that he was going to get me to do what he asked, he had something else coming.
He pulled out a big knife and put it to my neck; he gave me a look for a moment and asked if I would behave.
“Fine, but you have to tell me why you’re doing this though.”
“Okay, I will, but you have to do everything that I’m telling you to do right now.”
After I did exactly what he told me, i had tied my ankles together, put duct tape on my mouth, and put hand cuffs on my wrists. I was pretty pissed off about how he had made me practically kidnap myself. When I had done all this, he put my arms around his neck, and he picked me up bridal style. I hated this position, but I didn’t complain, mostly because I couldn’t, but also because I was exhausted.
“So beautiful, how are we gonna do this?” He was referring to getting in the car, and I just glared at him. He chuckled and just tossed me in; he climbed in later and put me on his lap. I’m pretty sure that my eyes were as big as basketballs because he smirked.
“I’m only getting this close to you because I have to. Otherwise, I wouldn’t lay a finger on you. Not that I don’t think you’re hot, but because I’m not allowed to, well other than for what I have to do of course.”
I just rolled my eyes and –surprisingly- rested my head on his shoulder and soon enough, fell asleep.
