Bad Fortune

Part 5

A loud crack could be heard as Chloe was suddenly thrown to the floor. Her phone bounced across the dirty concrete floor , the impact causing the screen to shatter beside her.

Chloe grunted in pain as she looked up. She felt herself shudder, the masked man was back. 'When did he...' The masked man came in silently and struck her from behind after. Chloe was almost in a daze, she was scared stiff as blood ran down her face.

"You bitch!" he said angrily as he kicked his foot into the side of her, she cried out again "Please stop," she said sounding pained. "How did you get out!?" he shouted ignoring her previous request as he grabbed her by the hair, she winced from the pain as she was pulled up to her feet. He looked her in the eyes, not that she could look back into his.

That's when it finally clicked in Chloe's head 'I'm not weak, I am strong, and if I want to see my girls again' she brought her knee up and kneed the man in the stomach, his fingers slipped through her hair as she pulled away "I have to fight!" she practically shouted as she quickly picked the knife up from the floor that she had used earlier to cut the ties.

The man was startled but enraged. He stood up straight and made his way towards her, reaching out to grab her, Chloe swiftly sidestepped, he kept trying to grab her but she would dodge time and time again, all that choreography truly paid off. She used her agility to her advantage and grabbed the mask pulling it off of the man's head.

Her jaw dropped, her eyes widened, her breathing slowed as she stood there in shock. The masked man was just as startled.

"N-No way" her knees began shaking "Y-You? W-why, why would you do this!?" the knife slipped out of her hand. Her entire body had gone weak, of all people, she never expected it to be ...

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At the same time, Aubrey was still holding on to Beca's phone. "What's wrong?" Beca asked eagerly as she stepped towards her. "No, no, nothing" Aubrey quickly reassured her talking in a higher tone of voice than usual. "I think it's just bad signal" Aubrey then acted surprised "Oh Chloe, you're still there. So you can see some rock climbing things right? I think I might know where you are" Aubrey paused as she paced around, purposely moving away from Beca as she tried to make it look as though Chloe was still on the line.

She switched to a gentle tone of voice "I know it's scary but hang in there, I promise you, we'll get to you by tomorrow morning, we need time to carry out our plan" Aubrey then proceeded to just nod "Okay, bye for now" she then brought the phone away from her ear. She seemed to do a good job at pulling it off but she felt extremely guilty.

'It's for the best, their morale will drop if they thought something happened to her. I just hope she's okay. She is okay, right? I just need to get everything sorted, and then we'll save her.'

'I promise we'll save you, Chloe'

Beca snapped her back to reality "Dude, so she's okay right?" "Yes, Beca" Aubrey smiled softly as she handed Beca back her phone. "Now, it's getting late okay, you should all get a good nights rest," she said whilst handing out a sheet of paper to each of them "This is the plan for tomorrow, so just read through it a few times before you go to bed. By morning our uniforms and fake police vehicles will be prepared, so rest up whilst you can" Aubrey then headed to the door "I need to go make some arrangements. But I mean it, rest up Bella's. And that's an order" Aubrey then headed outside.

"The air almost seems easier to breathe now that she's gone. Aubrey can be pretty intense huh" Stacie said with a slight chuckle "Yeah, she still ain't changed" Cynthia Rose added "Let's get an early night guys, we need to be prepared for everything tomorrow" Beca went to walk upstairs but Stacie blocked her path. Beca looked Stacie up and down "What?" "Y'know Beca, I've been thinking. You said you ran out on Chloe when she confessed to you right?" Beca awkwardly averted her eyes, she really didn't want to talk about it. "Well, why? What happened?" Stacie now had all of the rest of the Bella's attention and they were looking over at Beca. "Yeah Beca, what did happen?" Fat Amy asked.