Gotta Be You: A Luke Brooks FanFiction

Chapter 21

Luke's POV

I was so hung over. My ears were ringing so loudly and I was trying desperately to keep my eyes open.

When I was finally able to get up from my seat on the sofa, I checked the time on my phone, 9:35. I saw Ariana, and all of the boys passed out on the floor or on one of the bar stools with their heads on the counter. Jade was the only one not hungover and she was helping the manager clean up the mess of empty beer cups from the floor. I looked everywhere and AJ was no where to be found. I walked over to the guy behind the bar, cleaning up the really messy counter.

"Hey, have you seen a girl about 5'1, wearing a black dress, straight hair, and like really tall stilettos? Name is AJ if you happened to hear it last night." I asked, hoping that he would know. That guy was pretty much my only hope besides Jade, but she can barely remember anything.

"Yeah I did. I saw her being dragged out that back door by some guy wearing all black" He says, pointing to the back door.

"Did you happen to see what he looked like?" I ask, my voice shaking with worry.

"Uh yeah, he was actually on the news last month. He had dirty blond hair, and had the coldest blue eyes you'll ever see" He says, picking up one of the dirty cups from the counter and cleans it with the dish rag that was in his apron pocket.

"Oh my god!!!" I exclaimed out loud. I walked back over to everyone and yelled "EVERYONE WAKE THE FUCK UP!!!"

"Luke what the fuck!!! I am hungover and tired. Why are you yelling at the top of you..." Beau trails off. "Where's AJ?" He asks, after scanning around the room. noticing that AJ was nowhere in sight.

"That's the thing, she was kidnapped by Mark last night when we were all wasted."

Ariana's POV

Hearing that AJ had been kidnapped made me want to curl up in a ball and cry. While I've been living with her, I learned how fragile she is. I can only imagine what Mark is doing to her.

"What are we gonna do?" I manage to ask before the floods of tears came running down my cheeks. I tuck my knee's to my chin and bury my head in my hands. I feel Jai put his arms around me but I ignore him.

"I don't know what we're gonna do but... I just want my girlfriend back!" Luke cries out. I look up and see Luke crying and Jai is hugging him.

"Oh fuck, why was I so stupid?!!!" I cry out. "AJ has her little GPS thingy on her phone. I can track where she is and we can call the police." I pull my phone out and start typing stuff in.

"Did you find out where she is?" Luke asks quietly, looking up from the floor.

"Yeah, she's just around the corner in the apartment above the drug store"

"Well what are we waiting for? Lets go!!!" Skip yells out, running outside and we all follow him.

AJ's POV

Where am I? And why do I keep hearing voices? And why can't I see anything? I ask myself. A mask is then pulled off of my head and I find myself in a dark empty room with one window and I'm tied up with rope. I tried getting out of the ropes but they were tied so tightly.

"Stop trying to get out. I tied them so tightly that even a bodybuilder can't get out of them. Besides, you're just a wimpy baby anyway" Mark spats, walking into the room and locking the door behind him, so I couldn't escape. 

"I am not a baby!!" I whisper. I tried yelling but whatever Mark used to drug me last night made my voice weak and soft.

"Oh I'm sorry, I couldn't hear you with your wimpy baby voice!!!" Mark shouts, slapping me in the face. I felt the stinging sensation on my face but I didn't dare reach out to touch my cheek, for fear that Mark would hit me again.

Just as Mark was about the walk out of the room my phone made that familiar pinging noise that only happens when I get lost in the mall and my friends have to find me with the GPS. Fuck!! I thought. Why didn't I turn it off?

"Trying to use your phone to escape huh?!" Mark yells, grabbing the phone from my pocket and slamming it on the floor. The one thing that I loved as much as my family and boyfriend has just smashed into huge chunks of glass.

"Can't get away that easily" Mark chuckles, bringing me out of my thoughts."I'll be back. Don't do anything stupid". The door slams shut behind him and I hear the click of the lock from the other side.

Alright AJ, I say you only have about two minutes until Mark comes back up here. So come up with an escape plan quick! I think to myself. Before I looked for an escape, I looked at myself in one of the shiny shards of glass and saw that my face has tons of bruises and a a black eye. I looked down at my ankles and there were bruises and a pretty deep gash just below my ankle bone. And with these ropes so tight, I was probably gonna have some pretty bad rope burn. But that didn't matter right now. Right now, I needed to find a way out of here. I looked around the room, hoping there would be something sharp for me to cut the ropes with. I look over and see a huge chunk of glass lying next to me.

After cutting all the ropes off, I look around the room to see if there was a way to escape. Then I remember the window! 

Luckily the window was not locked so it easily opened. When I opened it up, I saw Luke and the group as well as the police. I then realized that I was also on the third floor of the building.

"AJ YOU GOTTA JUMP!!! I PROMISE THAT I'LL CATCH YOU!!!" Luke yells up to me.

"I CAN'T, I'M TOO SCARED!!" I yelled, trying to be quiet so Mark wouldn't hear me.

"AJ, I PROMISE I WILL CATCH YOU. I WON'T LET YOU FALL!!" Luke yells. Just then, an angry Mark comes storming in the room.

"You cannot get away!!! You are meant to be punished!!" He yells, running to the window. I knew I had to make up my mind quickly. Either jump and hope I don't die, or let Mark kill me. Well I certainly ain't letting Mark get what he wants, so I guess I'm jumping.

I stood on the ledge and just as Mark was about to pull me back inside, I jumped off, leaving him speechless. And just as promised, Luke caught me.

As I laid in Luke's arms and the paramedics were checking out the damage, I started to doze off.

"AJ, can you hear me? AJ, wake up! Wake up" One of the paramedics was trying to wake me up. But it was too late.

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A/N: I'm just messing with you. The story is not ending that quickly. So AJ isn't dead. But what do you think is gonna happen next? Well, you're just gonna have to wait until the next update. (You're lucky I actually wanted to write the next chapter early)