Stealing Innocence

Part two Ch. Eight

PART TWO: Distractions

Upon entrance to the house Ashlynn's hands were tied so that she had to stay sitting in a chair in the living room with no chance of running. Shayne, seeing how stressed Cameron was, went to his room and came back with what looked like a cigarette.

“Here Cameron it will help you relax. You know you're stressed if you actually taped her mouth shut.” Cameron took it and lit it taking a long drag like a professional. The smell hit her nose and Ashlynn realized it was weed. They were smoking right in the room with her there.

After thinking about it a second she realized smoking might help her relax. She heard stories about how drugs could make you forget, that’s the only thing she wants so she decided to give in and try it though she had never done it before. She tried to ask for a try but the guys couldn't understand her. The tape muffled her sound and slurred her words together.

 Bryce, curious about what she was trying to say came over and took the tape off her mouth. After a second of rubbing her jaw so it stopped hurting she was able to ask Bryce to untie her too.

“No Bryce leave her tied,” Shayne sounded irritated.

“I was just going to go sit by Cameron,” Cameron studied her second. He must have heard the sincerity in her voice or seen the truth in her eyes. He nodded at Bryce signaling he can cut her loose. Bryce gently untied her hands and feet so she could get up. She carefully and cautiously walked over and sat by Bryce, who was taking another hit.

When he reached out to pass it to Shayne Ashlynn reached out and took it. She looked at it a second before putting it to her lips and sucking the sweet smoke into her mouth. She let the smoke go into her lungs and then breathed it out coughing the entire time. Shayne laughed and took it from her hands.

 “First time?” Ashlynn nodded slightly. Shayne also smoked it like a pro and the smoke passed around the circle. By the third hit Ashlynn was already feeling relaxed and was lying across Cameron’s lap. By the fifth she could hit it like a pro and she wasn't acting so nervous. She was beginning to have a good time and so the guys decided to take advantage of the opportunity and got out a video game to play. Upon finding out it was a racing game Ashlynn nabbed a controller and tried to play but the pot was clouding her brain and she kept running into the sides of the track slowly destroying the car she had so carefully picked out at the beginning of the game. At one point she fell over leaning into the turn her car on the screen made and landed in Cameron’s lap.They both began to laugh uncontrollably and were soon rolling on the floor clutching their stomachs. They tried to quiet themselves but every time they got close something would spark up their amusement again and they would be back right where they started.

Ashlynn was a very funny person when she was high. She was easily amused too. The slightest thing could make her laugh for the longest time. Her laugh was beautiful. Every time she laughed Cameron smiled thinking about the fact that they had made her laugh. He didn't like watching her walk around upset all the time. He just wanted her to be happy with him and share the same feelings. Even though it didn't seem like it he did just want her to be happy.

When the smoke was gone she was starting to feel really hungry and so she headed to the kitchen to find something to eat. Instead she found Bryce making cookies, even better. Since she had time to kill she went back to the living room and sat on Cameron joking about how she was going to squish him. A movie was put in and they sat there cuddling. Halfway through the movie Cameron got his wish, Ashlynn and he were kissing.

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The fear caused her eyes to darken and her face to fall, she could see no end in sight. There was no chance to get away. With the pot clouding her brain she couldn’t even pretend to make a plan of escape. She was stuck in this house indefinitely. Accepting her fate she sat in the dark of the living room. She had snuck out of Cameron’s room. He had tried to take advantage of her and she got nervous and walked out. With the doors padlocked he didn't follow her to make sure she didn't run. Instead he left her to her thoughts hoping she would calm down. He doesn’t want to hurt her he just wants to be with her, all she had to do was say no and he would have stopped. If he could he would take back the kiss they had just shared if it meant he could hold her again. He had forgotten that pot could make you more emotional, if she had none in her system she probably wouldn't have left she would have just said no and called it good.

Downstairs Ashlynn was trapped in her thoughts. She couldn’t differentiate between the feelings from the pot and what was real. It scared her the feelings she had felt upstairs. She didn't leave because she didn't want to be with Cameron, she left because just as badly as he did she wanted them to be together. All her life she had been taught that sex was bad and that you weren’t supposed to do it. They were taught to fear it, that you should only have sex with a husband because then they can’t leave you if you get pregnant. She wasn't worried about a baby though, because she truly wanted one. She was worried about what people would think if she had sex with her captor. She thought he was beautiful and had a very kind heart but he had taken her from the safety of her home and wounded her to a point she was unsure as to if the feelings that had awoken would ever go away. Would she live in fear the rest of her life? Or would she actually be able to forget and live a happy normal life of a teenager.

There was the sound of footsteps coming down the stairs and before she knew it Cameron was standing before her wearing only a pair of soft looking sweatpants. His muscled stomach was on display with his lack of clothing and Ashlynn could not take her eyes off of him, “Ashlynn I’m sorry. I didn't mean to upset you. I swear I wasn't going to force myself on you, I just wanted to see how far you trusted me. All you had to do was tell me to stop and I wouldn't have tried anything. Please give me another chance, I want you to trust me not fear me,” the sincere look in his eyes reassured her that he was telling the truth but she was still unsure as to what to do. She wasn't ready to take that giant step with a guy she hadn’t seen since they were children.

He sat down on the couch beside her and reached an arm around her shoulder, “Ashlynn please can I just hold you?”

She hesitated at first, but he gently pulled her to him and she slowly relaxed in his arms, “Don’t worry I won’t do anything except hold you,” She sat there leaned up against him, her head on his chest, listening to the beating of his heart. The sound was so comforting. It was like the sound was reassuring her that he had a heart which meant he was capable of feeling, capable of loving without hurting her. She wanted to trust him she really did but it was so hard to do when she knew what he was capable of. He did kidnap her right from her home while she was asleep, what else could he do?

After a few moments he began to rub her back and she instantly relaxed, the feeling soothing her jittery nerves and allowing her to fall asleep right there on the couch with his arms around her.

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