How to love

Part 3

Nikki's P.O.V

I can't believe that we're actually leaving out of this place. I won't have to deal with anyone else picking on me. This idea of leaving was like a breath of fresh air to me.

We planned to leave tomorrow. Max had to get some supplies and he wanted me to get our clothes together. We couldn't take a suitcase with us otherwise we wouldn't get very far with it. They'd be searching for us. Not the 'parents' we have now, but those kids who liked to pick on me. They always said if I didn't show up for school so they could beat me up that they would come find me.

There'd be no my toilet flushes, no more bloody noses, no more fights everyday, and no more almost getting me and my brother expelled from school.

I didn't see why they had to threaten to punish us both when it was me causing problems. I felt like I needed to make them pay, but I knew better.

I had gotten all of our stuff together. I had his three pairs of clothes and my three pair of clothes. I grabbed some socks and stuffed them in there. I grabbed whatever I thought we would need.

Max had said he'd be back in about two hours. It's been five hours. I had to go find him. I know he had told me to not leave the house no matter what, but I was worried.

I went downstairs. My so called Mom and Dad were in the kitchen talking quietly. I stopped to listen.

"No one is going to notice if the boy is gone Sherry."

"The girl will notice and she'll come asking. Those people paid us good money, muggle money, our type of money, to keep those two kids safe in this house."

"That girl won't know nothin'. You heard them say that they'd be back to get her after they found him."

The old man sighed. I went outside and looked around. I listened carefully and I could just barely hear it. My brother's voice calling out for me. I knew it was him it had to be. He was the only one that called me 'Nick'. It was the pet name only me and him knew of.

I ran in the direction that I heard him calling from. I was stepping on so many fallen leaves and twigs, and I didn't care how much noise I was making. I had to get to my brother. He was the most important person in my life. I wasn't letting anyone take him away from me.

I started calling for my brother and immediately his voice stopped calling out my name. I kept running in the direction of my brother's voice.

I came up into a clearing and there was a body lying there on the ground. 'Oh god please don't let him be dead.' I thought to myself.

I went up next to the body. It was a dummy doll laying there. I jumped up and looked around quickly. Someone had tricked me to get me out here.

A man in a hood was in the clearing. He was in the exact direction that I came from.

"Hello daughter."

"Who are you?!" I mad a silent call to Max through our mind link. 'Max help! I'm in the old clearing. I was tricked and there's a man here calling himself my father. Help!'

'Nikki what are you doing I told you to stay at the house.'

'They said you'd gotten kidnapped, I had to come find you,'

'Nikki I'm in our room. I'm coming to get you. Just stall him long enough until I get there.'

"So daughter are you ready to come home?"

"What do you mean, I'm not going anywhere with you. I don't even know if your my real father."

"So your brother has told you that those muggles aren't your real parents."

I started to feel a squeezing in my throat. That man was doing this to me. His fist was clench like it was squeezing the life out of something.

"Let me go! Please! My brother is coming for me."

"He won't get here in time. All your mother and I want is for you to come home."

The squeezing became tighter. I dropped to my knees. I could feel myself going in and out of consciousness. Max had not yet shone up. I was worried he wouldn't make it.

"Daughter tell me your name."

I shook my head. Names have power even if they aren't your true one.

"What was it we had programmed that dummy to say to get you out here?"

My eyes widened. He knew. He could make me do just about anything with this name.

"Nikki?"

I stood up straight. I'd lost control over my body. 'Max stay away! Stay away! He has control over my body!'

'I'm not leaving you with that man. I'm coming for you. I'm almost there.'

"Daughter I have an assignment for you."

I only looked at him. I couldn't talk out loud anymore. I'm scared out of my mind. What if he told me that I had to do something that I didnt like. What if he told me to kill my brother?!