Under the Light

Chapter One

The train was late. The train was never late. Something must be terribly wrong. There was barley anyone at the train station, which was weird because normally it is packed. The next thing I knew was that a tall man was standing over me. He suddenly pulled a gun and put it to my back and told me to walk like nothing was wrong. this was four years ago, it is hard to imagine that this was the last time that I had seen day light. I was 14 years old and on my way to school, and I was worrying about the train being late, little did I know that all my worries would soon change.

My name is Alisha Brent-water, I am currently 18 years old. I have been locked in a what we call the cage for four years with two others. Their names are Lucy and Jacob. Lucy has been here for 6 months and she is 20 years old. Jacob has been here for five years and is now currently 18. We have all become closes friends down here and we would do anything to protect each other. We get food twice a day, but it is only small portions, sometimes we save food for the days that our kidnapper forgets to feed us. We don't know who our kidnapper is because we are never allowed out of the "cage" except for when we are doing his house work, and anytime he comes down to give us food or take on of us away he or she is always wearing a mask. Jacob is tough and always tells me that everything is going to be okay and he is going to get us out of here.
Jacob has blond hair and blue eyes, he is quite the looker, despite the lack of energy, food and clean clothes. He saves his strength for when the kidnapper comes down so that he may find a way to escape but he is always knocked out and not fed for days, so i told him to stop and that we would find another way out.
Jacob is a bad boy, he has told me all about his past and everything that he has done. But the person he has told me about is not who he is down here, he is sweet and caring. The way he explained himself before was like he wouldn't care about me or anyone else down here, but that's just not the case, he cares for me.

Me well I was a good girl, never did anything wrong, but getting to know Jacob has slightly started to change who I am and I am thankful for that, because if he didn't change me then I would most certainly be dead. He made me tough, and taught me how to fight. I have been with him down her for four years and I think that I am starting to fall in-love with him.

Every night the attacker takes one of us out of the "cage" to do his house work, most of the time he has friends over and they get drunk and do unimaginable things to me, Jacob never cops any of it, I'm guessing Because he's a guy. He is just sent up to do the work and then is sent back down. I sometimes wonder why he is here. Maybe it was a mistake. Maybe Jacob got in the way? But we don't know but I am extremely thankful that he is here.

When Jacob and I are out of the "cage" we look for ways to escape but we are always unlucky. Out attacker has all his windows barred, all his doors have two locks on them with a security camera and an alarm attached to it, and out cage has padlocks on the outside so there is no way we are going to be able to break through those. I have attempted to steal the attacker's keys before but he caught me and ties me to his bed and whipped me so many times that the scars won't go away. This all happened 3 weeks ago and I haven't been let out of the cage since. Jacob has had to do all the work because Lucy isn't allowed out of the "cage" until she has been here for a year. It's some kind of ritual that he has. He didn't let Jacob out for a year and he didn't let me out for a year.

We don't know why there was such a big gap between me and Lucy in the kidnappings because he took Jacob and I a year apart from each other. We thought that he wasn't going to take anyone else's until Lucy showed up. And we don't know how many more he plans on taking.

Tonight was my first night back out of the "cage", and I could already hear all his friends up their making a racket. I was scared. It had been so long since I had been up there and I didn't know what he was going to do to me. At this point I was rocking back and forth on my bed with my eyes closed telling myself that everything was going to be okay. The bed suddenly dipped and a warm hand was placed on my knee. I opened my eyes rapidly but it was only Jacob. "Why are you stressing leish? , it going to be alright, I'm going to get us out of here, I promise" Jacob always knew the right thing to say. I through my arms around him and started weeping. "What if he hurts me again? What is his friends rape me again Jake?" Jacob pulls back from the hug and runs his hands through my hair, "its all going to be alright baby girl, ill be right here when you get back, and just think when we get out of here and were safe and we come back with the police to take him down, I will beat the absolute shit out of him alright." I opened my mouth to respond when the "cage" door came barging open and our attacker came barging in, but this time he didn't have his mask on. He has short brown hair and tattoos all over his neck. Which made him look scary. But the thing that stood out the most was that he had a huge scar across his face. I sucked in a big breath just as he spoke "Come one baby cake, we've been waiting for you" he had a side smirk and he winked at me. I stood up not wanting to disobey his orders and just as I was about to walk Jacob grabbed my hand and gave it a gentle squeeze, I turned back and smiled at, a smile that told him everything was going to be okay.

Why was this time different? Why wasn't he wearing his mask like always? What changed?