Trust No Man

M.I.A.

XAVIER'S P.O.V.

Sexually harassed? Why wouldn't she tell me this?

I go inside the house to find her. "She left." my mother says patting my back. "Where did she go?" I ask. "She didn't say, just left in a huff." mom says. I go upstairs now enraged that my cousin was harassing her. Sexually. Sex is a very sensitive topic for her. I get to the top of the stairs. "Hey cousin. How goes it?" asks Henry like nothing. I pick him up and pin him to the wall. "What have you done to Elizabeth?" I almost yell in his face.

"Whatever do you mean dear cousin?" he asks a smirk creeping on his face.

"Don't play dumb." I say.

"I would never hurt her." he says sincerely. "But what did you say to her? I've been here two days! Two bloody days and you do this!" I shout in his face, now loosing control. I feel someone pull me away. It's Nick. He holds me back by the shoulder. Me and Nick start walking away. "Xavier?" Henry says as I turn. "What is an unbelievably sexy woman doing with you? She should be with me. And what a bum she ha-" I interrupt his sentence with my fist. He falls to the ground with his hand on his cheek. Nick comes up behind me, but instead of holding me back he moves past me and to Henry. He picks him up, dusts him off, and tidies up his shirt. Henry smiles and offers his hand. Nick cracks his knuckles. Henry's face goes pale. Nick then punches Henry dead in the face. Henry falls again. Nick kneels down in front of him. Henry's nose is gushing blood. "I told you to not touch my sister. You did and now look at you. If you ever talk about my sister like that again I'll punch you again. You hear me?" Nick says. Henry nods his head. Nick turns to me. "Where is she?" he asks. "I don't know." I say. We go downstairs and get the car keys. It's time to go find her. I wonder where she could be.

ELIZABETH'S P.O.V.

I find myself in a bar that I found. I know I shouldn't be out alone , but I don't want to be with anyone I know right now. I sit at the bar drinking a virgin Shirley temple. "You okay?" asks the bartender. "Yeah I'm fine." I say. "Doesn't sound like it." she points out. "Hi I'm Annie." she says offering her hand. I take it into mine. "Elizabeth. Nice to meet you." I say. I smile. Annie and I start talking. Soon we feel as though we would be perfect friends. We have most things in common and whatever we don't is a minor thing. She's really cool. She now knows plenty about me and I about her. I feel so comfortable with her i tell her ,maybe a little more than needed, about my current situation,and Xavier and Henry. It's nice to have a female friend to talk to. The bar starts getting full and and she has to attend to her job. Before she leaves I give her my number. I'd like to keep in touch.

I stay at the bar for like an hour total. I'm just sitting there drinking. I don't think too much about the situation. I mean I didn't tell him so how would he know? But he just started throwing accusations like no bodies business. I can't believe he would think I cheated on him. Then on top of that with his cousin. Ewww. Gross. Although I should apologize because it wouldn't have happened if I had told him the first time it happened. I pay for my drink, say bye to Annie and head out. I scan the parking lot for my car. I find it more towards the back. when I'm about to go some muscular guy in like his late 40's to early 50's comes up to me. "You remind me of someone." He says. "Oh really who?" I say playing along but I ask sincerely. I look at him a little closer. He has eyes like Nick. They also have similar hair. Also they have the same stuck out nose. They both have the same lips. Oh no. I know who this is. "Yeah you look like someone I used to date back when I was still handsome." We both laughed at his joke, I laugh a little less. I know who he's talking about. I look exactly like my mother. "Hey what's your name?" He asks. I was more then a little reluctant to say. Although he probably doesn't remember me anyways. "Elizabeth." I say. His eyes go wide. Oh no. He remembers. "I had a daughter named that." he says. I talk before he fully realizes who I am. "I better get going I'm late to-" before I could get my excuse out he was saying, "Oh nonsense! I finally meet my daughter and she wants to leave. Thats horrendous. Let me buy you a drink." he says moving forward. "I'm not your daughter." I say. "Oh yes you are. You look just like Blaire. I distinctly remember her having a daughter named that." he says matter a factly. "Well I'm not your daughter. You never acted like a father." I say. "Well sweetie times were tuff and I couldn't have kids tagging along." he says. "So you just left her alone with to young kids with no money or food?" I almost yell. "Well she did a pretty good job. I mean look how gorgeous you are." He reached for my face and I flinched away. "Don't touch me." I say coldly. "I'll touch you however I want" , he yells and slaps me. I start running away. I feel my phone in my back pocket start to fall out. I pull it out and stuff it in my bra. Shit. Dead end. I breath heavily as I put my back against the brick wall. My 'father' was getting closer and closer. I yelled. Screamed in a matter of fact. After my first scream he had his grubby fingers on my mouth muffling any sound. I didn't want to lick him because he's dirty. "Hello is anyone there?" I heard Annie in the distance. My 'father' ducked behind a garbage can and had me wrapped in his arms. I couldn't move even if I did it wouldn't be much. I heard Annie's voice get closer. "Hello? Is there someone here?" she said. Her footsteps began to fade. until the only thing I could hear was his breathing. "Shut 'cher face if you wanna live." he whispered in my ear. I nodded my head. He then stood up and held me at the waist. I felt a small rod in my side. "It's fully loaded." he whispers again. A gun. He'll kill me. Oh no ,oh no ,oh no. I started panicking but stayed calm on the outside. He escorted me to the back of the car. He opened the empty trunk and told me to feel around. I bent over and started looking for nothing. He then pushed me in and slammed the trunk shut. I hear him start the car. I feel the tires start rolling away. I try to wave out the window but they're all tinted. I lay in the trunk. I cry quietly to myself. No ones ever gonna find me. What is he going to do to me? Where are we going? I'm gonna die.

~Hours Later~

XAVIER'S P.O.V.

"We've been searching for hours. Where could she be?" Says Nick. "Maybe she's at this little bar I know of. It's the only place we haven't checked." says Henry. After he stopped blubbering like a baby he decided to help search for her. We've checked under every rock over ever bird. Nothing.

We arrive at the bar Henry was talking about. We enter and are greeted by the bartender. "What can I get 'cha boys?" she asks us. "Nothing thank you. But have you seen this girl?" I ask showing her a picture of Elizabeth I have on my phone. "Yeah,that's Elizabeth. She was here a few hours ago. Why?" ,she said suspiciously. "Well I'm her boyfriend, this is her brother, and this is my cousin." I say pointing to Nick and Henry when I introduced them. "Oh, so your the douche that's been feelin' on her." she said a bit angrily referring to Henry. "Your the perfect boyfriend." she says pointing at me, a little happy.

"And who exactly are you? Since you know so much." says Nick growing impatient and steps closer to her face. "And your the 'supportive' brother." she says with a snort before she continues. "And I'm Annie. Elizabeth told me everything." Nick and Annie continued to look at each other with hard eyes.

I break up their staring contest by saying,"Well, Elizabeth is missing and we can't find her. We wanted to know if you could help us or give us some information."

Annie turns her attention to me, worry obvious in her face. "Well, when she left I was busy." She sounded like she felt sorry. "The only thing I could tell you is I heard a scream in the back but when I went to check there was nothing and no one. I was there for a few minutes. Thats it." Annie finishes. "Well if you hear from her could you call us?" I ask. "Sure can. I'll keep my eyes peeled for her." she said assuringly. "Thanks." I say as we begin to leave. But not before Nick can get her number. He says it's for 'emergency contact' purposes. I don't believe him one bit. I saw Annie blush and laugh. Emergency Purposes. Yeah.