Damaged

17

Hello Again! 

My baby Mariah up there

Jordan POV

  We all went back to our house before the neighbors got suspicious or worse, my "parents' came home. "What did you guys find?" I asked opening up the discussion. "Well we really didn't find too much in you parents room besides weapons and more tasers. "Well all I could find in the basement was dried blood, a dirty mattress and some old notes from Alex asking for help." I said. "We found a lot of traveling spots in your parents room and a couple of pictures." Sage said handing me some pictures of me, Alex and our parents. When everything was calm and good. I immediately started to feel bad for Mariah because she never got to experience things like this with our parents. I guess she sensed this because she sent me a smile and said it was OK.

  "I found some random hotel numbers and locations. They also has a list of things to get. Handcuffs, brass knuckles, tasers and allat." David said showing everyone the picture. Clearly those were meant for Alex.  What else would they use that shit for? "I found this black book in Alex's room and a couple more pictures of him and you guys together." she said to Sage and Aurora. "So he did keep those pictures." they said smiling at each other. "That's not all. I also found this paper in the corner of his mirror. It looks like Alex was gonna run away soon." she finished, passing the phone around. A rush of guilt and happiness came over me after she said that. I felt guilty that he was going through that all alone but also happy that he was determined to get away from them. Alex was always a fighter, physically and a and mentally. It would take a lot for you to break him.

  Sadly, our parents chipped away at that strength to the point that he barely had any left. "Basically, we found nothing. Looks like they are smarter then we thought. Let me see that book." I said to Mariah. She handed me the book and I started to read it. Alex was describing all of the things they did to him. One of the things he talked about was how he almost ate his own vomit because they haven't fed him in about 2 weeks and when he took a bite of a sandwich, his body rejected it. The next one talks about how they nearly beat him to death when he asked what the date was. As the tears fell from my eyes, I looked at the date in the corners of the pages to see when this all happened.   It was about four months after they left me stranded at grams. "They lied to him." I said flipping the page solemnly.

  "What you mean?" Sage asked. "They told him that I ran away from home when that was never the case. They left me." I said. I really didn't feel like going into detail. "Y'all listen we can't spend time dwelling on the little things. It's late and we have school tomorrow. I'm sure Alex wouldn't want y'all missing school." Mariah said. "You're right about. He doesn't play when it comes to school." Aurora said earning weak laughs from everyone. "Once school is over, we going to every hotel and motel in the city to search for my brother. They couldn't have gotten far." Mariah said. Everyone agreed. Tomorrow the search begins.

Two Weeks Later.

  "Is that the best y'all got? You two are weak as fuck!" I yelled at these weak ass niggas. "Shut the fuck up!" he said punching me in my face. I laughed as I spit out blood. "That tickled. I know you can do better then that." I said. I know you guys are probably saying "Alex shut up." but if I have to hold my strength. I have to be strong and have faith that they will find me. One once of weakness and my parents will take full advantage of that. Plus those hits are really weak as fuck. Looks like ole dud may be losing his touch. "He said shut the fuck up!" my mom said tasing me with two tasers. "Go sit ya little scary ass down somewhere." I said back to her. She and him got me fucked up. "That's it. Babe get the water." he said to her as she came back with a rag and water.

  He threw the rag over my face and then begin to pour water over me. Good thing I knew how to swim so I could control my breathing. To make matters worse, she was tasing me at the same time. I'll admit, that took me by surprise but I still didn't break my concentration. "What was all that shit you was saying earlier?" he said in between laughs. He lucky these zip ties are too tight. I would've been on his and her ass. "I think he's had enough. Let's go." he said as he and her laughed and walked out. "He was big and bad earlier. Now he's quiet as a church mouse." she laughed as they turned out the lights and slammed the door closed. "i have to get out of here. I can't depend on them for everything. I have to come up with a plan fast. Hell I don't even know where I'm at." I murmured to myself. 

  None of that matters, I have to get out of here. The question is how.

Sage POV

  "I'm sorry sir but we haven't seen this couple at all. They have never stayed with us before." the clerk said to Jordan. This is the 6th hotel we've been to all week. "I'm getting the fuck pissed!" I said as we walked out of the building. "I know this is frustrating but we have to take our chances. Alex could be right under our noses for all we know. We have to take every measure to find him no matter how ridiculous it may be." Aurora said patting me on my back. "What if we never find him in any of these hotels?" I asked. "The point of us coming to these places isn't to find him in one of the rooms. It's too see if they were or still are in the area. If they were, then we'll know he's somewhere around that specific location." Jordan explained. 

  "Not to be a Debbie Downer but what if none of the hotels seen your parents?" I asked. "We will go through hell and high water to find him! We came too far to lose him!" Jordan yelled. "You can count on that." Mariah agreed. "Guys I think we should go to the cops if this doesn't pan out the way we hoped." I said trying to be reasonable. "They'll be stuck just like we are! Then what help would they be?! My fucking brother is out there waiting for us to come and save him!" he said. "Y'all calm down. Jordan, she's just suggesting that we use all of our resources. That's all." Mariah said, defending me. He took a deep breath and calmed himself down. "I know. I just don't want to have any negative thoughts when it comes to this. I just want to find him." he said.

  "Believe me, we all do. We wouldn't be here if we weren't ." I said as we all hugged. "OK if none of these places have any recollection of my parents, then we'll go to the police. I just want to do things my way first before we get them involved." he said as we all agreed to that. "Jordan, even when we get them involved, that doesn't mean you have to stop looking." I said, trying to keep his spirits up. "Oh trust me, I won't. I will find my brother." he said with sheer determination. This is a serious moment for all of us and we're all dealing with it in our own ways. It's safe to say that no one have been their normal selves these past two weeks. Aurora lost some of her happiness, David barely talks, me and Jordan's tempers have gotten shorter. The only rational one of this group is Mariah. 

  She's the glue that's holding all of us together. Only issue is, how strong is that glue?

Alexander's POV    

  "Ready for round two?" he said punching me in my face, waking me up. "Honey why don't we tell him how we found him first?" she said. "Ah yes why don't we tell him? Well you see as we were scoping out your school, we overhead a few kids talking about a party. We asked who was hosting the party and they told us it was this kid named Tahj. You know him correct? Of course you do. We asked them to point Tahj out to us, which they did. When he asked who we were, we told him that we were concerned parents looking for our child. We said that you ran away from home about two months ago and we were desperately looking for you. Him being the naive teen he is, told us that you may be at his party and that he would be willing to help us out. We told him that he might have to use some force as you wouldn't come easily. Just as he said, you was at the party."

  "He called us and told us to wait around back so that he could bring you to us. He just had to wait for an opening. You went went outside, he took that opening and viola, you're here with us. Aren't we amazing parents?" he said with a smile. Note to self, fuck Tahj up when I get out of here. Accident or not, you don't do shit like this. "You two are sick fucks!"I said as I spit in his face. "No, we are smart fucks. You kids today are the gullible ones. Will believe anything you hear without even questioning it. Babe, bring me my brass knuckles. He's ready for the second round." he said as he cracked his knuckles. 

I'm back and I'm better! 

Authors, did you ever know where you wanted to go with a story/chapter but didn't know how you wanted to go about it?

Did y'all expect Tahj to be the one that helped Alex's parents?

Dark stories seem to be my thing. I miss Reese.

Thoughts?

Alex?

Aurora?

Sage?

Mariah?

Jordan?

Their Parents?