Young Love {SEQUEL}

Chapter 2

"We have to move you." The man with ominous green eyes informs.

"Why? Because the police know you assholes are holding an innocent woman hostage!?" She shrieks and he chuckles.

His laughter echoes in the basement as he approaches her, sending chills down her spine.

He distracts her as he pulls out a knife with one hand up to her throat, and he takes a needle and injects something in her arm with the other hand.

Her vision goes foggy, and all she hears is "....Jake....idiot.... Night...."

When she wakes, her wrists are burning and tightly tied behind her back. She looks around her and realizes she's in the back of a truck of some sort.

Suddenly there's a loud bang and she's sent flying onto the side of the vehicle, hitting her head hard against it.

She groans, mind fuzzy. She can see the latch to open the doors of what appears to be a van, but her body doesn't seem to want to listen to her mind.

She screams MOVE on the inside, but it's like she's lost control of her body and can't.

~

"Happy Mother's Day." Elise whispers to herself. She gets out of bed and walks into Lucas' room.

She notices how comfortable he is and she decides to look around.

Anytime her mother is mentioned he gets all sad, and anytime her dad is mentioned, it's like he's punishing her by giving her the silent treatment.

She goes through a couple boxes beside his bed, finding nothing but decorations inside and once, a water balloon.

Disappointed, she finds herself looking around the bathroom, and then his closet.

She scrunches her nose as the smell of his shoes inside, disgusting.

It isn't until she spots a small book with the word Memories on top that she feels she's hit the jackpot.

She opens it up and finds pictures of Lucas' family. He's wearing goofy cowboy outfits and has what she would describe as a stupid look on his face.

Then a small blonde girl with similar features of her own slowly begins to appear in some pictures.

She wore leather jackets, t-shirts, jeans, and sometimes dresses with converse.

She never seemed to smile in the pictures, which made her seem almost exotic.

As the pair grows older, she can tell they get closer, hugging, pressing their faces against each other, shooting each other amused looks.

She stops at one where the blonde is mid-laugh, and Lucas is looking at her like she is his entire world.

Elise looks over at Lucas who is still fast asleep and takes this picture. She shoves it in her back pocket real quick and continues scanning the closet.

She then looks above her and notices a bunch of stuff is clustered together in the closet where she can't reach.

She heads into the kitchen and drags a chair into the closet, pausing only to see if Lucas is going to wake, and when he doesn't, she proceeds.

She climbs up and on her toes, with all her power, tugs on the edge of the box until she loses balance and falls, all the things inside the box fall with her.

"Elise!?" Lucas calls out.

"I'm okay!" She shouts, kicking away the memories scrapbook and grabbing a locket from the box.

He immediately pulls the stuff off of her and puts them back, "What are you doing?"

"I was looking for things to color with." She tells him innocently as he basically shoves her out of his room.

"I'll buy you more later today, okay?" He assures and she grins and nods, running off into her room.

Ignoring her odd behavior, he recollects himself and goes into the closet, reminiscing for only a minute before shutting the door and then deciding to make something to eat.

~

Faith places a lego onto what appears to be a tower and she seems content. Finely on the other hand keeps screaming, "COOOKIEEEE."

He approaches his sister's tower and knocks it down, causing her to panic and cry.

"Finely, that's not nice." Riley tells him and he glares at her an decides to build another tower. Ultimately, he knocks this one down too. Attempting to aggravate his mother like the cookie dilemma upset him.

She rolls her eyes as she pulls some hot chicken nuggets out of the oven. When she turns around she notices her hopeless husband outside holding a puppy.

"Farkle I swear to god," she says, approaching the door. He smiles at Riley as she opens the door for him, "It was SO cute. On the way home from work, I saw it staring at me with its cute eyes on the street and I just had to save it."

"You're pathetic." She tells him with a smile.

"I prefer the term a hero." He tells her, puffing out his chest before introducing the fluffy brown dog to his children.

"You'll have to buy dog food! And clean up after it!!" She shouts.

Riley sighs as she places the food onto several different plates. She looks around for the napkins until an old photograph catches her eye and she frowns.

"What should we name her?" Farkle shouts from the living room.

"Her?" Riley repeats and he nods.

"Maya." She tells him, and his smile wavers for a second before he nods, "Maya is perfect."