I Knew You Once

Chapter 4

"My girl is gonna love me even more." Mason is getting out of his car with the snacks and movie.

Mason is walking to the door, he is getting out his keys. With all of the bags in his hand he drops his keys. When he reaches down to get the keys his head pushes the door open.

"What's going on?" Mason yelled from the door.

Nothing had happened yet. Bryan turns around. "Here he comes, the boyfriend." Bryan gets off of me and puts on his pants. "You here to rescue this piece of crap?"

Mason raised his fist and punches Bryan in the face. "You're the piece of crap!"

Bryan falls to the floor, he's trying to get up. Mason kicks him and drags him to the restroom. He blocks the restroom door with a chair. I am laying there in shock, he saved me. I can't get up. Mason runs to me and picks me up.

"I will never forgive myself for leaving you here alone." He moves my hair away from my face. He pulls me close and starts to cry.

I've never seen him cry before. I touch his face and wipe his tears. "You did nothing wrong." I move closer to his body and cuddle to his warmth.

Mason calls the police and stays with me through the whole night. "Go to sleep, you need to rest."

I go to sleep but Mason doesn't. He stays awake the whole night watching me, watching the door. The police don't come until the next day.

There is banging at the door. Mason pulls out a pocket knife, puts it behind his back and walks to open the door. He reaches for the knob and opens the door. It's the police. There are two policemen.

"Someone called for a rapist involvement?" The policeman said.

Mason shoves the pocket knife in his back pocket. "He's in there." Mason points to the restroom door.

The policemen see the chair. "You locked him in there?"

Mason nods. "Yes, sir." Mason always had manners around grown folks.

The policeman opens the restroom door. Bryan is standing there with a gun in his hand. The policemen raises their gun. "Stand down son." The policeman says.

"The girl comes with me or I shoot you all." Bryan looks at me and mouths the words "You're mine."

I felt so weak. No more! "Take me! You mean nothing to me! Why not show you how much I don't care!"

Mason looks at me surprised. He comes to me. "What are you doing. Do you want to die? I need you to survive. I love you so much, I can't lose you." He holds my arms and looks into my eyes trying to change my mind.

I touch his face. "I have to." I kiss him. "I love you. You're not going to lose me. I'll be fine. I need to be stronger for us and myself." I let go of his face. Give him a hug. I get off the bed and walk towards Bryan.

"I'll change your mind." Bryan looks at me. "You're gonna love me."

He puts down the gun and the policemen still raises theirs. I put my hand on the policeman's arm to show it was okay.

I walked to Bryan's car, he blindfolded me as he drove. "We're here." He took off the blindfolds. "This is where we will live happily ever after."

In front of me was a big house, nice cars, and a beautiful lady. "Mom, this is my girlfriend." Bryan told this to the lady.

I smiled and played along. "Nice to meet you ma'am." I shook her hand.

The lady smiled back. "What a pretty young lady." She pointed her hand towards the front door of her house. "Come child, meet the rest of the family."

I walked into the house and saw three girls. Two were my age and the others were younger. There were six boys that were all about Mason's age.

Bryan's mom pointed to the three girls in order. "This is Madison, Sophia, and Jana."

"Sophia?" Was this the Sophia from Mason's phone?

Sophia's eyes widened. She ran upstairs and I followed. "Excuse me, where's your bathroom?" I asked Bryan's mom. I lied so I can follow Sophia. I went upstairs to find her.

"Do you know Mason?" I asked Sophia.

"I... I'm an old friend." Sophia replied.

"It's okay, I'm not mad. I believe you. How do you know Mason?"

"I'm helping him."

"What? Is he in trouble?"

"No, but you are. Well, you were."

"Did you know Bryan was coming?"

"I've been talking to Mason. Warning him about someone who might come to you."

"If he knew this, why'd he keep leaving me?"

"I told him it was okay at first. I tried texting him but he didn't answer. I needed to warn him about Bryan."

"What are you girls talking about?" Bryan walked into the room.

"I'm just giving her a warm welcome." Sophia lied.

I fell asleep later. Bryan carried me to his room. When I woke up in the middle of the night, he wasn't there. This was my chance. I went into his closet and looked for things, anything suspicious. There was a box on the shelf. I grabbed a chair to get the box. I got the box and opened it. In the box were pictures of girls. There was one picture of me. Each picture of the girls had a red mark on it except mine. There was a notebook filled with names. I looked for my name. By each name was a date. Next to my name, was a date for tomorrow.

"You shouldn't look through people's stuff." Bryan walked into the room. He grabbed my arm and stuck a needle in my neck. I blacked out.