Shredded Love

Chapter 1

The streets were dark and deserted, the night air was crisp as I made my way home after a long shift at the café, I pull my jacket closer to me as I heard my phone ding. I stop under a street light that's glowing a pinkish dull colour and check my phone.

MUMMA BEAR- Hey honey I know your probably on your way home from work already but I just wanted to say goodnight before I head off to bed. I love you baby girl xx

SOPHIE- No worries mum I'm almost halfway home, I love you too see you tomorrow, I won't be over until around lunch time xx

MUMMA BEAR- Okay baby girl xx

I put my phone back in my pocket and rub my cold hands together hoping for a little bit of friction to heat them up, but to no avail I sigh and start walking again.

Mum texts me a lot because I'm an only child and also because she gets lonely, ever since dad died last year her and I have become a lot closer than we ever had previously.

I jump as a noise comes from behind me, I turn as fast as the wind only to be staring at an empty street. I let out a light chuckle as I see a cat run out of an ally, poor kitty probably scared himself.

Suddenly a deep voice whispers in my ear "I like your laugh" and before I can scream bloody murder a white cloth appears in front of my mouth and everything goes black.

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I let out a few loud coughs as I come too, my eyes open and I survey my surroundings and although its dark I can still see obviously the concrete floor, a mattress, a tatty blanket that distinctly smells like pee and wet dog, concrete walls one of which has chains bolted to it, a light on the roof and lastly a steel door.

I cough some more and curl myself into a ball, I let a silent tear fall down my cheek as I think of my mum and how she will react when she finds out that I've been kidnapped

I was meant to get my car back in a week from Theo, see I was stupid enough to want my car repainted and Theo was the only guy in town that I knew who did that sort of thing and on the first night without my car, the FIRST night I'm kidnapped.

I should be freaking out right about now and I guess its just the shock that hasn't passed yet, I let my eyelids fall and as soon as they do my mind takes me away to dreamland.

I shoot up after I dont know how long to the sound of the door opening.

"H-h-hello??" I say to the darkness and suddenly the light turns on from above me.

"Hello Sophie" says the deep voice from before, it sounds eerily familiar.

"How do you know my name?" I choked out

"I have my ways" says the stranger

"Who are you?" I whisper and the stranger steps back further into the darkness of the hallway outside the room, far enough so I can't see his figure anymore "Who are you?" I repeat but this time yelling.

"The names..."

Before I can find out what his name was I wake up breathless in my own bed, in my own apartment.

"KAZZ" I yell and not even a minute later in runs my best friend all rumpled from sleeping and holding a bat.

"What, what?" she says as she enters the room with the bat raised, she looks at me and says "Oh honey are you okay? Whats the matter?"

As Kazz sits down next to me on the bed I lean my head on her shoulder and tell her about the dream by which time I've forgotten what the guy looked like so I just say it was some guy and Kazz does her best to calm me down before we get up and get ready for work.