Tortured

Class is in Session

After one day at Ridgeway High, Mia insisted that she skip the second day, so that morning I drove alone until I saw Lucas...my long time crush. He waved at me to stop the car. I brake so hard my head jerks forward.

"Hey Ava."

"Oh hey, Lucas." I said with a nervous shaky voice. "Do you need a ride?"

"Ummm. Sure, thanks."

He gets in and we stop at our favorite cafe to get some breakfast before we go to school.

"Regular cappuccino with caramel, right?"

"Right." I say with a grin. How in the world did he know my order? He probably overhears when I order. He's always doing homework in the cafe. Liam works at the cafe as well. He's one of the main reasons why I don't talk to Lucas in the cafe whenever he is working. It's just awkward.

We arive at school and he checks his phone. "Shit." He says with anger. "What's wrong?"

"I have to go ok. My mom just got in a car crash..." he says with a shaky voice.

"Do you need a ride?"

"No it's ok Ava, I'll take the bus."

He kisses me on the cheek and runs off leaving his backpack behind. When he kissed me I definitely didn't expect that, at first I thought that maybe he liked me but then I remembered that he dated Quinn, whom I fucking despise. I knew that if I tried to date him, Quinn would find a way to ruin my life. She's already ruined my past two relationships. Why wouldn't she ruin this one for sure? I never dated any of her exes because there all 20 years old and douchebags, but Lucas was different he's sweet, smart, caring, and he's incredibly gorgeous. I don't understand why he ever dated that hoe-bag of a girl. If she doesn't have your boyfriend she has your girlfriend, she went either way. I don't have a problem with anyone's sexuality but she's different. She does it for shits and giggles. She's dumb ass fuck is what I'm trying to say. Ok, enough about her.

I walk to the front office and one of the guards escorts me to my class. Everyone else is already in class including Mia? I thought she wasn't coming to school? I sit right beside her and whispered, "whatever happened to "not coming to school"?" She looks over at me with a somewhat angry and frightened look. What the hell. She had scrapes and bruises all over her legs and arms, and a huge cut on her cheek. "What the fuck happened to you!?" She keeps her head down and starts stuttering. "Th- they fucking dragged me from my house h-." Again! She always cuts off her sentence when she's about to tell me something that's sounds somewhat important. "Did they drag you here!? You know that's considered kidnapping!?" She looks over at me and starts yelling at me. "Don't you think I fucking know that Ava! God, you never mind your own fucking business!

I wondered why she had snapped at me. She usually was the person to be antisocial and shy. Ive never seen her like this. Of course i got mad at her because she had yelled at me, but I had to stay calm because I didn't want to know the consequences for yelling at another student. I get up in rage and prepare myself to start yelling anyway. Olive looks at me and knows what I was going to start doing, she came running towards me and forced me to sit down.

"What the-.."

"She Ms.Grinser is coming and the guards are right outside!"

I look at her as if Im about to cry. She sits back down at her table, and right when she sat down, the door burst open and Ms.Grinser was side by side with two guards.  "Good morning class. How is everyone?" No one answers. "Alright well as you guessed class is now in session." As she said that the PA went off... "Ava please report to the front office." What the hell is going on now...!?

I head down to the office and Lucas was on the couch covering his face with his hands. "Lucas...?" He lifts his hands up and revomes his hands. He was... crying. I had never seen him cry so much. 

"Whats wrong?"

"My m-mom.."

I started to get worried, because earlier he had went to go see his mom in th hospital because she had been in a really bad car crash.

"She - um she -?" 

I run toward him and start to hug him. He hugs me tighter. He now starts pouring tears. "Its gonna be ok, I promise."

"Ava, I can't live without her."

"I know... I'm sorry Lucas I-..."

"Ava... I love you..."

I couldn't believe what the fuck i just heard. Itried not to say it back, but I felt bad. So I had to.

"I love you too."

He stops hugging me and leans in and kisses me.

I pull away suddenly because i felt like a sympathetic tool. 

"Whyd you stop?"

"Look lucas i really do like you but i feel like you kissed me because your sad."

"W-what. No! I genuinely like you. A lot!"

"Ok. How about this. If you truly did love me you would have waited to tell me. I mean we're not even dating. You can love me as a friend though." DID THAT REALLY COME OUT OF MY FUCKING MOUTH! Did i really just...  be right back im gonna go choke on a rock.

"No, no Ava. I DO love you and I DO wanna date you. I understand you saying that I said it a little too early, but it is true."

"Lucas... We're going way too fast. Maybe you need some time to think." WHO THE FUCK IS CONTROLLING MY MOUTH. MY MOTHER!?

"You're right... You should probably go back to class." He leans in to kiss me on the cheek. I allow him to do so.

As im walking back upstairs to class I heard shrieks. I didn't think much of it because it could've just been the air vents. One of the gaurds grabs a hold of my forearm and I yell "Lucas!" The guard looks at me as if I were hallucinating. He ends up walking me to class. I look through the tiny window on the door and noticed that no one was in the room. Thats weird, 1st period doesnt end until 9:30. It's 9:00. I feel a little out of balance and all of a sudden... I blackout.

I wake up unconscious in the middle of a dark room and I have duct tape over my mouth, ankles and hands. I start screaming but the tape over my mouth is muffling my screams. I had learned a way to get out of duct tape handcuffs last year, ever since my brother became a cop he decided that one day itd be helpful for me to know how to break out of them, and today is that day. First I calm myself down then I wiggle my hands slightly, I put my hands up as if I'm going to dive into a pool and lastly I throw my hands down while separating them as quickly as possible. I ripped threw. I take of the tape from my ankles and mouth. I look around the room but cant see a single thing. Not even my own hands. I run around trying to find a door... but theres an edge, as if I were on an island. I go back to the middle of the "room" and sit. Hopelessly.

As silence grows even more silent, I hear a click, then as if a machine had been turned on and is now in motion. I start to hyperventilate. I tell myself to calm down. I start to cry. Is this it? The end? Is the last thing i see, darkness...?