Alienated [✔] » k.th

22.

Joey

I pulled up to Vick' s house and there was no foreclosure sign. When I knocked on the door and rung the bell, no one answered.

I did this several times and still there was no answer. I fondled with the doorknob and it opened.

   "Hello? Vick, are you here?" I asked once I stepped inside.

The place was ransacked and neither Vick or the children were anywhere to be seen. I reached for the light switch and they didn't turn on. "Hello? Vick?" I repeated. Again, no answer.

I heard shuffling and mumbling coming from the closet.

I reached for the closet doorknob and slowly opened it.

I was shocked to find Vick tied up with her mouth covered in duct taped.

   "Vick!" I knelt down to help her.

   "Ow!" She exclaimed once I snatched the duct tape off of her mouth.

   "Sorry sis." I apologized. "What happened? Who did this to you? Where are the kids?"

   "I don't know, I don't know, I don't know." She said on the brink of tears.

   "It's ok. We'll find out who did this," I untied her. Once she was free, she rubbed her wrists.

   "But, I think that they're still here. I heard some people talking while I was in the closet."

   "Really? What were they saying?"

   "I- I don't know. They were speaking in some kind of foreign language."

   "V was right..." I mumbled to myself.

   "Huh, what'd you say?"

   "Nothing."

   "Joey, behind you!"

Before I could fully turn around, I felt something strike my head and I blacked out.

I woke up to find that I was surrounded by five guys. I squinted to protect my eyes from the burning light that hung above my head.

They all gave me threatening looks.

One of them walked up to me and asked, "So, how's it going?"

   "I have a feeling that you don't care about how I'm doing."

   "You're right, I really don't." He folded his arms and circled around my chair. "But, we just wanted to have a little talk with you."

   "So, you had to knock me out and tie me to a chair?"

   "Don't judge me," he retorted.

   "Oh, I'm judging really hard right now."

   "Anyway, we wanted to talk to you about--"

   "-- V, you want me to tell you where I hid him. Sorry, no. Can't do that. If you haven't noticed... He doesn't want to go home with you, and you obviously don't want to capture him in order to have ice cream and cake together."

   "You don't know how dangerous he is."

   "Is that what you've always told him? No wonder the poor guy ran away."

   "I'm serious right now," he stopped circling me and stood in front of me. He placed his hands on both sides of my seat. "V, is more powerful than all of us combined. When he's under a lot of pressure, he has blackouts and then he can't control himself. He destroys everything in his path, and no one... I mean no one can stop him."