Mystery Girl [Under Review& On Hold]

Chapter 1

        Erik makes it to the trail head and starts walking. He needed to think. He couldn’t stand his parents constantly fighting anymore. He stays silent as he walks, listening to the sound of nature all around him. It was just him today, no one else around. He comes to a split in the road. To the right, a dark foreboding trail covered with vines and weeds and to the left a relatively inviting trail. So he turned and started walking down the left trail when he hears a blood curdling scream behind him and a cry for help. He stops in his tracks and waits to hear if something or someone is coming. Nothing comes at all and all he hears is a girl scream again and another cry for help. He decides to go over and if she's pretty he'll help her or else he’ll run and go get help. What’s the point of being a knight in shining armor if she’s at least not pretty? So he hides behind a clump of bushes and looks and sees that she's not ugly, but she's not hot. She's kind of in-between. So he decides to help her anyway.

        She hears him coming and starts sobbing, "No don't! I told you I didn't mean to! It was an accident! Please don't hurt me again! Please!" She moves so her back is to him. She's tied to a tree, her long pink dress splattered with blood, and her hands are cut and bleeding with bruises on them.

        He goes over to her and says, “I’m not here to hurt you, so I’m going to cut you free. I promise I won’t hurt you.”  Then he takes his pocket knife and follows through with his promise.

        She falls to the ground and whispers through a river of tears, "Thank you. Who..." She stops as she hears a noise and the terror returns to her eyes. The river comes to a halt and she looks up at Erik with big brown eyes "We need to get out of here." Her face has bruises and cuts along with even more injuries on her shoulders. She manages to get up and studies herself.

        Erik helps her up and says, “Let me carry you so we can both get out of here.”She nods and gathers the delicate pink linen of the long dress.

        "I don't mean to be a burden." she says shyly.

        “It’s not a problem. We both need to get out of here.” Then he takes her away from whatever it is as far as he can. They come out at the start of the trail.

        She gets off his back, but still clings to him and says, “We need to get as far away from here as possible. If he catches me, he’ll kill me…” The tears come again and she starts shaking. He guides her to the driveway of his home where his midnight blue Toyota is waiting. He helps her into the passenger’s seat and then gets into the car himself. He turns the keys, which were thankfully in the ignition, and drives off.

        She leans back and relaxes a bit. She takes a deep breath, whispers a gentle thank you and then falls asleep.

        Erik sighs, and then decides to just drive till both of them are far away from whatever. A few miles later, he parks in front of a small hotel, registers, and takes the girl inside. She stirs a bit, but is still fast asleep, the lengths of her pink dress fall from her hands and fall around her. The thin material reveals her pale skin and the faint outline of her ribs. Her brown hair falls to her lower back and she moans as he places her on the bed. He sighs as he looks at her, and is slightly nervous. Not from whatever it is that attacked her, but from being alone with a girl. He turns on the television, and then decides to run the girl a bath for if she ever wakes up.

        She suddenly wakes up, sits up, and shouts "Stop! Please!" Then realizes where she is and that she's with the boy who saved her and relaxes a bit. "I'm sorry. It was a bad dream." Then she braces for impact "You won’t hit me for shouting will you?"

        Erik stares at her in confusion, “Of course not. Don’t be ridiculous.”

        She relaxes and then says “Sorry. He always does. So did Ms. V., but Mommy Ann never hit us. It was a great place when she took care of us. Then she died and Ms. V. came. She made us her slaves. Then I grew up and was given to him. I wish I never met him!” she wipes a tear away from her eye then hears the water. “Did you draw me a bath?” she asks in astonishment.

        He assures her by saying “Yes, I did. And no one will ever hurt you or treat you like a slave again.”

        She smiled and stood up, “Thank you. Now if you don’t mind, I’m going to take a bath.” She starts to walk and then falls still a bit weak.

        “Need any help?” He asks.

        She blushes, “Well, maybe just a little.”

        Erik blushes lightly then says, “Very well”. He puts her arm around his broad shoulders as he takes her to the bathroom to help her take a bath.

        Her face is very red now, “Can you just help me take off the top of my dress? I can get the rest. It’s just, I have a really bad cut back there and the material is kind of stuck in it…” She sits on the edge of the tub and lifts up the bottom of the dress and puts her legs in.

        Erik’s heart races as his face starts to turn a darker shade of pink, “Of course,” He says to her, “No problem.” He lifts up the top of her dress, averting his eyes while doing so.

        She smiles sheepishly and takes off the rest of the dress then wraps it around her, “Thank you. You can go now. I can tell this is a bit awkward for you. I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to make you feel uncomfortable.” She braces herself again, ready to be hit.

        When Erik gently pats her on the shoulder and says, “No problem.” Just before he leaves, she relaxes. She lets the dress fall to the floor and then takes off her bra and underwear and slips into the warm water. She sits there for a moment, soaking in the steam trying to remember the last time she had a bath with warm water.
        Erik decides to rest on the single bed, and then realizes there’s only one bed. “She’d have to share with me…” He thinks to himself, “I don’t know if she wants that or not.”

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Hello my lovely and handsome readers!! So I added a picture that I drew of Ivory! Yay!! :)

Anywho, updates on the story will most-likely be coming soon. I'm working on it.

-Lizzie