42nd Country Road

I'm Missing One

I Hobbled out of the back room. The men turned to me with guns aiming for my head.

" What's your name and what do you want," One of them said. I could tell this wasn't their first time running into strangers. I put one of my hands up.

"Other hand," The other one said.

"I can't," I said weakly

"Name and what you want," The first one repeated

"My name is Evelina, Me and my boyfriend got our car stolen, he won't wake up," I said in the smallest voice I could ever imagine.

"Where is your boyfriend?" The second said. I felt the darkness choke me. Not now I was doing so good. I coughed to try and get it out of my system, but it refused to leave. I fell to the ground coughing. I curled in a ball on the floor. My chest started to ache, fighting the darkness. One of the men knelt down next to me.

"Go see if she was telling the truth," He called to his partner. He ran to the back area.

"She was," He called back, "There's two of them back here,"

"What do they look like?" The one kneeling by me said

"They are both really pale and look about our age," He said from the back room. The coughing went away, but the numbing chest pain stayed. I could hear the voice in my head.

"You want to refuse, huh?" It called, "Well let's see about that," I felt like something was stabbing my heart from the inside. I moaned and pulled me knees to my chest. I laid there, absolutely still. My breaths were stifled and silent. My eyes were closed tightly shut. I felt hands pick me up off the ground. They placed me in the back of a car. I didn't know where Mark or Jack were. I tried to open my eyes, but the pain returned. I closed them quickly again.

"W-where's.... M-mark," I squeaked out.

"He's in the car, he's fine," A voice replied

"J-jack," I squeaked again.

"He's here," The voice replied again. The rumble the car starting triggered another chest pain.

"Next time, don't mess with me," The voice in my head said. I lost consciousness soon after.

Someone touched my shoulder and my eyes shot open. It was the man that 'saved' us. I looked at him for a minute. Red hair and green eyes.

"Roger," He said out of nowhere.

"What?" I replied

"My name is Roger," He said

"Oh," I replied looking at the floor of the strange car.

"What's your name?" He asked.

"Ev," I said.

"Oh right, I forgot, I'm really bad at remembering things," Roger said. I nodded. I grabbed the handle of the car door to get out, but Roger stopped me.

"You don't want to do that," He said

"Why?" I said

"Your boyfriend and the other guy went crazy," Roger said. My eyes widened and I ran out the door faster than ever. I looked around the new surrounding area. There was a large two story house with a white picket fence, and an overgrown lawn in front.

"Mark! Jack!" I called. Roger was suddenly by my side.

"I think Danny took them inside," He said. I ran inside, the door slamming the wall behind it. I called their names and searched the house. I found Mark in one room on the ground floor grinning his stupid, crazy grin, his hands tied above his head. I rushed in and climbed on top of him.

"Pretty, you missed out," He said aiming for my lips. I put my hand in front of them, blocking what could have happened.

"I want Mark back," I said

"Mark's out right now," He said

"I want Mark," I said. I smacked him. Mark's shining eyes came back. I hugged him.

"Thank you," He said. I let go without saying anything and started to undo the ropes above his head. Once they were undone, Mark sat up, placing his hands on my waist and kissing me. I relaxed a bit. I heard some at the front door. I pulled away and saw Roger standing in the doorway.