Fatal Lies [#wattys2018]

Ch.25||Deep Cuts

Dedicated to JanekiaMcCovery

A sharp pain ran from my arm up,jolting me awake. I don't remember passing out, or why my face was sticky,I looked down to where the pain was generating from. Dried blood mixed with fresh blood on my arm.
The word;REVENGE was curved rather sloppily across my forearm.
I tried to move my hand,wincing in process because of yet another jolt of pain passing through.
"Angie? Thank God Your Awake!",Jenelle said,breathing a sigh of relief.
One thing registered, we were moving.I scanned the interior. It looked like a truck of some sort, Jenelle sat on the other bench, tied, of course and I the same.
"What's happenings? Where are they taking us?",I asked, panic settling into my gut.
"We are being kidnapped",Jenelle informed me rather sarcastically.

Some minutes into enduring the pain in my arm, the truck came to a stop.
The doors popped ajar and the same bald guy I had ran into at the amusement park some weeks ago,when zion took me there, appeared.
"You!",I gasped.
"Surprised?",he chuckled darkly.
"Angie,you know this man?",Jenelle asked ,dumbfounded.
"We crossed parts at the amusement park",I replied darkly, my eyes trained on him still.
"Quit grumbling and get down here",he spat .
I followed Janelle out the car and stood beside her. With the dim lights I could only make out what seem like a warehouse.
"In you go",the guy said, opening a door I didn't see before.

I just stood looking at him, analysing how to outrun him.
"Don't you dare think of running",he growled, twisting Janelle's bleeding arm.
Jenelle let out a small whimper and he pushed her into the open door.
He grabbed my shoulders and shoves me inside, behind Jenelle.

We were put in a dimly lit room that stank of piss. Ew.
And tied of course. I don't know what they were so afraid of us doing.I mean between Jenelle and I ,none of us had a fighting bone in our skins and its not like we knew where we where.
I sigh and closed my eyes, willing the pain in my arm to slow down.
"I'm sorry".
Jenelle started,startling me.
"For?",I ask quizzically.
"Treating you the way I did when you first came to school and for getting you into this mess",
"It's not your fault.... I don't blame you for anything",I said sympathetically.
She nodded and crinkled her nose at the awful smell that was evaporating.

I just sat reviving all that had happened since I came to Fairhaven. All of these fateful events occurred because of Janelle's father... I mean our father and our mother also.
Now all my mom and dad's,who wasn't even my real dad,arguments hit me. When they always argued in low whispers so I wouldn't know or find out.
How could they do this?, keep my real identity hidden for so long?.
"Penny for your thoughts",Jenelle mused, bringing me out of my train of thoughts.
"These aren't thoughts to spend money on",I replied, smiling weakly.
"I don't understand why they never told us",Jenelle said, looking at her perfectly manicured toes which where all not perfect anymore.
"Me neither..",I started.

At that moment, the door burst open and a skinny guy with tattoos all over his little frame came bugging in,filling into the little remaining space.
Up close,he had rusty teeth the colour of watermelon seeds, and little piggy eyes that held no remorse.
He grabbed Jenelle by her throat,Jenelle wincing at the sudden attack.
He held something with his other hand, which I made out to be a phone.I don't know who was on the other end of the line, but it was surely someone we knew because, Jenelle burst into tears sobbing yet she couldn't let out any words, because the guys had his grip tightened on her throat.
"You hear that, that's your precious daughter on the brink of death,you better do as we say or we will kill them both",he spluttered into the phone, sending saliva everywhere. I cringed and flinched away.
I'm sure he has never heard of toothpaste and toothbrush before.
He started rambling other things into the phone as he shut the door behind him.
"What was that all about?",I asked, squirming my eyes at Jenelle.
"That was....was.. Dad",Jenelle sobbed.
"What are they making him do?",I asked slowly, seeing as Jenelle was beyond distressed.
"I don't know...but it seems like it's not..good",she cried, putting her head down.
I wanted to comfort her,I mean if they told my mum to do something she wouldn't be able to do to save my life, I would be heartbroken too. Speaking of my mum,I wondered what she was doing right now.

I bet she's worried sick, I've never been out this late before.
And Zion....my Zion,I didn't get the chance to tell him that I was stupid and out of my mind
And we should just forget about all that happened and start new.. I wonder if he's thinking about me too.
And Dad, if only he knew I was in trouble right now....

I let my thoughts differ from the stink of this place. Man this place was really a hell hole. I looked up and watched Jenelle, sobbing quietly on the other side of the room.
Now that I'm sitting next to her, I realized, that the colour of her hair was so close to that of my mother.
And her face,when she sighs. I could see my mother in her, the way she folded her legs, even tho she was tied.
I chuckled lightly, remembering that mum never could sit straight, she had to fold her legs even when we were watching on the sofa.
"Why are you laughing",Jenelle sniffed.
"I'm just thinking of how you look so much like my mu...I mean our mother in many ways",I explained.
"Oh,are you sure?",she blinked.
"Mmhm",I agreed.
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