Abductor

Chapter 3

He came before me then, a cloth that looked like a dish towel wrapped around his neck, blood seeping through it. He looked major pissed. I felt a slight hint of fear.

"Why would you do that? He asked calmly. That sure wasn't expected.

"What a question. You seriously didn't expect to just abduct me, take me here and order me around like a pet without me trying to do anything did you?"

"I'm helping you!"

"You call this helping me?" I motioned to the traps holding me down, "helping me from what? My life. I want to go home-"

"Home?! You-" he stopped and pressed a finger to his wound to stop the pain, "you don't have a home"

"What the hell are you talking about?"

He came closer and stopped before me.

"Listen to me you spoilt little brat, I'm helping you OK. From your life. If you had any idea about the society you live in you'd shut your mouth about home. Look around you, there is no one else and no way out. Think about that the next time you wana be heroic."

"I was trying to save myself"

"From what?!" His voice rose, "I'm not trying to hurt you. You've been here long enough now, I would have if I wanted to."

"What do you want form me?" I asked, my voice shaky as the fight went out of me.

"Trust. I know its a stupid thing to ask but its what I need to do what I have planned. I just want you to cooperate with me Kay-lee. I swear I won't hurt you. I wasn't stupid to put the fork there in your view. It was because I trusted you. You did exactly what I expected but that's what people do when the trust each other. They give you the go ahead even when they expect the expected."

Not even a sound would come out when I opened my mouth to speak. For some strange reason I felt like a betrayer. He stood and headed into the living room. I knew he was leaving.

"Wait!" I called after him, "you're leaving me like this?"

"Think of it as a punishment for what you just did. Trust Kay-lee, that's all I'm asking. You don't want to make me the bad guy. And that's a warning." I listened closely. Footsteps, a door opening and closing and then silence. Nothing but dead silence and the rumble of my stomach...

***

I jumped awake to the feel of someone shaking me. It was him of course, with a bandage visible beneath a whit sheer shirt he wore; along with khaki cargo shorts. I didn't realize I'd fallen asleep. And as soon as I saw the pizza before me my stomach gave another ominous rumble.

"Its past time you eat something now," he said down to me. He bent and unbuckled the straps, then he dropped a paper bag with something in it on the table before me and headed in the living room. I didn't know where he got it or what was in it but I was too hungry to care. I tore the bag apart. There was a dish with vegetable salad inside, another with what I recognized was chop suey and fried rice. Chinese mmmm. There was also an apple and a bottle of orange juice. I strangely felt flattered, and in no second lager i was diving in. And man did it taste really damn good.

After I was finished, and I did eat everything, I sat still, stuffed as a pig. I wasn't sure if I was allowed to get up, I mean I don't think I could take another punishment but I didn't know how to call him either so I took the chance. I spotted a trash can near the counter in the kitchen and I threw the remains in it. I wen to the sink and washed my hands with pure water. And after drying them in a dish towel, I headed into the living room.