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The pick up

The next morning Ethan's alarm goes off at 6am. He groans, turns it off and lays on his back.

He sighs and stares at the ceiling for a while. He is thinking to himself 'did that really happen? Did I really call them? Was it just a dream?'

He shrugs and then decides to look at his phone. He types in his password, goes onto his calls and along with the calls to his friends, parents and school he sees the number he called yesterday.

He sits up and stares at his phone before laying it on his night stand. When would they get him? Should he take his gymbag with him? He decides to first go take a shower.

He gets up and walks into his own bathroom. Ethan has a private bathroom, it's connected to his bedroom. He takes a towel and lays it down next to the shower and takes off his underwear before going into the shower. The water runs down on him and many thoughts go through his head. What about his family and friends? What is he going to tell them? What about school? He doesn't care much about school but if he disapears suddenly, what would happen? How long will he be gone?

He shakes his head and when he's done with showering he gets out and dries himself. He gets on fresh underwear and looks into the mirror before groaning. Shaving... He forgot to shave... He sighs and does so before brushing his teeth.

"Ethan! What's taking so long?" His mother yells downstairs "you're going to be late!"

"I'm coming!" Ethan says and grabs his schoolbag and gymbag. He looks around his bedroom to see if he didn't forget anything and walks downstairs.

"Morning mom, dad" Ethan says. "How did you sleep dear?" His mother asks him and gives him his breakfast and lunch. Ethan doesn't eat breakfast, he somehow can't get it down in the morning, that's why he eats it in school after first period.

"Eh... Slept alright. Too short though."

His mother sighs "I told you not to go to late in bed anymore"

He snickers and hugs her "I know, I know. Hey mom?"

"Yes Ethan?"

"I'll probably be gone for some while. I'm doing... Research for school."

"And you tell me that now why?"

"I must've forgotten" he says and smiles at her.

She ruffles his hair "Well ok, but don't forget to call, ok?"

He nods "I won't, bye mom" he says and walks to the door after grabbing his keys. He checks if he got his phone and charger and then walks to the garage setting his bags on the backseat.

Ethan gets in, waits till the garage door is open and starts to drive to school.

There were many cars on the road. Also many black cars. Could it be them? He shakes his head 'You're being too paranoid Ethan' he tells himself and parks onto the parking lot of the school.

When he gets out he gets greated by his friends.

"We thought you died or something" Austin jokes. "Yeah, you're late man" Braxton says.

Ethan snickers "nah, I'm fine."

He gets his two bags out and walks with them into the school.

"Why the gymbag?" Will asks. Will is always curious. He notices every tiny detail, even if it is new shoe laces.

"Um... I'm going away for a while, family stuff." Ethan says, hoping they'd believe him. They know each other for quite some time so he hopes they don't notice he's lying.

"Right... " Austin says "You'll keep contact, right?"

Ethan nods and puts his gymbag into his locker. Some girls are giggling and occasionally looking at the boys. Ethan smirks at them and they quickly look away which causes Ethan to snicker again.

Braxton groans "no... Not Ulman. Noooo" he says, referring to their teacher. Austin laughs "oh come on. It's just first period. Maybe he'll be in a good mood today." Braxton looks at Austin as if he was joking "a good mood? With him? Well if that happens I'm Badman."

Ethan laughs and drags them to class.

The classroom is big and has a old chalkboard infront of it. The boys sit down in the back, where they always sit. Ethan leans back, Austin lays his feet on the table and Braxton and Will lay their heads on the table.

"Goodmorning class." A tall man says. The tall man has red hair with green eyes, he looks like he's in his 40s and he wears a very ugly suit. You can see that he's in another bad mood by his bored and slightly angry expression. He walks to his table and sets his bag down, which causes a loud 'bang!'.

Braxton looks at his friends "good mood huh?" He says sarcastically.

"History. A subject no one cares about. Well let me tell you something, you all will be history too one day. Still uninteresting?" The teacher says.

The lesson goes on but Ethan can't seem to stay concentrated. He looks at the door and out of the window very often.

"Mister Brook? Hello? Brook! Attention!" Ulman yells. Ethan looks up "Sorry...". The teacher nods "You better be-" he gets interupted by a knock on the door. "Who is interupting my class?" The teacher grumbles and opens the door.

Two big and very muscular men walk into the class. They both are wearing black clothes and have an earpiece in their ear. They look very identical exept their hair colour, of which one has brown and one has blond hair. Their eye colour can't be seen because of the sunglasses.

"We're looking for Ethan Brook." The brown haired man says. The teacher seems a bit scared, as so does the whole class.

"What did you do man?" Will whispers. Ethan doesn't awnser as he knows exactly who these people are. He gets up "I'm here" he says.

"Come with us." The blond man says. Ethan nods, picks up his schoolbag and walks to them. He follows the blond haired man and the brown haired man walks behind him. A red haired girl, dressed the same as the men, walks with them holding his gymbag. Ethan wasn't even going to ask how she got in his locker. Probably asked the headteacher or something.

When they got outside they put a hood over his head and he feels an small ich in his neck before he feels dizzy and falls down.

The men drag Ethan in a black van and the driver starts to drive. Meanwhile, Ethan is unconscious.

They drive for some hours and Ethan wakes up. His head hurts which causes him to groan. "Where am I?" He asks.

"On your way to A.A." a women's voice says, probably the voice of the red headed woman.

"Did you really have to knock me out?" Ethan asks and sits up, still not able to see anything because of the hood.

"Safety precautions" the same woman says "Can't have you running around and tell everyone where we're located."

Ethan smirks "fine" he says "when are we there?"

"Now." A man says and Ethan gets taken out of the van. He gets dragged into what sounds like a hall. They then knock on a door, which sounds like wood and the door opens.

"Ah, who's this? Is this Brook?" A woman's voice asks.

"Yes miss Wilson." A man says.

"Set him on a chair." The woman says and the men do so. The chair is surprisingly soft. By now, Ethan completely doesn't know where he is or what time it is.