Pulse

Taken

I'm making some good old classic grilled cheese when I hear the door open. Aaron must be home early for some reason. But I begin to think differently when I don't get a reply when I call out to him. Strange.
I put my buttered bread and knife down and creep around the corner of the kitchen so I can see the front door. Nothing. It's like nothing happened. I must be imagining it then. I turn back to the kitchen but got cut short by a man.
A stone drops in my stomach as I see him. Him. My eyes widen as I let out a scream and run to the door, trying to escape him. He must have locked it from the inside because the door wouldn't budge when I turned the knob. I turn back as his cold hands clasp my arms and pull them away from the door.
No no no no no no no! I try to twist and pry my hands away but he holds them tighter and twists my arms painfully. "Do as I say or you'll never see him again." His stale breath irritates the side of my face as he hisses in my ear. Tears spring into my eyes and I know that I am going to die. Aaron will never find me and he wouldn't care enough to do so. I'll rot in this hell he is taking me to for as long as I live, which will more than likely be a short period of time.
I stop struggling as he unlocks the door and shoves me down the steps into a black SUV.
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    I am currently in a small, dark room with only a small LED night light plugged into the outlet on the wall. The room was empty and cold, and had hard floors. I sat, with my knees to my chest up against the wall, which was uncomfortable against my back. I knew Ein would come back for me, I knew it. I wonder where Gene and Ivan were.
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    We were at the public pool, and Aaron and I had just finished up my private lessons from him since I still couldn't swim.
"Maybe they recognized me from somewhere." I turn back to Aaron, who currently has a wary and uncomfortable look in his eyes. I turn back around to face the three people. "Hello." the word barely left my mouth when I realized who they were.
Ein, who's greed led him to telling my mother we were dating when I started to hate him, and almost killing me in high school. Gene, who blackmailed me into vandalizing and getting me in trouble with the police. And Ivan, who is just super annoying and pure evil. Scared the crap out of me for kicks every chance he could.
Before I can react in anyway, Gene grabs my arm and whispers in my ear. "I wonder how many guys you've kissed since that picture." Before I had any time to wrench my hand away or tell him to shut the heck up and get away from me, he and Ein push me into the pool, the deep end, which is a eye-widening 10 feet deep.
I scream as I hit the water, and catch a glimpse of Aaron trying to jump into the pool, but all three of them push him back, away from the edge, before my head dips below the surface, I try to swim upwards, but I still can't swim so my practice is now rendered useless.
    The pressure builds around my head as my lungs scream for air and I sink deeper and deeper, and I can no longer see the surface. The edges of my vision go black and it continues to creep over my eyes. It feels like I'm in real life 37 Meters Down movie.
I see a faint disturbance far above me before the black covers all of my vision.
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    I wake up coughing and sputtering on hard cement with Aaron over me. "Oh my god, Aphmau? I'm taking you to the hospital. W-w-w-w-wait, no, stay with me, no! I'm taking you to the hospital you're going to be alright..." And everything went black again.

I open my eyes to soaking wet and in the front seat of a car. "Hey, Aphmau? Oh my god you're awake, thank god. We're on our way to the hospital you were underwater for more than five minutes with no air. You're going to be okay." He puts his hand on my arm as he speeds down the road.
    My voice sounds strangled. "No Aaron, I just want to go home, I'm fi-" I cough again and continue. "I'm fine, I really am. Let's just go home." I start to cry as I remember what happened. "Please." I look at him and he takes his eyes off the road for a split second to look back.
    "You are obviously not okay, nobody would be after that." He sighs. "I care about you and I want you to be okay. But, I also respect your decisions. I will take you home, but I will be staying at your house for a few days to make sure you're alright."
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    I wish I would have went to the hospital. Thy would have asked what happened and made sure it didn't happen again. I should have filed a restraining order as soon as I could. But here I am, more than a year later, in my kidnapper's house. Sitting on the floor regretting my life decisions.
    I sigh and straighten my back. Crying isn't going to help, I need to escape.

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