Tick tock

*~16~*

Cold beads of sweat prickled the back of my neck as my eyes lingered on the horrific sight.

Broken, shattered, and blood covered clocks scattered the walls.
The stench of the blood
filling my nostrils, making me light headed.
The clocks came in an array of various different types of shapes, forms and patterns.
They all made constant ticking sounds that left my head ringing.

My gaze quickly shifted towards the floor, giant body bags scattered around making me scrunch up my nose in pure disgust.

I could barely hear the distant buzzing sound over all of the ticks.
My eyes darted towards a box in the corner of the room.
It vibrated uncontrollably, making me flinch back.

Should I?

No.

Yes.

I walked over to the box and crouched down to its level cautiously opening the flaps.

My breathing became ragged from the sight of what was inside.

It... it was my stuff.

My phone was in there... my watch... my ID, pictures of all my family members and pictures of me.

My phone automatically turned on, showing a text... from... from my sister?

The simple sentence read,
"what do you mean?"

I quickly unlocked my phone and started reading through the conversation.

"Jamie I can't find you!
Where are you?"
                 
                   "This isn't Jamie, it's her
                      Friend."

That must've been Natalie talking to her when she took my phone.

"Wait... are you the one
who kidnapped her?"
 

                          "I DIDN'T KIDNAP
                      HER! I SAVED HER
                          FROM YOU!"

"Pardon? I love her!
Why would she need
saving from me?"

                         "Yeah? Then why did she   
                          complain to me saying
                          that everyone treats her
                          like she doesn't exist?!"

My chest tightened.
The rest of the texts were my sister asking where I was and to tell me how much she loved me.
She texted everyday... and everyday she was left on read.

As I scrolled down to the bottom I noticed something odd.

                            "Today, your time is
                            up! Jamie will finally
                            be mine once I get rid of
                            you..."

"What do you mean?"

That was the text from right now.
That's why Natalie went out... she's planning to kill my family.

My family... they were trying to fight to get me back... and Natalie never told me.

She made it seem like they forgot about me.