Guardian

Chapter 18

I knew it was dark, it had been dark for several hours. That's what it felt like anyway. I don't remember how I got here, wherever here is, and everything smelled of gasoline. I was inside something moving, I knew that. I could hear the road and the engine, head other cars around us, sometimes a horn would honk.
I knew that my legs were aching, cramped in the small space they were tucked up to my chest and had gone numb. My fingers ached, though I didn't know why, and they held a metallic smell. My throat hurt from how much I'd screamed when I'd first woken up, but I gave up screaming ages ago.

I cried when I woke up and found myself somewhere I didn't recognize, I cried until I scolded myself for being so weak, so much like a little girl. I'm almost an adult, I can't be crying, I should be figuring out how to escape.
My phone is gone, taken by whoever's taken me. I didn't have my wallet with me when we went out, l didn't think I'd need it. I'm glad I didn't have it. I didn't bring much with me when I went out, We had left on a random whim.

Tiberius.

He must be worried. I didn't mean do disappear like that, obviously. What had he done when he couldn't find me? I tried to scream for him, I remember that, but I dont remember if he answered, if he had, he didn't make it to me in time.

More and more time went day, the small cracks in my tight space dimming enough to tell me that it's getting to be night time. But is it getting to be night time on the same day? Had I been drugged and asleep for a whole twenty-four hours? I felt like I had. My muscles are stiff and my eyes feel heavy like I'd been sleeping heavily.

Oh god what's Mom going to think? Both of her daughters gone in the span of a few days. She told me not to go out. She was right.
What about Toby and Greg? What are they going to do without us? Peter will search for us, I know he will. He'll do everything that he can, because that's his job.

How can I help them from my position? Looking around the cramped space, theres no latch to open the door from the inside, nothing that would indicate a release of some sort. People outside couldn't hear me screaming. Were we near people? We had to be, I could hear cars outside.

"Oh god" I said to myself. "Why does this feel so damn typical?"

It wasn't long after that when the car stopped. We had either arrived at where we needed to go, or whoever took me is going to kill me in the middle of nowhere. I really hoped for the former.

I heard footsteps outside the car, coming towards the trunk, where I am. I closed my eyes quickly, I tried to keep my breath even, despite the fact that my heart felt like it was bursting out of my chest.

The trunk opened, whoever was outside was talking to someone on the phone, something about our arrival and a meeting that needed to be held. It was hard to hear over the sound of my heart.
My wrist was grabbed, and I was yanked up out of the car. My ribs and stomach made contact with a shoulder as my head dangled, instantly making me dizzy. The trunk door shut and I opened my eyes, staring straight at a black shirt that covered a back.

I kicked, lashing out with what little strength I seemed to have, pounding my fists into their back and kneeling them in the chest. Maybe if they dropped me I could run, I don't know where I would run to, but I could run.

The person, a man it seemed, grunted as I kicked him, but carried on walking, otherwise unfazed by the amount of times I hit him.

"PUT ME DOWN." I screamed. "LET ME GO."

"Shut up." The man snapped.

"LET ME GO." I tried louder. From what I could see around me, we were in a massive green area, a forest in the distance. There was a house in front of us, the size of a mansion.