Why Try

Part 5: The Escape

Arianas pov:

I had no other choice but to show the messages to the 2 officers. If I went alone we all know what would happen, that bastard would've taken me too. And I'm tiny and can't fight to save myself so I had to let them do it for me.

"Hey!" I yelled at the officers. They stopped talking to Louie and Addison and switched their attention to me. "I have something that might help" I ran up to them, almost tripping over air. I gave them the phone and they both inspect the messages. "What is it?" Louie and Addison ask me at the same time. "Someone texted me telling me to give them money and Cameron will be safe, if not, she'll... die" I whispered the last part. "You're joking" Louie said in shock. Addison stayed silent and walked backwards to sit on my bed. "No i'm serious, I need t-" I was cut off by one of the officers. "Thank you Ms. Grande, we'd like to take you down to the station to talk about a plan we have, to save your friend" He says with a deep voice. "Sure, of course. How can I help?" I ask impatiently. "We'll discuss this further at the station, please come with me" He motioned towards the door. I turned and saw Louie was trying to talk to Addison, he turned to me and mouthed 'go with them' I grabbed my things and walked out with them.

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Once we arrived at the station, they took me into a dim room with a chair and table. I sat on one end and one of the officers sat with another lady opposite me.

"Ms. Grande we have a plan, to help save your friend, it involves slight risk but we can assure you that you'll be safe" The woman spoke up. "What's the plan?" I ask slightly worried. The male cop sat up and cleared his throat, "We tracked down the number and it lead us to a warehouse in a forest not far from here, our plan is for you to prepare the 'money' and when the person you're giving it too is in sight, me and the other officers will take it from there and you can back away" He says. "What if it goes wrong?" I sigh. "I can insure you that you'll be under our protection at all times, everything will be okay" The lady tries to reason.

This was a huge risk, I'm risking my life, my money, my fame, my everything. But if it means that Cameron will be okay, then screw all of that. I just want h-

"Ms. Grande, do you accept?" The lady asks me. "I- Uh, sure" I sigh and shift uncomfortably in my seat knowing this isn't going to be easy.

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Cameron's pov:

They left me in the cold and dark room, in pain. I was screaming in pain. Everything hurt like a bitch. I gotta get out of here, like today, or tonight, whatever it is. I've been here too long. I need to find a way out of the warehouse. If there is a way in, there is a way out. I kept repeating that phrase in my head. The door to get out of the room is always kept unlocked but there's a man always guarding it, I pay attention. However, not 24/7. He ends up falling asleep on a wooden chair beside the door for a few hours when it's nighttime. That's my only chance to get out the room.

I wait for him to fall asleep, while I am, I try to listen to any conversation that I can hear, anything that'll help me get out of this hellhole.

A few hours pass and I hear incoherent talking, I groan in pain when I try to get up. I crawl to the door and begin to listen to the conversation. "At 8, so about an hour from now she'll be here with the money, I'll then knock her out easily and bring her to this room with her friend. Simple as" I could recognise that voice anywhere, the 'Leader' of this cult. "Who's bringing the money, sir?" "Some famous chick called Ariana" I instantly freeze when I hear her name. She can't, she has no idea what she's getting herself into. This shit is too risky, what money is she bringing and what for? Fuck, I gotta get out of here quick and find her before she ends up in this shit place with me.

I hear footsteps disappear and not long after, loud annoying snores coming from an old man. Perfect. I slowly get up and try to open the creaky door as slow as possible, but the creaks got louder and louder everytime I pulled the door open. I tried my best to not make much sound and slipped through the tight space I created between the door and the stone wall. The guard was knocked out so there was no way of him waking up anytime soon.

I hear footsteps coming my way and I quickly hide between a gap between the walls. I try to keep my heaving silent as the man walks past me. I quickly notice it's the 'Leader' and decide to follow him down the hallway not far behind since he's the one that's going to lead me to the outside. I walk not too close but not to far behind him as he whistles to an unfamiliar tune. My heart is beating out of my chest, I'm surprised he can't even hear it. If he turns around, that's it. The whole plan would go to waste and I'm dead. I can't fuck this up.

We finally arrive at the end of the long ass hallway where there are 2 large metal doors. I hide between another gap between the walls. He unlocks it with a key causing it to make a loud noise and cold air quickly rushes in, he steps out and takes one last look around the hallway and somehow his eyes misses me. Which I am VERY grateful for. He walks away to the unknown and I wait a little bit before I run up to the door and it shuts in my face. "Shit!" I whisper yell. Fuck, well fucking done! how do you expect to get out now? I tried pushing the door open but that shit weights at least 5000kg. I sigh in defeat and rest my forehead on the metal door, that's when I hear leaves cracking, many, many leaves. Not long after I hear gunshots from left and right outside. What the fuck?! Is he tryna kill her? I start banging on the door screaming to get out. "Please, open the door!" I yell. It goes silent before I hear a deep voice. "You hear that? She's in there, back away from the door ma'am! We're coming in!" I heard a male voice yell. I heard more and more people talk, then heard walkie talkies and that's when it clicked, it's the cops! I felt a huge amount of pressure from my chest disappear when I heard them trying to open the indestructible door, well at least with hands.

However my happiness didn't last long, I was distracted by shouting and loud footsteps coming my way, I turned around and saw at least 5 men in black running up to me and screaming stuff like "Dont let her get away!" "Faster!" "Get her!" I immediately panic and start banging on the door even harder than last time, "Hurry please! They're coming!" I scream. I turn back around to see them coming closer and closer to me with their hands trying to reach for their guns. Their footsteps and screams echoed around the empty hallway. I close my eyes bracing myself for what's going to happen next, I heard the doors fling open and cold air hit me from the back. I turn around right away and run out and I instantly collide with someone and fall into their arms, panting loudly. I look up and my eyes meet with the most familiar honey brown eyes I know.

"Ariana" I let out a huge breath as I hug her tight, scared that I'd be taken from her again. "Oh my god, you're okay, you're here" She also let's out a huge breath she'd been holding in. We both stayed silent, we just held eachother tight, not ever wanting to let go again. I look down at her, we both had tears in our eyes. She instantly pulled me into a kiss, not rough but sweet and passionate kiss, we both missed eachothers touch. We pulled away and stared into eachothers eyes, she gently put her hand on my face and stoked the bruises on my face. I hissed and she instantly pulled away. "I'm so sorry" She quickly apologised. "No don't be, it's okay" I smiled and grabbed her hand and held it tight. I had a million questions running around in my head but I had to know how they found me in the middle of nowhere. "How- how'd you find me?" I asked confused.

"I'd always find you Cam" She teared up before pulling me into another passionate kiss.

a/n: sorry if there's any mistakes and sorry that it's trash, again😞