Hold Tight |Jason McCann|

Chapter 24

| Savanna |

The burning sensation on my back only got worse and as I focused more on the pain, i found myself completely powerless. Both of my wrists were cuffed and then hooked through the pipe in the ceiling. Composing myself, I looked up and tried to look through the darkness as I followed the pipe and where it led as it ran along the entire ceiling. Seeing that there was a gap between the pipe and it's connection which ran down the side of the wall, I took that as much chance to get free. Taking a deep breath, I felt my legs shake as I began walking towards the end of the pipe, still with my hands hooked above me which made it so much harder for me to walk as my feet were just about touching the floor. Eventually, i made it to the end, pushing my body against the wall as I stood up on my top toes to unhook the cuff from the pipe, sliding them through and off.

I fell to the ground once my cuffed hands had slid of the pipe with the a thud. I stumbled, standing up as I used the wall as my grip; as hard as it was to work with both of my hands cuffed together, I managed to stand up. Eventually, I pulled off the gag from my mouth and threw the cloth to the ground.

Breathing heavy, I felt myself lose all energy, making it hard for me to even keep my eyes open as I was so tired for some reason. Whatever they had used to make me fall asleep / faint, must have some horrible side affects as I felt my head pound like crazy. Nevertheless, I knew I had to keep going. I looked around the room getting a better view. There was not a single window, just steel pipes and cold concrete which contributed to the overall low temperature that attacked my body. My legs felt frozen from the cold as the only piece of clothing I had to conceal myself from the heat was Jason's shirt that I wore. I felt uncomfortable to even be around Jason's friends in just a shirt, let alone complete strangers who didn't care to not hurt me.

My eyes paused on the steel door that was the only entrance and exit, the door that that guy had come through just to hurt me for the sake of what? His entertainment? I still didn't know why I was here and who the people were which made this entire thing so much more terrifying, it felt like I was completely alone and that was the most horrible part because I hated that feeling. Feeling alone when I've been so used to having Jason with me at all times, the best and the worst, apart from now.

As I walked up to the door and leaned against it to try and hear any background noise. I had no idea what was beyond this door or if it even led somewhere and if it did, was it wise if I went down it to end up in even more danger? Was this all planned? This was all too easy for me to get out off, I was still handcuffed but I had gotten free in some way and I didn't imagine this happening so easily so perhaps this was what they wanted, I don't know. But maybe I was just overthinking and this was just my own luck, I haven't been lucky up until this point so I just had to take it and do something with it. I thought of Jason and how he'd go through something like this and then I remembered how this would never happen to Jason as he was smart and no one would dare to do this to him.. but me? I was the easier target. But whose to say that this was even anything to do with Jason? I had heard of human trafficking way too much and perhaps this was just some sick, twisted people who didn't care about a females own rights. But then, the masked figure did specifically say Jason's name so all of those thoughts and theories went out the window.

Nevertheless, I took a deep breath. Twisting the doorknob, to my surprise it was unlocked. This was easy, too easy.

I went through it, closing it behind me, I turned around. It was a long narrow hallway which looked like there was no end, it was just dark and had a single light above my head. This looked like a literal haunted house in a horror movie.

Where was I.

I followed the tall ceiling hallway all the way to the end, flinching at each loud bang which was heard from the distance. Once I got to the end, I was stuck between three options. There were three doors which I'm assuming all led to different areas of this building. I felt like crying right now because of how scared I was from being in a completely anonymous building and in a completely unknown location.