T a k e n

Taken

Chapter One

The bell rang signaling the end of school. I sighed in contempt as I stood up and walked out of my boring English classroom. I met up with my boyfriend, Todd.

"Hey babe." I smiled at him as he turned around.

"Hey Ashlyn." He said running his hand through his dark hair. He looked unsure of himself.

"What's wrong Todd?" I asked worriedly. He took my hand and led me to the abandoned side of the run down gym.

"Babe," he started,

"We need to break up." My heart suddenly stopped. What? Break up? Why? My eyes flooded with tears that spilled over my cheeks.

"Ash." His hand reached out to brush my cheek. I slapped his hand away forcefully.

"Don't touch me." I seethed. He looked a bit taken back but shook his head and walked away towards the football field where he had practice. The cheerleading squad was right next to them and I had practice with them. Screw that. I thought angrily as I walked to my car and drove to my house.

I spotted my Dad's silver corvette and a cherry red Porsche. I figured it was the artist here to sell my dad a new piece. My dad was the richest art collector in all of New York. I parked my car by the mail box and walked to the front door that was surprisingly open. Strange, I thought. I then spotted a lacy thong over by the leather couch and my dads tie near by. No. Dad wouldn't cheat on mom, he couldn't. I then heard loud grunts and moans coming from upstairs. I clenched my teeth and balled up my fists and marched upstairs and threw open the bedroom door. I stood there with my

mouth agape. It was Lisa, my dads secretary. She stopped and smirked at me, my dad turned to me in shock and threw Lisa off him.

"Sweetie I'm sorry!" He started.

"Save it you stupid, lying, cheating, man-whore!" I screamed at him and turned to Lisa and gave her my best death glare.

"Get out of my house." I said threateningly. She stood up and straightened out her white button up shirt and walked out. I turned to my dad again, tears already rolling down my cheeks. How could he do this to me and mom? I dashed downstairs and out the door, my dad calling my name. I ignored him and began running and running until I couldn't breathe or see anymore. I finally stopped at the park and sat on the bench and caught my breath. As soon as my breathing returned to normal I wiped the tears out of my eyes and looked around.

It was dark out and I was in a familiar area downtown by a local bar. I walked towards the sidewalk and began to walk home. Where else was I supposed to go? I then noticed a black van behind me. Didn't I see that van before? I remembered seeing a black van just like that two blocks back. It was keeping pace with me. Oh, just stop Ash you just have an active imagination, I reasoned.

As I continued my journey down the street I noticed that my shoe was untied. I bent down and began to tie my shoelace and then noticed that the black van parked on the corner, right where I was. I stood up and saw two guys heading toward me. I began running down the sidewalk, they began to run too, but only one of them was actually following me. I saw an alley that lead to my friend, Julia's house. I ran into it and headed towards her house. The guy that was following me stopped at the back of the alley. I smiled, I was going to make it. I pumped my arms as fast as I could and reached the end of the alley. Someone stepped out infront of me and slammed into him. My vision blurred as he grabbed me from behind. I sobbed loudly and tried to get away.

"Let go of me you freaking pervert!" I huffed as I brought my elbow into his stomach. He groaned and his grip loosened. I quickly shook out of his grasp and ran in the opposite direction of Julia's house. The thing is I was completely oblivious to the man that was chasing me earlier. I ran straight into his arms. 'Way to go Ash! You managed to get yourself into another trap' my conscience stated sarcastically. I huffed and tried to get out of his grasp as he dragged me towards the van. I swung my arms wildly and smacked my captor in the face.

"Shit." he cursed under his breath. I felt him press a white cloth that smelt funny to my face. I passed out.

Author's Note(:

Hey guys! This is my second story(: if you like it and think I should continue please click the 'vote' button! If you want to give me some constructive criticism please leave a comment(: Thanks so much for reading! ~Rachelxoxo