Runaway

Chapter 2

My eyes felt to heavy to open. All I could feel was the cold air brushing up against the side of my body. I was on the floor and surrounded by trees, as my mind adjusted to where I was, I noticed my ankles were tied together in a strong rope but to my surprise my hands were not tied up. "Stupid Austin." I thought. "He never thought things through before he did them". I couldn't sit up, my back hurt like crap and my head felt like it was about to explode. I brought my hand up to my head and thankfully my head had no injury. I looked around and noticed that I was all alone and that sun was setting, my heart began to pound again at the thought that anything could attack me. I lay on the forest floor thinking about how this could have happened.

After about 10 minutes, I brought myself to stand up, un-tie my legs and look for help or somewhere to sleep, although I didn't even want to think that far. My small footsteps created crunch sounds as I walked through the endless amount of trees. Ahead of me I could see a large figure. As I got up closer, I noticed it was a small cave, I carefully studied it to make sure it was safe. Once I decided it was ok I crawled inside and curled up into a ball. I was to scared to close my eyes but eventually my eyes shut into a peaceful sleep.

I rapidly sat up when I heard small cracks on the ground, not to far from me. I was so cold that my body was completely numb. I carefully popped my head out of the side of the cave to see what was making the noise. I couldn't see anything, everything was pitch black. I decided it was good to stand up and stretch, even though it was probably 3 a.m. I felt like my body was about to break. I slowly got up, being careful not to make to much noise. I looked behind me and saw a man! I was about to scream but he put a hand over my mouth. I began to panic and started hitting him wherever I could, all of the sudden his hand around my mouth was no longer strong and he fell to the ground with a thud. "Ouch!" he yelled. I sat on the ground, not believing what had just happened, my head was throbbing again. "what was that for!" He yelled. I couldn't answer, my breathing was uneasy and sweat was running down my forehead. I was having a panic attack! The last time I had one was when I found out dad died almost 3 years ago. I couldn't talk and there was a stranger sitting right in front of me. He looked at me not knowing what was going on at first, but then he came up to me and said "it's ok, my name is Max, I'm not going to hurt you". I took deep breathes and all of sudden my breathing was back to normal, it was like he just had a special cure or something. Once my breathing was back to normal I said "I'm Alexa and how the heck did u get here?". "It's hard to explain, can I just explain in the morning I'm exhausted" Max said. At first I was taken back by how he just decided to sleep by me without even asking. Like he read my mind he said "I'll sleep out here, don't worry" he chuckled. "Umm ok.....night." I said awkwardly.

I sat up from my sleep and immediately a sharp pain ran through my back. "Good morning sleeping beauty" Max said. "Oh. Uh... Hey." I said shyly. "So anyways last night wasn't really how I introduce myself by the way." He said lowly. I giggled slightly at that, then sat down next to him at the opening of the cave. "I'm Max as you know and I'm 19, my girlfriend brought me here for a supposedly romantic date but she went missing and I couldn't find her so I went to look for her then found you". "Oh well umm... my ex-boyfriend kidnapped me and left me here" I said sadly. "Oh" he said, "did he hurt you? He asked. "No, I'm fine" I said. "I'm just really thirsty and hungry". "Oh, well uh.. I'm gonna go see if I can find anything, I'll be back" he said. With that he got up and started to walk away. At first I felt like it was kind of rude of him to just leave, but then I thought that he's just a stranger so I really shouldn't care.