Changes That Make Us

The Unexpected

Henry tied me up in a wooden chair he found sitting in the corner and picked up a duffle bag off the ground. I looked around to see where I was but it was to dark to see anything that wasn't close to me. I could hear the zipper on the bag being unzipped and Henry pulled something out.

"Listen, I just wanna talk," Henry said.

He poured some liquid into a glass and stirred it with a spoon. He poured a different liquid in another cup and put a straw in it. He drank out of the glass without a straw and finished it. Henry picked up the other cup and slowly walked over to me. He ripped the duck tape off of my mouth, held the cup up to my mouth, and glared at me.

"Drink it, now, or we can do this the hard way," he said.

I cooperated and sipped the drink.

"All of it!" He yelled.

I drank more of the liquid and it burnt going down my throat. I winced as I finished all of it and started coughing. Henry walked back to the duffle bag and pulled out a gun.

"If you try anything, anything! You will regret it, don't move," he yelled as he pointed the gun at me and walked out of the room.

I was left all alone in there. It was dark and nothing I could use to escape was in my reach. He was only gone for a few minutes before I started to feel sick. I was dizzy and I felt stabbing pains in my stomach, it must have been whatever he made me drink. I coughed some more and I spit up blood. I could feel tears in my eyes as I started to wiggle around in the chair. I have to get out of here, I thought.

Bens Perspective

Its been an hour, and Sarah's still not here. I've texted her like 20 times and called her a bunch too. I'm getting worried. There's so many people at the bonfire already, I don't want to tell them all just to go home.

"Jack! I'm putting you in charge, I have to go," I yelled to my friend Jack as I ran to the parking lot.

I tried calling Sarah again, she didn't answer. Instead I texted Kade, he could help me, he probably knows more about Henry than I do.

Me: I need help, come to my car, I think Sarah's in trouble. I think Henry has her.

Kade: Who's Henry?

Me: You don't know??

Kade: Know what?

Me: I'll explain in the car, I just need your help.

It only took a minute before I saw Kade run over the hill and into the parking lot. He got in my car and I immediately started driving. I pulled out my phone again and called Sarah. No answer.

Sarah's Perspective

I was full on crying now, I could feel my phone vibrating with texts and calls, probably from Ben. Henry still hadn't come back, and he'd been gone for fifteen minutes now. Is he just going to leave me here alone? I thought, Im going to die here, alone. I tried breaking free from the zip ties again but it was no use. I could hear footsteps in the hallway outside of the room I was in, then Henry walked in. He came in empty handed but looked angry.

"Oh sweet Sarah, do you know why you're here?" He sarcastically asked.

"Because you took me here," I shot back.

Before I could say anything else, he grabbed my arm and said, "Listen here you little brat, you have no idea how much pain you've caused me"

"Then why don't you tell me," I said.

I took it too far, Henry picked up a knife and held it against my throat. I leaned as far back as I could in the chair and turned my head away from him.

"Don't get smart with me, I brought you here for revenge. You broke my heart and had no care in the world," he explained.

That was true, I broke up with him and I didn't care, but that was only because he was a bad person. He didn't deserve to be with me, he was crazy! Still is crazy. I accidentally laughed when thinking of this and Henry took the knife off of my neck and walked behind me. The room was silent, he was so close to me I could hear his breathing. He ran his finger down my neck as he twirled the knife in his hand. I was so scared, I couldn't move. Then he stopped, he stopped twirling the knife and tracing my neck. I was relieved until I felt a sharp pain in my side. I let out a blood curdling scream and cried even more. Henry pulled the knife out of my side and walked over to his bag again.

Kades Perspective

Ben was speeding, but it felt like we were moving so slowly. He told me the whole story on Henry but what I didn't understand is why Sarah didn't tell me this herself. We used the "Find my iPhone" app to find Sarah's location and the GPS said we were only a few minutes away. We'd been driving for almost an hour and we're in the middle of no where.

A few minutes later we pulled up to a abandoned wear house and I made Ben turn off his head lights so Henry wouldn't know we're here. We walked through the front door and walked around the building for a while. It was so big we had no idea where Sarah could be. We could hear distant talking but it was muffled and we couldn't tell where it was coming from. We wandered aimlessly for a few minutes until we heard a high pitched scream.

"Sarah," I mumbled and started running towards where it came from, Ben followed behind me.

Eventually we ended up down a dark hallway with lots of rooms leading off of it. We slowly walked down it peaking in every room for Sarah. The very last room had a small light coming from it and the door was cracked open. I approached it and looked through the crack. It was pretty dark except for a small lantern that lit up a portion of the room. I could see someone walking around, that must have been Henry, I looked around some more and spotted Sarah. She was crying and heavily bleeding. Ben came up behind me to look too and he tried running into the room but I grabbed his arm and stoped him. He looked angry but I explained to him that we needed to wait till Henry was distracted. We stood there for a few minutes watching, Henry yelled at her every now and then but soon enough, he left the room again. Sarah stoped moving, she must have passed out due to blood loss, so we got in there as fast as we could. Ben cut the zip ties on her feet while I did the ones on her hands. When she was free Ben tried to stand her up but I stoped him and scooped her up into my arms. We ran out of there as fast as we could and back to Bens car. I laid her down in the backseat and we drove to the hospital.