Haunting Eyes

Chapter four

I took a deep breath in, I've been kidnapped, it sunk in, I've been kidnapped by my Alfie.

Chapter Four.

Alfie was recognisable by his eyes, you could always spot him a mile off. For one he'd be surrounded by a group of"that" type of girl and secondly, those eyes, they'd find you. Sometimes I'd think that Alfie wasn't even looking at me, his eyes were just trying to hypnotise me. Trying to probe into every secret and memory I had hidden away. I guess it worked though, I fell in love, the one thing I thought impossible and now I'm here.

Those brilliant eyes, they seemed to stare so hard they pierced through my eyes penetrating my very being , seeing every conscious thought. Thoughts that were twisting around my mind, reiterating my feelings of confusion, anger and hurt.

Alfie, I thought. Alfie what has happened to you, to us, where are we, why are we here? So many questions floated round my mind. So many questions that I feared that wouldn't be answered, at least not yet. Alfies' eyes  burst through my thoughts yet again, those warm amber eyes. They contrasted hugely against the stark walls and the hard, cold floor. Yet somehow they opened up the greenness, I seemed to feel it, smell it, see it every time I looked into his eyes, I felt comfortable yet uneasy with every glance.

Today, everything is so different.

The sun that hours ago shone through Alfies' windows, warming the icy sheets up, the winter sun that saw everything. The winter sun that took away the awkwardness of the two of us. The winter sun that made everything somehow beautiful and exciting.  Those feelings that took control of our bodies hours ago, they hid, they hid deep inside me. I hoped secretly that one day soon they would come back. But Alfie, my Alfie, that Alfie, somehow everything had changed.

"Beth..." Alfie interrupted my thoughts. He touched my cheek with his fingertips, tracing the lines of my tired eyes.

"Beth.. I never meant for this to happen. Beth, I promise you.."

With every mention of my name I could feel my throat drying up and my eyes trying to let in to the emotion that flowed within my veins.I strengthened up, I pulled the last drops of sanity together and asked, pleaded for the final time.

"Alfie, I need to know what is going on. This isn't fair, just tell me what is happening, who was she, who are they, who are you?" I breathed deeply, I didn't even know how long I'd been here, a few hours- I'd guess but I felt drained, these things just don't happen...

"I never should have agreed. It was too soon, too close to you. But Beth I didn't have a choice, she was needed... they all were needed. I couldn't stop them." My mind raced at Alfie's words, he didn't want to? But he had to?

This didn't sound like the Alfie I knew, my Alfie, wouldn't be told what to do. That's why he could never keep a steady job, there's our similarity I guess. And how we met, both getting a jobs at the The Tea Clipper- don't  know how we managed it, but within our first two weeks of being there we were fired, no notice, no nothing. That was our bit of fun. Stressful and shameful but I think it's a deserving record.

"You had to? Had to take her?" But he was stuck with me instead, great. "Who was needed? You've t-taken... kidnapped more than one girl?"

He looked down, golden eyes searching my shoes. This was not the first time he had done this with me. I knew this look. He didn't want to tell me, he was hiding something important, something he's ashamed about, something he's worried about. Not hard to realise, but with Alfie, it worried me, more than being kidnapped did. Much more.