The Hooded Beauty

Who Are You?

I don't know how to reply to him, but I don't have time to as the creep starts gaining consciousness, he begins to move around. Jace looks around and grabs some rope that the guy must have dropped.

Jace leaps on top of this guy and ties his hands behind his back and keeps him laid there, I just stare in disbelief. The girl runs up to me and hugs me while thanking me for saving her, but I just feel numb and then I snap back to reality and tell her it's okay.

Jace pulls the guys hood down, sirens begin to get closer and louder. But I'm finally getting a look at this guy, it's difficult at first to see his features as he's covered in blood but then I get a closer look at him.

"I know you!" I blurt out, he gives me the dirtiest look and then spits blood onto my shoes. Jace shoves his head back down onto the concrete. I know his face, I just don't know where from, it's not clicking but I need to know who he is.

Police officers flood onto the scene and Jace gets off the guy and tells them what happened, they then walk over to me. I give them a statement and so does the girl. They handcuff the guy and put him in the back of a cop car, he glares at me the entire time, his eyes never divert from me, it is the most intense stare I have ever experienced. He obviously knows me.

But, who are you?

We talk with the police officers some more as they want to know how we'd like to proceed with this, I tell them that I don't want to press charges for him trying to kidnap me. I learn that the other girls name is Jessica, she's still very shuck up and terrified, she doesn't want to press charges either.

"What you did tonight was amazing, you saved her. Your quick thinking and actions saved her. This area is a hot spot for sex trafficking, if only others had someone like you around when they were targeted. You helped us get closer to cracking this trafficking ring" an officer says to me sincerely. After he's finished his sentence I get an extremely heavy feeling in my heart, a sex trafficking ring? It makes me feel sick.

I stare at the guy one last time and walk away, Jace follows and I hop into the car and put my head into my hands and try to breathe normally. Jace hops in next to me and rubs my back tentatively.

"He was right, you did amazing" I look at him.
"I know that guy Jace, I just don't know where from. I need to know" I say with such a frustrated tone because my memory fails me. He spends the next 10 minutes soothing and supporting me. He calms me down and we drive home, but we stop at McDonald's and he gets me a Big Mac and a chocolate milkshake, as he knows that they cheer me up when I'm down. I wasn't lying when I said food is the way to my heart. I hold his hand tightly for the rest of the journey. I'm thankful for him.

We get back to my house and we go into my room, his arm is around me the whole time. But that guys face has never left my mind since I saw it. It's on a billboard in my head. It annoys me that I can't remember him.

Jace pulls me onto the bed and cuddles me.
"When did you learn self defence like that?" He says suddenly.
"When we came back and I started training in the gym, I would research self defence on YouTube and watch a bunch and practice them in case I was ever in a situation that I needed to defend myself. I got bored of being the damsel in distress" I say and he kisses me.
"It was badass, like it was really hot" he smiles as he says that and weirdly it cheers me up.

We watch the last episode of 'Unsolved Mysteries' and once again hate how it was handled. I look down at myself and notice I have blood on me and it isn't mine. I jump out of bed and start stripping off, it makes me feel disgusting. Jace tried to question me but then notices the blood and picks my clothing up and throws them in the bin. I need to shower, I turn the settings up even higher than my usual boiling temperature.

I hop in and scrub my body to high heaven. I need to feel clean, as I'm washing my hair I feel the scar on my head. I pause as my mind wanders to that night the rival gang tried to kill me at that party and then it clicks.

I rush out of the shower, barely covering myself with a towel. I shoot out of the bathroom so quick it scares Jace, I'm breathing heavy and clearly in distress. A worried look shoots through his face as he quickly leaps up to try to comfort me and find out what's wrong.

"I know who he is"