Captured

7

Chloe

"Where's Sky?" Those were the words that I was forced to endure first thing when I woke up on the couch in the morning. I let a small groan escape my lips as I sat myself upright on the couch and readjusted myself. The leather of the couch had been previously digging into and rubbing against my skin and it was leaving it quite red. It was really hurting and if I could do anything to prevent making it worse I would be incredibly happy.

I swiped my hands across my face and stood up, trying to ignore the conversation that the four boys were having about The Daylighters drummer Skyler Michaels. I received the misfortune however of hearing almost everything. Apparently he was in Minnesota too but instead of renting a place for a while he'd spent the last night in a hotel room somewhere with his girlfriend. He apparently doesn't get to see his girlfriend all that much because they're always out and about touring somewhere so he decided to take advantage of being stuck here and canceling a few tour dates by hanging out with her. Then I got to hear Sawyer's story how a similar thing typically happens with his bandmates and their girlfriends. Except the fact that they've never really been stuck in a country or city or anything so nothing really changed, they just brought the girls along with them on tour sometimes.

After that the boys continued to chatter about different things but I managed to block the rest of it out like they weren't even there before grabbing a clear glass from up in the cupboard and fetching some ice from the freezer and a bottle of water from a different cupboard before putting them together and swallowing almost the entire thing down in three gulps. If you couldn't tell I was extremely thirsty. I hadn't had all that much to drink since I'd left school yesterday.

I set the glass down in the sink and walked back into the room where the boys had grown quiet in conversation but now had their gazes fixed on the television, more specifically the news where they were talking about me and Sawyer.

"There was a rumor sweeping around that the kidnapper of Chloe Martin was in fact not Sawyer Cash, but her boyfriend Benjamin Peterson. It was seemingly spread around her hometown rather quickly but was later dismissed when he was able to provide an alibi. So now at the moment we still are highly assuming that Sawyer Cash is the kidnapper and we're still on the look out for those two. Now as a recap..." From that point on, the tv was just shut off because they gave a recap of what we were wearing when we went missing, the last time we were seen, etc...

I frowned from the words that they said on screen, almost rolling my eyes. How on earth anyone would have ever assumed it to be Ben I have no idea. Ben looked nothing like the person I could ever imagine the kidnapper being plus they have completely different shades of hair. As far as I know everything else about them is completely different as well. It's probably a person that I don't even know, maybe someone from a different state, a different part of the country, maybe even a different part of the world. Who knows other than the kidnapper? I can't wait to find out though and for us to receive the justice we deserve.

Asher got up from his perch on the end of the couch, next to Sawyer and wrapped his arms around me in a firm hug. "You alright, Chloe?"

I adjusted my frown into a bit of a smile before nodding my head and shrugging my shoulders. "Oh yeah, I'm great. Just a bit concerned for what's going on back home that's all." I wrapped my arms back around Asher and hugged him tightly.

If we were in any situation other than trying to hide out from my kidnapper and being captured I'd say that Asher Stone would make a fabulous friend. Ever since Sawyer and I barged in on him and Bradley unexpectedly he's been here for us. He let us in and basically consume their lives. He's made sure we're safe and now he's hugging me and reassuring me that everything will be okay.