stand by me {a katy perry fan fiction}

Mercedes

A week went by slowly. Katy barely spoke to me and I barely spoke back.I had felt lung crushing guilt. Katy treated me like a stranger. I have heard her crying a few times. Riley was still in Connecticut so it was still just me and Katy. She went out all day and would go to bed shortly after coming home but had someone stay in the house to keep an eye on me and give me food.

I barely slept. I felt so alone again.
Brett had texted me again for the details of the wedding and i blocked him straight away. Why did I always do this. Fuck up and ruin things as soon as they were good. Riley knew and had a go at me and was angry too and wouldn't talk. I hate how brett had such a power over me and i betrayed my family because of him. I was disgusted in myself.
It was midnight and I was in bed. Katy just got home i heard her bedroom door close. Normally she would come home and say goodnight to me but now she said nothing. I really hurt her bad. I know I did.
I laid in the darkness of the room for a few more minutes. Then i heard loud sobbing coming from her room. It was heart wrenching. They got louder and louder. I plucked the courage and walked to my door and into the hall.
I clasped my hands together as i slowly walked to her door and opened it tentatively. Her lamp was on and she was curled up on her bed around her pillows. Crying her eyes out and my heart strings were pulled.
"Mum?" I said quietly and her sobs stopped. She looked up and i saw her eyes sparkling with tears. I stood there frozen now feeling exposed. We hadn't spoken in a week. She hated me and I was the last person she would want to see being this upset. I hung my head. I had broken my mother's heart.I looked back up.
Then i remembered seeing Katy for the first time after finding out she was my mother. The look of the missing piece of her puzzle crossing her beautiful face. She had that look in her eyes now and I knew she needed me. I joined her on the bed and pulled her into my arms.
"I'm so sorry, I never meant to hurt you" i whispered into the silence and she clutched at me tighter.
"I cant lose you again Rhiannon. I'm sorry I blew up at you, i understand you wanted to see him again i wish you had of told me. He scares the shit out of me. He used to beat me up and wanted me to have an abortion when he found out about my pregnancy. I don't trust him and I don't want him anywhere near either of you. Please don't see him again baby" she looked at me and managed to smile and I nodded.
"I missed you" I admit, happy to be talking again. She she kissed me on my temple. I laid down next to her and spooned her tightly and put my head on her back and nuzzled my head in.

A few days later Katy and I decided we would go shopping for an upcoming event. Of course we were swarmed with paparazzi and had to hide. We ate out and laughed together and had fun and picked out our outfits and talked all day catching up. It felt like finding her again after all this time being apart. It was our first fight since we reunited and i hoped it would be our last but i wasnt that naive.
"You have to let me choose your outift sweets, i missed out on this when you were little" she giggled and locked my head in her arm and i twisted out of it.
"You will put me in a nun outfit mrs protective" i laughed back and she rolled her eyes. "Don't read my mind" she retorted. "You don't know what creeps are thinking nowadays when they see you in the lastest issue, please let mummy choose your outfit" she gives me a pout and i give in.
"Fineeee, i need to pee" i tell her and she nods. "Okay I'll choose you a few why your gone, Hurry back" she barks and I salute her with a chuckle at my bossy mother.

We were not in a mall so i had to walk the streets to find the nearest toliet. No one seemed to notice me which i was grateful for. There was a nearby park that had public toliets in. I fist pumped the air and ran over to the park.
After i peed and flushed and washed my hands i walked out. The toliets smelt so it was nice to get fresh air. There was a black Mercedes Benz car waiting near park.
I then got a text.

Hey kid it's me, broke my phone this is my backup, the car is there to pick you up

I felt a bit strange because she wanted to show me her outifts she'd picked for me but i had to reason to question it so I shrugged my shoulders and walked over the the vehicle and just as i opened the door i dropped my phone. I went to pick it up but i was grabbed and yanked in the car. I didn't see who it was but a cloth was forced over my mouth and i tried to fight it but i suddenly was knocked out.

I awoke feeling strange with a headache. I couldn't move my arms or feet. i had a gag in my mouth. I was in a room of rotting wood and a foul smell. The floor was concrete. There were bulletproof windows extremely high up. My heart pounded in my chest. I looked around and moved my arms trying to escape. My screams were coming out muffled. Then the door right in front of me opened and in walked tahlia. I started shaking in my chair more. Glaring at her. The gag in my mouth was so tight and i was delirious from the chloroform.
"Hello brat" her voice is cold as the arctic. Confusion and shock all hits me at once. My thoughts scatter. I scream out but its still muffled. She crouches down and grabs my chin roughly.
"Shh, no one can hear you and daddy cant save you" her eyes bore into mine and a feeling or cold terror runs through me. I shiver. She pulls down my scarf gag.
"What the fuck do you want from me?"  I snap feeling disoriented and confused.
"Wouldn't you like to know hmmm" she taunts me with a slithering voice and she grabs my chin.
"Seriously? What did I do to you? You fucking kidnapped me, what the fuck is wrong with you?" I so badly want to strangle the woman as she looks coldly at me with dark, empty eyes.
"Your mother is katy fucking perry, what do you think I want? I grew up poor with two good for nothing parents who cared more about drugs than their children, I had to scrape to get by and even then I still went through good for nothing men with no motivation, your father had me convinced he was different, wealthy and stable!" I roll my eyes at her villian monologue. She was insane.
"He's not my father!" I cry as I squirm in my chair.
"Oh yes he is you ungrateful brat! And you better deal with it, he has lost all his money, he is just as bas as the rest of them, I've tried to be a good girl and stay on the righteous path but I'm sick of it, life has never been kind to me, so you are going to be mummys reason to be my cash cow, if she wants her precious little daughter alive she will give me what I want, somehow she loves you so pathetically so I have no doubts she will give me however much I want and everyone live happily ever fucking after so sit tight, this is on your mother" I couldn't believe what I was hearing. I was kidnapped because my step mom wanted a ransom. How cliche. I trembled in fear as I see how unhinged and psychotic she seemed.
"Please, it isnt too late, I won't tell anyone who kidnapped me, just let me go Tahlia, this is insane, you can't take my mothers money, get a fucking job and earn money like everyone else!" I was too angry to care about pushing my unstable captor.
"I don't fucking care about doing things the right way anymore, I'm getting what I'm owed, your mother is a millionaire, she has some money to spare and hey, who says you can't put a price on love?" She laughs maliciously.
"You're fucking crazy!" I scream at her. She then reacts by punching me hard in the face. So hard my vision blurs.
She grabs duct tape off the wall and rips a piece off and i shake my head and scream but she grabs my throat and squeezes.

~Katy~

It had been 15 minutes and i sat on a leather chair in forever 21 waiting for Rhiannon. I looked down at my phone since i had texted her.
I look at her on my tracking app. Since her dad i put it in place just in case.
I decide to walk out and hide in my hoodie. I follow the app and it leads me to a park with a grassy floor and i see toliets. "Bingo" i say to myself.
I walk in and see all toliets empty.
"Rhiannon?" I call, my eye brows knitted together i look around.
I call her phone and hear it ringing and relief hits me.
But it comes from close to the road on the footpath and rhiannon was nowhere in sight.
Panic starts to settle in. I jog to her phone and it sits on the ground and i pick it up and see my own name on the screen and i decline the call. I then see a text from an unknown number.

The text was apparently from me saying i was in the car. Then i feel like i can't breathe. My daughter got a text from someone saying it was me and to get into the car.
"Rhiannon!" I scream out not caring who heard. I look around and start to feel dizzy. Where was she.
Not again.