I opened my eyes, ears ringing and head throbbing, desperately looking around to see what had just happened. Moments ago I was walking home from school when I turned a corner and suddenly someone grabbed me and covered my mouth with a rag. The last I remember is squirming trying to breath, but the rag had something in it that made me pass out.
I felt the ground rumbling and suddenly it jerked to the side and I flew for a moment before slamming into a hard metal wall. All the pain I felt before this was nothing compared to right now, my back feeling as the whole thing purple with bruses. I lay there for a while slowing recovering my vision and hearing. After what seemed like an internaty, I could see feel and hear. I was in a trailer, moving fairly fast, my wrists, ankles, and mouth had been tied very tightly, as tho the rope was burning through my skin. The trailer had a bunk bed, a small kitchen area with a small table bolted to the floor. I had been thrown in here all tied up thrashing around like a ball in a football game. Everytime the trailer harshly turned or stopped, I would bang into the hard furniture corners.
After a long time of rolling around, hitting the same metal table legs, smashing against the corner of the cabinet and bed legs, the trailer came to a fierce halt. The engine switched off and I heard a car door open and slam shut. My heart beated fastly and sweat dripping down my face, 'Was he coming to get me?' I panicked thinking my life is over. The door to the trailer swooshed open with a quick creak. My body froze in fear, my eyes shut closed and my body in a paralyzed like state. The footsteps of heavy shoes came closer and closer till they stopped directly above me.
As Claire aims to leave her oppressive stepfamily behind, she befriends Zion. Will he be her ticket to freedom or a distraction in achieving her dreams?
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Claire Olsen has had a crush on Zion Petrakis since the first time she laid eyes on him, but he never noticed, instead only having eyes on the school's it girl, Maddie Jennings. Knowing she couldn't compete with Maddie, Claire hid her feelings for Zion, satisfied with admiring him from afar. However, when a series of events led Claire closer to Zion, her feelings for him grew from infatuation to love. And despite fighting hard to keep her feelings contained by distancing herself from Zion, he was determined to show her that he's earned a spot in her life.
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