"I know you're in here somewhere. I can hear your ragged breathing, the breathing of someone terrified for their life and you should be, you don't even wanna know what I'm gonna do to you when I find you, and don't worry, I will find you. Oh, what is that I hear? Are those tears? Are you crying? Good, you fucking should be." Shadows' taunting voice echoed throughout the library, bouncing off every wall and shelf, making it ten times louder. It sounded like he was right there infront of them, but that was impossible, I then pressed up against the ceiling.

I wanted so badly to scooch over to the edge of the shelf and see what he was doing but every bone in my body was screaming at me not to. It seemed like my body had a mind of it's own as I wiggled over to the edge and peaked over. He was prowling the room, like an animal on the hunt. I guess I moved over too much because my legs slipped over the edge and I steppe on the shelf to stop myself from falling down to the bottom. Though when I pulled myself back up some books fell down and before I could catch them they crashed down to the floor. I tried to roll myself back over, but before I could press myself against the wall again, he looked up and gave me a death glare.

"How the fuck did you even get up there? Get down!" I couldn't even find my voice, I just stared down at him. "I said get down!" He boomed, "Don't make me come up there." I didn't know what to do, I knew he couldn't get up here, he was too big and bulky, but I knew that if I didn't go down sometime soon, it would just be worse when I get down there. I suppose he thought my response was taking to long because he thundered over to the ladder and started climbing up. He hadn't gotten very far, only about half way when one of the wrungs broke and he fell all the way back down. "You'll have to come down sometime! And I hope you know, the longer you wait the worse it's gonna be!" He screamed before storming out, leaving me be.

Even though he was gone, be heart was still pounding and tears were still pouring down my face. After crying for what seemed like hours, I was drained and nothing else could come out of my eyes, I had cried myself dry. The hiding and the fear had tired me out, and I soon passed out from exhaustion.

When I woke up it was dark out, it seemed to be in the early hours of the morning, and I only woke up when the doors opened again. I pressed myself even more against the wall, scared that he had come back.

"He's not here, he went out." When I heard this voice I couldn't place a face to it, but I knew that this was the voice of comfort, from the stairs and from the tattoo shop. "Don't believe me? Fine." I heard this mystery man rustling around, and when he finally found what he was looking for, I heard the distinct sound of a phone dialing.

"What do you want, Jimmy?" Shadows' voice filled the room once again, but it didn't sound like he was hear, I could clearly here that he was on speaker phone. I turned over and moved closer to the edge, not too close this time. I saw the tall, lanky man from my first day.

I lay there motionless, not even caring enough to cover myself up. I just curled up into a ball, and cried, i shook with fear, disgust and self loathe. As if I didn`t hate myself enough, this had to be added into the mix. Suddenly, my ears picked up on a little snippet of their conversation, it was almost as if they were trying to talk louder, just so I could hear.
"You know, Jims, if you want, you can have a go, I won't tell Shads. You know she's not even that bad of a fuck, tight as shit and nice tits, they are kinda small, but still nice. If you just tune out the screams, you really start to enjoy it."

"You know don't even know how much I'd like to slam my dick into her tight little pussy, but she's too fucking skinny for my taste. You know, no body likes to fuck a bag of bones."

"Are you kidding me? I'd fuck her again the second I get the chance!" He laughed his disgusting, deep laugh. He looked over his shoulder, towards my defeated body and smirked. "You know, we've been up here for a long time."

"Yeah, all thanks to you." The man called Jims interupted Brian, the man that had just raped me.

I was brought back to reality by their phone conversation.

"Oh, nothing much, just wondering where you were?"

"What do you mean, you know exactly where I am. Brian, Zacky, Johnny and I al went to the strip club, remember?"

"Oh yeah, now I remember!" He laughed a luagh that didn't seem to fit his look, it was filled with happiness and joy, like the laugh of a child, it was infectious. "When are you coming back?"

"I don't know, we've decided o take a little trip to Vegas, you don't mind, do you?"

"No, go right ahead." He said smirking up at me.

"Think you can handle the little bitch? Is she still hiding?"

"Yeah, still in the library, hasn't come down yet."

"Well tell her to be ready for Friday." And with those parting words, he hung up.

"See I told you he wasn't here, and he won't be, until Friday seems like it."

"W- what's happening on Friday?" I whispered.

"I don't know, but who cares come down and I'll get you something to eat." I don't know why, but I felt like I could trust this man, so I swung my legs around and stepped on the top shelf, lowering myself down to the ladder. When I came to the broken wrung, I forgot about it and fell down the rest of the steps, landing on the ground, on my ass. I was about to help myself up when there was a large, manly hand in my face, trying to help me up. I tentatively took it and he hoisted me up. He pulled me up and I was pulled right into his hard, muscular chest. He wrapped his arms around me and just hugged me, nothing else.

"What are you doing?" I asked him skeptically.

"I just felt like you needed a hug, you've been all alone in this house since you got here, it's okay to cry, you've been through so much, you've been so strong. You didn't have a friend in this house, but now you've got me." Upon hearing this, I wrapped my arms around him and hugged him tightly, afraid that if I let go, he'd be gone.

When he looked at me he couldn't help the laugh that came out. When I looked down, I saw that I was covered in dust, from head to toe. It was all over my clothes and it even stuck to my bare legs.

"Come on, why don't you go take a shower." He led me out of the library, into the empty house and back to the room I was given, I still refused to call anything in this house mine. I quickly hopped in the shower and washed myself, the soap bubbles turning and ugly, murky grey. When I stepped out I felt better, I felt clean, I felt rejoiced, I wasn't scared right now and it felt so good. I turned the water off and wrapped a big fluffy towel around me. Upon closer inspection, I saw that I had forgotten to bring in new clothes. I sat down on the toilet seat and thought of how I would go get clothes without him seeing me with practically nothing on. If he saw me like this, vulnerable, maybe he would take advantage. When I didn't come out when the water shut off he softly knocked on the door.

"Is everything okay? You've been in there quite a while."

"I, uh, didn't bring any clothes in here with me." I said, poking my head out of the door.

"But your closet's right there." He said, pointing to the door right acroos the room, turning to look at it.

"But..." I just looked at him, not quite sure what to say next.

"Do you want me to turn around as you walk over to it?"

"Yes please." I whispered. He instantly flopped onto his stomach on the bed and covered his eyes. When I saw that he really wasn't looking, I quickly ran over to the closet and closed the door behind me. When I walked out a minute later, in shorts and no socks, he looked at me oddly.

"What are you wearing?"

"What do you mean?"

"Where are your socks? Or sweatpants? We're watching a movie, don't you wanna be comfortable?"

"Well, I don't have any pants or socks."

"Well we're gonna have to fix that! He took me by the wrist and dragged me to a closed door in a hallway that I had never been down before. He opened a door that I had never been in before and pulled me in. He left me standing in an extremely messy room and walked into an open door, that I could tell that was once a closet. Now, it was just a tiny room with piles of clothes on the floor. He shuffled aorund and finally came out holding a pair of sweatpants and I had never seen something so glorious in my entire life! The entire time I had been in this house I have been freezing! When he handed them to me I slipped them on over my shorts, but they quickly fell around my ankles. "Okay, so, they're a little big, well actually you're a little small, we'll just have to tie the tighter." He walked over to me and grabbed the drawstrings, and pulled them really tight, when he finally tied them, the bow was so long that I had to tuck it inside my pants. "Girl, we're gonna need to get some meat on your bones! You are far too skinny for my liking."

"Well, no one else seems to think so, everyone comments on my weight."

"You know they're doing it to get under your skin, right?"

"Well, it's working."

"Come on, let's go get some popcorn and watch a movie, what do you wanna see? How about The Woman In Black?"

"Yeah, that sounds nice." I said, smiling down to the ground.