Hostage

Matt’s POV

I looked at Alicia sitting so close but yet so far away from me. She stared at the ceiling we haven’t been talking all day.
How long has it been since we were kidnapped?
A week now?
Longer?
I lost track of time… and I began to lose hope as well… how could Brian and the others know that I was lost… that I wasn’t just doing the vacation I had told him…. Fuck, I had been so stupid.
My thoughts were racing on how to get out of here, how to get my friends to notice where I was, where we were…
“They will find us.” Alicia finally said.
I looked at her, she was staring at me now with a small smile.
Could she read my thoughts? Sense my trouble or was it written all over my face?
“Yes, I know… but I don’t know how long I can keep up with this…” I told her honestly.
I felt her hand on my shoulder and I turned fully towards her. I buried my head in the crook of her neck and inhaled, calming my nerves with her closeness.

The door opened and I moved a little away from Alicia.
“Day 7 now, how are you guys feeling?!” C walked in and grinned at us.
Both me and Alicia just glared at him, how happy would I be if could punch this stupid grin off of his face.
“No reply. Alright, I can live with that…” C sat down on the table, let his legs dangle and looked at us.
“I talked to your friends, Matthew. After they screwed up the first time I think I got their attention now…” He said and smiled evilly.
“I will write them a small letter today and I want you to sign it. They wanted to have a small message from you, so they would believe me you are fine and yadayada…So I think they will recognize your writing, right?”
I nodded at him and then he turned his eyes to Alicia and I didn’t like the stare in his eyes.
“Alicia, darling… Did I tell you that I like your apartment?” C said and I felt Alicia stiffen behind me. I moved closer to her to shield her a little.
“What.. what do you mean?” She asked and her voice was shaking.
“I mean the nice red couch and the picture of you and your best friend.. her name is… wait.. Caro? Caroline?” C asked and I felt Alicia sob behind me.
“How do you know?” I asked him with an angry glare.
“Oh I didn’t mention that I was in your home 2 days ago.. ah sorry for not mentioning it. You had a few messages from your friend Caroline, she is really worried you know… and you should call your doctor back, he needs to discuss something with you, it is necessary that you come personally. Are you ill darling?” C asked and now I couldn’t hold in my aggression.
I abruptly stood up and with my free hand I punched the guy in the nose.
His head snapped back and the blood began to pour out of his nose and I felt – better.
Gods, yes this felt good.
“YOU SON OF A BITCH!” He yelled while holding his bleeding nose.
“GUYS?! COME HERE RIGHT FUCKING NOW!” He yelled again and I looked at Alicia she was crying hard and I grabbed her in a hug.
I knew the other two guys would be running in the room at every second and I had no chance to escape with Alicia right now, but at least I had a little satisfaction.
The kid ran into the room took one look at his leader bleeding and ran back out.


Then came the other one running in with the gun in hand he moved the gun between me and Alicia back and forth. I moved completely in front of her.
“FUCK GIVE IT TO ME!” C yelled again, his face full of blood.
“You think this is funny? You think this will get you anywhere??” He held the gun to my temple and I swallowed thickly.
“Not so funny anymore, is it?” He said and I felt Alicia’s hands gripping the side of my shirts.
The kid came running back in with the first aid kit and somehow he could drag the bloody leader outside to clean his face.
When all of them left I finally led my breath go out in a huff, shit…
“Matt, how could you do that?” Alicia asked my shocked.
“What? He was in your home! He fucking was in your home! He listened to your messages and god knows what else he did…!” Thinking about this again made my stomach churn, what else could he have done?

After a small while the door opened again and the leader came inside.



“I will make you pay for this! YOU WILL PAY!” He screamed and then he shut the door again.

Zack’s POV

I drove together with Caroline over to Brian’s house. I saw that he called me while we were in the gym but since I wanted to head over to him anyway I thought I didn’t need to call him back.
We walked to the front door and just when I was about to ring the doorbell Johnny opened the door.
“Man, we were trying to call you… the guy.. this guy he had called again! Not so long ago!” Johnny said and I stared at him.
“Fuck me.. really?! What did he say?” I asked and we walked inside, I grabbed Caroline’s hand and dragged her in behind me.

The guys told me what was said on the phone then they stared at me and Caroline.
“Don’t you want to introduce your… girl?” Brian asked and motioned to Caroline.
“Oh.. sorry. Right, this is Caroline. Caroline these are my friends, Brian, Johnny and Arin.” I introduced but still everyone was staring at me.
“I am not Zack’s girl… I am married and have 2 children. Zack and I met today, we are on the same course I think. My best friend Alicia she vanished last week and I had a note in the newspaper, because after I went to the police and they didn’t really pay attention to my missing person file I had to do something else so I made this little note about Alicia’s disappearing. Zack called me and told me about his friend Matt, right?” I nodded at her and she continued.
“About Matt’s disappearing, we were driving around trying to find some information or hints if they were connected or something… and we really did find something.” Caroline finished.
“She didn’t say happily…” Johnny said and elbowed me in the side.
“What?!” I looked at him confused.
“She didn’t say happily married, you still got a chance.” Johnny chuckled and I slapped the back of his head.
“From everything we just said, you paid attention to that?” I asked him with a shake of my head.
“Just kidding.. so what hints did you get?” Johnny replied.
“They were in the same gym and they seem to have vanished at the same day or rather morning, Friday morning, guess what we were in the gym and I asked when they saw Matt the last time… and he must have been there on Friday, but he didn’t close the door afterwards and since then never showed up again…We wanted to see the video footage of the security camera’s and believe it or not, the camera didn’t film anything on that day… everything is black. The day after - working fine, the day before - working also fine.”
“Holy hell, now it makes sense… the abductor he said Matt is with nice company, with a girl he said. That must be your friend!” Brian said and looked astonished.
“Oh god, what? What do they want? They are held hostage? Do you have any lead? What can we do?” Caroline began to shake and I grabbed her before she would fall to the floor.
We sat her on Brian’s couch and all the questions she just asked also had to be found out by us.
“They want money, but we don’t know where they could be or who the abductors are… they told us we would receive a letter with instruction tomorrow and if everything will work out, we will get them back.” Brian replied.
Shit, this was really bad… now we had to wait and see what these instructions were about!

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