Dancing Girl

Brian POV

Me and Matt just arrived back to Arin’s house. The others didn’t leave his house last night, so we decided to go and meet them there. We took the note Rick left us in Katelyn’s house with us and I’m hoping that they have an idea on how to get Katelyn back. As for me I’m dead tired and I’m not so confident that we’ll manage to do so in time. Matt tried to make me feel better, but deep down I’m still not sure if we can pull this one off.
“Who the fuck he thinks he is? Writing us a note of this sort”, says Johnny pissed off, as he throws the papers in our faces.
“I’m curious about the ‘you want to play a game?’ part. I mean, I want to know what he means by that”, Zacky point out. Even I want to know what game he wants to play.

It’s obvious that we’re tired as we’re hanging in the kitchen trying to come up with a good plan but we got nothing. As I’m yawning my phone starts ringing, it kind of scares us for a little bit since we were all quiet. I look at the phone, it says I have a video from an unknown number.
“Hmm this is weird”, I tell the others.
“What’s that?” asks Matt, all interested.
“I got a video from an unknown number”. I stop for a while, and then look at the guys. “You don’t think its……” I trail off as I hit the ‘Open’ button.

“Holy shit!!!” I say, “It’s from Rick, he’s filming Katelyn!”. All the guys gather round as I put the phone on the table for us to see well. Poor Katelyn, she seems so scared, tied up to a couch with a cloth in her mouth. She’s crying, she’s definitely distraught and all shocked. I couldn’t even watch when he was inserting the cloth in her mouth, hearing her gag was more than enough. The video finishes with a still of her crying looking at the couch she was tied up with. I feel all kind of emotions right now, from pity towards Katelyn and extreme anger towards that dick.
“Is he serious?” Matt shouts. “Brian, I think it’s best if you go and find Nina and tell her that Katelyn is not going to their show”
“I’m not going to listen to this son of a bitch!” I notice that both of my hands are clenched in fists right now. He thinks he’s the boss of this? Well fuck no he ain’t the one!
Arin puts his hand on my shoulder, “Listen bro, I agree with you for not wanting to go to Nina and tell her what he said. I fucking hate his attitude, his comments and the way he thinks. But think about it, if you don’t go, he’ll get to know from the club management team. Plus, what if you tell her everything, I mean, everything that has happened this night?”
“Arin might have a point Brian. You should go and tell Nina everything, maybe even showing her the video, but make sure that she doesn’t say anything to anyone, for Katelyn’s sake”, agrees Matt.
“Yeah maybe I should, first thing in the morning”. That means in just a couple of hours. I grab by phone, and quickly text Nina.

Hey Nina, it’s Brian. Can we meet at the Cafeteria close to 4th Avenue in the morning? Say around 9 or 10am. It’s extremely important. Text me when you get this.

“Ok I texted her to meet in the morning. I think I should go alone without you guys, so if maybe any people working for Rick sees me, they won’t suspect anything else” I tell them. I sure don’t want to put Katelyn’s life in more jeopardy.
My phone starts beeping again, this time it’s a text.

Okay Brian, make it 10am, even though it’s still too damn early for me. See you tomorrow.


*in the morning*


I’m waiting in the cafeteria for Nina, it’s almost 10 o’clock. I hope she doesn’t take too long to come. I haven’t stopped thinking about the video Rick sent me. I keep replaying the vision of Katelyn being scared on the couch, tied to it, while having Rick inserting a cloth in her mouth. She doesn’t deserve this. All this is way out of line. He needs a fucking good lesson and cannot wait to see his face again.

I feel a tap on my shoulder, it’s Nina. She comes and sits in front of me.
“Morning Nina”, I tell her.
“Well morning to you too Brian”, she says, shooting me a dead look.
“Not a morning person?” I playfully tell her.
“How did you figure that one out huh?” she replies, still looking pissed. The waitress comes and we order some black coffee and something to eat.
“So, Brian. What is so important that you asked me to meet you this early in the morning?” she tells me, hands together in front of her.
“First you have to promise me that you tell nothing to no one. It’s extremely important, someone life is at stake. You got it?”

She looks at me seriously, her tiredness vanished away from her face and she leans forward on the table. “What are you going to tell me Brian? I promise I won’t say anything!”
“Okay, but first I need you to look around and see whether you recognize any familiar faces from work”. She looks around and shakes her head, “No Brian I cannot see anyone familiar”.
“Okay. You know that we had bugged Katelyn’s house and had a plan to get to Rick right? Well, it didn’t go as planned. And this is the result”. I give my phone to Katelyn, and play her the video, making sure that the audio is off.
Nina gasped when she saw her. She covers her mouth and tears are visible in her eyes. At one point she shakes her head, closing her eyes.
“I don’t want to see anymore! Please!” I switch the video off as I explain everything that had happened.
“I wanted to show you the video maybe you know where he took her. Me and Matt went to her house a bit before he sent me the video, but we didn’t find anything!”.
She stays quiet for a minute or so, thinking. “Okay let me watch the video one last time maybe I’ll recognize something. Rick has a lot of apartments across different states. He’s wealthy you know.”

I see her looking carefully at the video. I’m hoping that she recognizes something so we’ll get Katelyn to safety.
“I don’t know Brian, I can’t figure out anything.”
“You can’t recognize anything at all? Look carefully one more time!” I insist.
She puts the video down, and gave me a glare. “Brian I don’t know what type of couches he has in his apartments. Listen, I want to find Katelyn as bad as you, but from this video I cannot figure out anything! We have to come up with something else”, she says looking all sad.
I see my phone lighting up in her hands. “You have a phone call Brian, unknown number”.
“Fuck! I think it’s him!” I tell her as I grab my phone from her hands. I grab her hand and run outside the cafeteria from the back door to listen carefully to what he has to say. As I come outside, I check that there was no one and enough silence to listen to him.

“I’m going to put him on speaker phone Nina, maybe you’ll catch something. Don’t say anything, for Katelyn’s sake!” I tell her. She nods at my request and I take the call.
“Hello?”
“What the heck took you so long?” I was right, it was Rick.
“I was in a cafeteria, I had to go out to be able to listen well.”
“Have you told Nina what I asked you to?” he asks.
“Yes I did. She didn’t ask much questions, although she expected an explanation how come Katelyn didn’t tell her herself. But then she stopped asking”.
“Good. Now for the second part….” I trail him off.

“Is Katelyn ok? I need to know she’s well!” I ask. Nina looks so angry, staring at my phone likes she’s looking at Rick himself.
“Katelyn is fine.”
“Katelyn is fine…..bullshit! I need a goddamn proof! Put her over the phone!” I yell over the phone.
He starts cursing something, while I hear him moving around his apartment.
“Hello?” My heart broke at that word. She sounds so fragile, hurt and tired. Nina gasps quietly as she puts her hand over her mouth.
“Katelyn are you ok? Where are you?” I ask immediately. I know she isn’t going to tell me where she’s at but it’s worth a try.
“Closer to the edge, like the Kings and Queens. Then I will look up in the air, maybe towards the hurricane”. I listen to Katelyn blankly, not understanding what’s she’s saying.
“What are you saying Katelyn? Where are you? Are you hurt”
“No, no please”…and she’s cut off. “So”, Rick cuts he off, “you got proof, she’s still alive. Back to the game, I am going to give you an account number, you have to transfer some money to it by tomorrow”.
“What the fuck? Why should I transfer any money to you?!” I shout at the phone.
“My game, my rules. Plus, thanks to you guys, all the trouble I went through meant more money to pay to the policeman I have working on the inside. I’m not going to suffer that loss, so since it was your idea, you should and have to pay the money yourself.”
“What if I don’t?”
“Then you know what happens Brian” and I head Katelyn screaming at the background. I can’t stand hearing her crying, so I’m willing to do what he commands me to do.
“Ok ok fine I’ll give you the money by tomorrow.”
“Good boy. I will send you the details soon”, and he hangs up.

I look at Nina and try to comfort her since she looks a bit lost and distraught.
“We’ll save her Nina, I promise that! Let’s go to the guys and tell them everything!”, I try to calm her down.
“Phoenix”, she says quietly, “Phoenix. They’re in Phoenix Brian” she becomes all excited while getting up and grabbing me by my chest.
“How do you know that?” I ask all surprised.
“Those two sentences she said. ‘Closer to the edge, like the Kings and Queens. Then I will look up in the air, maybe towards the hurricane’. Those are names of songs by 30 Seconds To Mars. We were there last year, in Phoenix, to one of their concerts. And I know that Rick has an apartment in Phoenix as well! I’m telling you Brian, they’re in Phoenix!”

Notes

Katelyn gave an important clue in that phone call, and Nina got it! Can they actually save her in time? I guess we're all Team A7X or Team Brian to the rescue, right?! :D

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