The One Who Was Taught to Survive

**Matt’s POV**
I hated how my parents behaved and the fact that they wouldn’t even let me walk River home, or wait outside with her until a ride could get here. I growled as I looked at my phone,
“Matthew,” fuck you dad.

“What?” I snapped at him, I met his eyes, my own glare meeting his.

“It’s very rude to continue checking your phone. We have guests,” he boomed taking another drink of his wine.

“And it’s very rude the way you treated River,” I challenged him.

“Matthew, stop this,” My mother demanded intervening, obviously becoming embarrassed by our antics.

“I’m done, may I be excused?” I pushed my chair back.

“No, you may not,” my mother said staring me down.

“Well I’m glad I don’t give a flying fuck.” I got up from the table and put my dishes in the sink before leaving the kitchen. I was walking to my room when the door bell rang.

I raised an eyebrow and opened the door to find Zacky staring at me, “Hey dude, what’s going on?” I asked standing back and allowing my friend in.

“Uh…River called, she said she needed a ride?” Zacky said clearly confused.

“Oh, Zachary, how are you this evening?” my mom asked coming up. “we were just sitting down for dessert, did you want to join us?”

“Thanks Mrs. Sanders, but no thanks. I’m just here to pick up River,” he politely declined completely confused.

“Oh, Reba left about 30 minutes ago, we have been at the table,” she said. I had just about had it with these fuck faces demeaning my god damned girlfriend.

“You haven’t seen her? She said she was gonna sit on the corner and wait for me. She wasn’t there, I just assumed that she’d come back here,” Zacky was clearly concerned and I immediately realized what he was saying.

“Let’s go find her,” I said without leaving any room for argument from my parents.
We ran out and closed the door behind us before anyone could say anything. I immediately dialed Jimmy, “Knife Master hotline, how may I direct your call?”

“Jimmy, where are you?”

“I’m at the bar, why?” he responded instantly losing his amusement.

“Is River with you?” I asked him as Zack and I walked down the road looking in every yard for any sign of her.

“No? Last I saw her she was looking spiffy to come with you. Why? What happened?” he asked clearly pushing Brian and Johnny off him.

“My parents are dick bags, kicked her out and she called Zack and wasn’t there when he got here,” I sped out and saw Zacky raising an eyebrow at me.

“I’ll get Bobbie, I don’t know when we’ll be there, but we’ll be there soon,” Jimmy said and we heard people asking what’s going on in the background.

“You and Bobbie start out at the house, tell the others to span out and see if they can find anything about where she might be,” I said coming up with a plan as Zacky bent down to the ground.

“Okay, talk soon,” Jimmy immediately hung up.

“Uhh, Matt?” Zacky said as I got off the phone with Jimmy.

“Yeah?” I sighed running a hand through my hair, if anything happens to her it is my fault. I should have walked out the first sign of trouble.

“Is this hers?” he held up her necklace, the blue heart encased with the charcoal colored metal.

“Son of a bitch,” I reached out for it, “yes, it is.”

**Jimmy’s POV**

I stared at the phone seeing Matt’s name on there, that’s weird. “Knife Master hotline, how may I help you?” I asked joking around.

“Jimmy, is River with you?” Matt’s voice came through, clearly panicked. I immediately sobered up realizing something wasn’t right.

“No? I haven’t seen her since she was leaving with you. What happened?” I asked as the others started crowding around me.

“My parents were dick bags, kicked her out and when Zacky showed up to pick her up, she wasn’t there,” he stressed obviously concerned.

“I’m gonna get Bobbie, and then we’ll be there,” I said as the guys started being worse than toddlers. I pushed them off trying to listen.

“You and Bobbie go to the house, see if she’s there. Have the others span out and see if we can figure out where she is,” he stepped up into the leader spot. While I respected the fuck out of Matt, a part of me is freaking out that my River, the girl who’s supposed to be like a sister to me, should have been protected.

“Alright, I’ll call you when we’re home, let me know if you figure anything else out,” I told him and hung up. I was livid and was met with the concerned looks of our friends. We had been hanging out with Kaylee and Dilynn and everyone could see the look on my face was not normal.

“Jim?” Brian looked at me completely concerned, “what’s wrong?”

“I gotta talk to Bobbie,” I said not really focusing on his questions.

“JIMMY,” he said more sternly, “what happened?”

I snapped out of my mind for a minute, “River’s missing.”

They immediately asked a million questions and I just pushed through and went up to the bar.

“Jimmy, no sitting at the bar,” Bobbie immediately chastised me as she finished pouring a customer his drink.

“Bobbie,” I said, deathly calm, she immediately looked up at me.

“What’s wrong Jimmy?” she asked stopping in front of me.

“We gotta go,” I said trying to keep my fear in check.

“Baby, we’re in the middle of a shift, I can’t just close the bar,” she said completely confused.

“It’s River,” I told her, and I saw her face drop. She seemed to stand there contemplating what to do, then she realized what the right thing to do would be.

“Everyone!” she yelled out into the bar, flipping the lights and turning off the jukebox. If there’s one thing that lady could do it was stop a room of rambunctious drinkers. “We’re closing up, please pay your tabs. You have 5 minutes.”

Five minutes later, the bar was empty, people had come up immediately to pay their tabs before leaving. Dilynn locked up after the last customer and we all gathered around the bar.

“What happened?” Bobbie demanded as she gathered her stuff.

“Apparently Matt’s parents kicked her out of the dinner, I don’t have a lot of information, but she called Zack for a ride. When he got there to where she said she was, she wasn’t there. She wasn’t at Matt’s house.

About that time, my phone buzzed and I sighed out heavily before I showed her the text from Matt. Bobbie’s heart clenched in her chest, her eyes filled with fire and tears. There was a picture of the necklace Bobbie had given her.

“Let’s spread out kids, Jimmy, you go home, Brian and Johnny, check the beach. Dilynn, Kaylee, go wherever you think she’d go.”

“Where are you gonna go?” I asked her.

“I’m gonna go find out what those two boys know, everyone call if you find ANYTHING.” She ushered us out of the bar not giving a fuck about the dishes, we had made sure that everything was shut off while people were leaving.

**River’s POV**

I woke up and groaned, “Where am I?” I whispered to myself, obviously it was a hotel room, but it was so…confined. It was then that I stretched out and hit a wall, every way that I moved, I hit solid. “What the fuck?” I asked myself and then realized that I was in a closet.

I tried to open the door and it was locked, I tried not to panic as I reached for my phone. WHERE’S MY PHONE?

I frantically searched not only my dress but the places around in the closet.

“You won’t find what you’re looking for,” a voice said from the opposite side of the door. “No one will ever find you again,” I recognized the chuckle behind the words. Kevin.

Notes

Hey guys, so this story is ALMOST done, don't worry there will be a sequel, I think before I start it, I want to get the other's finished up. That way, I can work on this sequel as well as the new story being developed right now.

Please let me know what you think about this chapter. Next one will be intense.