The Eternal Sorrow

Nicole

"911, what's your emergency?"

"I have info about the kidnappers-"

"Ma’am?, Ma’am?" the responder called out, but with no response, she figured that it was just someone trying to waste their time.

She was about to end the call when she heard a violent scream from the other side of the phone and then silence. She had the best trackers tracking the phone line, but for some reason, the phone wasn't trackable. "S" was struggling until a needle was poked in her neck and she passed out. She woke up in a large house and she was in the most comfortable bed she had ever slept in in her life. There was a man sitting on a couch drinking something out of a mug that was hot.

"Excuse me sir," she looked at him as she rose up.

"Finally awake little sis." He looked at her with affection gleaming in his eyes. She looked at him with her eyebrows raised.

"Sister?"

"Yes, I'm your brother and I went through the same things you're going through now."

"How come I never heard of you?"

"Our parents will abandon you after you grow up and get a job." He said, ignoring her question.

"What do you need from me though?"

"I want you to join me in saving our siblings."

He looked at her with a smile, but she immediately frowned. She had a great dislike for her brother, but not her sister, so she decided to agree. They stayed up all night thinking about how they were going to get Allie to join them and what they would do if she didn't.

"Our cousin's parents also do the same thing to their kids, so should we get one of them too?"

"Sure, but I think that it should be Evie."

"Evie." He thought about their cousin, who was the same age as Allie.

"She's quite the stubborn girl though," he countered, hoping to change her mind.

"Yes, she is, but if we convince her it will be much easier to convince Allie. But, if she doesn't cooperate, then we will have to use her as an example of what would happen to Allie if she disagreed as well."

He agreed with her, and they both chose to continue the next morning. As "S" went to bed she heard him call her by her real name.

"By the way Nicole, my name's Aiden."

"Oh- OK goodnight."

"Goodnight." He replied as he locked the door to his room. Nicole thought about how she was going to get her sister to leave with her, until her eyes began to become heavy and she dozed off. She awoke to the smell of waffles and coffee, which made her head clear up almost instantly. If someone had told her 5 years ago that she would be enjoying 3 square meals she would have laughed it off as a joke. Now here she was in the house of a person who she'd only seen in torn-up pictures, a random person now known as her brother. She was so lost in her thought she didn't even hear the door open, or see him in front of her.

"A penny for your thoughts?" Aiden joked as he sat beside her. She laughed and smiled at him while she shook her head. She took a deep breath as she stood up and stretched. He also got up and beckoned her to follow him down the hall. As they walked down the hall, she noticed that a lot of the rooms were locked and they had chains across them. They all looked really weird but she said nothing about it. Some rooms had pictures on the doors, some had mirrors. Some had fully locked doors, some were slightly open, so she could see what looked like the silhouette of a girl, possibly her age if not younger.