How I fell for the man who took me.

"Alynna!" my father called. " Come on sweetheart, get in the truck, it's time to leave now. I know you're still sad, but this will be good for us, I promise." I took one last breath, before heading downstairs, out the front door, and to the truck. I stopped for a second before getting in, to turn to the house I grew up in. "Goodbye, mommy." I said while bowing, letting tears fall from my face, I get into the passenger seat of the truck next to my father. "I....I know sweetheart, but it's better this way, and hey, our new house is gonna be great, and maybe you'll make some new friends," he says with a half smile. I try to smile back while clutching my necklace, as a way to give him reassurance. and before I knew it, we were already on our way to start our three and a half hour drive. On our way there, me and dad jammed out to our music together. me and dad have always had similar tastes in music. We arrived at our new 'home' and it's very big. It has 5 rooms, 2 bathrooms. it was pretty on the inside too. There was even a garden. "Alright, go pick your room honey." my dad encouraged, with a smile. I did as asked of me, and picked a large room next to a bathroom upstairs. "are you sure a house this big was necessary? not that I'm complaining." I asked my dad when I walked back downstairs to collect the things that I had packed in the truck. " I thought it would be nice for us to have some wiggle room. We can use the spare bedrooms for anything we need. I'm sure you can use one as a study or something." he said, as he was already organizing the kitchen. *nock, nock* "the moving truck is here dad."The movers helped us move all the stuff in the house, in the specified rooms, and we organized everything how we wanted by ourselves. After the movers left, I was organizing my room upstairs. I went to find my dad downstairs after I felt like I had organized my room enough for now. "Oh hey you start school tomorrow." my dad said while making dinner. "what the f**k! We just moved in, dad." I was pissed. I immediately realized my mistake after I said it. *smack* you will not yell at me young lady, and you certainly won't curse at me either." My dad was a nice dad and all for the most part, but he has always had a short temper, and I always got punished if I upset him. "Sorry dad..." he sighs. "I'm sorry too," he said before pulling me into a hug. "we'll get through this together, I know this is really hard on you sweetheart...but your mom would have wanted you to still live a life, she wouldn't have wanted us to fight." I feel the sadness overwhelming me, my mom was still a hard topic for me to think about. she died only three months ago, she had gotten really sick, and when everyone thought she was getting much better she passed away. she passed away, in the middle of the night, in her sleep, I thought about what it felt like to hold her hand that day, I wasn't home when she passed, I was at my friends house, mom wanted me to stay the night there because I hadn't left the house in months except to go to school. I never even got to say goodbye, or tell her how much I loved her. God there was so much I never got to tell her that I needed to tell her. I was only 17. She wasn't supposed to be gone so soon in my life. I'll be 18 in a few weeks though. She always said that I would have the most special 18th birthday, although I don't know about that anymore. We have our dinner in silence. Dad made spaghetti for dinner.....my favorite. "Thank you for dinner dad." I said, looking up at him. "Your welcome sweetie." I washed my plate, and went upstairs for bed. The time on my bedside alarm clock read 7:47 pm. I decided to go to bed so I would have plenty of sleep before school tomorrow. Spoiler: it wasn't, due to my insomnia. Sleeping is almost impossible anymore. I got up and brushed out my long, thick, black hair that fell to my thighs. I put my hair up in a messy bun. Put on my black ripped jeans, a grey long sleeve, and a black hoodie, then put my black boots on. And no, I'm not a goth, I just like the color black, and my mother would always say how it looked gorgeous with my features. I grabbed my bag and went downstairs. My dad was waiting for me at the bottom of the stairs. "I'll drive you to school this week, then after this week, you will be walking home from school, since it's not far." I nodded in response, and we both walked to the truck. He drives me to school, and I observe the view on the way there. Everything was so pretty and colorful from the leaves, it was fall, one of the best seasons. Winter and fall were my favorite seasons. We arrived at the high school, and to be honest, it looked like a f*****g prison. it had faded red brick walls, and a creepy large oak tree in the front of the building. I take a deep breath in before exhaling " Thanks for driving me dad." I looked at him nervously. I grabbed my school bag and I opened the door. "Have a good day honey." I waved goodbye, and headed into the building that will be my school until I graduate in June. When I walk in, there are tons of kids, most are looking at me curiously. There's a girl walking up to me, s**t what do I do?! "Hi, my name is Jessica. I've been assigned to show you your classes, give you your schedule, and show you your locker." she says with a sweet smile. hmmm. she seems nice. "oh, thank you Jessica, my name is Alynna." I say trying hard to smile back, which is hard with how anxious I currently am. surely enough, Jessica shows me around I'm given my schedule and locker. " do you wanna be friends with me, you seem quite nice, and I like your style, I understand if you don't, I mean you just got here, and you don't really know me yet." wait. was she really asking to be friends? "of course, I would love to Jessica!" she just giggled and the 5 minute bell for first period rang, I grabbed what I needed for the first period, which was math for me. I head to my math class, and when I entered, all eyes were on me. "Class, today we have a new student, go ahead and tell everyone your name dear." my math teacher encouraged me with a smile. "h-hi I'm Alynna, Alynna Pentecost." I say with a half smile. "alright Alynna, I'm your math teacher, Mrs. Rogers. take a seat over in the fifth row towards the back." I did as she said. The rest of the day had gone by pretty fast. I and Jessica gave each other our phone numbers at lunch, and we talked about ourselves. You'd be surprised how much we have in common. " So do you have any other friends besides me?" I asked Jessica. " No, I don't, but that's alright, I have you now." man I could relate. friendships are hard. "Well, I'm glad we could be friends." I said, smiling at her. Today was a Wednesday, which meant we got out early today, according to the schedule. Dad picked me up from school. "How was your first day, dear?" dad asked, not even turning to look at me. " It was good, I made a friend. Her name's Jessica," I said with a content smile. " Oh well, that's good honey." The rest of the week went by in a flash. Today is now Saturday. " Honey, I have a surprise for you" my dad called from downstairs. I set my phone in my pocket and walked downstairs. When I got to the bottom of the stairs, my dad was holding a box that looked like there was something moving inside of it. He handed me the box. I opened it, and there was a puppy. I took the puppy out of the box. "I thought he would make a good friend and protector. He's a Rottweiler, a German Shepherd mix." my heart was so happy, it's been forever since we had a pet. "what's his name?" I asked, looking down at the puppy. "He doesn't have one, you get to name him." I thought for a moment to think. "I'll call you Ash." I smile proudly at my accomplishment. " Welcome to the family ash." my dad says happily. Over the rest of the weekend, I continued to unpack things and organize, along with setting up some things for Ash. I let him sleep in my bed with me, but he has a dog bed in the living room for napping. I put his dog bowls in the kitchen. We set up a doggie door that can only be opened with the sensor on his collar.. today is Monday. I have to walk to school starting today. I grabbed my coat after I fed and watered Ash. I grabbed my things after putting my coat on, and I headed out the door. I stay to make my way to school, when I notice a car following me. I hold my breath as I'm almost to school. The car passes and turns into the the parking lot of the post office across the street from the school. I walked into the school. " Hey Alynna," Jessica said as I walked into the cafeteria for breakfast. " Oh hey Jess." you should see how her face lit up at the little nickname. I got some pancakes and bacon on my tray before sitting down beside her. " We have a science test today," she said, dissatisfied. "It's a good thing I studied then." I said with a sigh. I've always hated when they would give us random tests that we didn't get to know about until the day of the test. They were quite annoying, in my opinion, and a bit unfair as well. "it's an essay one." God those were the worst, so early in the school year too? it's literally October third as of today, we're not even a full month into school yet. well this should be fun. The day went by rather slowly. We had a kid get his nose broken this morning by a girl. He had tried to grab her ass, and she punched him full force in the nose. Right next to my locker, there was his blood all over. That was probably the most interesting thing to happen within the past week or two. I completed my science test, then I did extra credit stuff that you can do with the test. We will get our results back tomorrow. I hope I passed. I got my fingers crossed here. At lunch, Jess and I talked about what we wanted to go to college for. She wants to be a designer and decorator, I want to go into the crime field, I want to be a detective or forensic scientist. It's been my dream since I was a kid. When I was little, my mom and I would play detective, or I would play cops with my dad. It was now the end of the day, and time for me to walk home. I said goodbye to Jess, and started walking home. It started to rain just a few minutes after I started walking. It was about a twenty-twenty five minute walk, mostly because I didn't like to walk fast. That's when it hit me, I was too entrapped in my thoughts. I didn't notice someone come up behind me. They placed their hand on my mouth, but before they could advance any further, I kicked my leg back, and got them in. I could tell it was male genitals. I wasted no time. I didn't look back when they let go. I started running, but before I could run very far, I felt a sharp pain in the back of my head, and my vision blurred until it finally faded to black, and I could hear ringing in my ears. My mind flashed in and out of consciousness. The first flash of consciousness I had, I was in the backseat of what looked like a car. I was cold, my whole body was freezing, I couldn't move, nor could I open my eyes, and I was barely able to tell that I was breathing. After about ten minutes passed, I tried to move. Nothing happened. I kept trying until I eventually got my hands to move. After quite some time, most of my body was able to move now. Now I had to get my eyes to open. It took probably fifteen minutes before my eyes slowly fluttered open. I was in a dark cold room. It was bright enough to be able to see that the floor was concrete though. Where was I? Just then I remembered what happened yesterday. Wait-. Did I get kidnapped? My mind was flooded. I was starting to panic, but then the door opened. I froze. Someone was walking down the stairs. They walked to the center of the room and turned the light on. I could now see the features of this person. It was a very handsome young man. He was tall with Indian, or maybe it was Mexican skin. He had dark messy hair, he looked to be around my age, maybe older. To be honest, this guy was extremely hot. "who are you?" I asked nervously. "I see your father didn't tell you." my heart dropped at his statement. What did he mean by that? What did my dad have to do with this? "tell me what?" I asked, trying to stay calm. He stood silent for a moment. "When your mother got sick, he borrowed a lot of money from us. We made a deal. He would pay us back before six months, or I would come take you, at a random time after 6 months, until I decide to let you go, or if I'm even going to. your father offered you as a trade, to be honest I feel like I'm doing you a favor, what kind of father offers his own daughter, and to a gang at that." wait did he just say gang? my father basically sold me? what is going to happen to me? I would be crazy if I said I wasn't scared, mad, or confused. " Oh..." I said as tears began to cluster in my eyes. My face is emotionless, with tears now streaming down my face. How could my life get any worse? I thought to myself, who knows if I'll even be alive next month. I just want it all to end. I should have ended it while I still had the chance. I would have if I knew my dad was gonna basically trade me to a f*****g gang. that prick. I bet mom didn't even know, cause if she did she probably would have killed my dad. "don't cry, I don't plan on hurting you, unless you make me." is he serious? He's really not gonna hurt me? It doesn't matter. As soon as he leaves, I'm going to find a way out of here. "I gotta admit though, you got a pretty strong kick, damn near knocked me on my ass back there." his voice was deep, I think just the sound of his voice was making me get a little damp. f**k, what was wrong with me? This man just f*****g kidnapped me, and I'm over here thinking like a horny dog. I look at the floor to avoid looking him in the eyes. He lets out a sigh and leaves, heading back up the stairs, and closing the door behind him. Wait a second, I didn't hear the sound of something locking. Did he forget to lock the door? I waited for about 15 minutes before slowly walking up the stairs. I was used to walking quietly, because my dad would freak out if I made too much noise. He hated loud noises. Because of this, I'm able to notice even the slightest of sounds. I walk slowly and quietly up the stairs, and stop at the door to listen for any sound. It was silent. I slowly turned the knob. Once I opened the door, there was no one else on the other side. There was a kitchen on the other side though. I spotted what I assumed was the front door. I slowly made my way to it, holding my breath as my heart was loudly pounding in my ears. I reached the door, but it was locked. s**t, I thought to myself. I guess I'll have to find another way out. Snapping myself out of my thoughts, I heard breathing suddenly behind me. I quickly turned around, and there he was, the guy who had kidnapped me.. He quickly shoved me into the door, and had both of his hands on either side of my head. "and just where do you think your going?" he smirked. But before I could even say anything, my head was slammed into the back of the door, knocking me out almost instantly. When I awoke again, I was back in the basement. My head was pounding. I guess we can check that escape route off the list. I got up, and started walking towards the other side. I suddenly fell down with my foot being knocked out from underneath me. I got back up and looked down at my foot, there was a chain around my leg that connected to the wall. "that motherfucker."I said aloud, just then the door opened upstairs. "I wouldn't have had to chain you to the wall, had you not tried to run away. you little sneak." he said whilst leaning against the wall drinking a cup of coffee. "what is your name?" I ask looking up at him. he hesitated for a moment before answering my question. "my name is Alex, what is yours?'' he spoke gently. wait was he serious, after my father offering me as a trade to his gang, he still didn't know my name? i thought on it for a minute before I answered. ''my name is Alynna." I answered.''well at least your not a liar." wait was he testing me? so he already knew my name? what a douchebag. Just then my stomach growled. he raised an eyebrow. "I would be able to feed you, but you tried to run away, I will have rules for you to follow, and there will be punishments and consequences." I can't believe this, I'm not a pet, I'm not his kid, I mean I guess he did kidnap me so I should have seen this coming. they better not be s****l, or I swear to God I'll kill him with my bare hands. "what kind of rules?" I ask wearily. who knows what kind of sick creep this guy might be. " 1. no trying to escape, or the punishment will be worse than me just taking away your food. 2. you are to be quiet down here. 3. if I ever ask a question, you are to always answer truthfully, if I find out you ever lie to me......." he sinisterly chuckled. "there will be hell to pay" he said with a cold blank face. that sent chills down my spine just now. "4. you will be wearing this." he pulled out what looked like a collar out of his pocket. What the f**k! I thought to myself. my body froze in place. I'm not a pet. "I made this myself, it's been modified to act as a top tier shock collar." the collar looked like that the emo girls in my class wore. it was black with a heart metal piece in the middle, acting as a connector. on both ends of the collar were two metal loops, assuming that's where you would hook it together on your neck. he turned it over to the inside that would be placed on my neck. there were two panels with a stud on them both, on either side of the heart center on the collar. I gulped. he walked closer to me, I closed my eyes dreading what was to happen next. I opened my eyes when I felt fingers very gently grazing my neck. I looked up to see Alex, with curious eyes looking down at me. he took the collar and put it around my neck, surprisingly enough it fit perfectly, unfortunately I wish it would have been too loose. he held onto the two loops, then quickly reached into his pocket causing me to flinch, he stopped when I did, and he looked at me questioningly, before his expression changed to a more angry one. he let out a sigh after I started trembling, I assumed I angered him when I flinched. "I'm not gonna hurt you calm down." he said softly. " sorry." I said in an almost whisper. he grabbed a lock out of his pocket and moved the strands of hair that came out of my bun, before putting the lock on the loops of my collar, all hope of getting this collar off just went down the damn drain. he took a step back, looking at me, taking in all my appearance. I all of a sudden felt self-conscious about myself, but why? he literally kidnapped me, who knows what he's gonna do to me, I have to figure a way out of here, even if I die trying I have to get out of here. but even if I did get out of here, where would I go? I don't even know where we are located, we could be in another country for all I know, and even if we were in the same town I was taken in, I could never go back to my dad, not after he did this to me. I have no other family left, and I'm almost positive this guy would just hunt me down again, and I honestly don't even wanna think about what he would do once he found me. that's it! maybe if I just behave for now, I can get him to willingly let me go. I'll become his 'friend' maybe he won't keep me locked in the basement then at least. I was thinking so hard, I forgot he was even here. "I'll be leaving now. my sister will be coming to get you so you can bathe and dress in a little bit." he said before starting to walk back up the stairs. "wait!" I yell louder than I meant. he froze and turned around annoyance obvious in his expression. "how am I supposed to bathe with the shock collar?" I ask hoping I'll be able to take it off and hopefully escape. "don't worry, it's 100% waterproof." fuck. he's really thought of everything. this guy seems really smart, this is one of the rare occasions that I don't like a guy to be smart. this really narrows my chances of ever getting out. my birthday is in a week, and I'm gonna be spending it in this cold ass basement by myself. yeah, I'm going to have the most special 18th birthday my ass mom. Alex left upstairs and I sat down on the cold concrete floor thinking about my mom. I started humming the song she would sing me. it was my comfort, it has been a comfort thing for me since I was little. I suddenly heard the door open, and all my attention shifted to the figure walking down the stairs, I couldn't see too well, considering Alex had turned off the light. they fumbled for a moment and then their flashlight was turned on. wait-. it was a girl, not only was it a girl but-. "Jess?!" I asked utterly shocked what was she doing here? was she his sister he was talking about? "Alynna?" she asked."why doesn't that asshole tell me anything, I always have to find out what the hell is going on, or who we're dealing with all by myself, for f***s sake, I'm his sister, he could at least tell me that it was my best friend we kidnapped!" she said. it was honestly a little funny to hear such frustration in her tone. I sighed, a little relieved that it was her, but at the same time, she could be a whole different person than she is out there, in here. "well come on, love. let's get you cleaned up." well she still sounded like the Jess I knew. I followed her up the stairs quietly. we stopped at a door. she opened and it was a bathroom. "sorry, but I have to stay in here with you while you shower, or my brother will kill me." she said in an unimpressed tone. "that's alright I said trying to give her a reassuring smile." we went in, and she locked the door and sat against it, playing on her phone, I started the shower, making sure the temperature was fine for now, before stripping. I had cuts and bruises everywhere. my dad hasn't been the best dad, he would abuse me a lot growing up, he got even worse after my mom died. he always confused me though, he would always act so loving and caring, until I did even the slightest thing to tick him off, then it was a bloody mess from there. I was terrified of my father, and I still am, but I have adjusted, I've gotten used to his behavior, and I just considered it part of life for a long time. I got in the shower it immediately caused all of the cuts to burn. I bit my lip, trying not to make a sound. I moved out of the water for a minute so I could take a deep breath and go back under the water and scrub all the filth off my body. "the soap is on the rack for you to use." Jess yelled. I grabbed the body wash, squirting it into my hand then rubbed it all over my body, trying to get all of the filth off my body, once I was done I took out my bun, and washed my hair, with the rose scented shampoo, and conditioner. my hair was very thick, and very long, so it takes a lot of each for my hair. I wanted cut my hair, but my mother loved my hair a lot, so the most I could push myself to do anymore was getting my yearly trim. I stepped of the shower, wrapping myself in the towel that was hanging up."oh here are some clothes for you to wear, alex went and bought them." she smiled, holding the bag out to me. this asshole kidnapped me, but bought me clothes? I looked inside of the bag, and there was a black dress, black knee-high boots, black jeans, a black long sleeve shirt, a white bra, and white underwear and black ankle socks. I wonder if he thinks I'm a goth, or emo I laughed in my head. how did he even know my cup size? I actually don't wanna know how he knows all of my correct sizes. I put on the black jeans, and long sleeve shirt and the boots (I was obviously wearing the bra and underwear too.) I looked in the mirror, looking at my appearance. I went to put my hair back in a bun. "you should leave your hair down, it looks nice." Jess said standing next to me suddenly, startling me in the process. "ok." I said, putting my hair tie back on my wrist. we walked out of the bathroom, and Alex was sitting on a bar stool in the kitchen. he started to eye me up and down, I was suddenly self-conscious again, so I hid behind Jess, my face was quickly heating up. "Alex, your embarrassing the poor girl, quick looking at her like she's a steak." Alex just chuckled. "take her downstairs Jess." he said. Jess took my hand and took me back to the basement. she turned the light on, and there was stuff down here. there was a full-sized bed, a dresser with a lamp on it next to the bed, there was a shelf with books and notebooks, pencils and a few other things on it. "is this all for me?" I asked shocked. why was he doing all this for me? after all, I'm just some girl my dad traded to him for money, it's not like I was worth something to him, right? "yes, this is all yours, I want you to be comfortable living here, I have a room upstairs for you, once I can fully trust you aren't going to try and escape, this is your new home, I will take care of you, but remember the rules and punishments." Alex said from the top of the stairs catch me off guard. Jess, walked upstairs and left. "please try not to make this house your prison. I don't wanna have to do that, so please behave."