The Past: My Abductor

He broke up with me. All his words echoed down on me at once. He said he never loved me, he was suffering. Why would he say that? We were always happy. Why did he say that?

The storm started again but unlike others I embraced it. Soon after what felt like hours, I decided to confront him, to actually ask him for his reasons.

I slipped out of the sleeping bag searching for my phone. 3:46am, ungodly hour but I didn't care. I had to get some answers. I rolled out of my tent towards Lucas' tent, glad that one of the twins was not on their patrol duties.

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"Luke… Luke ...Luke…God! Luke! wake up...open up"

No answer. I called him on the phone but his ringtone was heard somewhere from the deep forest. I called him again and tried to follow the sound.

Rustling and crumbling sound embodied me while I walked to my destination. Soon enough I was able to find him. He was talking to someone. I proceeded towards him but hid myself behind a tree trunk when he started to speak.

I was close enough so I could easily eavesdrop on the conversion he was having with a stranger.

" You know if you wanted me to do this then you should have done it sooner..you cannot imagine how clingy she is. She just won't stop talking and babbling. Ughhh…..2 years Em ..2 years. This was a torture, even today when I broke up with her, she won't stop talking. I felt like strangling her to the tree or something. "

Who was this Em? We called Ember as Em...no no ..it can't be. She is with Ryder.

" Relax Luke, you know this was necessary or we wouldn't be where we are now. She is the key to everything we want. "

Her voice was familiar. Ember!! no no ..why---she just can't. Why would she do this?

"Oh for the love of Lucifer! She can't be the key. She's just a spoiled little brat that wants attention, that's all"

"Have some decency Luke. She was your girlfriend"

"Yeah, mock me all you want but now it's my turn "

He grabbed her by the waist and pulled her towards him, she gasped and slowly and sensually trailing her hands from his chest to his collarbone, she pinched him there Luke groaned in pain and pleasure.

Em licked the now formed red hickey and gave a long stroke lick along his collarbone, and slipped her hand around his neck, grabbing his hair, pulled him to her and French kissed him. Luke grabbed her hips and lifted her up without breaking their tongue twister and pushed her roughly against the tree.

She hissed because of the pain from hitting her back and pushed his face away to trail down fiery wet kisses down his jawline to his neck and sucked at the joint of the neck and collarbone.

Luke dropped her to the ground and while caressing her cheeks said..

" We would be having a lot of fun if only you didn't stick with that dirty face all the time. What do you even see in him? "

All this while I was staring at them like a stalker, too shocked to even make a sound or move an inch.

Em grabbed his chin harshly and moving close to his ears said..

" You have no right to question me. You are just my bitch and you will do as I say. I can have fun with whoever I want. Besides, I have work for him. And just because I let you touch me, it doesn't mean you have any right to question me. " and walked away from him.

Luke stood stunned for a few seconds and then ran along following her like a puppy.

After they both were out of my sight, my knees became wobbly and I placed my hands on the tree in front of me for support. Turning around, I slipped down, bringing my knees to the chest, crouched down like a child and looked far.

All this while, what was happening? Has Luke been cheating on me all this time? Or it just started recently. But he loved me, took care of me, and showed affection. Did Em manipulate him? But why would she ? I have never seen her and Ryder apart even for a second. They looked so in love.

Ugh.. it is so confusing. Luke and Em together, it just doesn't make sense. And if they liked each other then why be apart pretending to be with other people? Millions of questions swirled through my head and doubts and accusations started building up against everyone around me.

Were they pretending to be my friends? But why, I don't have anything to offer. Neither money nor power.

When I realised that my head was almost at the verge of combusting, I decided to run the emotions off. I stood straight and dusting my body off the remnants of the soil and dirt, flexing my body for the move, I ran.

Pushing my feet to run at my threshold, tearing apart the thick cover of cold foggy air and running past it, jumping over broken branches of the fallen canopy, sliding my hands to move through the slanted body of the soft tender frame, I bolted to an unknown destiny.

My feets didn't know how to stop. My legs were moving cautiously, as if they had a brain of their own. The sounds that I could fathom were the crispy sound that each footstep of mine made and the distant hooting and howling sounds.

Overpowering all these was the pounding of my heart. It was melancholy dark. I looked ahead, tall and short, all my hurdles seemed to move away giving me the space I needed. Whenever my lungs felt the lack of air, I stopped, took three-four deep breaths and sprinted again.

Throughout the clock, my mind was blank. I could feel the rush and adrenaline flowing through every nerve of my body. The tightening of the chest didn't go unnoticed but I forced myself to the point where I couldn't move anymore. My steps stilled and I stumbled upon the twigs, and rolled on the ground round and round until,

SPLASH

Lifting myself up to the surface, I gasped for air. Shuttering my eyes to get rid of the water droplets in it. Pushing my hair to the back, I looked around. Until now I didn't even realise I cannonballed into a lake.

" Stupid brain ", I thought.

        " It's yours, " my brain replied sarcastically.

" As if you are any better than me, don't think yourself highly 'cause you ain't "

 " Atleast i m better than you. Instead of arguing with me, you should look around. Maybe you are dead. "

  " Dead!!.. no it can't "

and just then I took a look around me, getting out of my inner conversation.

    Smooth, oval rocks lined the bank of which seemed to be a very personal secret lake. The lake seemed sky-line silver but It was peaceful and still. The only disturbance was from the waterfall ahead. Oh! This was the most beautiful and mesmerizing view I had ever seen. The waterfall was Atlantis-blue, glistening and shining like soft diamond, drizzling onto the rocks lined across its sides. The blissful pool that formed due to the gushing and pounding of water at the bottom was varnish clear. It looked divine. The slanted trees and flowers growing side by side the blue satin wall of water seemed to be nodding in approval.

         The cold wind followed by the burst of those diamonds gushed past me making me shudder in response. I couldn't resist.  I swam towards ecstasy, rippling through the water streams that supported my flow. Reaching the fall, I slowly pushed my hands out. The water was so cold.

       Lost in its beauty and feeling bubbly in my heart, I played with the water like a child.

       Suddenly something grabbed my hand and pulled me inside, spoiling the marvel scene in front of me. I shrieked and opened my eyes that shut itself due the sudden intervention. Quivering and shivering, I composed myself to look at the guilty party. But to no avail. There was nothing, no one but the darkness that surrounded me.

My heart was pounding like a drum in my chest and couldn't think or reason with the circumstance that I was pulled into. I was not terrified per say because somewhere in my heart I knew I was safe here.

I looked back and tried to reach the blue satin wall of water as it swished down. But nothing. Absolutely vacuum. Even the air seemed to be sucked out of this place in horror.

      I could definitely hear the profound pounding of the water but I couldn't reach it. I tried reaching out crawling from one space to another but there was nothing, blank.

" Use your voice idiot. " I heard my brain say.

" Oh!! "

" Oh!! Oh was all you could gather. Just shout, you dumb-dumber-dumbest. I wish there were better words to describe you"

" Alright alright. I got it. I will shout. But who is gonna come to help in a vacuum? "

"Just do it already." My brain seemed to have given up on me.

    Why am I always having conversations with myself? People would pick me up and drop me in the trash if they knew. God help me! They would send me to an asylum. Yeah, I'm an idiot.

"Hello!! Is someone here? Can anyone hear me?"

... Pin Drop silence…

I tried again. "Hello, someone grabbed my hand. I know you are here. Please can you show yourself. It's terrifying here alone in the dark."

Shuffling sounds and light footsteps were heard. I mentally prepared for whatever was to come because somehow I knew it may not be human. Or maybe I just read too many nonsense fantasy novels. Uh oh...not nonsense but non-sense. I know you get it.

  I was about to meet my abductor.

      All of a sudden, I felt a presence. It triggered the primal fright reaction or something like that. The hair on the back of my neck stood and a massive flow of adrenaline  shot through me like a drug and made me all warm inside. Its smell hit me strongly. I breathed in and sighed with content. God whatever it was, it smelled divine. Pondering about it a bit, Ah..I got it. Cinnamon and rosemary with a strong hint of ocean. Hmm. And I was in love with it in an instant.

 I really should get a perfume of this scent. Cinnamon and rosemary. But isn't it a weird combo? It's a mountain full of wild plants for heaven's sake. Obviously there would be a combination of lots and lots of wonderful smells. I wonder if my abductor lives here or just came for a stroll and found this lake like I did.

I could hear heavy breathing facing me, and after a couple of minutes, I deftly reached for its source. The light touch of my hand on the stranger's body ignited red-blue flames in me and felt as if someone had set a slow and steady match beneath my centre, deep in the pit of my stomach.

    The stranger didn't complain. Thus, the excitement of exploration took over me and my hands started to move on its own accord. I reached up, tracing its skin, a bit hairy but muscular, and reached at a small pit hole of some sort.

 " Ah, it's a neck. ".

Hissing and groaning, the stranger took hold of hand and stilled. It didn't speak or remove my hands from its place. I knew it was staring at me.

I exclaimed,  "Don't stare too hard, you will dig a hole through my brain. "

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Uh..Oh... Lucas was cheating on Maira with Ember. Then why was Ember with Ryder? Why did Ember call Luke as his bitch? Why involve Maira in their game? Did Ember and Lucas plan these all along?

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