Choice

Chapter 16

I blink, adjusting my eyes to the dark, damp room and hear the muffled talking "why did you bring her here?" The other voice whispers "she was getting too close, and I was getting bored!" I blink again trying to move forward, but look back, eyeing my chained-up leg and sigh giving up my fight. I tense hearing the footsteps on the stairs as they hit each step with precision. I bite my lip hearing the whistling as the person makes their way down the stairs. The two figures appear one being a handcuffed Sophia Atkins and the other being a masked figure. The masked figure points to a table in the mid room and Sophia sits. The person snaps their fingers and Sophia lays back. I eye her bright blonde hair, her clothes torn, and she already suffered a lot.

I whisper out to the masked person "who are you?" The person turns their head sideways and I then ask, "where's Talmon?" The person lifts their mask and I eye her blue eyes, black hair and she smiles to herself "he's around, somewhere safe and sound." She laughs to herself, and I eye her over and whisper "Taylor?" She shakes her head "no, not Taylor I hate that name! It sounds like a bad pet name. He came up with it on the fly. I watch her take off the mask and throw it down towards my feet. Then I watch her slowly remove her hair as she slides it off and lets it drop. My jaw hangs slack as her bright blonde hair falls stopping right on her shoulders. She smiles to herself leaning back against the table in the middle of the room.

She goes towards the table shoving the girl down, tying her to it. I whisper out, questioning "Stefanie?" She turns back smiling to me and I whisper "Stefanie Talmon?" She laughs out and continues tightening the ropes around the girl's arms and legs as she whispers, "nope not even close Mandy, but thank you for that it took a lot of money to get this way." She leans back smiling, "a lot of effort to get just perfect for him." She leans her head back smiling "perfect eyes, hair, breasts, body, and clothes. I did everything to make sure I was her, and I was perfect." I bite my tongue attempting to find out who she is and hear her laugh "you'll never get it I don't even look the same anymore he even calls me Stefanie now, every time and I love it." She laughs to herself "do you know how long it took me to be beautiful for him, how much work I put into it? I dyed my hair in high school because I could see the way he looked at her. I wanted him to look at me that way, to touch me the way he dreamed about touching her." She smiles to herself "so I became her for him so he could do those things he wanted with the girl he wanted."

I try and crawl forward but am pulled back and she smiles "did you put the pieces yet who I am, what are my goals, who's my partner in crime?" I whisper, "where's Owen?" I hear her whistle and hear the steps firmly come down and watch my brother walk down the steps firmly smiling to himself as he clasps his hands together "this wasn't my idea, Mandy." I hear the girl who looks like Stefanie, laugh "of course blame me right? You piece of shit!" She hits her hand on his arm hard and he grins to her making her step back as he lashes out gripping her neck yelling "I could never be mad at you, look how perfect you are, how right you are, the hair, the body, those lips, eyes." I watch Owen violently kiss the girl and she smiles into it as he whispers, "you're perfect, the perfect Stefanie." He releases his grip on her neck, and she laughs "then let's finish it Owen, let's have our perfect ending do what we need to do."

He turns to her smiling "endings can only be perfect if they go right, and you have already fucked up my day!" She steps back and he shakes his head "you got impatient, careless, you rushed in and now look at this fuck up, a big, huge fuck up in the room." The girl steps back looking down as she tries to whisper something, but Owen lashes out at her smacking her in the face "what am I supposed to do now? You set me back weeks, I have to rethink everything! It was perfect and you fucked it up!" The girl walks up to him and Owen sighs pointing to the stairs "go, wait upstairs for me. I need to decide what to do about you." She looks down studying her ring and he curses "if I get to ten." She nods, walks up the stairs and he laughs to himself "my Stefanie is so temperamental doing things before I ask, she needs a reminder of who I am."