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You Need To Calm Down

Steph's P.O.V

Where the hell am I?

And what time is it?

One minute I'm putting my pj's on after I take a shower and then I'm waking up here, in this cold and darkroom. Oh God, and where the hell is Carter? Is he here too? I tried to get up. Note the word tried. But I was way too weak to even stand. When was the last time I even ate? I think lunchtime with Carter, however long ago that was. And there's the fact that my hands are chained to a wall. So yea, I tried to get up, but clearly whoever has me doesn't want me leaving anytime soon.

"Well, would you look at that. Sleeping beauty is finally awake." a voice says. It was a familiar one, I just couldn't figure out to whom it belonged to.

"Who are you? What do you want with me?" I demand

"Oh honey, don't kid yourself. You're not that important, your simply a pawn in my game." a voice says. This time belonging to a woman

"Our" the man corrects

"Yes, our," the woman says. From her tone, I could tell she was rolling her eyes

"Carter will fin-," I start

"Hun, that's exactly what I want. I want Carter to come to your rescue," she says

"What? You realize you're making absolu-" I start again

"Shut up! No one gave you permission to speak," the woman says again

"Now Steph," the man's voice says

"We're going to play a little game. I'm going to ask you a question and if you answer correctly then nothing happens to that pretty face or body of yours. Answer incorrectly, and I can't promise I'll go easy on you." the voice says. There was only a little bit of light peering in from the small window, but it wasn't enough for me to see the faces of the people who had kidnapped me.

"Shall we begin?" the voice asks

"Whatever sicko," I say. Bad move. For saying that, I got a slap in the face, but I refused to let any tears fall.

"Now, tell me Steph, how long have you and Carter been dating?" he asks

"Like 5 months, what do you care?" I snap back

"Ah, ah, ah. Watch the attitude little girl," he says

"Tara is your best friend. No?" he then says

"Yes, and you leave her the fuck alone," I spit

"Stupid little girl, you have no idea huh?" he says with a laugh

After about an hour of questioning and being beat up, I was sorer than ever. And if you're wondering who it was that was beating me up, I still couldn't tell. Kinda hard to get a look at someone's face when you're getting beat up after every single question they ask cause you either had too much of an attitude or you just didn't want to answer.

Right about now, I was tired as fuck. And even though I didn't want to fall asleep, soon enough darkness took over.

Carter's P.O.V

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN SHE'S GONE?!" a screaming Tara said

"I'll explain it again. I had some stuff to do so I sent her ho-," I started

"I DON'T GIVE A SHIT. ARE YOU TRYING TO TELL ME THAT YOUR WORK IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN YOUR GIRLFRIEND? WHAT KIND OK BOYFRIEND ARE YOU? THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT. YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN THERE. I CAN'T BELIE-," she says, yelling at me again.

"Look, in case you didn't notice, I also have a company to run. And as much as I love Steph, I've got to put some time aside to figure out what is best for my company." I say calmly