ALI POV:
I get thrown into the back of a trunk, and tears full my eyes.
I feel the car hit bumps and dips, slowing down, and going faster.
Finally, after about 20 minutes, we stop.
I see the shadowy figure of a guy, traced by the light behind him.
"C'Mon!" He demands, grabbing my left arm.
I see we're going towards a small apartment.
Like the one in....Ravenswood.
We're in Ravenswood!
Caleb and Toby are here!
EMILY POV:
"HE TOOK ALISON!" I shriek, running into the house.
"What?" Spencer asks confused.
"THE GUY TOOK ALISON!" I repeat.
"What?" Aria whispers out.
I show them the tracks, and Spencer starts pacing.
"You found her bracelets in these tracks?" Spencer asks.
"Yes! She almost never took them off!" I exclaim, as tears rush down my face.
Spencer keeps pacing, but stops and shoots her head up.
"We follow the tracks!" She yells.
"Okay..." I agree. I just want my wife back.
ALI POV:
The guy takes me into the small hidden apartment, and practically drags me along behind him.
We go in the down a level, into what looks like a man cave, and then down another level, leading to a floor with bedrooms and closets.
There's one last level. The basement.
He busts open the door, revealing 7 other girls tied to chairs.
I look at them closely, and I notice something.
They all have blonde hair and blue eyes.
"You're perfect." My kidnapper whispers in my ear, making me cringe.
"You get to be in the middle." He adds, creepily smiling.
I can smell the alcohol and weed on his breath as it stings my nostrils and lungs.
He sits me down harshly and grabs a rope. He ties it around my torso, linking me to the chair as if it's one.
He grabs more rope, tying in around my ankles and wrists.
"Guess who's next..." He smirks, looking me in the eyes.
Blonde hair, blue eyes....
Hanna.
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EMILY POV:
"Wait! Before we go, we need something!" I exclaim.
"What?" Hanna questions.
I run inside that Marin house, and look through the drawers.
"Hanna!" I shout, and she runs inside.
"What?" She asks, worriedly.
"We need boots." I tell her.
"Okay..." She replies, and runs upstairs.
I grab 4 pocket knives, and wait for my friend at the base of the stairs.
She now has on boots, and she hands me a pair, and I quickly put them on, slipping the knife in.
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ALI POV:
The guys wobbles out of the room. I hear the turn of a key, and click of a lock.
"Behave." One girl whispers.
"What?" I question, scared.
"Behave." She repeats.
"I have to get out of here!" I cry out.
"Shhh..." Another girl says from the far right.
"I have a family!" I wail, sobbing, making a few other girls cry.
Another thing in common we all have is we're all pretty. Queen Bee type.
"I don't deserve to be here! None of us do!" I yell.
"He's going to kidnap my friend." I tell them.
"What do you mean?" One asks.
"He said 'guess who's next' Why would he only ask me that? My friend is like the rest of us. Blonde hair. Blue eyes. Pretty. Queen Bee." I say, sweating from my struggling.
"I never noticed that." One of the girl states.
"We're fucking human Barbie dolls. Toys." I whisper.
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EMILY POV:
I gave each of the girls a knife, and they put it in their boots. We all also have our phones with us just in case.
"These are tire tracks now." Spencer points out.
"Do they lead to a road?" Hanna questions.
"I don't know." Spencer replies.
"We should've grabbed a flashlight." Aria whispers, her voice shaky.
"I have one on my car key chain." Hanna states, pulling out her keys.
"You also have a bunch of keys and a lazer." Spencer says.
"Yeah," Hanna begins, "I also have another lazer, a multi tool, another flashlight, a small knife, extra house key, a bottle opener, "she continues, and chuckles at the mention of a bottle opener, "a pen, a sharpie, and a clip." Hanna finishes, pulling a key chain from the small side bag on her hip.
"Do you really need all of that?" Aria questions her, making a confused face.
"You'd me amazed." Hanna answers her.
"It could be useful." Spencer chimes in, searching the ground.
After another hour of walking, we reach a road in Ravenswood.
"We really just walked here?" Hanna says, amazed.
"Caleb and Toby are here." Aria says.
"We have to call them." I tell them.
"Okay." Spencer replies, and pulls out her phone, and dials Toby's number.
After another 10 minutes, a car pulls up.
"Come on." I hear Caleb.
We jump into the back seat of the small car, squished.
I look at the front, and Toby has all of his police stuff, along with his uniform on.
"Were you working?" I ask him.
"No. I just got off." He tells me. "And plus, now I have everything I need."
"I think so."
ALI POV:
"Food!" I hear the guy yell.
He comes on with a cart containing 8 food trays.
"NO RUNNING!" He yells.
"Yes, Master." All the girls respond in unison.
He gently unties us.
All of the girls move slowly, sitting down on the floor in front of their assigned chairs.
What the hell?
He puts a tray in front of each of us. It has a grilled cheese, sliced apples, chips, and a bottle of water.
"He is considerate in meals." One of the girls mumbles.
He loos at us, and mumbles something.
H goes to the door, and walks out, locking it again.
I think he mumbled Victoria.
"This isn't right. Something is wrong with him. Some mental issue." I say, watching the door.
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ARIA POV:
"This is where the tracker on her phone stops." Toby tells us.
"In the middle of the woods?" Caleb questions.
"Apparently. Come on." Toby says, and gets out of the car.
He grabs his gun, tazer, large flashlight, the whole belt of tools, and we walk into the trees.
We keep walking until we reach some sort of apartment house thing at the end of the woods, near a street.
"Come on." Toby says, leading the way.
He looks in the window, and doesn't see anyone.
He pulls out a pick lock, and opens the door.
"Wait here." He says, holding the rest of us back as he steps in the house.
"Clear." He whispers, and the rest of us step in.
I cling to Spencer's arm as we walk through the dirty house.
"This is a death sentence if this is his home." Hanna says.
"Shut up." Emily tells her, her voice shaky.
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ALI POV:
I noticed something about the guy.
Sometimes he is rude and hurtful, and other times he gentle and quiet. Once, he even looked confused for a few seconds.
We all finished eating, and he tied us back up.
EMILY POV:
We found a door, and we went to another floor. It lead to some kind of hang out.
We went down to another floor. Bedrooms, closets.
We go down another stair case, and the floorboards creak.
ALI POV:
The guy was just sitting, staring at us. Watching us.
Then there was the creak if the old floorboards.
He opened the door angrily.
"WHO'S THERE?!" He shouted, and echo going throughout the long hallway.
He walked, and so did the new intruder.
Except, he was quiet and stealthy.
The new threat wasn't.
"I SEE YOU!" He shouts, and starts running, leaving the door open.
I look down as tears fall, and I notice something.
The knots. They're loose. He was drunk when he tied them.
I wiggle, and the ropes fall off of my ankles.
"Check the knots!" I whisper-yell to the other girls.
I move, and I noticed my phone...Is in my pocket? He must've been too drunk to notice.
All of us start moving, and shaking, and the ropes fall to the ground.
We step towards the open door, and we hear a scream.
"RUN!" A deep voice. It's familiar.
"Come on!" I tell the girls, and we walk down the hallway, and get under the staircase.
I hear a gunshot, and another person yelling.
"WATCH OUT!" Yet another familiar voice.
"MOVE!" Is the last word, and silence absorbs us as another gunshot goes off.
Now I know the voices.
Caleb, Toby, and....
Emily.