Life was so easy before.

Life was easy before I was found, I had fun and I didn't have to worry about the rules I could do whatever I wanted whenever I wanted. It's not like I ran away far from it to tell the truth. My name is Aphrodite LaFont I'm 18 years old and until a few days ago I was living happily with my boyfriend Darius.

You see when I was seventeen I went to a party with some of my friends, that's where all of this started.

Flashback

I'm walking down the street after leaving a party home so as to get home before curfew, when I feel a hand on my waist. I scream and turn to see who it is but before I can a cloth is pressed over my face and I collapse.

When I come to I'm lying on a bed in a house somewhere with my wrists bound. I sit up and look around seeing a tall muscled guy with short brown hair sitting up against the wall on the other side of the room. He looks to be a few years older than me maybe eighteen or nineteen. I wriggle to the edge of the bed getting ready to make a run for it when he looks up at me. I stop not knowing what he is going to do. He gets up and walks over flipping out a knife I start to think oh god I'm done for but he cuts my restraints instead. I rub my wrists where they are sore from the rope. I look over at him, up close I can see he's a lot better looking than I gave him credit for.

"Who are you?" I ask not knowing what else to say.

"My name is Darius." He says his voice so gentle it's soothing somehow.

"What do you want with me?"

"I've seen you around town I saw what others did to you what your parents did to you, I couldn't let it go on."

How would this guy know what my parents did to me, it's true my home life is no fun my father is a businessman and my mother is always at work being the mayor of Tulsa but still. How would this guy know? So I ask. "How do you know what my home life is like."

"I saw it through the window of your house."

Ok this guy has been watching me. That's just a little bit strange.

"Why would you kidnap me though you could go t prison if I turn you in?"

The way I see it I didn't kidnap you I saved you they were hurting you I couldn't let you continue to put up with it you don't deserve it."

"Thanks." Is all I can think to say.

"So might I have the honour of your name?"

"Aphrodite." I say, I never fully understood why my mother named me that after the Greek goddess of beauty and love.

"Its perfect, a beautiful name for a beautiful woman."

End Flashback

We became good friends after that and soon enough I had fallen in love with him and he with me. He was the best, everyday he would go out to work and I would stay home, we lived at his family home, his parents had died a few years earlier leaving him an emancipated minor. He dropped out of school and got a job taking care of himself. We were happy together. Until that fateful day.

Flashback

We were sitting on the couch together watching a movie when there is a knock at the door.

"Ill get it." I get up and walk to the door, opening it I see a guy in a police uniform standing there looking at me. "Hello how can I help you."

"Aphrodite LaFont?" he asked

"Yes." You need to come with me?"

"Why would I want to come with you?"

"We're here to rescue you."

"From what?" I ask starting to get a bit confused.

"You were kidnapped a year ago."

Oh shit, it finally clicks my parents must have gone to the cops when I went missing. I quickly close the door and run to where Darius is sitting on the couch. "Darius the cops are here."

"Why? We haven't done anything?"

"My parents must have gone to them when I went missing."

"Oh shit."

"Yeah, what do we do?"

"Let's just get upstairs."

"Ok."

So we get up and run up the stairs into our room Darius sits down on the bed and pulls me into his lap. I hear the door downstairs being kicked in and footsteps coming up the stairs. I wriggle back further into Darius's arms holding onto him for dear life. The door opens and six cops come running in.

"Now look we don't want any trouble just let the girl go and no one has to get hurt." One of them says.

"You really think I would hurt her."

"You kidnapped her for all we know you might."

"I love her I would never dream of hurting her."

"And I love him, he saved me from my abusive parents." I pipe in.

"Look Miss LaFont we have to take you back to your parents."

"No I'm not leaving I love him and he's keeping me safe."

"Aphrodite maybe you better go with them."

"what why?"

"because you need to finish school but we will be together one way or another."

"ok, I love you."

"I love you too"

We stand up and he leans down pressing his lips to mine. With that I walk out of the house and climb into the car buckling in I turn around in my seat to face the house where darius is standing. I feel tears come to my eyes as I look at him. When I get home i walk straight into my room and lie down in the corner.

About an hour later my mother comes walking over to me. She walks over to me. "Oh god Aphrodite you scared us."

"don't lie to me I know you didn't miss me."

"Aphrodite LaFont don't you dare say that."

"just go away and let me be miserable on my own."

"fine"

She walks out and I start to cry.

Flashback

That was the last time I ever saw Darius. He left town and I was left alone for the rest of my time.