Hi!
So I thought of this today after listening to 'Bitch Better Have My Money'
I hope you like it
Walking home after work on a Friday was not something Chloe had planned, her car broke down and even though the guy said he would have it fixed by tomorrow, it still didn't help the fact that she would have to walk home…alone.
Chloe had never felt unsafe in her town although it did scare her, although it was not made official the city was run by a wealthy mob, who they were Chloe didn't know. Although her mother did tell her to never do drugs and never borrow money from anyone who went under the name Barden.
Chloe stuck by her mother's advice, she had never touched a drug and through her relentless hours of work she never had to borrow money. But surprisingly the city was relatively crime free, or the crimes were very well hidden. Drug dealers and loan sharks seemed to dwindle away and theft seemed to slow down, probably due to the fact everyone was terrified to accidently steal from a member of the mob. But people were obviously still afraid, the city was run by a mob!
Chloe looked over her shoulder every so often to make sure that nobody was following her. Police sirens could be heard in the distance as she turned the corner of her street. The autumn air was crisp as she pulled her coat tighter around her. Chloe needed to get home and put her feet up.
Chloe lived in a small apartment block at the far side of town, it wasn't much but she liked it, she was kept out of the hustle of the city centre. She shared it with her roommate and boyfriend at the time, Tom. Chloe liked him, he was a good kid…sometimes. He mostly did stupid stuff and Chloe often wonders if he was born without a brain. But she had no-one else in the city so he was all she had.
"Hi Chloe" an elderly voice shouted at Chloe causing her to turn around. Mr Parker was walking over to her from across the road with his walking stick waving in the air.
"Hi Mr Parker," Chloe said smiling.
"Please call me Henry" He said flashing a toothless grin, "I saw Tom earlier, I tried to speak to him but he was in a rush and ran off!"
"Oh I'm sorry he can be so rude sometimes" Chloe apologised blushing slightly.
"No need to apologise dear," He said "But are you okay?"
"I'm fine, why do you ask?" Chloe asked as the look on Mr Parkers face concerned her.
"Well, he looked like he packed a lot of bags" Chloe's heart dropped, "He didn't look like he was going on holiday"
"Oh right" Chloe said trying to smile, "Thank you for telling me, I've got to go"
Chloe turned and walked towards the apartment door ignoring Mr Parker's calls. 'He must be joking' Chloe thought 'Tom won't have left me' she tried to reassure herself. Yes they were having problems lately, Tom was very distant and paranoid but it wasn't as if they were at breaking point.
Shutting the door to her apartment complex she rushed up the stairs too her door, tears threatening to spill she tried to compose herself. Opening the door she didn't even realise that the door was already unlocked, throwing her bag down she walked into the kitchen. The kitchen was covered in pots and pans and a smashed glass. Sighing to herself Tom always created such a mess, not caring she ran into their bedroom. Opening their wardrobe she noticed all his clothes where gone.
Her heart stopped, a lump in her throat arose, 'how could he do this?' Chloe thought as she ran into the bathroom. Noticing all his products where gone, she let a few tears fall.
She walked into her bedroom and sat on her bed, she sat still for a moment letting the shock sink in. She opened her phone and tried to call Tom. It was no use his phone was switched off. She sighed and picked herself up, she walked into the living room noticing it was slightly messier than normal but she didn't care.
Something caught her eye. A piece of paper, could it be a note Tom had left her? She walked over and took the note from the table.
You better have my money
Was all it said, confused she read it again, it wasn't Tom's handwriting and she didn't owe money to anyone. She flipped it over.
Pay me what you owe me
BM
Chloe didn't understand the note, she for one didn't owe money to anyone? Also what did BM stand for? Then it hit her, was the reason Tom was distant and left her because he owed someone money? Was this BM after him? The colour drained from her face. If it was a Barden they knew where she lived, they could be tracking her.
She wanted to throw up, she would kill Tom if this was the case. She crumpled the note up and threw it down.
Crack
Chloe spun around, the last thing she saw was two large hands cover her head with what looked like a black blindfold.
"Sorry Red" a woman said in a heavy Australian accent. Chloe screamed at the top of her lungs for help but was rudely shut up but what seemed to be duct tape covering her mouth.
"Jesus, you've got a nice set of pipes." The Australian said.
"You got her?" A man asked entering the room, Chloe figured the Australian nodded. "Right come on, there's nothing left here." Chloe didn't realise the Australian had hold of her hands and was currently tying them.
"Tie her legs" They woman said, no Chloe would not go down without a fight. She bravely started to kick her legs, each time hitting what felt like a person.
"Mother fucker" The boy cried out in pain, Chloe figured she must have clocked him in the sack. Chloe resisted the urge to apologise and mentally high fived herself. Chloe kicked her leg again but she got hit with what felt like a rock to the side of her face.
Stars blurred her vision as she fell like a wooded board to the floor. Searing pain was throbbing through her eye and jaw. Her hearing was muffled and she could hear the man and woman mumbling.
The next thing she felt was two arms hook under her tied arms, she was dragged through her apartment her tied legs scraping the floor. Her heart was hammering, how could this happen to her? She felt sick and the side of her face pulsing was not helping the situation.
She tried to work her way out of the hook that the man and woman had on her but it was no use. She wouldn't get far anyway. She felt her body start to be dragged down the stairs, her shins scraping against each step. She tried her hardest not to cry, surely someone would be able to see her?
Apparently not, Chloe heard a car door open and she was roughly thrown into it and the door slam after. Chloe was terrified, what was going to happen to her? She brought her legs up to her chest as she laid in the foetal position and let a few sobs out.
The car fired into life and drove away quickly causing Chloe to slide about frantically, Chloe's heart was hammering against her chest and the pain within her legs and eyes were blinding. Suddenly she heard the two voices start to speak.
"Dude what are we gonna tell them when we get back?" The man sounded anxious.
"The truth?" The girl replied
"Wow that will be a first for you" He said laughing slightly, "Ow! But seriously, 'oh sorry we didn't find the money but we brought you his girlfriend instead' we are gonna be in so much shit"
"Oh chill out!" The girl said sounding exasperated, "We'll say that we brought her as a negotiation tool"
"Really? The guy left her when he knew he owed us money" The man said, "He won't be bothered about her"
So that answers her questions Chloe thought, Tom had owed some money to someone and then left her. He really was a selfish prick Chloe thought, but even though she was terrified some hope shone through. Maybe the girl will put forward her plan to keep her as a negotiation tool and maybe she won't get shot!
They kept driving for a long time and Chloe was starting to get more and more anxious, the duct tape around her mouth was suffocating her. She felt the car slowly start to slow down, Chloe wanted to scream but no sound came out due to the duct tape.
The car came to an abrupt halt, Chloe swung from one side of the car to the other. The door burst open and she felt two large hands grab her ankles and haul her out of the car. Chloe tried to grab onto anything, she managed to grab something cold and metal. But unfortunately for Chloe it was all too easy for her kidnappers to prize her hands away from the metal.
The kidnappers hooked their hands under Chloe's arms and started to drag her across the rubble. The walk or drag was not for very long, she heard the man mumble something and keys jingle. Chloe tried to squirm away again, she didn't want to be locked away. She heard a door open widely and her two kidnappers dragged her inside.
"What have your brought in this time Jesse?" a girl with a silky voice asked.
"A fighter" He sighed as he kept dragging Chloe across the floor.
"Yeah she kicked him in the nards" The Australian woman said, a brief slap of skin on skin echoed around the room.
"Nice" The other woman said, "I might have to thank her"
"That's if you get to" The boy grumbled. "Where is she?"
"Over there" The girl said, Chloe was roughly dragged to her right and through another door. The brought her up to that she was standing. The kept her hand and legs tied together but she felt someone untie her blindfold.
The light hurt her eyes as she squinted through them. She looked around the room, it looked like a dingy little office, the wall paper hung off the walls and the desk looked older than herself. Whatever this place was it didn't look like the headquarters of a mob, but then Chloe realised it probably wasn't just somewhere they brought their victims.
Her eyes darted to the along the desk, two combat boots where on the table crossed. She glanced upwards to the owner of the legs. A small girl was filing her nails, long chocolate curls fell over her shoulder and her eyes heavy with eyeliner. Her leather jacket looked old and her skinny jeans ripped. Was this small girl really a mob leader?
"Yes?" The girl said not looking up.
"We've got you something" The man said, Chloe whipped her head around. A tall guy stood next to her gripping her arm, he didn't look scary at all in fact he looked quite goofy.
"Is it my money?" The small woman said inspecting her fingernails.
"Well no" The man began but was cut off.
"Well I don't care then" The girl said bluntly, "I said bring me my money"
"I know" He began again.
"And yet you haven't, you have brought me something else" She said calmly "Did you not understand my order? Or are you deaf and stupid?" The Australian snickered but Chloe couldn't tear her eyes away from the small woman.
"I think we know he is deaf and stupid" The Australian said, Chloe turned to see her. She was rather large and her blonde hair was in a tight pony tail. "But boss we got you his girlfriend"
"So" The woman said flicking her wrist, Chloe felt anger spark within her.
"So, negotiation tool?" The Australian said, the small woman sighed.
"He left her, why would he care if she's dead?" Chloe saw red, how dare she say that about her like her life meant nothing. "But I suppose we could try it."
The woman turned her head to finally look at her. Stormy blue eyes pierced her vision, a small smirk spread across the woman's face. Chloe was awestruck, the woman was beautiful. But Chloe quickly shook that thought from her head as she realised she was probably going to die.
"What's your name?" The woman asked, the guy ripped the duct tape from Chloe's mouth causing her to whimper in pain. Chloe stood her ground, manner didn't cost anything no matter who it was.
"Hello, who are you?" The woman said waving her hand, "Is she a fucking mute?" The man shrugged.
"I don't think so" The Australian said confused.
"Are you just ignorant then?" The woman asked, "I'll ask again, what's your name?"
"You know manners don't cost anything, I won't tell you unless you say please" Chloe seethed. She instantly regretted it, the two bodies beside her stiffened and both of their breaths hitched. The small woman looked shocked and taken aback, it was probably the first time someone spoke back to her Chloe thought.
"What?" The woman asked in shock.
"Just say please and I'll tell you" Chloe said confidently even though she didn't feel it.
"Wow" The small girl said leaning back on her chair, a smirk plastered her face and a look washed over her, was it respect or amusement Chloe couldn't tell.
"You can stay" The woman said, "You'll be some amusement around these morbid fucks"
"Hey I'm not morbid" The man exclaimed.
"Yes you are" The Australian said, "Where should we take her?"
"Just put her somewhere that we can keep an eye on her for now" The woman said as she picked up her nail file again.
The man and woman nodded and grabbed Chloe's arms again and forced her to turn around, Chloe glanced back at the woman again who seemed to not care about anything.
"Oh I will find out your name" The woman said which caused Chloe to shudder. "I have ways of finding things out"
Chloe shuddered as the woman raised one eyebrow at her, she couldn't tell whether it was the nerves of being taken away somewhere or the sickly feeling inside her stomach, but for some reason the look that woman gave her made a thousand butterflies erupt in her stomach. Chloe thought the hit to the side of her face must have caused her brain damage.
The two kidnappers dragged her back through the door, Chloe didn't know wat was going to happen to her, but she did know one thing, if she ever got out of this alive…she would personally kill Tom.
Should I continue?
It will probably get a little darker if there is a next chapter.
Thanks for reading!