A.N. HELLLOOOO This is a collaboration story that I wrote with beccabandicoot, a fun little story that we would love reviews for so please do so :P

I love the sun. There is no other way to put it, I love the sun. I don't actually know what it is though; maybe it's the warmth or the light it brings, or perhaps it's because it's because the sun never argues back and make me feel stupid. Well, whatever it is, I love it. I gave a small stretch before turning over and lying on my back, I was by my pool with one of my closest friends, why? She was bored and I had a pool.

"You do know that the point of swimming is to get into the water."

I looked over at her and lowered my sunglasses, "Why would I get in there when I can continue to lay here?"

"Good point."

"I know."

"So what would happen if I were to splash said water on you?"

"No. Manny don't."

Her golden head bobbed evilly as she swam her way closer.

"Manny! Go away‼"

Her hand wrapped around my arm and pulled me into the damned pool. The water was wet and cold and horrid, I took one look at her and frowned, "You are so dead."

"AH! I'M SORRY‼"

"Girls, over here," my mother looked over the fence with a worried frown, she was fiddling with her keys in a distracted yet motherly fashion like normal, "I need you to go inside and lock yourselves in."

"Oh mum not again…"

Mum folded her arms with a scowl, she can be so annoying at time, "Yes again, you know about people vanishing off the streets never to be seen again and I'll be damned if my daughter and her friend become a statistic because I left them unprotected, half naked, by the pool. Get inside now!"

"We're swimming."

"One…two…"

"Alright!" I gave up; there is just no arguing with my mother unless you want a good kick up the ass. I quickly wrapped myself up in a towel and dragged Manny along behind me, not daring to look at the one I call mother until I could wave to her safely behind some nice glass. She sped away once believing that we were safely trapped inside, I think that she's just overreacting to the lies the media is spreading at the moment. I flopped onto the couch and removed the towel, it was way too hot to wear a lot of clothing anyways, "So what do you want to do now?"

Manny sat on the floor and began to dry out her long hair, "I want to go back in the pool, but orders are to stay here aren't they?"

"Yuppies. I swear that she is freaking out over nothing like usual, seriously people don't just disappear."

"Mothers are all the same, they see that something happened to some girls and suddenly we all have to take two self-defence classes at school and we still can't go anywhere without body guards."

"We can't win at all."

"It's cause we're girls isn't it?"

"Yeah, see if we had penises we wouldn't be having this problem."

We laughed together, being idiots being the only thing that distracted us from the dying heat and the knock on the door. Oh! Someone's at the door.

"Hold on Manny," I dived to the door and checked through the peep hole, it was just an old man, I quickly opened it but only enough to pop my head out, "Hello?"

He smiled warmly; it was such a cute old man smile, "Mind if I have some water? It is awfully hot outside today."

"Of course," I opened the door fully and let him in, after all what could an old man do to two healthy, self-defence class taking seventeen year old girls?

"Thank you; you are such a kind child."

"Who was-" I was cut short as Elishia returned with an old man in tow. "Um…hi there."

"The kitchen is through here." She explained as she led him through the house.

"Thank you so much, you are too kind."

I pulled her aside, "what the hell is this? Your mum locked us inside for a reason and now you just let strange men in the house?"

"He's just an old man, and all he wanted was a glass of water, I couldn't turn him away he looked like he was about to faint."

He did look pretty worn-out. I was still cautious but I shrugged it off, what could one harmless old man do against two strong teenagers?

Elishia may be small and slim but she was strong and had a tough attitude, she had soft brown hair that fell in waves down her back and brown eyes that were always sparkling with excitement.

As for me, I was a lot taller, and my blonde hair was longer, but my blue eyes shared in her excitement, at least most of the time. Right now I was cautious of this stranger and cursing Elishia in my head for being so stupid as to let him in. Though we were both slim girls, between us, I think we could take this old man.

He came back into the lounge with a glass of water in his hand. "Thank you again, I'm sorry if I have inconvenienced you."

"No problem." Elishia replied with a smile.

I didn't like the way he was looking at us, so I wrapped a towel around my waist and threw the other one over Elishia's head, she scowled at me.

"So what are two lovely young girls doing inside on a hot day like this?"

"Well we were swimming, but my mum didn't want us outside unsupervised, I'm sure you've heard about the disappearances." Elishia explained

"Oh I have, your mother is a smart women. You girls should be careful."

"We're fine, we've been taking self-defence lessons at school."

"The kidnapper could be anyone you know, you shouldn't be so trusting."

I didn't like the way his voice changed and took a step back, grabbing Elishia's arm.

"What do you mean?" she asked shrugging me off with ease.

"I mean you girls should have been much more cautious."

"I think you should leave." I said, "I'm sorry to sound so rude but… I really think you should go now."

Elishia looked at me, confused. I grabbed her arm and pulled her back again. "I'm sorry, could you please go now?"

"At least this one was a bit more cautious." He said, more to himself than to us. "I think you were the quickest one to realise."

I stared at him in horror, then quickly scanned the room, and my heart sunk when I realised he was blocking not only the door, but also the phone. I got to keep him talking

"I was actually just cautious at first, but you've pretty much confirmed it now."

"Too bad it's too late."

Elishia stared between us, "Wait… do you..?"

Finally, she's grasped on.

"Do you two know each other or something?"

My head fell forward into my hand

"No you idiot, he's the-" my sentence was cut short as he jumped forward, one hand reaching for my throat while the other drew a sword from the folds in his loose fitting clothing.

I screamed and jumped back, but he was too quick and already had a hold on me and the blade was at my neck.

"Elishia run!"

She had been pushed back in the commotion and tried to run to my aid but couldn't move, I realised too late that she was pinned to the floor under her towel by small knives.

She wriggled out from under the towel and stood to face our attacker.

"You're the kidnapper guy?!" she exclaimed

"Elishia, just leave, go get help." I'll smack her later.

"Move and I'll kill her." He hissed, the blade pressing deeper into my throat. I winced as he broke the skin and a small bead of blood rolled down my neck.

"No, don't hurt her." She said. "What is it you want? Why are you doing this?"

"You're both going to come with me."

"Why should we?" she demanded.

"Because I can either take you both alive or kill this one and then just take you."

Elishia looked terrified, she took a deep breath and said. "Ok, then. I'll go with you."

"No-"

"Shut up Manny, this way we both live."

"Ok then girls, let's go."