Title: Another Thin Line

Author: LittleLottexoxEriksTrueAngel

Chapter Two: I'm Getting Up Now…

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The alarm sounded signaling an intruder. Someone had opened the secret entrance to his home, but how did they find it? And more importantly, who found it? The masked man sighed coiling up his lasso and concealing it within the folds of his cloak. He had heard the screams, even from the basement, but didn't think that those men would involve them. Well, whoever those men were, they would be dead by the end of the night. Suddenly a scream echoed through the stairwell, followed by a serious of banging, making him stop dead in his tracks. Someone was falling down the stairs. The man moved quickly catching, what he realized was a young woman, before she hit her head on the hard, cement ground.

She stared up at him for a minute, her eyes widening before slipping into unconsciousness. So this was who they were after…

He shuffled the girl in his arms, she was one, if not the, most beautiful woman he had ever seen. She had curly, chestnut curls and was pale complexioned. Her cheeks were still flushed from her fall, giving her even more of an innocent appearance. She felt like a feather in his arms, she was so light. He felt like he would break her, like you would a porcelain doll, if he held her too tight.

Carefully, he flicked on the lights and entered the elevator. He pressed the top button sending the elevator into motion towards his penthouse.

He examined the girl more carefully in the light. There was just something about this girl that he couldn't quite place, like something about her was different. He sighed. No woman would ever be different. No woman could ever love him for what he was…a monster. Yes, there would always be the woman who wanted him for his money, but those women would fill the empty void in his heart. A part of him felt that this girl could be different but he would never give in to that feeling.

The girl twisted herself around in his arms, mumbling something incoherent in her sleep. The elevator doors opened and he carried her into the guest bedroom. Something would have to be done about this girl….

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I was running towards the flicker of light, but I could not find it. All there was only darkness. A never ending darkness that frightened me more than I could ever describe…frightened me to the core, but still I kept on running towards the light and away, far away from the life that I had know before…before…before what?

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I'm getting up know
the sun is burning my eyes and I ache
I'm living on a, freeway, running low on heart and good mistakes

The pain shot from my head through my body like a knife. I tried to open my eyes, but my eyelids felt heavy. I could barely remember what had happened, all I remember was running, running and more running away from them but more importantly him… He who I was supposed to call my flesh and blood, one of the only people that I couldn't stand. The one person who is supposed to make me feel the safest was the one person who I was afraid of. And, yet, I did what I did to protect him but I ran because I was afraid of what he would do to me because I did it. I ran away from the only family that I had left in the world…the person who had hurt me the most. It was all so confusing; my throbbing mind could not handle it. I tried again to open my eyes. They fluttered open and closed a few times, the light shining through, temporarily blinding and burning my eyes. My entire body ached with pain from my apparent fall. Then all the memories of the previous nights came flooding back at full force. The men he had hired to find me and bring me back, the sick man that he wanted me to marry and the masked man that had caught me when I fell. Suddenly, I snapped out of my trance and shot up in the bed I was in, finding I had no idea where I was. I scanned the beautiful room, the masked man was standing in the far corner…

A/N: So what do you all think? LEAVE A REVIEW! The words that are bolded and underlined are lyrics to the song Another Thin Line.