Chapter 3: Kidnapped

The next morning, I felt as if I had just woken up from the craziest dream I've ever had in my life. Adam's face was burned into my brain like a character from a bad horror movie. Only, I knew yesterday wasn't a dream. I walked down my stairs in a trance as my mom wiped a tear that had recently been shed out of her beautiful pale eyes. I could see the dark circles that rimmed them which indicated her loss of sleep. I hadn't told her about Adam because I figured I was 16 and I could handle this on my own. "Well, this was it! I was about to tell my mom that I was just going to go to Washington oh so randomly and leave her in this horrible condition. What a great daughter I am!" I thought sarcastically to myself. When she peered up from her daze she quickly covered her red and full-of-tears face and changed into a small smile that I knew she was fighting to keep.

"Hey mom!" I said in as much of a cheerful voice as I could manage. "What are you doing?".

"Oh nothing sweetie, just tidying up the house. Would you please give me hand with the dishes? They look positively dreadful."

"Ok mom, but I need to ask you something first."

"What is it?" she asked in a concerned tone.

"Well…you see…..umm….how can I say this….umm…..well…ok here…so my friend who lives in Washington invited me to go and I have my own money to buy a ticket, but I haven't seen her in like eight months or maybe more. So basically I'm asking if you will let me go see her."

"You want to leave me?" she said in a hurt tone.

"Well no I don't, but I really miss her and I want to go see her. Please? I am gunna go cry if I can't." I knew that lying to my mom was bad, but what was I going to tell her? There is this guy named Adam and he has the creepiest face ever who gave me a mission to go to Washington and just wait for a guy named Dark Mysterious to call me and tell me what to do next? I don't think so. "Ok." She said in a disappointed tone. Then, she just walked out of the room, but as she was walking out, I looked at her face and she looked like she had just been stabbed in the back. This wasn't right. I hated to do this to her, but what else was I going to do? Just not go and hope that they don't know where I live? NO! of course I wasn't going to do that. I 

wasn't THAT stupid. Suddenly, there was a soft knock on the front door. MY front door. Oh my god! I peered out the window and I was surprised to see…Adam and apparently he brought friends. What was he doing here?! Doesn't he know that I was going no matter what? Well I had no choice. It was either I answer the door or my mom opens it to a freak with a freaky face. I decided the do it myself. I slowly opened the door and stared at him with disbelief.

"Umm…hi Adam…what are you doing…" he stopped me with his hand cupping over my mouth as he dragged me out of the doorway and quietly shut the door behind me as I was led into a small black car and then…everything was blank. Nothing. I didn't remember anything except for finally waking up, seemed like hours, and peering around my surroundings. I was on a plane. I was on the plane to Washington. How did I know? Adam was sitting right next to me smiling to himself just like I was already used to him doing and then when he noticed I was awake and his smile quickly faded.

"You weren't supposed to wake up for at least another two hours. How did you wake up? Why did you wake up? God please go back to sleep." A sudden rush of panic rushed across his face which was, of course, quickly dispersed without even a trace that it had ever been there. Well for some reason, I felt bad for him, so I did as I was told, and somehow fell asleep fairly easily.

A few hours past, or at least that's what it felt like, and all I could hear was the faint murmurs of Adam and someone else's voice in the near distance. They were talking, about me. But I couldn't hear anything except for a few words like …shame, have, send, Dark Mysterious, and a few that I can't remember now. Then………nothing. In my dreams, I made up my mind, though, that I WOULD find out who this Dark Mysterious person, thing, was and what, lets just call it it, it wanted with me.