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Chapter 7
"Ow!" Alice and Edward yelled in unison as they were into another van. As the man who had grabbed Edward leaned in to do God knows what, Alice slapped his hand again. "Lay off already!" She growled and gave the man her best evil glare.
"Sorry Sweetheart," the burly man responded "but I've got to put these on ya." He dangled a pair of handcuffs from his index finger.
"Steve." The man who had picked them up from school threw the burly man, who was apparently named Steve, three more sets of cuffs. "Make sure to get their legs too. If they're anything like the other two, they're going to be fisty."
"No problem boss." Leaning in once more, he grabbed both of Edward's wrists and began pulling him closer to his body when Alice tried to interfere.
"Hey!" She screamed but was pushed back into the side of the van.
Edward's eyes widened and he pitched in and screamed, "Don't hurt her!"
Steve put both of Edward's wrists in one of his hand and used the other meaty one to cover Edward's mouth, "Don't yell, stop struggling and I won't make this harder on you. Understand?" He kept his hands in place but started to squeeze Edward's wrists painfully hard. After a few seconds, Edward nodded just to make him let go.
The man, who had walked over to the other van momentarily to give instructions to one of his lackeys to drive it back, approached again and put a hand on Steve's shoulder. "See." He pointed to Alice, "That one's gonna be a great fighter once we're through with them." He looked back to Edward and saw his distressed face. "Steve. I think he gets it. Start binding them. We're taking them to the safe house and then we meet the others at the hotel at dawn."
Edward's mind was racing a thousand miles per hour as Steve put his cuffs on tightly. He wanted to say something, to question what was happening but everything that had been going on was making him too flustered. Alice was obviously flustered too, because when Steve moved on to cuff her, she just sat there saying nothing. It wasn't very in character of her and Edward thought that maybe she hit her head when she was pushed. He started to narrow his focus outside of the van and discovered that the only people left were the three of them in the van, the man, and a woman he hadn't noticed before. He also hadn't taken a good look at his surroundings either. It seemed that they had been taken to a fairly large clearing in a forest. Which forest, exactly, he couldn't tell because he had no idea how long they had been driving, not to mention he sucked at geography, even local. Alice was really smart and he was sure that she would have been able to deduce at least a little more than he had.
Turning his head toward his sister, Edward spoke, "Al." which earned him a down right creepy look from Steve.
"What did I say little boy?" Steve's grin was devilish, like he was waiting for Edward to respond just so he could have the pleasure of physically shutting him up again. Edward must have sensed this because he stayed quiet.
The woman, who was dressed in black, tall, had long black hair and wore sunglasses grabbed the sliding door and peeked her head in. "You ready back here Steve?" Her voice was silky and exited through thick red lips. "Alright then. We'll see you in about an hour." She shut the door, leaving Steve inside with Alice and Edward. There was no way they'd be able to have a private conversation or be able to talk freely about what was happening, nonetheless escape. That is, if they even knew what they were escaping from.
SOOO, I KNOW THIS CHAPTER IS SHORT, BUT I REALIZED THAT MY WRITING IS PROBABLY PRETTY CONFUSING AND I DIDN'T WANT TO TRY TO GET OUT ANY IMPORTANT INFORMATION IN A WAY THAT WASN'T UNDERSTANDABLE…. I THINK I NEED A BETA, ANYBODY HAVE ANY SUGGESTIONS ON HOW TO GO ABOUT DOING THAT? THANKS!