A/N: I know that I have left you guys hanging for like three months, but here is a new chapter! I'm pretty sure that you're not going to like this chapter because I have thrown more stuff into this story and you will think that I have gone mental... To be honest, I don't want to post this chapter because I am afraid of some sort of mutiny, but I'm posting it anyways...
P.s. There may be a lot of spelling mistakes. I don't have Word on this laptop yet, and I am a horrible speller, so just ignore the mistakes please.
Disclaimer: I am a poor high school student. Does it look like I own anything?
I have no idea how long I have been in here. It could be hours, days, months; probably not months, but it feels like it. The door only opens when they throw in a bag of food, and then it closes just as fast before I can even get a word out. The person that throws in the food is the same person that kidnapped me; or that's what I think at least. They always have on a black cloak with the hood covering their face. I just wish he would stay in here long enough for me to get some answers.
I can hear voices outside of the door. They sound like men's voices, but every once in a while I think I hear a woman's voice. I can't make out what they are saying, only mubles and loud laughter. I've tried banging on the door, trying to get one of them to talk to me, but no one ever answers. They could at least tell me why I am here. Not knowing what is going to happen to me is the scariest thing about being here. I mean, if they are going to do something, why can't they go ahead and get it over with? I just hate sitting here not knowing what they want from me.
The door opened and the man threw the bag in my direction and I caught it with ease. He stood there longer than he usually did and cocked his head to the side.
"Can you tell me what you are going to do with me?" I asked, hoping that his hesitation would help me get answers.
He just stood there staring at me. He didn't move a muscle and I stood up and started to walk over to him. Right as I got about three feet away from him, he quickly shut the door in my face. I stood there utterly stund. I thought he might actually give me some kind of information. I thought that maybe he could help me.
Dropping my head I dropped to my knees, crawling back over to the little pallet I made with a blanket and some sheep wool that I found in the corner of the room. Spilling the contents of the bag into my lap, I rolled them around in my hands trying to figure out what they were in the pitch dark. It seemed to be an apple, a piece of bread, and a canister of water.
As I ate, I started to think about Logan. I am so glad that I told him to stay there with Carlos. If he would have came with me, he would either be stuck down here with me or dead. Sure I miss his company and just his happy presence, but I would much rather be in here alone without him. I'm sure he is running around with Carlos at the palace having the time of his life with Kendall and Joanna following right behind them.
Kendall. I'm sure he is running around with his Princess not even having one thought about me. Sure I forgave him as I was being dragged here, but I know that the moment I left, he forgot about me. Who would think about a lowly street rat that they had only met two days prior if they had a kinky blonde running around?
He won't be rescuing me this time. He won't come gliding through here and whisking me off my feet with a genius plan to get me out of this mess. He won't kiss me with those amazing lips after successfully saving my life. I will probably never see him again. The tears started to fall. How could he just throw away what we had? He said that he would find a way to get himself out of the marrige so he could be with me. He said that he wanted to be with me. What happened? Did he just want me as his palace whore? Did he not even really have feelings for me? The tears turned into sobs as the food was left forgotten on the pallet. Curling up into a ball, I let every thing out. I screamed in pain as if something was physicly hurting me.
The door of the room flew open and a pair of hands grabbed on to my shoulders. They were shaking me and telling me to quiet down. I just shook my head and continued to scream. A hand flung across my mouth and held back my scream, causing me to choke. The hooded man leaned in and got close to my ear.
"If you want to live, I suggest shutting your trap." I quickly bit his hand in this moment, "OUCH! You little-" and I earned a punch in the face as punishment.
"What does it m-matter. I'm probably going to die here anyways, s-so why not go ahead and get it over w-with?"
He didn't even respond as he turned around and walked out the door, shutting it forcefully. I rubbed at my jaw where his fist connected with my face, and I knew that there was going to be a nice, dark bruise.
I wanted to go back to my screaming and yelling, sick of having all of these feelings pent up inside of me, but I knew it wouldn't get me anywhere. They are keeping me here for a reason. I don't think they want to kill me, seeing as I am still here, but they want me for something.
The door opened again and the hooded figure walked over and sat down beside me, leaving the door wide open. I mentally started trying to figure out ways to get past the door and escape, but the person beside me started to cackle. It wasn't a man this time, it was a woman.
"You won't be making any escape plans James."
"H-how do you know my name?"
"I know everything."
"How?" she leaned in close like the other hooded figure did not but five minutes ago.
"There will be more time for questions, but I need you to stay in here and be a good little boy." Her voice sounded like music in my ears and I could feel my eyes drooping. "That's right James, go to sleep. And when you wake up, if you are good, I will move you out of this room and into a better one."
She helped me lay over onto my pallet and bleary-eyed, I watched her leave before I fell into unconsciousness.
James left three days ago, and every single second has been torcher. Just not having him here brings physical pain to my body. Not seeing his beautiful smile, not hearing his joyful laugh, not being able to tell him that I love him; it's all killing me. I haven't left my room since he left and I don't ever plan on leaving. Carlos and my mom have tried to persuade me to come out, but I just keep quiet. Joanna tried to come and talk to me once, but after the little blow up I had ending in 'Stay the fuck away from me' she hasn't come back.
Logan is the only person that I willingly talk to. He knows how it feels to miss James this much. He knows the agony that I am going through, because he is going through it too.
Why was I so stupid? I didn't have the courage to go up to my mom and tell her that I loved James. I will never see him again. I lost him.
Since he left, I have had this nagging feeling that something happened to him. It is probably the guilt talking, but I just can't shake the feeling.
"Hey buddy." Logan sat down beside me as I wiped away at my tears.
"Hey Logan."
"How you feeling today?"
"The same as yesterday, and the day before that, and the day before that." He gave a light chuckle, trying to lighten the mood unsuccessfully.
"I'm sorry Kendall. I wish he would have listent to at least one of us and stayed, but there is nothing we can do about it now."
"I know, I just miss his so much."
"Yeah, I miss him too..."
"And I just can't get rid of this feeling that something happened to him. That he is in some kind of danger." Logan's eyes almost bugged out of his head and I gave him a questioning look in return.
"You have that feeling too? I thought I was just being the overdramatic brother figure! It hasn't stopped since he left and I have been going crazy!"
"Do you think that there is a possibility that something did happen to him?" I searched his face, but it didn't hold anything hopeful.
"I have no idea. Seeing as he left three days ago he could be anywhere. Anything could of happened to him... I just wish he would have stayed here."
"So, what are we gonna do? Sit here while James is possibly in toruble, or try to go and find him?" I asked standing to my feet.
"What?" he asked rising to his feet also.
"You just said it yourself that you felt like James was in some kind of danger. Two people having that feeling can not be a good sign. We have to find him." I walked over to my wardrobe and pulled out my peasant clothes and started to pull them on before throwing Logan's hid.
"Where would we even start looking? Like I said, he could be anywhere."
"I guess we just start at your house..."
"No," he shook his head definitely as he pulled oh his shirt, "He wouldn't be dumb enough to go there. He would know that Freight and his goons probably have the place surrounded."
"Ok, well can you think of anywhere he might go?"
"I don't think that he would leave Agrabah..."
"Well then let's gett going! We are waisting time!"
I grabbed a hold of two cloaks and then grabbed Logan's hand, towing him out the door. Logan finally snapped into reality that I wasn't kiding about finding James and lead me to the place where James escaped. Looking at the giant whole in the wall, I wondered why Carlos and I hoisted ourselves over the palace wall when we could have just taken this tunnel. Both of us getting down on all fours, we started to crawl.
After what seemed like crawling for two hours, we finally made it to the end of the tunnel and resurfaced in the middle of the city. I looked around, hoping that James would just be wandering around the market place and that I could run up to him and ask for his forgiveness, but he was nowhere in sight.
"Where do we start Logan?"
"Umm... Let's just walk around and ask if anyone has seen him. Maybe we can at least figure out which direction he was going."
He started walking off and I followed quickly after him. The streets were really crowded and I latched on to Logan's arm to keep from losing him. He sauntered up to a vender and perched himself on the cart, waiting for the man to turn around and look at him. Finally the man turned around and gave Logan an angry look before smiling and pulling him into a hug.
"Hey Logan, where have you been! Where is James? Who is this?" the man's voice bellowed out, almost childishly asking so many questions.
"Buddah Bob, this is Kendall. Kendall, this is Buddah Bob." We both shook hands and then his attention turned back to Logan.
"Where is James?" he asked again, looking over our heads as if he had mistakenly missed him walking up with us.
"I was actually hoping that you had seen him. We got... separated three days ago and I can't find him anywhere."
"I haven't seen him in about a week. Sorry." I kept looking around the market hoping that the brunette would just pop up as Logan continued to talk to the man, but he didn't.
"It's ok. If you do see him, tell him that I'm looking for him."
"I will."
"Oh, and do you know if Mercedes is at her shop today?"
"She should be..."
"Thanks."
Logan practically sprinted through the crowd, but every once in a while he would have to come back and find me after I got stuck in the traffic. I know that I am slowing down the search, but it's not like I could go off on my own to search. For one thing, I have no idea who any of these people are, and two, if anyone found out I was the prince it would be a disaster.
We walked up to a shop with a big sign on the outside that read Madame Mercedes. I was confused as to why we were here. Was Logan going to ask a fourtune teller where James was?
As we walked in the room was filled with smoke and beads where hanging everywhere from the ceiling. A table sat in the middle of the room and a girl sat at it shuffling cards.
"I knew you would be coming Logan. You just couldn't stay away, could you?"
"Hey Mercedes."
"I haven't seen you in about two weeks Logie... Where have you been? I've missed you." She batted her eye lashed and Logan smiled.
"I've been here and there... I need to know if you've seen James anywhere."
"No, I have not. But, I could look into my crystal ball and tell you where he is... for a price."
"No, no, no, no. That's ok. But, if you see James will you please tell him that I am looking for him."
"Yeah, whatever."
"By Mercedes..." He walked over and gave her a long kiss before quickly stepping away.
"I'll see you soon Logie." She gave a wide grin and Logan bolted out of the door.
I just stood there dumbstruck. He just gave up the chance to easily find out where James is AND THEN KISSED THE GIRL.
"Your Prince Kendall, am I right?" she asked giving me the weirdest look.
"Yeah, how did you know that?"
"I know everything. I know that you want to find James. Maybe I can help."
"How?"
"All I have to do is hold your hand and look into my crystal ball. It is a simple task, but comes with a price."
I started to walk closer to her, but I suddenly got pulled back and yanked out of the door. I turned around to find Logan with an angry look on his face.
"Logan, I was about to find James!"
"You don't want to mess with her Kendall. She's bad news."
"Why? And what was she talking about couldn't stay away and you having googly eyes and then kissing her?" his eyes shot to the ground and I waited for his reply.
"I came to here one time when my mom was deathly ill. I figured that she could help. She said that she could, but only for a price... She asked for my heart."
"Wait, what does that mean?"
"It means that she has my heart in a way that, I can't fall in love. She lusted for me a long time before I ever came to here and she made it to where she was the only one that I could love. She keeps popping up in my head when I even start to think about someone else. It's like she is everywhere."
"How is that possible? And, I thought you loved Carlos..." I ask, because frankly, this sounded like some crazy story.
"She literally has magic powers. A genie gave them to her when she was little at her father's request. He thought that she could make him rich easily, and that is what she did. He is now the richest man in the city thanks to her. But as she got older, she realized that she could use the power to minipulate people. And now because of her, I can't love Carlos the way I want to. I can only have I physical attraction, nothing more. And everytime that I am with him, all I can see is her and the need to see her get's stronger." tears welled up in his eyes and he looked deffeated.
"Is that why you practically ran here? To see her." He nodded his head in disgust.
"I don't want to, b-but I feel like I'm going crazy if I am away f-from her for too long."
"You know this sounds like you are crazy, right?"
"Yes! I know that I sound like a raving lunitic talking about this! That's why I have never told anybody. I've kept to myself all of these years with James because I knew if I got tangled up with somebody that I could never be with them... Just promise me Kendall that you will never make a deal with her."
"Ok. I promise."
"Let's start asking around again." Logan wiped away at his tears and recomposed himself, "Someone has to have seen him."
"I'm hungry. You go ask around and I'm going to go get an apple or something and we'll meet by Buddah Bob's cart in a few minutes."
"Ok, sounds good."
He walked off, and I waited for him to get completely around the corner before I slinked my way back into Mercedes' shop. She was sitting in the same place that she was when I got dragged out.
"I knew you would come back." She smiled up at me, and I gave a small smile back.
"You said you could help me find James... but with a price."
"Yes, that is what I said."
"What would be your price exactly?"
"Your life."
A/N: Ok, before you start yelling "WHAT THE FUCK IS SHE DOING WITH THIS WHOLE MERCEDES THING?" and thinking that it is so random, I want to explain myself.
I usually write off of the top of my head and just go with where my imagination takes me. Like on the last chapter, I didn't plan on James getting kidnapped, but it happened because I just had a random idea. But with this chapter I am actually thinking ahead, and I have a really good idea if it will all come together correctly. I know that the whole Mercedes and Logan thing is a bit random and it makes me sound totally mental (and it is totally not where you thought I was going with this) but I know where I want this to go. I hope I don't lose any of you guys because of this...
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