Hey everyone I'm probally the only person who updates a story almost every day. Oh well. So I'm sorrry if this chapter feels rushed. If it does feel free to tell me. Well off to type the next chapter!
That day Joe teased her non stop about how she had a daddy who thought she was dead and told her he had watched her for months now and found his perfect opportunity.
He also said that he was going to start torturing her tomorrow and keep asking for the ransom money. She hated him for telling her this. She looked up at him as he kicked her slightly. Your pathetic you know that? He would say to her over and over.
She cried uncontrollably as she struggled and kicked (Or tried to) her legs trying to escape. Joe just kicked her legs hard. She screamed out in pain. It was muffled however because of the duct tape.
Later that night after Joe had fallen asleep she spotted a long blade across the room. She slowly laid flat on the ground and inched her self towards the blade. She squirmed as she tried to reach the blade.
When she did she lifter feet over it and began to slowly cut the ropes on her feet and hands. The cutting took around an hour on the thick rope. She breathed deeply once she finished. She slowly took the duct tape off her mouth. She stood up silently and grabbed Joe's gun and glared at him.
Oh how much she wanted to kill the bastard. She took a deep breath and moved the blade so when Joe sat up he would hit the blade. Yeah gruesome, But she really couldn't care. Ella walked out of the barn quietly. Yes she escaped! She praised herself as she started to walk the way she remembered she had come.
It was about an hour drive from the arena to the barn then another hour drive from the arena to the barn. Then a hour and thirty minutes to her house. She sighed this was going to be a long couple days.
Walking from the barn to her house.
Ella was exhausted and starving. She was now walking closer and closer to her father's house. The walk had taken her about three das in total from having to rest at some points. Her eyes lit up as she began to see her father's house. She began to run to the house happily not caring about her legs which felt like they were on fire.
When she reached the front of the house she saw that her aunts car was parked outside but her father's car was not to be seen. She became very confused as she knocked on the front door.
When the door opened it was her aunt who gasped and hugged her and started crying. She hugged her back on the verge of tears herself but kept them inside. She walked inside with her aunt who was still hugging her.
"I can't belief your alive!" She cried sitting down on the couch. "I escaped a couple of nights ago." She explained. "Where's my dad?" She asked worriedly. "Oh, honey." She sobbed wrapping her tighter but Ella pushed herself up. "What? What happened!" She pleaded. Her aunts face fell as she looked at her. "I don't know." She started quietly. "The night he heard that gunshot he was so devastated to think you were dead he drove away saying he was going to the army again. But, I don't know if he did or not." She whispered.
Ella screamed and stood up crying now. "He came back after four months and now he's gone again! He promised! He promised!" She kept screaming. Sally tried to calm her but no one could except for her father. She held ehr head in her hands as she ran out of the house and sat down on the curb sobbing. He back rose and fell shakily to her crying.
Her aunt didn't bother to come and consul her knowing it was no use. Ella looked up with teary eyes and stared out into the black night. She rubbed her eyes and started to walk around the block, She could almost hear her father's voice in her head telling her to calm down and that it would be okay. But, it wasn't okay. He was gone and was going to be gone for who knows how long.
She made her way to the park and sat under a big oak in the darkness. She threw her head back on the bark ignoring the pain. She stared up at the dark tree limbs above her head. Ella literally felt like dying. She really wanted to die because dying would be better than the pain she felt now.
She stood up after an hour and walked slowly back to the house with her head hung low as she crossed the street. She looked up in horror as she saw a car plowing towards her. She braced herself for the hit but it never came. The car stopped right as it was about to hit her. She looked up to see a man come out of the car and glare at her.
"Who stands in the middle of the road at night!" He said flailing his arms madly. "Didn't you parents ever teach you that? Huh?" He remarked. She shot her head up and approached him slowly "Listen here bitch! I don't have any parents at the moment! I just lost my dad and I don't know if ill ever see him again! So I would watch your mouth if I was you!" She screamed at the man who was taken back. "I-I'm sorry I didn't know." He tried. Ella glared at him "I don't need you to consul me I think I would have like it better if that rust bucket had hit me!" She yelled pointing at his car.
She then stormed off leaving the man still staring at her in disbelife. She wiped away some tears as she stormed into the house not looking at her aunt and up to her bedroom and collapsing on the bed. She sobbed on the bed. She pulled out her tablet seeing if maybe he was on Skype by any chance. No. She threw the tablet across the room in fury only cracking it slightly but it felt good.
She smirked and grabbed the edge of her desk and flipped it over in fury. Her aunt didn't come into the room surprisingly. She cried out as she grabbed her side table and chucked it. She finally fell onto her bed and began to sob uncontrollably.
She finally had to give herself to sleep and it seemed even the nightmares didn't want to mess with her because her only dream was blackness.
The next months were terrible and they just kept increasing in pain. Her only pain reliever was riding and swimming. She did end up buying Twinkle and started working her harder than Lillie was doing before. She always let Lillie ride her though. Oh, and she certainly didn't forget about her big boy Dime.
She had counted the days since her father had been gone. The tally was adding up to be an approximate six and a half months. She counted each day hoping maybe one day he would come back but she didn't count on it.
Present time
Ella woke up yawning. She climbed out of her bed tiredly and changed into some clean clothes and did the basics then checked her ipod for some music and slipped her headphones on. When she came out of her room she saw her aunt looking surprisingly perky she usually wasn't this happy since what happened.
She looked up at Ella and smiled. "Have a good day at school!" She said giggling and smiling waving her off. Ella walked out of the house confused. What the heck is wrong with her did she loose it? She just sighed shaking her thoughts away as she started to walk to school. Her music shifted to confessions of a broken heart and she looked down. This song always made her choke up inside. She sighed and kept walking.
After a while of walking she made it to her school and went inside and went to her locker and pulled out her persecutes for her first period. As she closed her locker she turned and almost ran into a bully. He pushed her into the locker as she yelped in pain. "Get out of my way dumbass!" He screamed at her. He punched her square in the shoulder and sauntered off. She screamed slightly but stopped.
Since she had lost her dad she wore thick black makeup and dark blue clothing. Today though, she decided not to put on any makeup and just wear some swim shorts and a dark blue sweatshirt. Her eyes had started to hold hatred and pain and she had started snapping at some people. She was way more short-tempered now. She even snapped a couple of times at her aunt. She felt bad but she had no way to take out her pain.
Ella never took out her pain on anyone physically. She also had way more free time and she got to perfect her swimming and riding skills. She had competed in many competitions both riding and swimming and won most competitions. But it didn't make her any more happier.
She held her shoulder and walked into her class she saw a giant poster hanging up on the board. "All first period report to the gym please." It read. She sighed and began to walk towards the gym with her head down carrying her binders and folders. She opened the gym doors slowly as she walked in confused. She looked around and saw all the people from her class standing in the middle of the gym looking confused as the teacher sorted out some papers.
Without looking up the teacher said in a loud voice. "Ella your late. That's three times this week." Ella shrugged "Sorry?" She said snarkily earning a few snickers form the class. "Cut the act or we'll have a problem. Now get up here Ella." She said from the small stage. She sighed putting her hands in her pockets. "Why?" She asked curiously as she stepped onto the stage.
"I want you to talk about you father since today we're celebrating our soldiers." She announced. Ella tensed "No." She said coldly. The teacher frowned "Oh come on please." She pleaded. Ella chuckled angrily "Did you seriously think I was going to talk about my father who disappeared six and a half months ago?" She asked walking off the stage slowly. "I'll give you an A." She added. Ella stopped in her tracks with her foot about to step off the stage. She was making a F in this class now and a A would seriously help her.
Ella bit her lip. "Fine." She growled and stepped over to where the microphone was. She bit the inside of her lip. She never talked about her father. Ever.
"Um he was really nice and uh he got deployed for four months then when I got kidnapped he disappeared and well maybe he went back to the army I don't know." She summed up her sadness in one sentence then rubbed her arm shakily and looked at the teacher to see if she could go back down. The teacher smiled and told her she could.
Ella stepped off the stage almost crying. She bit her lip from doing so. "Now I'll explain more about our soldiers-" Ella zoned out after that. Her head shot up as she heard her name coming from the gym doors. She looked over to see the principle glaring at her fakely. "Ella come on we need to talk." Oh great what did she do this time?
