. Chapter 8 .
Breakeven
SPOV
I coughed and spluttered as my eyes shot open.
My heart was racing and I had broke out into a cold sweat. I took in my surrounding as I tried to calm down my thundering heart.
I was in a small room with only one window. From what I could tell it was early morning because sunlight was just spilling into the room. I was laying on a couch and there was a table to my right that had my cell phone laying on it.
I knitted my eyebrows together and walked towards the closed door. When I tried opening it I realized it was locked from the other side. I whimpered and went to go and pick up my phone. Wherever I was, it wasn't a good place and I needed to get out now.
My phone wouldn't turn on. I frowned and turned it over only to see the battery was gone. "Dammit," I muttered and set it back down on the table. "Where the heck am I?" And that's when the memory came rushing back.
"Sonny."
I gasped and squeezed my eyes shut. The memory was hazy because I was drunk but it was definitely real and there. I opened my eyes again and then frantically tried searching for some way to get out. I knew where I was now and I was in big trouble if I didn't find a way out soon.
"I wouldn't try that."
The voice spoke as I tried to unlock the window. I whipped around to find Vanessa standing at the door with a smirk on her face. "About time you came around. Nasty hangover, huh?" she said the smirk still in place.
Now that I realize it I did have a pounding headache, my mouth tasted dry, and my stomach wouldn't stop churning. "Why?" I said my voice cracking. "Why are you doing this?" I screamed at her as I sat back down and put my head in my hands.
She just laughed. She laughed and laughed. "Well, isn't it obvious Sonny? Wouldn't any normal person would want their soul mate back?"
I just bit my lip and whispered under my breathe. "Yeah, but you're crazy."
She suddenly stopped laughing. I looked up at her fear in my eyes. Had she heard what I said? I swallowed as she came closer. She leaned down and looked me directly in the eyes the smirk now back on her face. "I'm gonna make this simple, alright?"
I nodded quickly.
"Now, I will let you go if you tell Chad the truth," she said before sitting down in the seat across the small room. I knitted my eyebrows together and stared at my hands. The truth? About what?
As if reading my mind, Vanessa chuckled and rolled her eyes. "Your feelings."
"My feelings? I love him."
Vanessa laughed before rolling her eyes and smirking at me with a devilish glint in her eyes. "I know that. But, I want you to convince him you don't. Like he did to you."
Tears welled up in my eyes at the memory. It was all the girl across from me's fault. She's the one that made him do it and now she's forcing me to do the same. "I'll never do it. Chad knows I love-"
She just giggled. "That's the only way I'm letting you out of here." I swallowed and looked down at my hands. Just as I was slowly letting Chad back in it all had to go to ruins again. We were almost back to being normal again.
"Or, you know, I could always threaten to hurt him or Danielle-"
My head whipped up and I frowned and clenched my fists together. "Don't you dare touch them," I whispered in a menacing voice. Vanessa smirked and folded her hands. She knew she had me cornered and I had no way out.
"You know Sonny, I never planned to hurt you. But if it's what it takes for you-"
I took a deep breathe as the tears rolled down my cheeks. "I'll do it." I sighed and looked up at Vanessa. I had never hated anybody more than I had ever hated her. "I'll do it! Are you happy?" I all but sobbed at her.
Vanessa smirked and reached for my cell phone pulling the battery out of her pocket. "Good girl."
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CPOV
"Where is she?" I screamed into the darkness. I looked out into the sky to see the sun rising.
Danielle and I had been searching all over Los Angeles for hours now. When I saw that paper my heart had fallen to my stomach and I could do nothing else but worry about where Sonny could be right at this moment.
None of this would be happening if I hadn't let her run out of my house. If I hadn't let her go when I went to England. If I hadn't listened to Vanessa. If I had just came back to California earlier.
It was all my fault. Everything was my fault.
And now Sonny was somewhere with some crazy person and I didn't know if she was okay or not. She could be fatally injured for all I knew!
"This is all my fault," I whispered as I buried my face in my hands. I heard a sigh and suddenly Danielle's hand was on my shoulder. I turned around and brought my little sister in for a hug as she patted me on the back.
Danielle sighed before pulling away and smiling slightly up at me. "No. Don't blame this all on yourself. The reason any of this stuff happened in the past two years is all Vanessa's fault. Not yours. Not at all."
Vanessa.
Vanessa.
"Shit!" I cussed and then threw my head back and looking back up at the sky. "Shit, shit, shit." I said as I started to pace. Danielle was standing there with a confused look on her face. She had no idea about what had just came to my mind.
It was Vanessa. That's who Sonny was with. There was no other possibility. Everybody in the world loved Sonny. Everybody except Vanessa. Nobody would ever want to hurt her or take her. Except for Vanessa.
"Chad? Chad!" Danielle yelled as I took off running. She followed close behind me. Once I reached where my car was parked I jumped in as Danielle got in quickly. I started the car and quickly hit the gas, tearing out of the parking lot in my haste.
"Chad! Talk to me! Where the heck are we headed?"
I sighed and gripped the steering wheel tighter. "It's Vanessa. There's nobody else that would do that. She's with Vanessa, Dani!" I said screaming her old nickname I hadn't used since I was about five years old. "We have to find her!" I said getting a little hysteric.
I knew what Vanessa was capable of and it wasn't good at all.
Danielle sighed and I saw her run her hands through her hair. "Okay, Chad. We need to calm down. Pull into this empty parking lot and we'll figure something out." I groaned and quickly followed what she told me to do.
"We need to find out where Vanessa is staying-"
She was cut off with a loud ringing. Danielle quickly pulled out her cell phone and her eyes widened at the screen name. She quickly shoved it in my face and I squinted at the name and number flashing on the screen.
'Sonny' the screen read. I ripped the phone out of her hand and quickly pressed the answer button. "Sonny!" I screamed down the phone and heard some shuffling in the backround. She was calling me. She was okay.
"Chad," I heard her whisper in a constricted voice. I swallowed and waited for her to continue talking. "Chad, I need you to stop looking for me." That shocked me. I knitted my eyebrows together and opened my mouth to speak.
"But, why-"
Sonny sighed and I swear I heard a muffled sob on the other line. "Because. I don't want you to find me. I don't need you to find me because I don't need you."
My mouth dropped open in shock. Why was she saying stuff like this? I knew our relationship wasn't perfect but I didn't think it was this bad. "What? Why? Sonny I'm worried. I love you so much and-"
The next thing that came from the other line broke my heart into millions of pieces. It had me gasping and dropping the phone into my lap, tears immediately pooling in my eyes.
"I don't love you."
A/N: Hello my lovely readers!
Thank god I got this up! My exams start tomorrow and I won't be online much. So I knew I needed to update today! Also, I'm sorry for the shortness. Bare with me please.
I hope you guys liked this chapter... don't hurt me too much?
Anyways, my last update was the night before I went to Florida. Disney World was amazing and WWoHP was just ldskgjfdjhgkjfd NO WORDS. BEST FREAKING DAY OF MY LIFE.
Well I'm gonna cut this note short. I must get going. Please review? The next chapter will be up soon. ONLY 5 MORE WEEKS TILL SUMMER.
P.S. If any of you read iCarly I recently wrote a one-shot for iOMG called Eyes Wide Open. Check it out please?
Lots of love xx
-Taylor
