"Of course I love you Melanie, why wouldn't I?" He asked "I love you more than life itself. I don't know how to prove it to you but it's true, I would die for you and you know that, I almost have many times."
"I know it's true and you don't have to prove it to me Duncan, and I know you would do anything for me. But I need to know this one thing" I hesitated, not a good thing for me to do at all. "Why are you still avoiding the children question?"
"Melanie! I told you many times, I'm afraid to have children, I'm afraid I'm going to be a bad father." He said grabbing both of my hands, as if he was trying to cover up a lie.
"Mac, I know that's not true and I know that because…. I thought about the times we had sex and I don't remember you ever putting on a condom, and I'm still not pregnant, just tell me one thing, are you sterile?"
"What? No of course not. And if you really wanna know the truth about the reason why I can't have children, I'll tell you… I'm, I'm, yes I am sterile. I didn't want to tell you is because I thought you would get upset with…" I cut him off by kissing him to let him know that I wasn't upset with him at all.
My break was over, and Duncan went home. Cassy, Mandy and Amy left too. I was alone and it was starting to get dark out as I sat in the window seat watching the sun go down, bringing all the beautiful colors go with it. The time finally came for me to close the café.
I took the keys and walked to the front door and locked it, then I grabbed my jacket and my bag and left going out the back door. It was really dark because it was in an ally way where the lights are never needed, except when I'm in them.
I jolted around as I heard heavy breathing behind me as I was walking out of the ally onto the sidewalk in front of the café and the other closed stores on Holly's crest. It was a small street, no houses on it, only stores. Closed stores.
I started to feel like something was going to happen to me, I was right. I don't know what happened exactly. But I do know that I turned around and got hit on the head by a baseball bat or something, and I got knocked out by it and I woke up tied up to a chair in a basement with three or four men watching me.
I felt like I was drugged up because when I opened my eyes it was all blurry. The only thing I could see was a blurry figure standing in front of me looking up and down my body as if he was going to untie me and rape me.
"Untie her" I heard another voice say close by. Just as the man started to untie me my vision got clearer. "Come here Melanie, I want to talk to you. And don't try any funny stuff or I will kill you right now right there."