Sorry for the long wait to all my reviewers/readers! But I was quite busy with others things and... I was lazy. : ) Well, here is chapter 11, enjoy!
Chapter 11
Sitting in my bare room, I was getting quite bored. I was pacing back and forth with a frown on my face. The only thing that I wanted to do was to just get out of here. I wanted to run away back to my parents, but Erik was always here… or was he?
I slowly peeked my head out of the black curtain and looked around. My brown eyes wandered all over the room, but never found Erik. Quietly, I stepped out of my room and started sneakily walking towards the boat. In my head, I had my whole plan panned out. I would steal the boat and start rowing in the direction that Erik took me in before. Once to the bank of the lake, I would try to follow where my father had gone. My plan was perfect or at least I thought so.
When I had made it to the boat, I quietly got in. When that was accomplished, I reached for the pole that Erik had always rowed with. But when I could not quite get it, I got frustrated. I lunged myself as far forwards as I could, but only my fingertips touched the black pole. I tried one more time, rocking my body forwards, but I soon regretted that. My fingers got even closer and when I tried to move the pole, it went toppling over. The pole landed with a loud crash, and I was sure that Erik would hear it and come catch me.
When I heard the footsteps behind me, my whole body just froze. I became as stiff as the pole that I was trying to get.
"What are you doing?" Erik asked briskly.
"Isn't it obvious?" I said sarcastically.
When I did not hear Erik answer, I stomped around to chew him out some more, but before I could say anything, Erik was already beside me and had picked me up. I was suite astonished, for I did not even hear him move! He moved as quickly and quietly as a cat would.
"Put me down!" I screamed at him.
"I will not! For if I do, then you will surely run away!" Erik said with his teeth clenched.
"Any sane person would try to run away!" I replied while my legs were trashing about. When I saw that we had passed my room and Erik's room I was quite furious.
"Where are you taking me!" I managed to say in between legs kicks.
"To a place where I am certain you cannot escape!"
"And where would that be?"
"Right down there," Erik said with a sneer and pointed his finger. My eyes got wide with terror as I looked down an awfully dark stairway.
"You can't put me down here! I will go insane!"
He whirled me around to face him. "Then if you are insane, you will not have the mentality to run away, now will you?"
I shrieked at him and started to pound him with my fists, but he still carried me down the steps. When we got to the bottom, I had stopped all my resisting. Erik bent to put me down, but I would not let go of him. My surroundings were horrendous. All around me it was pitch black, but when my eyes got adjusted… Everywhere I looked, there was some sort of mechanism. I was not sure what they all were for, but I was sure that they were not used for fun and games.
"You must let go of me, and stay down here where you will not escape," Erik told me.
"I will not run away! I won't! But please do not make me stay down here in this awful place!" I pleaded.
"You promise not to run away?" he asked.
I just nodded.
"Alright," Erik said submissively.
I was so thankful to be leaving that place. I wanted to ask why he had all those devices, but I was too afraid. When he brought me back to the surface, he sat me down in my room, then left. He did not say one word to me, just walked casually out of my room. I wanted to call him back, but the words would not come. So I just slumped over to my bed and sat down. Soon, I was bored again.
After thinking it over for a while, I decided to go out into the main room. I was not sure if I was going to say anything to my captor, but I figured anything would be better than sitting alone in my room. Then I realized something, what I could not handle for only a few minutes, Erik had to endure for his whole lifetime. If I were in his place, I probably would have kidnapped me too. All he wanted was someone for company, if he had had that before I came here, then, most likely, he would not have kidnapped me.
As I hesitantly approached Erik, he turned to face me, but would not make eye contact.
"Listen, Erik. I am… uhh…. sorry for all that I said. I was just disappointed that you did not tell me that my parents did come looking for me."
He abruptly stood up and walked away from me.
"What?" I said stupidly. "You are not even willing to be rational about all this?"
Erik turned around and looked at me, but did not say anything. After glancing over at me, Erik turned back around and continued back to his room. I stood there looking after him with my mouth open. Just when I had finally come around to partially understanding him, he would not even give me a chance.
"Fine!" I yelled after him. "You can just stay in your room and pity yourself! Just liked you've done the past 30 years!" I expected this to anger him and cause him to come back and talk to me, but that did not happen. Angrily, I thrashed towards my room, and threw myself upon the bed. If he did not want to talk to me, then I would not talk to him either.