Chapter 6 Trapped Again

Maria woke up to a throbbing headache and a sore stomach. She got up and noticed that she was sitting on a white mattress with only one thin sheet and a flat pillow. She glanced over her surroundings but there wasn't much to glance at. The only thing inside the tiny bathroom sized room she was in, was the bed and a gross toilet in the corner. There was a solid gray door to her right which had four golden locks.

" Get me out of here!" Maria cried hoping it would make her feel better to yell, but it didn't."

" Wow, you've always got the perfect timing."

A voice said that was all to familiar. The voice belong to Harry.

Fear overcame Maria has the door opened. Harry was standing in the door way with a needle in his hands. Maria screamed. She tried to move but there was no where for here to go. Maria was trapped. As Harry got closer she tried to develop a plan but nothing came to mind. Until she thought of the perfect idea. Harry was a foot in front of her as Maria backed up until she was touching the cold stone wall behind her. Harry sat on the bed beside her and was just about to inject the needle into Maria's arm, when Maria's leg swung up and hit Harry square in the face. Maria got up and ran as fast as she could out the door. She thought she was home free until, two strong arms grabbed her by the waist.

" Your not going anywhere!" Ron said as he took the screaming Maria into a dark room. The only light came from a single lamp that was hanging over what seemed to be a brown dentist chair. Beside the chair was table with sharp tools and objects. Ron put Maria on the chair and tied her up with rope that was under the chair. Ron grabbed a long sharp knife from the table and started to walk towards Maria.

" Ron! There is a van pulling up in front of the house!" Charlie said from upstairs.

Ron looked angry as he threw the knife down on Maria's tied up legs. Once Ron was out of the room, Maria tried to grab hold of the knife. She hoped that the van was her friends coming to save her. Her legs and waist were tied and so were her wrists. She stretched but she could not reach the knife. Maria took a deep breath thought of Michael, and tried to reach the knife again. Her fingers caught the knife. She placed the knife sticking up between her knees and placed the rope that held her wrists together in place, on top of the knife. The knife was cutting the rope but when she heard footsteps upstairs, she got scared so she moved her hand. The knife ended up cutting her hand. Even though her hand hurt she managed to cut through the rope, which allowed her to cut the rope that tied her legs together and her waist. Maria got out of the chair and ran out of the room. She had no idea where she was, all she knew was that she was in a basement in an old house. She glanced down the hall to see an old stair case leading upstairs. She had no idea where to go.

All of a sudden she heard voices and footsteps. She panicked and hid behind the wall. When she couldn't hear the sounds anymore, she backed away from the wall slowly. She heard footsteps behind her, she was about to scream when a hang covered her mouth. She sprung around to come face to face with Michael.

" God Michael you scared me!" Maria said sighing with relief when he lifted his hands from her mouth.

" I didn't want you to yell, the men would have heard you." Michael said.

" Oh I'm so glad you are here!" Maria cried as she gave Michael a hug. It felt so good to be in his strong arms again.

" What happened to your hand?" Michael asked worry in his deep voice.

Maria shook her head.

" Nothing."

Michael gave her a look.

" Maria!" Liz cried as she came running down the stairs and gave her best friend a hug. Following Liz was Max, Isabel and Kyle.

" Are you okay?" Liz asked.

" Yeah just my hand hurts."

"Thanks for coming to get me." Maria said.

" We would never leave you behind." Max said.

" How did you do it?" Maria asked.

" Do what?" Max asked.

" Kill the men? I thought they were to powerful?" Maria said.

" I didn't kill them, I didn't even see them up there." Max said.

Maria gulped as she looked behind her, there was Harry, Ron and Charlie.

" RUN!"