AN: Hi everyone! Thank you all for your support and kind reviews - and for your patience with how long I take for each chapter!
Previously on Kidnapped:
My heart thudded as electricity flowed between us - I saw it happen. In the most vivid moment of my life, I watched the scene play out in the gleam of his stone onyx eyes - he flitted ethereally through the room, bodies falling behind him like confetti. Then he reached me and I was gone, too.
In an act of true cowardice, I squeezed my eyes shut and leaned back, and I saw something else - I saw myself and this boy at the front of my house. Sad eyes carried my limp body.
It was a compromise.
[Then they both run away from each other after class lol. Young love.]
. . .
Confessions
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I repeated my mantra all the way home - as I returned my hall slip to the front office, as I drove my giant truck home, as I sat down on my porch, and as I waited.
He didn't take long.
"Hi," I said to the boy as he emerged from the trees touching our driveway.
He raised his eyebrows at me, some strange emotion swimming in his eyes.
"Were you waiting for me?"
"Yes, I was," I whispered. In more ways than one.
He was only feet away from me now.
"Why?"
I didn't understand his question, so I asked one back.
"Who are you?"
"Who are you?"
We spoke at the same time, and I flinched - his voice made mine sound raspy in comparison, rough as it was.
"I'm sorry," he whispered, and my mantra broke. He had no reason to apologize, unless…
"Please don't do this," I begged, but I leaned back on my forearms as he towered over me.
"I don't know how not to," I heard him say it but his lips didn't move; I was seeing double vision.
He leaned down now, pinning me to the wood below me.
I whimpered, squeezing my eyes shut.
"Who are you?" he asked again, a whisper in my ear.
My double vision split off into a hundred different scenes all playing over and over and over again and then I heard him saying it in a golden meadow and I found myself repeating him with a trembling voice -
"I'm your - your mate, Edward."
And then my head split.
The dam inside my head burst open and I watched in horror all of the dreams that this boy had haunted - some of me in middle school, in high school, in college, some of me with children or pregnant or friends - but every time he'd find me, he'd kill me, and then I'd see the most heartbreaking ruby eyes I'd ever seen.
The dream I had last night was the more impressive of the dreams, with 21 kids dead. Another dream was the most gruesome, with my blood coating the floor. Another dream the most terrifying - one where Renee and Charlie both died as witnesses.
And then there was this moment that I'd seen just an hour ago, and I understood now why this was the preferred alternative. At least in this reality, I didn't take anyone down with me.
The dreams all swirled and tumbled, emitting a high-pitched frequency that drove me mad, and then out of it all one scene came to the forefront.
"I'd have fared better if I had exposed us all at that first moment, than if now, here - with no witnesses and nothing to stop me - I were to hurt you, Isabella. " He pronounced my full name carefully, then playfully ruffled my hair with his free hand. "Bella, I couldn't live with myself if I ever hurt you. You don't know how it's tortured me. The thought of you still, white, cold. It's unendurable."
Golden eyes bore into mine.
"You are the most important thing to me now. The most important thing to me ever,"
Is this what death feels like? I wondered. I felt like a glacier, frozen but not cold, trapped but free-flowing. I couldn't feel anything on me, but I couldn't move either.
The warm gold faded to onyx and I faded in the depth of black that enfolded me.
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AN: Um hi sorry and thank you. I love reading all of the reviews! Yes the story is confusing for now, but I think that's largely because Bella is also confused! But I hope things will be less confusing as she learns to accept the situation and learns more about herself moving forward... So if it's still confusing later on, let me know! I like the challenge of describing Bella's experiences in a more descriptive way than "then I had a vision. Describe vision," but it is challenging for sure! I'm open to feedback.
Finally, I want to shout out to you all for supporting me:
Sweetie7Smiled, thank you for your always very thoughtful reviews
MissKat, thank you for waiting for me, hehe - I hope it was worth the wait
BridieM, I am enjoying my job! It just quite busy hahaha. I will try to put in more time here, however!
maemeror, I've been summoned! Thank you for reviving me hehe
These are only a couple of my reviews that I've received. I want to express again just how much even those two-word "Great story!" reviews mean to me. (I'm looking at you Guest and reddishbrownwolf!)
Oh! Also. I lied! One more thing - I do post teasers / updates sometimes on my twilight instagram twilightsagawebcomic, so if you want to interact with me there, I would love to make friends!
Bonus points to anyone who can guess what the high-pitched frequency is (... if it is anything at all... ¬‿¬ )
