Chapter 5

Captivity with a warning

"I know you girls are in here" said the shrill voice of a man in a harsh whisper that sent shivers all through our bodies. Michelle and I kept our mouths shut hoping this person would just think no one was there and he would just leave. But he didn't leave. We were still holding our breath, when Michelle let out a loud gasp for air because she didn't have anymore. I knew that this person knew we were in the basement for sure now.
"You girls are so funny, thinking that you can trick me, just for that I think I'll have to punish you." He taunted in that creepy voice of his I couldn't stand to hear. Oh my god, is he going to kill us, rape us, torture us?! Oh my god he's a killer! We're going to die, we're going to die, we're going to die! Was all I can think of at the time. The man got off the chair, Michelle and I were just waiting in suspense to what was going to happen next. The light of the lamp turned on, but none of us turned it on, until I noticed a very tall figure and he painted his face to look like a freaky clown so that we wouldn't see the details of his face.

"Hello, nice to meet you, I am a serial killer and I like to invade people's homes and kill them, weird huh?" He explained in a playful voice even though the matter was serious. I was slowly backing up when the killer looked over to me and said aggressively: "Where do you think your going!?".

"A-a-a-ahhh…u-u-uhh…" I stammered, I was speechless.

The man started gritting his teeth furiously. He looked over to Michelle and I about thirty times over and over, when he just smiled. Smiled in the most evil way anyone can possibly smile, it was just so horrifying to not know what he was thinking of doing to us. The man started to burst out laughing. He had no reason to laugh. Or did he?

Suddenly, the man pulled out a rope from his back pocket of his long black leather jacket. We were on our hands and knees. Ready to run. He started to come close to us with the rope, trying to trap us with it.

"Run" I whispered to Michelle.

We both stated heading for the stairs, but before I could even go two steps, the man had threw the rope around my neck and pulled it. I flew back onto the ground on my back.

"Cassie!" Michelle yelled, coming back towards where I was.

"No! Go without me! Go!" I ordered her.

"I'm not leaving you!" She replied.

Michelle was running towards me when the killer had threw a knife at her and got her right in her lower leg.

"GAHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!" Michelle screeched in pain as she fell to the floor. The killer was pulling the rope tight around my neck. I couldn't breathe. The sound of Michelle screaming was hard to bare. Everything seemed to stop for a second, all I could hear was my heartbeat, slowing down.

The killer let go of the rope. I gasped a ton of air and was choking a lot. The "man" went towards Michelle, who was on the floor bleeding, and dragged her next to me and started tying us together with the rope. I tried to scurry away but the rope was too tight. The killer tied a knot and warned: "If you try to escape from this room, I will hunt you down wherever you go in this house and I will kill you, understand?". We just sat there in silence. "UNDERSTAND?!" he yelled in a booming voice. We nodded furiously. "Now stay here, I'm going to go to the house next door to do some killing, don't worry, I'll be back" He explained, as he was leaving the basement.