"There! That's where he was keeping me! And where he locked Nina and Amber!" Patricia yelled in shadows of the night as she pointed her escorts to the abandoned warehouse.

Patricia had immediately led the two masked figures to the warehouse after the creepy exchange in the woods. However, the expedition proved fruitless. Nina and Amber were gone.

Patricia was close to flying off the handle.

First Joy. Now this? Her escorts in masks could clearly see this inner turmoil going on inside Patricia, and when she was not looking, they injected her in the back of the arm. It was a concoction that eased the mind and helped erase thoughts and memories. It was not always perfect, but worked well enough. They had given the very injection to Alfie when he was in the hospital when they suspected he knew too much about their secret society.

Meanwhile Nina was being taken out of the trunk of the car and led to what appeared to be a shed. The car ride had a lot of turns, causing her to faintly hope that they had been going in circles and loops just to throw her off.

He pushed her down inside the shed, being rougher to her than he had been with Patricia. He didn't want Nina getting the idea that he could bully him as Patricia tried to do. Plus, he was rapidly losing his patience.

He un-gagged her and glared at her with his sharp blue eyes.

Nina was intimidated and had no idea what this strange man would do to her. She tried to face him confidently, but she couldn't. She looked down, scared. She wanted her Gran.

"I want to go home," she said quietly. Her voice breaking.

"Give me your necklace."

Nina sighed in relief, "I don't have it." She said as calmly as she could. She had cleverly hidden it when she and Amber were stuck in the warehouse because she feared that he would come and take it from her.

"Who does?" he said gritting his teeth.

"My friend," she invented.

"What friend?" He demanded. And when she didn't respond he shook her by the shoulders, "WHAT FRIEND?"

She hadn't prepared to give him an actual answer and tears came out of her eyes as she held her own as he continued to shake her.

He took a deep breath and regained his 'cool.'

"No matter. I have time. I will find who has it," he said rubbing his temples.

And with that he tied her up to a folding chair that was literally the only thing in the shed. And he left her. She scooted and twisted and yelled but finally realized that it was completely useless. The whole 'getting-tied-up- to-a-chair-thing' that she always saw in the movies- was actually pretty effective.

So she did the only thing left to do. She slumped her head over and tried to fall back asleep- telling herself repeatedly not to think (hungrily) of the hamburger that was probably still sitting in the warehouse.

When Fabian got up the next day, he was set on skipping classes to look for Nina. However, as soon as he walked downstairs he found a teacher waiting with Victor in the hallway.

Apparently they were no longer allowed to travel by themselves. They must travel to and from classes as a group AND with a teacher to escort them. Victor told them that Amber and Patricia were both in the hospital recovering, but from exactly WHAT- he wouldn't say.

So the day passed; him, Mick, Mara, Alfie, and Jerome all traveling together and trying to whisper about these events without letting the teachers hear their suspicions.

Fabian tried to leave once to 'go to the bathroom' (in an attempt to sneak out) but the same teacher he saw that morning talking to Victor followed him out and literally stood outside the men's bathroom door- waiting for him to return.

All day it went like this! Fabian had never been so frustrated in his life! He couldn't concentrate in any of his classes. A whole day wasted! Poor Nina could be anywhere. He thought miserably. Why did this happen to her? Why couldn't it have been him instead?

He couldn't wait for nighttime. After Victor called for lights out, Fabian leapt for the window. He tried to slide it open, but couldn't. He called Mick over, who was more than willing to help. But the two teenage boys couldn't open it.

Upon closer inspection, Fabian saw that a metal bar had been installed to prevent the opening of the windows. He inwardly cursed, and decided to wait a bit to try to sneak out past midnight.

He couldn't sleep; finally at 1:00pm he slipped out of bed. He snuck out of his room and creaked down the hallway. He looked up at Victor's study and saw that the light was off. As he turned back to the door he found that Victor himself was standing in his way.

Fabian jumped backwards.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING OUT OF BED?" he asked dangerously.

Fabian stuttered and decided to pull 'an Amber,' "I'm sleepwalking. And I'm hungry!" and he turned towards the kitchen and began walking towards it.

"GET TO BED!" Victor yelled. Fabian switched courses and speedily returned to his room.

"Don't let me EVER catch you doing that AGAIN," Victor bellowed down the halls.

"Fine. I won't let you catch medoing that again," Fabian muttered as he flopped on his bed.

Nina had spent the day in the shed. She only left twice when Rufus allowed her to go to a secluded bathroom, but otherwise her day was uneventful.

Rufus wasn't that terrible of a kidnaper. Nina had feared that she would not get to eat. But Rufus brought her a biscuit for breakfast and a ham sandwich for dinner. But the best part, was the he gave her a toothbrush and fresh clothes when she went to the bathroom the second time.

She excitedly made plans to turn the toothbrush into a sharp weapon, but he took it away right after she used it.

She decided that it could be worse, but her situation was seemingly dire. She ached from sitting in the same (un-adjustable) position all day. And the ropes hurt, because sometimes he re-tied her tighter than he had earlier.

The worst was the confusion though. She didn't know where she was or what he had planned for her. No one knew where she was now that he had moved her. She couldn't say; "Oh! Only four hours left of being kidnapped and sitting in these ropes!" No. For all she knew, she could spend days, weeks, or months like this.

She wanted someone to come for her. Her thoughts frequently went back to Amber, Patricia, and Fabian. Her only hopes.

She didn't know where Patricia was – maybe he killed her. Nina shuddered at the thought and tried not to cry when she thought about it. Additionally, Amber seemed to have disappeared without a trace. After this, her only hope rested with Fabian. So she sometimes yelled his name or shouted "HELP!"

But, once when she was screaming, Rufus came back and shouted at her for screaming. He pulled out a handgun and threatened her to stay quiet. After this, she didn't make a peep.

The next day went like the day before for Fabian. He couldn't break away. At breakfast, he asked Trudy for tools, but she informed Fabian that Victor held those and he would have to ask him for them.

Fabian figured that wouldn't work so well, so instead, during biology lab- he smuggled a wide variety of lab tools in his bag to use for later.

That night, he brought the tools out. With Mick holding up a flashlight, Fabian managed to pry off the metal bar that blocked his escape. It took over an hour, but it worked.

Then, the boys slid open the window. Since the room was on the lower floor, the jump wasn't so bad. Fabian told Mick to stay in the room and to let him back in when he knocked on his window. Mick readily agreed. He was tired of holding up the flashlight and wasn't ready to face Victor's wrath. Mick threw down Fabian's backpack and watched Fabian walk off campus.

Fabian's eyes adjusted (so he wouldn't be forced into using a flashlight) and he began to circle the campus. Finding nothing, not a hint. He went to the woods. Those would take all night. But he was ready to do that. He walked for hours, circling and searching for some clue of where Nina could be. Fabian's clock on his phone was ticking. Midnight passed, then one, two, three, four, and then five. Fabian was practically limping through the woods now but his eyes refused to close.

After hours of natural silence, an engine coughed in the distance. It could be anything, but Fabian, desperate for some viable clue moved quickly toward the source of the sound.

He stopped when he saw a car move to a halt a little bit always from a small hut- a shed- he realized.

Ducking behind some trees, he was reminded of a few nights ago when he had witnessed the forest exchange with Patricia, Rufus, Victor, and the teachers.

He saw a man get out of the truck. Wait, not just a man- but Rufus! He saw no sign of Nina though, which worried him. But then- Rufus went to the trunk and opened it. He was handed what looked like a toothbrush and toothpaste and a washcloth by some unseen person in the trunk. Then Rufus pulled out some rope and began working.

Fabian's heart raced. Sure enough, Rufus soon drug a tied-up girl out of the trunk. Fabian recognized Nina's long hair swishing as Rufus drug her to the shed.

Outside the shed, she stopped and shook her head. Rufus whispered something into her ear and she visibly slumped. They both went in, and a few minutes later, Rufus emerged without Nina. Rufus got in his car, and left.

What happens next? Next chapter comes soon.

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