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I was looking at Alex, my mouth open slightly. She had the same expression.
The other man, Francis, was about five inches shorter than his brother, but looked just as savage.
Krug's girlfriend, Sadie, was a tall, slender brunette with wide, crazy looking eyes. Krug was still standing near the door.
"Look," I said, "We aren't going to tell anyone that we saw you here." I had to guess Krug already knew we recognized him, or at least I did.
"Oh, you won't will you?" He asked raising an eyebrow.
"Of course not!" I said, trying so hard not to show any fear.
He held up the news paper with his face on it. "You know, it would be a real shame if I let you girls go, and then ended up back in prison." His voice was pure acid. I knew the hopelessness of our situation, but I couldn't give up yet.
"We wouldn't do that," I was almost pleading at this point, "Just let us go, and we won't tell anyone. You haven't done anything to us, so we won't tell. I swear!"
Krug smirked at me, and then looked me and Alex over, admiring us, I thought. I felt shivers up and down my spine as he gave us the once over. He gestured to Sadie and Francis, and they came to stand at Alex and my sides.
"Don't do anything stupid," Francis said to us as he stroked Alex's hair. She was sobbing now. Sadie stood next to me petting my arm. I got goose bumps as her cool hands slid up and down my arm.
Krug had moved away from the door now, and was looking out the window to make sure no one was coming.
"Please!" Alex begged, "Don't do this! We are only seventeen!"
"Well, I haven't done anything to you sweetheart. Yet," Krug said, smiling at Alex. "But if I were you, Alex, I wouldn't tell someone like me not to do something to you, and then go and mention that you're seventeen."
My stomach was in my throat at this point. Oh, god. They are going to kill us, and probably much, much worse, I thought.
"Justin, please," Alex cried.
"I-I'm sorry for bringing you here," he said in hardly more than a whisper.
Alex looked completely hopeless, and I'm sure I didn't look too far off. Francis moved away from Alex to go pat Justin on the back. Alex looked at me, and then at the door that was now unblocked. I couldn't shake my head without drawing attention, so I just looked at her wide eyed, trying to silently plead her not to try anything. Too late.
She bolted across the room to the door, and she got it unlocked before Krug grabbed her by her hair and pulled her backwards into him. She screamed, but he quickly covered her mouth with his hand. She struggled and writhed against him, but she was barely up to his chest, and there was no way she could match his strength.
"Wow, and I was just starting to entertain the idea of letting you ladies go," Krug said, still holding on to Alex's hair. He pulled her back so that she was looking straight up at him. She let out a muffled scream, but he was still covering her mouth. He looked into her eyes, fear almost rolling off of her. "You missed your chance," he said to her, "and you fucked it up for Lisa." He glanced up at me as Alex continued to squirm.
Now we are really fucked, I thought as Sadie continued to pet me.
Krug then took his hand off of Alex's mouth, and then shoved her roughly to the floor. She sputtered and coughed as the wind was knocked out of her from the way she landed. She got up on her hand and knees in front of Krug, and attempted to crawl away from him. He obviously didn't like this, because right when she started to inch away, he kicked her in the stomach, causing her to collapse in front of him once more.
"There's good sweetheart," he said as Sadie and Francis chuckled, "this way I can keep an eye on you." I could hear pure malice in his voice coated by a sarcastic fatherly tone.
Justin was in the corner of the room, looking very guilty. He knew it was his fault that we were in this situation.
"Dad," he said finally, "please, just let them go. They won't say anything." This was clearly a mistake. Krug stepped over Alex and looked down at his son. Before Justin could rescind what he had said, Krug punched him right in the gut, causing him to fall over onto the bed.
I flinched involuntarily.
"You see, Justin," he said nonchalantly, "I'm not gonna listen to anything you say anymore. You told me you weren't going to fuck up, but her they are." He motioned to me and Alex, who was now curled up in fetal position.
"Now," he continued, "you are going to have to live with the consequences."
I knew the time for bargaining was far from over. I just stood there. I wanted to go over to Alex and make sure she was okay, but I knew I couldn't. I took a sharp inhale, pleading myself not to cry. Krug heard me, and came over to stand in front of me. He towered over me, and he was really intimidating, even without taking into accord that he was a convicted murderer and rapist.
"You okay, Lisa?" he asked me in an almost sincere tone.
"I'm fine," I replied as tears started to gather in my eyes. I blinked them away, not wanting to show this monster how scared I really was.
Everyone's eyes were focused on me, so nobody even knew Alex had left her spot on the floor, and darted to the bathroom. No one knew she was in there until we heard the lock slide into place.
"This bitch is really getting on my nerves," said Francis, who had started kicking at the door.
We heard Alex banging on the bathroom window, screaming for dear life. We had left our phones in our room. Francis continued to kick at the door.
"Its fine," said Krug, who grabbed me and turned me around so that my back was against him. Before I even registered what was going on, there was something cool against my throat. I looked down and saw that he had a switchblade pressed against it. I trembled, not daring to move.
"Hey, Alex," he yelled, "If you don't get out of there right now, I am going to slice Lisa's fucking throat open." He was dead serious. I heard Alex stop screaming and she stopped banging on the window. She came out slowly. Krug did not remove the knife from my throat until Francis had Alex's hands securely behind her back.
"Go get the handcuffs," Krug said to Sadie.
She smiled and went into one of the bags and took out a pair of silver handcuffs. She tossed them to Francis, who fastened them to Alex's wrists behind her back. I heard her whimper as he tightened them.
Krug turned back to me. "Where are your car keys, Lisa?" The sound of my name coming from his lips made my heart speed up.
I reached into my pocket very slowly, and got out the keys. I held them out to him. He took them, his eyes never leaving mine. I couldn't help but hope that they were going to leave us here, and just take the car.
I tried to speak again. "You can take the car, just please leave us alone," I knew I was barely audible, but Krug was standing right in front of me.
He smiled down at me. It was terrifying. "You best not be telling me what I can and can't do, Lisa." My breath got caught in my throat again. I refused to break eye contact with him. I wanted to prove to him that I wasn't just another victim. He smirked at me.
"I'm not afraid of you," I said in the strongest voice I could muster, as we continued our stare down. So far, he was winning.
"You're not?" He looked straight down at me. Of course I was scared of him. "Well, that's your first mistake, Lisa."
I didn't stop looking at him until he turned and walked to the door, throwing the car keys up and then catching them once more.
He looked outside once more, to make sure no one was there. We had parked in the very front of the lot, so the car was very close to the room.
"Do your parents know where you are, girls?" he asked.
"Yes. They are expecting us home soon," I lied, hoping to get him to release us.
"That true, Justin? You spent the day with these girls. I'm sure they told you."
I knew Justin wanted to protect us, but he was just too afraid of his father to lie to him.
"No," Justin said quietly, not daring to make eye contact with Alex or me, "They said they were spending the night in town."
"Oh, really?" Krug said looking at me like a cat looks at a mouse, "Well, I'll let that one slide, Lisa."
"But I'm not sure if I'll have you home by tomorrow," he smirked, and Francis and Sadie both laughed maniacally.
"Let's go for a car ride," he said to all of us, "see what kind of fun we can have."
I looked at Alex, tears now falling freely from my eyes.
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