Chapter 3- Getting to know the stranger and kidnapped!

Serena POV.

I slowly opened my eyes to the familiar light grey ceiling, blinking away the blurriness while doing so. It took me a whole ten seconds to process what was going on. After doing so it took a half a second to sit upright on my bed, and a second later regretting doing so, because the room started to spin as my head I feel back into the familiar soft pillow. I put my hand on my forehead from the headache, and gave a small groan in pain.

"Easy there pretty lady, you hit your head pretty hard there." I heard a familiar voice say. I looked to the right and saw the strange man with the red suit, sitting on my couch and smiling like I'm an old friend but had a look of concern for some reason.

"How do you know where I live, and how did you get in?!" I asked shocked.

"Well to answer your question, I'm your new neighbor. And I used your keys to get in and bring your car into the garage, sorry about that by the way, I didn't think you'd want to visit the hospital or leave your car 5 miles away from your house. Oh yeah, my name is Baba Mitsunari pretty lady, nice to meet you." He said while winking at me.

I was completely shocked by this man, never not even once has anything like this happened to me. To be honest when I first met him, I thought he was some weird guy, that was desperate or something. But when looked into his eyes, I saw that they were kind and gentle.

"Thank you and I'm very sorry about the trouble I caused you." I said while blushing a little. Don't get me wrong, I don't like him or anything, I mean no one besides Mr. and Ms. Shells has every cared for me. So it was kind of an embarrassing situation and a little weird too, cause it's been ten years since any ever cared about my wellbeing. I've always been alone; I took care of myself without anyone's help.

"It was no problem, my pleasure actually that I got to help a lovely lady such as yourself, haha my friend was really worried about you though." Baba said with a chuckle.

"Who?" I asked, as looked at Baba confused as he just smiled at me.

"Don't worry, you'll meet him soon enough." He said with a sly smile.

I just looked at him as he grinned, like he knew what he was going to get for Christmas or something.

I sighed when I knew that I couldn't do anything convince him to tell me.

Next thing I knew, he stood and walked to the chair besides me, where my jacket was, "Well I have to leave, I'll leave my number inside of your jacket, if you need anything, give me a call. Or knock on my door, I live right beside you." He said as he slipped a piece of paper in my jackets packet. See you later pretty lady" He said with a smile as he turned and started to walk toward my apartment door.

"Serena, my name is Serena Sumiko Howl" I called out to him, when realized I never gave him my name.

He turned to me with a smile "See you later Serena" he said and walked out of the apartment.

I sighed as I turned to see the time. I was nearly twelve pm, damn he wasn't kidding when he said that I hit my head pretty hard. I got up slowly this time, and as I stood up the room started spinning, but only for a moment. I started walking slowly for a moment, then at my normal pace. I went and grabbed some fast acting Advil for the pain and dizziness. I went ahead and made myself a turkey sandwich. After I finished eating and brushing my teeth I looked at the time and it was 12:25. Yeah I eat slow when I don't feel like eating, but I know I have to.

I have work from 12:35 to 6:35, which means no eating for me till I get home. I mean I do have a break at 3:40 to 4:00 pm, but I really don't eat so I work instead, and get paid for those extra twenty minutes. I went back to the bathroom and checked if I looked alright, and surprisingly I didn't have a wrinkle or dirt on my cloths. So I decided not to change, because my part time job starts soon. So I just went ahead and grabbed my bag, keys, phone, and jacket and left my apartment. I made sure I locked both the knob lock and deadbolt of my apartment door. And then went down the stairs calmly this time, no rush because, I wasn't going to be late for work and I don't think my head can handle another accident.

As I went into the garage of my building and saw that my car was parked exactly where I parked it today, which of course was a bit weird but, I didn't think much of it. I was feeling really tired as it is, today was very different than what I'm used to. So I guess I'm emotionally tired, plus hitting my head was a bonus but not in a good way obviously.

I sat in my baby and started to back out slowly like a normal human being, unlike the way I did this morning... or any morning as a matter of fact. I started to drive toward the cafe with was 6 miles away from my house, same direction as my school. So sometimes I just went to the cafe and wait in the car, for an hour and in a half, doing homework while listening to some music. Occasionally singing along to the song or humming.

Which is would be doing right about now, but i really am not up to it for obvious reasons. I soon got out of the freeway and drove a few more blocks to the cafe/bar. When I got there, I went into the private parking for employees only. I got out of the car and opened the back door, and on the seat is my uniform for the cafe I work at. It was a T-shirt which said "Red Rose Cafe, Bar, and Restaurant" along with my waist apron which had two pockets. In one pocket I had a pen and a mini notebook with the same logo as my T-shirt and apron that I got, to take orders from customers.

I grabbed them and quickly put them on over my Plaid Print Button Closure Red High Low Dress. I got my shirt an extra size bigger, because I knew I'd be too lazy sometimes to change my cloths. So it made it easy to put on and take off. But I usually do grab a hair band and tie the extra material on the back of the shirt, I did this cause I didn't want to look fat, and it looked kind of cute. Don't ask how it just does.

I closed the back door of my baby making sure I locked all the doors. When I was satisfied, I put my keys inside my empty pocket and started walking to the entrance of the Cafe bar. Where I was greeted by my boss, he looked over and smiled at me.

"Right on time as usual Serena" Mark said.

"Thank you, I try to do my best Mark" I smiled back to him politely. You must be wondering why I call my boss by his name. Well I'll tell you the reason why, you see, the reason why I call him Mark instead of Mr. Jackson, is because he thinks he's fifty years old when someone calls him that. Mark is actually thirty years old, but he looks great for his age, I mean the first time I meet him, I thought he was like, twenty three or twenty five years old! That's pretty darn good you got to admit.

"Alright now get to work" He said a bit bossy but playful, Mark was always a care-free man, he'd always make a joke whether it was a small or a full joke, he always had one. His personality kept his bar very cheerful and the day always passed quickly when he was around for almost everyone. That's the type of person he is, I'm very happy to have such a boss.

"Yes sir" I replied giggling a little as he gave a small but playful glare toward me, knowing that he hate it when people address him as such. I stared walking to the employee's room to check in, and start getting ready for work. When I finished checking in, I was already in a happier mood thanks to Mark. I started cheerfully taking orders, and getting lots of tips because of it.

Before I knew it, it was 8:50 pm, my shift ended at 6:35 pm, but worked overtime because I had nothing else to do. Plus I didn't get to class today, so no homework for now and someone called in sick, so Mark needed help anyways. The cafe bar closes at 9:00 pm, so I was helping Mark and the few others who worked this late clean up and leave.

When we did finish it was exactly 9:00 pm, I went into the girls bathroom and changed and put on my jacket because it looked pretty chilly outside. And then I walked out of the girl's bathroom checked out. While doing so I said my good byes to everyone, and walked to my car. It was pretty dark outside; I opened the back door and put my uniform in. While deciding what to make for myself for dinner, I mean I didn't eat for nine and a half hours so I'm starving! And just as I was about to open the door to the driver's seat, someone called my name.

"Is your name Serena Sumiko Howl?" I turned around and saw five men in black suits, tie's, hats, shoes, and glasses and with a white dress shirt underneath.

"Yes, may I help you?" I asked politely.

The one in the middle said "You can help us by coming with up Ms. Isaka Howl" Then two more came up behind me and roughly grabbed my arms.

"Hey! Let go! What's going on!?" I tried to struggle but it was pointless. The more I struggled the harder they squeezed my arms, to the point where I could feel them squeezing my bones! I was about to yell out in pain and they ganged me and bonded my legs, feet, arms, and wrists so tightly that they started to get a bit numb, and I knew that it will definitely leave a nasty bruise. Shortly they started to drag me to a van as I struggled helplessly. When one of them grew impatient, he grabbed me crudely and threw me over his shoulder so hard that I could hardly breath and possibly forming another bruise.

Just as he was about to start walking to the van, which was five feet away, I started to hear gun shots, the man started to run to the van, when another gun shot went off and I heard him groan loudly in pain before he knelled down in pain. I used this opportunity to try to get away, but he wasn't going to let me go. He harshly pulled me into his arms and threw me into the van, into the arms of another. The man who threw me into the van shot himself as the door closed.

Then the van started speeding full force and more gun shots were heard until, we couldn't hear anymore. I tried swinging my legs to try to kick at the imposer, but instead he just pulled me into his chest. Then brought some kind of cloth to my face, I tried moving my head away. But another thug just forced my face into the cloth and pressed into the side of my neck, forcing me to breath. As soon as I did, I started to grow weak and my eyes started to get blurry.

The last thing I heard was a man next to me speaking over the phone to someone. "Sir we got her... right away sir" Beep.