Chapter 2:

When I awoke I didn't wake fully. At least I don't think I did.
It was too dark to see so I presumed my eyes were still closed. Then I noticed I was wearing a blindfold... stupid.

I was still wearing the zip ties that held me in place and I was also swinging from side to side slightly in a rhythmic motion, 'felt a bit like walking.

There was a weight against the side of my hip that kept me balanced so this confirmed that I was over someone's shoulder.

"Nice catch!" A voice came from behind. I was flung over and down onto the ground.

"Hey Jeff." Another voice replied to the first. I guessed it was the one that had previously been holding me.
"This one moved into one of the old houses. Probably didn't know 'bout us." I didn't need to see to know that he was probably smirking.

"So how'd you use the stuff? I can see the zip 'whatever you call them' worked." The first said, was kidnapping people a fucking challenge to them?

"Year, hoods came up with the plan.
What was it?... Oh... The acorn was used to distract. The zip ties used to tie him up and the chloroform used to knock him out."

"Nice."

I felt being pulled up by my jacket. I stayed limp; I didn't want them to know I was awake yet.

"Kinda cute this one don't you think?" I felt his hand stroke my chin.

"Come on Jeff, don't go all gay on us!"

"I'm just saying," 'Jeff' said his hand moving lower feeling my chest, "he's gotta be a pretty good fuck!"

"Year well..." I felt myself being pulled away from Jeff and slung over a shoulder again.

"Too bad he's our catch then."

"Fuck you. Come on don't you tell me you don't wanna bang the living daylights out of him too."

"Actually I don't, 'cause I'm not a gay fag!"

"Fuck off I'm not gay. What about you hoods? Come on buddy ol' pal."

There wasn't a verbal reply, but I guessed 'hoods' shook his head because 'Jeff' groaned in annoyance.

"Bet ya Toby'd agree with me." Jeff's voice was a little louder now so I guessed he was walking next to Hoods and the other one.

"Toby's not gay either."

"Doesn't have to be, I'm not, but I sure feel like fucking this one."

"Wait is Toby gay or isn't he?"

"How'd you mean?"

"I mean is Toby strait or is he gay?"

There was a small pause here.

"I... Don't actually know."

"I think he might be you know."

"We should totally ask him about it and make him feel really awkward!"

"Stop being mean guys... If he's gay so what?" This was a new voice.

"Jesus Hoodie not heard you speak for so long I forgot you had a voice." Jeff said.

"Screw you." Said Hoodie going back to being silent again. It stayed this way for a little while.

"So when's the cutie supposed to wake up?" Jeff asked.

"Dunno." The other replied, "we gave him chloroform so... It's hard to say... Soon I guess?"

"Better get back quick then; don't want him to wake up on ya... Well smell you chumps later, I'm gonna go hunt." I heard quick heavy footsteps running away so I presumed Jeff was gone. He really did seem like an ass!

"Dick." Said the other before shuffling with me on his shoulder to get more comfortable carrying me.

"Do you want to swap? I could carry him for a bit if you want." Hoodie asked.

"Nah I'm good; we're only a little whiles 'way from the shacks anyway so it's not a problem."

There was a small pause.

"Masky?" asked Hoodie. So the one carrying me was called Masky... How original.

Masky hummed in reply.

"You're... You're not really... Homophobic are you?"

Masky choked.

"What?! No! No I'm not. Jeeze Hoodie." He laughed. Hoodie joined in with his laughter.

"Sorry, I just had to check. It kinda came off that way when you were talking to Jeff."

"Really? Huh, I never knew."

A few more moments of silence followed.

The sounds of footsteps became more hollowy and wood like so I guessed that we had arrived at wherever they were planning on taking me.

"Oh my god, feels good to be back!" Masky groaned. He slumped me off his shoulder and laid me on the floor.

"How about I take him up to our bedroom if you make me a sandwich? Deal?" Hoodie listed requirements of a deal.

"Deal!" Masky replied, "careful though, he's skinny and quite light but you're not exactly the strongest."

"Hush up I'll be fine." Hoodie replied pulling me off the ground yet again and hoisting me over his shoulder.

"You'd better had made me that sandwich by the time I get back."

Hoodie stumbled along what seemed to be a corridor or something before opening a door and going inside.

He laid me against a wall before pressing something sharp and cold against the tie on my wrists and snapping them successfully.
I knew I could possibly get free now that I had been partially untied but something held me in place.

Hoodie grabbed both of my deliberately limp hands and pulled them up joining them again once they were through and pressed above something that felt a bit like a metal pole. He then threaded another zip tie around my wrists holding them in place, only this time locked in place above my head.

Hoodie then left; I heard his heavy footsteps as he walked back down the corridor.

Realising I was now alone I decided I should try to escape quickly and quietly. These guys had used a fucking acorn and chloroform to get me here and when that Jeff guy was leaving he said he was going to 'hunt' so I would just love it if I could avoid as little trouble with them as possible.

I pulled my knees to my chest and started to feel with my hands what my wrists had been bound over.
To my dismay I found it was a metal loop screwed onto the wall. So my hands rendered useless and I couldn't feel around to try and find something to break the ties with so I was stumped.

"You won't escape." A voice came from my left, I tensed involuntary as I had not expected to hear one.

It giggled slightly.
"W..." It stopped mid word before continuing, "We all take turns watching the v..." It paused again "victims so they won't escape."

'Victims' there's a plural which means there is no way that they are gonna stop and think about maybe reassessing their actions.

"Wh... What's the matter? You have a blindfo... Blindfold not a gag. You are allowed to talk." I swallowed.

"Silent type huh?" I heard him get up gently. His socked feet padded softly towards me.

"I'd like to hear your voice." He said his hand flicking some of my short hair to the side. I stayed silent.

He grabbed a fist full of my hair and pushed my head up so that I guess he could look at me better, it hurt really bad but I didn't even wine.

His grip softened and his hand fell from my face. I heard him inhale quietly and slowly walk away.

Muffled talking started to become easy to hear as the new voice alerted Masky and Hoodie that I was 'awake'.

I heard them file in.

Masky started to talk, "well, well, well. We were wondering when you would wake up."
I heard padding and my blindfold was removed.

I saw in front of me the two who had captured me in the first place, Masky and hoodie and a third boy who had a striped bandana wrapped around his mouth, bright orange goggles and two very sharp looking hatchets swinging from his hips. I guessed he was the third voice.

"I suppose introductions are necessary. You will call me Masky." Said the one with the plastic mask, so this one was Masky meaning...

"Hoodie." The one with the ski mask was Hoodie.

"T..." The brown haired boy twitched violently then causing him to stutter.
"Toby." He finished. My eyes widened he is almost identical to Mrs Rogers son but that Toby is dead.

Masky stepped forward. "And what may we call you?"

I didn't reply strait away which made him angry. Like Toby had earlier he grabbed a fist full of my hair and pulled it so that my head lurched forward to be closer to his.

"Malicai!" It just slipped out, I didn't mean to say my real name. He just startled me when he lashed out. Fuck.

He gently let go of my hair.

"Malicai." He said testing it out.

At that moment a great banging was heard on the outside door.

"OPEN UP FAGS OR IMA BREAK DOWN THE DOOR" yelled Jeff I recognised his voice.

Masky groaned.

"The hell does he want?" Toby commented.

"We ran into him on the way here. Probably wanted to see if he was awake." Masky filled Toby in gesturing towards me.

Hoodie exited and a minute later both him and Jeff walked into the room.

Jeff was overly pail and his eyes didn't seem have irises, just black pits of blackness that didn't seem to blink. But then again how would you blink if you didn't have eye lids. They seemed to have been burned off.
But that wasn't the worst part.
The sides of Jeff's lips had been sliced all the way up to his cheek bones to give him a permanent creepy smile.

"Hey cutie," he started grinning an even bigger grin if that was even possible, "glad to see your awake."
He started to walk painfully slowly towards me. I subconsciously pressed myself even further against the wall.

"Aww is the little mouse scared?" He put on a fake pout.

"Year it's your ugly mug that's frightening him!" Toby shot at him.

"So? I think he's even cuter when he's scared, and who're you calling ugly when you the one that has to hide his ugly face from everyone with a piece of cloth so that he doesn't make everyone blind from it." Jeff shot back and Toby rolled his eyes.

"Shut the fuck up dude, n...no one likes to hear your voice." Jeff started to slowly clap to this.

"And the award for the best come back ever goes to... Drum roll please... Retard boy! Let's all give his a big hand!" Jeff said sarcastically.

"Oh year that's real original! Pick on th... The disabled boy, s... So mat... Mature!" Toby involuntary twitched several times during his sentence.

Jeff started to mimic his twitching, "oh h...hey everybody I'm T...Toby. And I twitch at random times for attention.
You'd better look out I'm feeling a twitch right now T...T...T...TWITCH!" Jeff burst out into a huge fit of laughter.

I could see Toby's fist clench so hard that his knuckles turned white.

Jeff's such an asshole! Seriously he's picking on a kid that pretty obviously can't control what his body does and is laughing at him.

Masky looked like he was about to step in to do something about this before it got out of hand but I just had to do one thing first.

I pulled back my legs as far as they would go against my chest, aimed and realised a double kick right onto Jeff's ankle. I heard a satisfying crack and he screamed out in pain.
Jeff fell over holding his ankle in pain.

He glared over to me, "you little FREAK look what you've AHHH!"
He screamed again when he tried to put pressure on it.

I hope I had broken it!

I looked back at the others who were all looking back at me in disbelief.
Toby had a small look of friendliness in his expression like he was... Happy that someone had stood up for him.

"Guess we got a fighter on our hands huh Jeff." Masky said to Jeff.

"Fuck... You!" Jeff winced in pain.

Hoodie padded up to Jeff and slung his arm over his shoulder helping him stand.

"I don't need you god dam pity or help." Jeff spat.

"Well if it's broken then clearly you do." Hoodie said his voice sounding strained under Jeff's weight. Masky heard the straining and took Jeff's other shoulder. Together they hobbled out into another room, Jeff spitting out violent threats to me about what he was going to do to me when he got his hands on me.

Toby closed the door letting both of us have a small bit of privacy even though I could still hear Jeff from the other room.

He padded over to me twitching slightly before sitting cross legged just out of my reach.
He just looked at me.

After a few moments he slipped off his goggles and placed them onto the floor.
He had dark hazel eyes.
Again he just stared.

I started to feel uncomfortable so I glanced down. He just took hold of the sides of my face and forced me to look him in the eyes.

His hazel pools darted over my face scanning me over again and again. It was really creeping me out. After a few more moments I started to flick my head from side to side to get away.

"My face isn't going to change." I said and he let my face go.

"What did you say your name was again?" It was such a weird question to ask that I just gave him the answer without a second thought.

"Malicai." He blinked at me, and I presumed he smiled. (His bandanna was still covering his mouth)

"I used to know someone called Malicai." He stated, "He lived next door to me, but he moved away and I never saw him again. You'd look just like him now I think."

"I used to have a friend called Toby." I Stated, it kind of slipped out. He blinked and looked at me with interest.
"He was bullied a lot in school though 'cause he was different so he ended up being home schooled by his sister and a tutor. I really liked his sister, she used to play with us even though she was probably way to old for it. To me that was the best part about her... and him.
It didn't matter how many times we did the same things, they never seemed to get old. They were... I guess timeless. I really regret not keeping in touch with them." I finished and he nodded.

"I had a s...sister." He said, "she was j...just like the g...girl yo...you described." He seemed to be twitching and ticking a lot more...

"Ticci Toby." His head snapped up in a surprised and hurt expression.

I immediately winced at how stupid I was, "sorry!" I apologized quickly.

"That's what they used to call him... In school." I explained his eyes widened.
"Ticci Toby... Because he flinched and ticked a lot." I said slower than I had been talking before.

"Oh... right." He nodded then laughed slightly.
"Thought you were calling me that then. Kinda confusing how you broke Jeff's ankle for making fun of me then er... Calling me a name."

"Toby?" Masky called through from the other room.

"Year?"

Toby stood up and left the room, I could hear muffled talking and Jeff groaning and screaming in pain.

I then heard more footsteps and Toby and Hoodie filed back into the room.

Hoodie then handed a few zip ties to Toby and left.

The brown haired boy closed the door and padded towards me flicking out one of his hatches from his belt.