Chapter 23.
Flora's POV
Stone walls, dry patches of grass and nothing but the dirt floor. This is exactly my surrounding of where I'm trapped right now. I really feel like I'm reliving the part where Mom got imprisoned by Dad when she first met the others during the spilting of the continents when she was still a pirate. Except I am not starting to fall for the guy who I met. I stopped falling for him. Sam completly and totally lied to me. All that stuff he said to me were all just stupid acts which I was dumb enough to fall for.
I don't know exactly where we are now. All I know is that it's somewhere I've never seen before, my prison is some underground cave and that it's early in the morning. I'm thankful that I'm able to get a view of the sky from the hole that's the entrance.
How could I have been so stupid to even become friends with Sam in the first place? Why couldn't I just see from the minute I met him that all those nice things he said and did for me were all just ploys to lure me into the trap set up by Soto and gang.
I should have listened to Dad. How could I have gone behind his back when he was just trying to keep me safe. How could I have said to him that I hate him? What is wrong with me? And yelling at Mom, Cash and Bobby when all they were trying to do was cover for me.
I tense up and get into my defense mode as I hear somebody coming. I peek out through a hole that's in the big piece of bark jammed in between the stone walls, keeping me inside until I see that it's him.
"Hey Flora." smiles Sam. I scoff. "I thought you might be hungry so I caught you some breakfast." he slides me a gazelle leg underneath the bark. Really? He helps my dad's old enemies kidnap me and now he tries to feed me? What idiot does he take me for?
As tempting as it was to just take the food considering I'm starving, I don't want anything caught by that traitor's paws.
Not saying a word, I shove the gazelle back to the guy who's name I am not mentioning.
"Okay you're not hungry." he says. "That's fine." he makes an attempt at a conversation.
"You doing alright? Well other then the fact that you're sitting alone in here."
Silence.
"Cat got your tongue? Get it because we're wildcats and it's kind of ironic."
He's trying to make me laugh now. Come on.
"Bad joke I know. But how are you?"
Being sick of his attempts to talk, I lay down on the ground, covering my ears with my paws, blocking out his voice.
"Are you ignoring me?" Really? What gave it away? Me not replying or my pretty pissed face?
"Flora, I know you're pretty mad at me right now, but please talk to me."
I continue my silent treatment.
"Come on Flora. I don't care if it's just one word. Please just talk to me."
Being fed up, I growl at him and watch him flinch. I don't know if I get it from Mom or Dad, but I all I care about now is keeping Sam, I mean the guy who's name I'm not mentioning, away.
"Okay a growl. It's something." he replies. Thankfully he finally leaves me be. I can't believe him. He thinks he can just walk up to me and be like, "Hey Flora I just kidnapped you. Here's some food! Let's talk about stuff!"? Huffing, I turn around and lay down on my stomach, facing the back wall. I'm about to close my eyes when I see a shadow approaching me. Not him again. This time, I snap.
"LEAVE ME ALONE SA-!" but I realize my mistake and slightly whimper when I see that it was Soto. Big mistake.
"Comfortable?" he asks me sarcastically.
"Sure I love being imprisoned in an underground cave with evil sabers." I answer sarcastically.
"You're just like your father. A little smart alec."
I'd thank Soto for noticing that, but that's obviously not the right thing to say right now. Instead I growl, "Don't you dare hurt my Dad."
"Do you really think that I could be intimidated by a stupid, little teenager? You're father and I have quite a past and you're going to sit there like a good little girl and let us deal with it. Or else."
"You don't scare me." Wrong thing to say to the guy who's out to get your Dad.
Proving me wrong, Soto lets out a loud growl, causing me to jump back and cower back.
"I don't?" Soto asked mockingly giving me a malicious smirk and taunting chuckle before leaving.
I'm so wrong. Soto doesn't scare me. He terrifies me.
Poor Flora and Sam! Flora is being verbally abused by Soto and Sam is being ignored by her! What will happen next? Stay tuned to find out.
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