I wake up to find myself in an unfamiliar room. My head is throbbing and I can feel a sticky substance slowly trickling down my right temple. My leg is restrained to a dirty looking bed with a shiny silver chain. I slowly sit up while trying to be careful with the open wound on my head. I close my eyes tightly and try to remember what happened earlier. I can only recall being at Colten's end of summer party. I can't remember his party ever taking a turn for the worst but apparently it did.
"Raelyn nice to see you are finally awake." The tender voice from an older women sends shivers down my spine.
"W-where am I? Where's Colten?" I ask my voice on edge as I look around the small room for my best friend.
"Hush hush dear your brother hasn't arose yet. I'm sure he'll be up soon though sweetheart." The older women replies as she grabs the hand of the older man next to her.
"Brother?" I question them. "He's not my brother he's my best friend. What did you do to him?!" I shout my emotions all over the place. Who are these strangers?
"Raelyn Hope you do not get to raise your voice at your mother!" The man roars as his face turns slightly red.
"M-mother? She's not my mother! You two are crazy!" I shriek at the man.
"And do not yell at your father either!" The lady scolds me while shaking a finger at me.
I put my hand back on the throbbing, bloody goose egg on my temple hoping this is a dream. Hoping these crazy people didn't really kidnap us and try to force us to be a family. This can't be real I have to be dreaming!
I notice Colten is still knocked out laying peacefully in a bed on the opposite wall as me. The room is small so there's not too much space between us. I see he also has a silver chain around his ankle confining him to the bed. The chains around our ankles are about three feet long leaving us enough room to freely move around our beds but not long enough for us to go to the opposite side of the room.
I look down at my hands, at a lost of words with what to say to my 'parents'.
"I-I'm sorry." I whisper feeling weak and giving into the strangers.
The woman disappears out of the room and returns with a white rag, rubbing alcohol, and several gauze pads with medical tape.
I back up against the bed. "Please don't hurt me." I beg.
"It's for you wound my dear, it's gonna help it." She insistent as she takes a step towards me.
I want to run and hide but because of the chain around my ankle I have no choice but to let her clean it.
She pours the rubbing alcohol on the rag and dabs it on my wound. I immediately wince in pain, but let her continue. She finishes cleaning it and places four gauze pads on the wound followed by several pieces of medical tape to tightly secure the pads to my fresh injury.
"There you go honey all done." She exclaims just as Colten begins to wake up.
Colten sits up holding his head. I run to him as far as my chain will let me. He meets me stretching out to hug me.
"RaeRae, I missed you. Where are we? What happened?" He questions looking at me but noticing the woman and man as well.
I whisper in his ear softly so they can't hear us. "Those two are our parents just go along with it til we can escape."
He nods and rubs the bump on his head, his bump is bigger then mine but not an open wound. I will have to be careful with mine so it doesn't get an infection.
"Nice to see you are awake Colten, how are you feeling son?" The man questions him with a sincere smile.
We both look at each other then turn to the strangers.
"I'm feeling okay dad thank you." He states immediately jumping into his role.
"Great!" The woman shrikes excitedly as she clasps her hands together.
The woman comes and unlocks the chains that are around our ankles.
"Let's go see your rooms!" The man chuckles as he leads us upstairs the woman following behind.
They lead us into a big room with two beds in it. One bed has a beautiful pink and purple aztec pattern quilt on it. The other bed has a grey and black circle pattern on it with white dots on the quilt. Each bed also has two pillows with pillow cases to match the bed spread. There are two dressers and two closets in the big room as well. Beautiful white curtains, with purple and blue stars covering it, but one thing I notice about the window is the bars on it. Great I think to myself can't escape that way.
"Do you like your room?" The woman questions us as she holds hands with the man.
"Yes we do thank you mom." Colten says with a fake smile. I can't force any words out so I simply nod my head. How Colten is so good at acting like this is okay?
"We can go shopping for clothes tomorrow we didn't know what size our children would be or what their clothing style would be." The woman chuckles softly.
"No." The man sharply disputes as he looks at his wife with a serious facial expression.
"But Ray our children need some clothes." She retorts to her husband spilling out his name.
"I said NO Harriet! We can't trust our children to behave while out in public just yet we will have to order some clothes online, or one of us can go out by ourselves tomorrow." Ray commands to his wife while holding her hand.
"Okay you're right honey." She chirps as the two of them share a light tender kiss.
"Children please follow me." Ray speaks clearly as he walks out of our rooms and back to the living room with Harriet following behind us.
Colten and I both sit down on the couch as Ray stands in front of us. My right leg starts shaking involuntary as he stares at us.
"Are you okay sweetie?" Ray inquires as he notices my leg shaking.
"I'm fine." I plainly lie as I stare at the wall. Of course I'm not okay you and your psycho wife kidnapped me.
Ray sits in a recliner and picks up the tv remote. He scrolls through the tv and turns on the news.
"Early this morning at approximately 2 am two teens were believed to be kidnapped while on there way home from a summer party. These two teens are known as 16 year old Raelyn Sparks and 17 year old Colten Owens we have interviewed friends that were at the party. FBI have ruled out any friend involvement and they don't have any leads so far. They believe this to be what they call a stranger abduction and they are on a race to find these two teens. If you know anything about who may have taken these two teens we urge you to call the FBI hotline that's listed on your screen right now. Time is of the essence as the FBI races to find these two teens before it's too late." The news reporter states boldly before Ray turns the tv off.
"They're on to us Harriet!!" Ray slams his hands down on a coffee table next to him causing Colten and I to flinch.
"They said nothing about having any leads yet honey. We will just lay low for the next few weeks." Harriet voices in an attempt to calm down Ray.
"Kids go to your rooms!" Ray interjects as he begins to feel overwhelmed.
"But dad it's-." Colten tries to reason with Ray and calm him down.
