I awoke with a start and managed to somehow jump up to my feet by the front door slamming shut. My heart began to race. I didn't know what to do. I didn't know what to think. All I knew how to do was panic.

I looked around quickly and the only change that I noticed was there was a piece of paper laying on the table. I swallowed as I slowly walked over. It was clear that he had been in here. He probably slammed the door to wake me up. I couldn't believe I had let my guard down and fallen asleep.

I cursed myself out loud and then covered my mouth and silently cursed myself for cursing so much recently. It was strange because before this whole mess began I would have never cursed, but now I was doing it so much it was become a habit that I wasn't sure I was ever going to be able to break.

I closed my eyes and exhaled trying to calm myself down. My heart was racing and the blood was pumping through my body at such an abnormal rate that I thought I was going to explode.

I reached down and picked up the piece of paper that was lying on the table and began to read it.

Dear the Lovely Koral,

You definitely made an interesting meal. Whatever you did to the potato was quite lovely. I did enjoy that. The meat wasn't quite as great. It was decent, but it was lacking in any kind of flavor. I appreciate you trying to get it cooked to my likeness. I found it flattering. I happen to enjoy it cooked to any state, but I appreciated your kindness in trying to get it to what I liked most. The onions and carrots were a nice touch, though the carrots were slightly undercooked for my taste.

I however am not here to talk about the food. You completed that task so now I must give you your next task. This one will be a little bit harder and will take some willpower coming from you.

I am giving you two hours to complete this task. It shouldn't take you that long at all. However, it won't be easy for you. It is easy to complete, but your conscience won't like it.

Here it goes, I am going to place your precious friend Ryan in a hole not too far from the cabin. You must go and find him and then you can help get him out of the hole. You will then choose between one of three tasks to complete. You must either 1) telling him off using the most profane and vulgar language possible and get him to the point of crying; 2) find the cooler of alcohol that is outside of the cabin and have both of you drink until you are drunk; or 3) do something sexual and immoral with him.

You have 2 hours to do this. Choose wisely. After the two hours is up I will come and take him back and you will proceed to go back into the cabin and wait for further instructions. However, if you do give in and do one of the three choices, I will give you both a map and a compass and give you three hours to get out of here and back to your car. If you fail I will bring even more hell upon you. I suggest you give in to one of these 3 tasks and then get out of here as quickly as possible or else this hell will continue.

Love,

Your Best Friend

What? This was terrible? Who would do such a terrible thing to me? How could I just give up my morals and go against my conscience like that? Whoever was doing this to me must be a monster.

I sat down in the chair and began to whimper with tears falling from my eyes as I prayed. "God, I need you right now. Come be with me. Help me through this mess. I can't just give in and do this. I need to stick to who I am. But I need your strength to get me through this. I need to stand up to him. I need to come out of here alive. I just need you to keep me safe as I somehow find a way to pass up this opportunity to get out of here early. Amen."

I got up and walked outside to find Ryan. I figured I could at least use this time to talk to him and make sure he was okay. Even if I wasn't willing to submit to any of the three options to get out of here.

I looked around at my surroundings. Everything looked in place. I was hoping that it would be easy to spot the hole. I didn't really assume it would be, but I was hoping that there would be some sort of clue that would make it easier. I wanted as much time with Ryan as possible.

I began my search. I didn't really know what would be a good way to go about this, so I just decided that I would start walking in circles around the cabin at various radiuses. The search took me around and around and around until I finally spotted a small little clearing that had 3 holes in it.

Each hole was covered with some brush so it wasn't easy to see what was down there. I quickly started removing all of the brush off of the holes until I found my best friend sitting down in the middle of the three holes.

When he noticed that the brush was gone from the top of the hole he looked up at me. He wasn't returning my smile, instead showing absolutely no emotion at all. His face was dark and covered in dirt. His beautiful blue eyes didn't glow as they normally did. They had a duller feel to them that I hand never seen before. What had this bastard done to him? It's as if he had taken the life out of Ryan.

Ryan's mouth began to move but no noise came out. I didn't have any experience with reading lips so I didn't have a clue what he was saying. I leaned closer, but I still couldn't hear, so I reached my hand down and began to help him out of the hole.

I tried heaving him up, but he was a lot bigger than I was strong. I slipped slightly toward the hole and cursed. Right after I did Ryan's eyes got big. I felt ashamed. I had never cursed in front on anyone until that moment. I already knew I shouldn't be doing it, but it had become a very bad habit that I was developing and I didn't have a clue on how to stop it.

I sighed and then mustered up all the strength that I could and I yanked him up to the point where he could grab on to the edge of the hole and pull himself up the rest of the way.

Again Ryan tried to speak but no words were coming out.

"What is it Ryan?" I said as I brought my best friend into a hug and melted in his arms. I felt safe again for the first time since we had gotten lost from the rest of our church group.

Ryan then brought his hand up to his mouth making it look a little bit like a cylinder and began to make a drinking and gulping motion.

I tugged on Ryan's arm and pulled him back toward the cabin so that I could get him some water. I told him to wait outside while I went in to grab a few glasses of water. I didn't want to take him in because I was afraid that whoever it was who had kidnapped Ryan wouldn't be too happy about that and might even try killing us for getting out of his sight and claim we were trying to escape.

After Ryan had some water he was finally able to talk. He asked me what I knew, so I told him. I then asked him what he knew. All he told me was that he remembered waking up inside the cabin. He was then drug outside before he was knocked out again and then he woke up in some really small structure that didn't look any bigger than an outhouse. After that he was drug to the hole and told to stay there until I came and found him.

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There was a small little hill just out of the back of the cabin. It looked like it was probably man-made. It was only about ten or fifteen feet tall and only about the same wide and deep. It wasn't much, but it was nice to lay down on and just look up at the sky and be able to talk. I really needed to spend some time with Ryan. I needed to be able to see him.

"So what do we do from here?" Ryan asked, breaking me out of my trance.

"I don't really know. I wish we could just run away and escape right now, but I know that we would never make it. The only way we can get out of here now is we do one of three things from a list that he has given me, but I'm not sure I'm willing to do that."

"Don't you want out of here though?" He asked staring into my eyes.

"Of course I do." I reached into my pocked and pulled out the piece of paper that had the list on it and showed it to Ryan. "This is why I don't want to do any of that."

Ryan looked over the list. "I understand, but it will allow us to get out Koral. That's what we need right now. It'll just be one time. It's not like we are going to always be doing this."

My eyes got big. What was he doing? This wasn't the Ryan that I had always known. My Ryan would never tell me to commit a sin. It didn't matter how "bad" it was, he would also help me to overcome temptation, but now he was telling me to give in. "What has gotten into you?"

"Koral, I know. I just can't deal with him another day. It's hell. Trust me. I wouldn't wish it on my own worst enemy. We just need to get out of here. I don't care the consequences, we'll make this work."

I got up and started walking away from Ryan. I couldn't take this right now. I couldn't believe what my ears were hearing. Ryan wanted me to sin! This was terrible.

I felt a pair of hands on my shoulders. "Go away Ryan! I'm not going to listen to you telling me to do all of these bad things. I'm not going to sin. Trust me, I want you out of there as bad as you do, but there has to be another way. We have to trust God. I'm going to go pray. I hope you'll do the same thing. We'll get out of here soon, but it'll be under our own control, not his."

I walked into the cabin and slammed the door in Ryan's face. I knew it was probably rude, but at the moment it didn't matter. I needed to figure out a way out of here keep us alive and free from sin. I was not willing to commit some stupid sin because this guy was controlling me. I needed to give it to God."

I prayed harder than I had ever prayed before. And then I waited for an answer. I sat in silence for a good five minutes just waiting for the best idea of what to do.

I sighed as I got up and walked out of the cabin. I had nothing. I was still stuck. I didn't have any better plans on a way out of here. I was beyond frustrated. I needed something! I needed to get him out of the hands of that monster. I also wanted out of his control. I just wanted to go home.

I found Ryan sitting back where we had been sitting with his face in his hands. I went and sat down next to him and lay my head on his left shoulder. "I don't know what to do Ryan. I'm really scared. All I know is that I can't give into the temptation. I'm sorry, but I promise we'll find another way."

"I love you Koral. We will get out of this. And I know what you're saying. I'm just afraid that if we try something other than his way that it won't work out and we'll end up getting killed or going through a worse hell."

"I love you too Ryan. We have to trust God. He'll get us out of this even if we do have to go through hell."

Ryan sighed. "Sometimes I hate it when I know you're right. You're a way better person than me and I don't know what I'd ever do without you. I guess I'm just getting impatient. I am going through hell and I can't imagine what you are going through. I want to free you from the control of that freak."

"Let's just make a run for it Ryan." I whispered to him in his ear. "Who cares if we die, won't death be better than the hell that we are already going through with this monster?"

Ryan was quiet for a second. He then placed his mouth right up to my ear saying, "Okay. Let's do it before either of change our minds." We started to get up before he stopped me. "Let's pray first."

I nodded and he began praying for our escape.That we would be held safely and make it out.