Emma's POV

"Bitch did you just-" The scary lady yelled as I gulped and scrunched my face from the horrible taste in my mouth.

Charlotte rushed out of the room as I peeked down at the meat again.

No way in HELL was I getting that thing close to my mouth.

Meat (probably raw) soaked in pig's blood?

She is shitting me.

"Whoa," I heard a male's voice coming from the door. My head shot up to see who and I found myself looking into a pair of green eyes.

"Hey," He said, brushing his curly brown hair out of his face.

I just glared.

He was obviously I don't know, working for her or whatever.

"Go away, Ian," Charlotte said, shoving him away then slamming the door shut behind her.

We were both in complete darkness until I heard a click and a light bulb illuminated the small, smelly room.

I looked down at her shoes to find them clean. Thank god she had combat boots on, if she had other shoes that can get stained easily I'm pretty sure she would've shoved the pair up my ass.

She picked up the plate and squatted down so our faces were aligned.

"Open your fucking mouth," She said. She had a very powerful and scary voice, which totally didn't scare me even more.

I just shook my head as she fished out a fork and knife from her pocket and cut the meat up into a couple of pieces.

She stabbed a piece with her fork as I gagged when a little bit of the pig's blood squirted on my arm.

I gulped and tried to scoot away from her, as my heart rate started increasing slowly.

"Please don't," I tried to say but it came out as a whisper.

The next thing I know, she gripped onto my chin hard with her long slim fingers and pulled my head towards her.

Before I could process anything, she pushed the meat with the fork against my mouth. I could feel the blood dripping down from my chin. She kept pushing until my lips eventually parted and the revolting meat was in my mouth.

I kept moving my face, trying to get away from her grip but it was impossible, she was so strong. Her decent sized acrylic nails slowly started digging into my chin, making my eyes start to water.

I gagged a little then my eyes widened when she continued to push the fork deeper into my mouth.

"Chew you, stupid bitch," She yelled as I shut my eyes tightly and chewed on the terrible blood-soaked meat. I felt a few teardrops roll down my cheeks.

Calling it disgusting would be an understatement. It was beyond disgusting. Everytime my teeth bit into the horrible meat, I felt the blood squirt out into my mouth.

Someone please just kill me.

She smirked when she saw that it was terrifying me. Then just when I thought it couldn't get any worse, she started pushing the fork in deeper.

Soon obviously, it reached my throat. I thought she would stop but she didn't.

There was still a clump of meat stuck onto the end of the fork as she started to push it into my throat.

I gagged and gripped onto her wrists and tried desperately to push her hand away from my chin. I continued to gag more violently then finally she stopped and stood up laughing.

Fucking laughing.

I spit out the fork and the meat as fast as I could. I continued to try to spit out my saliva that was mixed with the pig's blood but the taste didn't go away. 

"You learned your lesson. When I threaten you, I'm almost always most likely to be serious about actually going through with what I say, so you better obey me," She said as I kept my eyes down staring at my hand.

"Do you understand," She said, pushing my chin up with her fingers. I nodded quickly, as she smirked noticing how scared I was.

She walked out of the room, slamming the metal door so hard behind her, the loud slam was reverberating off the walls.

Was I ever going to get out of here?

Brendon's POV

My heart ached.

I missed Emma, I missed seeing her smile, I missed her lips on mine, I missed my baby girl so much it hurt- physically.

I have to find her and I will.  No matter what that stupid Charlotte said.

I sighed and jogged up the stairs quietly. I walked past Emma's room and headed towards her dad's room. I knocked twice and heard him tell me to come in. 

I opened the door and walked inside. Emma's dad was sitting on the edge of the bed staring blankly at the wall. 

"How are you feeling?" I asked stupidly, already knowing what his answer would be. "I just- I can't get my mind to actually process it. Avery didn't love me, she didn't ever want me or want to marry me. She was just keeping me wrapped around her finger so I wouldn't date anyone else. Who the fuck would do that?" He said, rubbing his temples and turning his head to look at me. "A person who is obsessed with money and wants 5 million dollars," I said with disgust.

Emma's dad, Theo, Levi, Becky and I went to the see Charlotte yesterday. The place was where he went on a date with her years and years ago. What surprised us all the most is that when we got to the old playground that was like an hour away from town, was that Avery was standing next to Charlotte. 

What was even weirder is that it didn't look like Avery, the Avery we all knew wore colorful floral tops and simple jeans or solid colored long pleated skirts. Yet we almost couldn't recognize her when we saw her next to Charlotte. She had a tight black corset top with skinny black jeans.

Emma's dad demanded to know why Avery was there and where they put Emma. Charlotte explained that Avery was just dating him because she was being paid to, her job was to simply prevent him from dating anyone else. Emma's dad was heartbroken, especially when Charlotte turned to Avery and shot her in less than a second. 

It was so easy for her as if she's done it before. Charlotte was a fucking murderer and I won't hesitate to kill her if she kills my Emma. 

Charlotte claimed that she has no use for Avery anymore and since Emma's dad loved her, she didn't want Avery alive. That confused me- no everyone. Why was she doing all of this? What's so terrible about Emma's dad loving her? He asked her that. 

Charlotte's reply? He can only love her and want her. She instantly reminded me of Jesse's obsession with Emma but I knew this was somewhat a different kind of obsession. 

And with that, she started walking away back to her van while 2 big ass men dragged Avery's body and threw her into the trunk. Emma's dad yelled asking her what the fuck she wanted.

She stopped and turned, walking back towards Emma's dad. She went closer and closer until she was pressed against him and whispered "you".

 Emma's dad pushed her off. She glared at him and scoffed saying "you'll realize we were meant to be since the day we went on that date" then pulled out a folded paper from her pocket and pushed it against his chest then walked off into the van. 

The paper said. "I'll give you an update on Emma soon, xoxo" with Charlotte's blood red lipstick stain.

"We're going to find her and it's all going to be okay," I told Emma's dad as he sighed. "We have to find Emma, she is all I have, I can't lose her too," He said as I nodded.

I slowly walked out of his room so he can be alone. I stared at Emma's bedroom door and felt my heart ache. 

I walked inside and trudged to her bed, plopping down. I dragged my hands against the cover, then suddenly had the sudden urge to hug it. I wanted- no I needed Emma right now.

I pulled her blanket up and hugged it tightly, burying my face into the soft material as my nose filled with Emma's vanilla body lotion smell. She's always used the same lotion and I loved it. My eyes started to water as my heart ached once again. It felt like someone stabbed me right in the heart everytime I thought of her cute smile.

I laid down on my side and let out a shaky breath as tears streamed down my cheeks and onto the blanket. 

.....

I heard a knock on the door as I sat up quickly, rubbing my eyes. I must have fallen asleep. The door opened and my heart dropped to my stomach when I saw Emma standing there, half naked with bruises and blood all over her. 

"Emma!," I yelled, running to her as she collapsed into my arms. The tears started flowing down my cheeks once again as I stared at Emma's cold, pale face. "Emma! Stay with me, please," I yelled, shaking her and pulling her closer against me. "I love you Brendon," She muttered, coughing up a little blood. "Emma, please stay strong don't leave me please," I yelled, trying to carry her up so I can take her to the hospital. "Just p-please stay with me, I'll call 911," I sobbed harder and harder. "But baby, I can't" She croaked out, gripping onto my shirt as my heart started to beat even faster. 

"What do you mean you can't!" I yelled as she opened her bloodshot eyes fully, staring into my eyes. "Because I'm already dead," She said then her grip on my shirt loosened as I stared at her lifeless face, her eyes still wide open, staring at me. 

....

"Brendon!" I heard someone yell as I jerked up awake. "Are you okay?" Becky asked concerned as I looked to her side, finding Theo next to her. "We heard you yelling Emma's name so rushed upstairs to see if you were okay, god, you were sweating and moving a lot, how bad was it?" Theo asked as I gasped, finding it hard to breathe properly. 

"Bad. Really bad. We have to find Emma," I said, vividly remembering her big eyes staring at me in my nightmare. 

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Hey guysss, sorry I took long, I was at staying at my cousin's house and was busy. But I just got to Korea earlier today and pushed myself to sit and write so here I am in the middle of the night writing this chapter while trying not to itch a mosquito bite(failing miserably). 

I. hate. mosquitos. so. much. They are so annoying.

But anyway, I hope you enjoyed this chapter!

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-Sarah