Taken

I open my eyes with the sun shining on my face through the curtains, rubbing my eyes I sit up to check the time on my cell phone it's 07:30 I dart up and head straight to the bathroom I am going to have breakfast with my dad at the new coffee shop that had just opened in town. I look at myself in the mirror I don't even recognize myself, my usually soft blonde hair now frizzy and dry, my ocean blue eyes that once sparkling with life now dull and lifeless, my fair skin even paler than normal, my freckles once beautiful now fading with each day, I drop my clothes and step into the shower letting the cool water wake me up. My dad has been really sick feeling better on some days but others are a real low. I sigh with frustration I've been really worried about his health even though he says he will be okay.

I step out of the shower and pull on a white sundress with pink flowers on them I tie my hair in a neat bun and head to the coffee shop. Once there I order a simple coffee and sit down by a window that looks out on the busy town thinking about my dad, he's been sick since my mother disappeared when I was 3 I am now 18 and we haven't seen or heard from her since. I believe that she left but my dad says that she loved us and wouldn't leave of her own free will, every doctor we've been to has no idea what's wrong with my dad they have run so many tests, and each time they come back with nothing and I'm losing hope that he will ever get better every day it gets worse and I don't know how to help him if even the doctors don't know what is happening to him, I sigh in frustration and watch the busy people outside in the town going about their day, my phone rings and suddenly I feel a pang in my heart and it starts racing I lift my phone to see the caller ID and my hearts stops dead it's the hospital there's a lump in my throats and I swallow hard, I have a feeling I know what I'm about to hear.

I answer and put the phone to my ear..."Hello?"

"Hello is this Ella?" I swallow again as the lump in my throat grows more intense " Yes it is may I help you?" the voice on the other end comes through like blades to my heart "Ella I am so sorry to have to tell you this but your father has passed away he was rushed here when the neighbor made the call but we didn't make it in time" my heart shatters as I hear those words tears come flooding out of my eyes all that I had was now gone my whole world crumbling around me, with tears rolling down my face I grab all that I have will me and rush out the door.

I lay in bed for weeks staring at the ceiling and crying my life away, thinking of memories I once shared with my dad. He would always know what to say to lift my spirits when I was feeling down, he would continuously check up on me to know if I was alright, he was always the first one to help anyone who needed it, he could also make anyone laugh without even trying.

Then suddenly a loud smash pulls me from my thoughts, I look up to see that my bedroom window has been shattered no sooner is the bedroom window shattered when two very large men emerge through it. I sit upright in my bed watching the scene unfold in front of me, frozen with fear I watch as the two large men dart towards me. They were both very tall and very muscular I couldn't see any of their facial features as the room was dark and it was nighttime, both heading towards me at a speed I have never seen before I manage to stand up and run. I to get to the door but one of the men grab me before I could reach for the door handle, I crash into the man's body that feels like rocks against my back, my wind completely knocked out from the force he used to pull me against him I still try to struggle against him I make little impact on him and with the strength that this man is holding me with I feel like I'm being crushed and the more I struggle the more his grip tightens with his nails digging into my hips I fight the urge to scream and I keep struggling trying anything that will get me out of his grip. I see the other man throwing some liquid into a cloth and throws it to the man that has me in his clutches he then puts the cloth over my face and the smell of chlorophyll makes its way up my nose, I try and fight the urge to close my eyes but soon darkness consumes me and I fall limp in the man's arms.

I try and open my eyes but they feel heavy I'm laying in an uncomfortable position and whatever it is I'm laying on is cold and hard. I force my eyes open remembering what had happened in my bedroom. I had to blink a few times to get my vision clear enough to see, I gasp at what is happening I'm in a small square cage that has a thick rope tied on it that a large man is pulling. He would have to be really strong because the cage looks really heavy, he is pulling me down a long passage with round lights on the roof about two meters apart it makes just enough light to see where you are walking, I can make out the shapes of the doors on each side of the passage and can see there are things written on it but I can't make out what it says on the doors. I called to the man who is pulling the cage that I am stuck in "Where are you taking me?" he stops but doesn't look back nor does he answer my question and continues walking again this time I shout a little louder "Where are you taking me!?" he turns and looks at me only then do I see what he looks like he has curly dirty blonde hair and dark brown eyes with a thin jawline and very high cheekbones and a smirk playing on his lips with an amused look on his face "To your new home" he smiles and turns to continue walking "What do you want from me?" I ask in a voice that came out more like a whisper but he doesn't answer.

With fear consuming my body and I'm trembling from both cold and fear looking down at myself I was covered in little cuts and bruises and I was still in my nightgown, he stops in front of a large door only when we go through the door do I see that it says action room on the door. My heart starts racing and my body trembles even more than before..are they going to sell me? he pulls the cage into the middle of the room and then leaves me alone. The room was dark and there were about 10 glass windows around the room then I hear the auctioneer begin " here is a beautiful human specimen Miss Ella Jasmine your bidding may begin" My heart is pounding in my throat with so many questions in my head... Do they know my full name? how can that be? he said, human? arent we all human? how did my life go from being happy with my wonderful dad to being sold to someone like property? my head spinning with so many questions my heart thumping, my body trembling and then the word falls on my ears "Sold!" Oh no, this can't be happing right? everything begins to fade and the darkness begins to consume me once more