My Story
Chapter One
I was told by my teacher to go to the front of the classroom and face the board and then she blindfolded me. She said that she was going to have all of the kids in the class come in one by one and put a checkmark on the board if they liked me and an X if they didn’t. She said I was part of her experiment and that everyone in the class would have to do it even thought I was the only one who ever did. I stood there and one by one I herd them all come in and put a mark on the board, but not one of them said one word to me, until him. He had told me that he was the last to have to come in the room and rate me, he also leaned towered my ear and whispered to me that he wanted me to go to the locker rooms at 9:00 pm and wait for him, because he wanted to show me something in private, but only if I wanted to. I knew who he was and I wanted to. He then stood in front of me held my head in his hands and kissed my lips. I liked it!! Then he walked back out of the room. The rest of the day was just as normal as any other day except I couldn’t get that kiss out of my mind. I thought about it all day. I couldn’t help but wonder what he wanted to show me but I could only imagine!!!
I sat in my room at the end of the day waiting for it to be nine. It couldn’t come any slower! I just sat there waiting and wondering anxiously about what was going to happen and what he wanted to show me. The clock read 8:54pm. I couldn’t wait any longer so I quietly went out of my room trying not to wake my roommate. I went down stairs and down the hall to the locker room doors and whispered “Hello? Is anyone there?” I repeated myself a few times before someone put there hand over my mouth from behind me. I jumped a little! He turned me around, it was him. It was Gabriel.
He backed me up against the wall that was behind me. He started kissing me. He tasted so good!! It was like that piece of candy that you have to open before you get home on Halloween night. He put one hand on my lower back and used the other to hold and tilt my head back. He pulled me closer to him with every kiss he stole from my lips. I wanted him so bad but then I thought of Nicholas my boyfriend. I felt guilty. I told him to stop and that he had to, I couldn’t do this, and neither can you.
He stopped but only for a moment to tell me that he would not stop and he was going to do anything he wanted to no matter how much I begged for him to stop because I came willingly and I knew that anything could happen. Then he went on kissing my neck vigorously. I pushed him away and told him again to stop. At that very moment Nicholas came around the corner and told him to stop and that he had been following me since I left my room.
I told him I didn’t know what I was thinking and that I was so sorry.
He said it didn’t matter. Gabriel grabbed my wrist and dragged me behind him.
Nicholas told him to let me go. Gabriel simply replied “and what if I don’t what are you going to do about it?!” Nicholas was mad at him for saying that. I tried to reach for his hand as he told me to “let’s go”. Gabriel pushed his hand away. I got frightened at what was about to happen because I knew it wouldn’t be good. I tried to run for
Nicholas but Gabriel grabbed me from behind and wrapped his arm around my tiny throat and moved me back towards a wall and told Nicholas that if he ever wanted to see me again then he batter just walk away, but of coarse he wouldn’t just leave me with him, he loved me.
He went for Gabriel’s neck but by the time he got close Gabriel had thrown me to the floor and punched him right in the jaw. I saw Nicholas on the floor trying to get to his feet when Gabriel turned around towards the wall. He said some words I did not understand when a glowing opening appeared in the wall. He picked me up by my neck and held me in the opening there was no floor and I didn’t know how deep it was I couldn’t see. Nicholas was on his feet yelling “No stop leave her alone please.” He sounded scared for me. I started to cry. I was scared too. Gabriel told him to leave now and he wouldn’t drop me. I started to scream “put me down let me go please!!” I didn’t want to know what was down there. Nicholas tried to move forward towards me and Gabriel let go. I screamed as loud as I could for as long as I could, I don’t know if I ever reached the bottom or what happened to Nicholas, all I remember was darkness and a never ending downfall into the ibis.
I awoke suddenly from a sort of crackling noise. I hadn’t opened my eyes yet because I remembered what had happened. I hoped that it had been a dream but then I opened them and I didn’t recognize where I was. I was in a bed and I saw a huge room that looked somewhat like a dungeon. There was a huge fireplace with a fur rug in front of it, chains that looked like it was where people would hang, a huge black chandelier with burning candles in it, all of the walls were made of grey stone, and a huge spiral staircase that looked as if it went up forever and never ended.
I felt blankets on top of me that where heavy but it also felt like someone’s arm was wrapped around my stomach that was holding me close. I went to feel if it was a hand and then I realized that my hands where stuck together. Someone had tied them together. I got scared I didn’t know what to do I was in a place I was not familiar with in somebody else’s bed and I was tied up with someone holding me as if they didn’t want to ever let me go.
I tried to wiggle my hands out of the ropes but it didn’t work. I think I moved too much because the person holding me moved their hand up my stomach and to my hands and held them to stop me from getting untied. I knew it was a man he had large rough hands. He wrapped his leg around mine making my body lay flat on the bed. My head still faced away from him I didn’t want to know who it was even though I thought I already did. I wanted it to be Nicholas but I knew it wasn’t. I wanted this whole thing to be a dream but I knew that wasn’t true either. I was scared and didn’t know what to do.
He tightened his grip on my hands moved his head near my ear very slowly as if not to frighten me anymore than I already was and told me not to be scared, and if I did what he asked of me I would be returned to my home safely. Then he said that by the time he lets me go he doubts I would want to. I didn’t understand why then but I do now. As he was telling me this he was slowly untying my hands but he still kept a tight grip on them to not let me go.
He told me he would let go of my hands if I promised not to run. He sounded like Gabriel. I nodded my head. He told me to look at him, I didn’t want to. I don’t think I would have cared if it was someone else, but I knew it was him and I didn’t want to look at him because, I didn’t want to know that he would do that to me so I closed my eyes. He moved my head so it was facing him and told me to open my eyes. I shook my head no, and he said to open them again, so I did. Even though I knew it was him I stared at him in shock. I sat up in the bed really fast and so did he then I smacked him across the face. I didn’t know what he was going to do to me so I jumped out of the bed and tried to run. He grabbed my hand and turned me around. He asked me why I smacked him and why I was so mad. I just looked at him in disgust and replied “how could you do this to me? Of all the people in the school or the whole world for that matter would you pick me? Why would you do this to me? I thought you were a good person!” He gazed at me for a few moments in awe and said in a low soft voice “It’s because I love you Annabel. You are the only person I would have brought here in a million years. I can’t kiss or hug talk or even touch another girl without thinking of you, wishing that you were person. I am sorry you hate me for this so much but you are the only one I think of morning, noon, and night.” I couldn’t digest all of the things he had just said to me so I yanked my hands away from him and ran for the spiral staircase.
I ran up the stairs as fast and for as long as I could until I collapsed. I started to cry I couldn’t help it. I think what he had said sort of sunk in all at once and I couldn’t handle it. I tried to keep moving but I felt as if I was immobile so I gave up and just lay there. I laid there for a few minuets before I looked up to see how much further I had to go until I would reach the top. When I looked I saw Gabriel sitting on the steps in front of where I was laying. it scared me, him being there, because how he got there ahead of me and not out of breathe at all, but I still did not jump, scream or even gasp for air. I just put my head down and sighed.
I picked myself up off of the stairs and pulled myself up them. I walked right by Gabriel hoping he would just let me go. I felt like I had gone up a million steps but I knew I hadn’t, so I gave up knowing I couldn’t reach the top, especially since I hadn’t eaten in four days, so I just gave up. I sat down and figured I would rest before my long way back down the stairs. I think I had passed out from sheer exhaustion, because I had woken up once again in the bed with his body wrapped around mine but this time I was not bound by my wrists.
I slowly got out of the bed trying not to wake him and I did successfully. I found a room that looked like a kitchen but there was no food at all surprisingly, only water. So I guzzled as much of it as I possibly could hoping it would give me some feeling of fullness, so I could continue looking for food. I couldn’t figure out why he would bring me down to this place fully knowing that I was going to eventually need to eat something. Then I thought that maybe he forgot to grab food or just didn’t realize there was no food. Unless he was not planning at feeding me at all and was just going to watch me suffer from starvation or turn cannibal and try to eat him. Then I thought that my head was going to drive me crazy with horrid thoughts of eating people because I was hungry.
As I search for food I herd a whisper that seemed to get louder and louder until I could understand what it was saying. It was repeating a name, my name “Annabel? Annabel? Annabel…” At first I thought I was hearing things but then I herd it really loud in my ear and I whipped around and Gabriel was standing in the doorway of the kitchen. I gasped from being frightened. He asked me what I was doing. I thought he was going to get angry so I said “nothing” in a very little voice. He replied with a caring tint to his voice “you must be hungry, let me make you something to eat you go and wait for me by the fire.” I was shocked by his response because he was not mad at all. So I went and sat by the fire hoping for a plate of something good to eat because I was starved half to death.
The fire was so nice and warm and the chair was huge and very comfortable. I was surprised at how fast he was done making me food and how much he brought for me to eat. It had chicken, rice, corn, bread with butter and a glass of wine or so I thought it was wine. I wolfed down the whole plate all but the wine and when I took a sip of it I almost threw up everything I had just eaten. The wine was warm and thick and had a bittersweet taste. As soon as I took a sip I knew it was not wine. I knew that it was blood. I don’t know from whom it came from or why he would give it to me but it disgusted me to no end.
