Alice searched through the kitchen cupboards after she opened the sugar pot and found it empty.
"Here." Mike pulled out the drawer beneath the knife and fork one. It was full of those little sugar packets they gave out in fast food places and coffee shops. "We haven't bought sugar since mum left."
Alice frowned and chuckled to herself as she began to rip open the packages and refill the pot.
"I think they should be here soon," Jamie said, panic in his voice. "Why aren't they here yet?"
Zoe was sat on the back of the sofa by the bay windows. Every time a car passed, she would turn and peek through the curtains.
"Oh, shit, who's that guy?" Zoe muttered to herself. When she turned back to face the others, her eyes were wide with fear. "There's some dude with a gun."
"Huh?" Adam recoiled. He looked as though he was searching for something, but Alice knew he didn'
Adam picked up a piece of glass and winced as it got wedged in his flesh."Come here." Zoe tutted, grabbed his hand looked up at him with a thin smile. "You're always so clumsy with your big sausage fingers.""I don't have sausage fingers," Adam griped. He sat back and let Zoe clear away the glass and blood. She pulled a plaster from her bag—Zoe had everything you could ever want or need in her giant shoulder bag—and wrapped it over the cut.He looked at her. Her layers of contoured foundation, thickly caked lip gloss and butterfly-like fake eyelashes. She'd always been considered the hottest girl in school, and yes, she did have an amazing body, but he'd never thought she might be intelligent also."That was pretty quick thinking, logging onto your channel like that," Adam said."Well, that was why I hid," she said, an air defensively. "I didn't want them to see me f
After using her not-very-sharp memory to find her way to Riley's street, Alice found herself at a loss. She looked up and down at the pebble dashed houses and arid lawns, but they all looked the same.'Why didn't I take a mental note of the number?'she asked herself. It was either 776 or 667 or something similar.'It definitely had a 7 and a 6 or maybe a 9...''...well it definitely had numbers in it,'she mentally teased herself, rolling her eyes.After wandering about for ten minutes she walked past a woman who looked vaguely familiar. It took a few moments for the memory to click since the woman was neither shouting nor waving a rolling pin this time around."Oh, erm," Alice flagged the woman. "Do you know which number Riley lives at?""Yeah, it's 699," the woman told her. "Two doors down from Jimmy Carlson.""Rig
Alice stared into Riley's eyes, unsure what to do.Her body was telling her to rip off her clothes and throw herself at him, but was it what either of them truly wanted? Or were these merely the lust fuelled urges of two people who'd survived a trauma together?She felt his fingers pulled around the bottom of her T-shirt and lifted her arms to let him slip the clothes from her body. Once her shirt was a messy pile at her feet, he reached behind and pinged her bra. Her breasts shifted and bounced out of the cups as they fell forward. Instinctively she raised a hand to cover them as the bra dropped to the floor.Riley chuckled lightly as he pushed her grip away, replacing them with his larger hands. Her nipples became instantly hard as he pinched them between his thumbs and index fingers.She moaned gently as he squeezed and took a step forward, pressing her back up against the wall.&
When Alice awoke, the first thing she remembered was Riley's words:'This is a great way to get over my ex.'It felt like someone was kicking her in the stomach.Then she remembered Felix and the taser and she really felt sick. She rolled over and tried to move but couldn't. Chains rattled as she struggled, but it was too dark to see her surroundings.Using the sounds and her sense of touch, she eventually figured out her wrists were bound by a metal chain that was wrapped around a metal pole several times. She patted the soft and springy floor beneath her and guessed she'd been placed on a mattress or bedding of some description. it was giving off that sour water smell, as though it had been sitting in the damp for some time.She filled her lungs, preparing to shout, and noticed how cold and damp the air felt in her mouth.'Am I underground?'sh
When Alice woke up, her arms were numb from having to sleep in an unfamiliar position. She had no idea if it was morning or how much time had passed because of the darkness. It was so thick she could barely see her hand in front of her face.Shivering, she rubbed her arms before feeling about her surroundings in the hope he'd been kind enough to leave a blanket.He hadn't.'No big surprise there,'Alice thought.She was hungry, thirsty, and cold, but most of all, she was afraid. Afraid of slowly dying in this cold and dark tomb.Her heart jumped when she heard a clang in the distance. Could it be Felix returning? And would he feed her or kill her?After a moment she heard footsteps approaching but as she strained her ears, the sound dissipated.'Did I imagine it?'"Felix? Felix
"I don't care what you do to me. I'll never tell you." Felix spat blood into Adam's face and grinned, showing a row of broken and red-smeared teeth. "I'm not like you, Adam."'He's right,'Adam surmised.'I was begging for mercy at this point, and he's not even broken a sweat.'Becoming frustrated, Adam grabbed the hammer. He raised it in a tight fist, gearing it toward Felix's skull before turning and bashing the molars he'd painstakingly extracted.'Good luck reattaching these now.'He smirked to himself, feeling his recently removed teeth with his tongue. They felt different to before, and he couldn't stop pushing his tongue into the gap."How is this not hurting him?" he muttered to Jamie. "I remember it well. It was torture.""One sec," Jamie uttered. His fingers tapped away at his laptop keyboard as his eyes darted about the s
Jamie listened to the sounds of their footsteps crunching down the driveway, waiting until they were well out of earshot before moving toward Felix.First, he wandered off into the kitchen and poured some warm water into a bowl. Then he went upstairs to get the first aid kit from under his mother's bed. Their kit was pretty extensive and well-stocked—one of the perks of having a nurse for a mother.Returning to Felix, he paused halfway down the stairs to still his heart. Seeing the way the smaller boy had defeated Adam so completely and utterly was...Jamie smiled to himself.It was... euphoric.The more he learned and remembered about his adversary, the more in awe he became.This guy was a genius who couldn't feel pain. He seemed to feel nothing at all, which made him godlike in Jamie's eyes.After gathering his senses
The pain in Alice's stomach would intensify every so often before tapering off and becoming ignorable for a time. It emitted a grumbling sound, making her blush and apologise.Damien laughed. "I just watched you pee in a bucket. There's no need to worry about a few bodily noises.""You said you weren't looking." Alice narrowed her eyes, giving him an evil stare.Damien laughed and shrugged. "These might be my last hours. I should make the most of them, don't you think?""Okaaay." Alice let out a strained chuckle, unsure what to say to that. If looking at her bum made his last day even a tiny fraction better, she would allow it, as weird and perverted as it seemed to her. "Knock yourself out."Without warning, he took her hand and spun her into his side. Licking his lips, he stared down at her. "Since we have nothing else to do..."Alice pulled away, feeling h