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chuckled. “The little one amuses me.
That’s the one who almost got the best of you?” he asked.
    “She fights dirty,” replied Martin.
    “I fight dirty?” I snapped, clenching my jaw. “You’re the one who
kidnapped all of us. You can’t get much dirtier than
that.”
    He grinned. “You have a point.”
    I stared at him incredulously. “You act like
this is some kind of game. A woman has died and you are acting like
it’s no big deal. You’ve got some serious issues.”
    The smile fell from his face. “Behave and
we’ll let you out of the barn tonight. You can leave here and never
look back. If you try and escape beforehand, however, you’ll fail,”
his eyes narrowed, “and die quite painfully.”
    His words made my stomach clench tightly. As
insane as it sounded, death was obviously within reason with these
guys.
    “If you promise to let us go,” said Anna,
“I’ll cooperate. As long as I know that thing upstairs is
restrained somehow.”
    “You’re safe down here,” replied Martin,
looking up towards the loft. “That’s all you have to remember.”
    Tara snorted. “And we should trust you?”
    “Whether you do or not is completely up to
you. I don’t think you have much choice though, do you?” stated
Martin.
    She clenched her jaw and looked away.
    “Remember, obey us and you’ll be free to
leave the barn later,” said Brandon, walking towards the door.
    “What about Gloria’s body?” asked Anna.
    Martin and Brandon looked at each other.
    “We’ll take care of it,” said Martin.
“Later.”
    “Now would be better,” said Tara.
    “I’m sure it would,” said Brandon,
laughing.
    I watched as the two men left and locked us
inside once again, wondering if we should have tried making a run
for it or tried rushing them as a team.
    “This is crazy,” said Amy. “I just don’t get
it. Why would they keep us in here just to let us go without
expecting something?”
    “Oh, they expect something,” said Anna, her
forehead wrinkling. “We just don’t know what it is yet.”
    “Okay, is it me, or are those two of the
whitest people on this planet,” said Tara. “I don’t want to sound
racist or anything, but they’re so damn white, they glow.”
    “It is kind of creepy,” said Amy. “My skin
has always been pale but they make me appear tan. Maybe they’re
sick?”
    I walked over to the girl with the pink hair
and knelt down beside her. She was looking pretty pale herself and
I wondered if she was even alive. “Maybe they’re albino,” I said,
reaching out to touch her forehead.
    Her eyes popped open and she backed away in
terror.
    “Wait,” I said, smiling reassuringly. “I’m
not going to hurt you.”
    “Where am I?” she asked, her eyes darting
around.
    “You’ve been kidnapped,” I replied. “Just
like us.”
    “Kidnapped?” she squeaked. “I’ve been
kidnapped?”
    I nodded. “Unfortunately. Do you remember
anything?”
    “Um, yeah… I… Oh, God,” her green eyes
filled with tears. “I was at this club with my boyfriend, Danny,
and we got into this major fight. I left him at the club and
started walking home when this man approached me from out of
nowhere… and that’s all I really remember.”
    “He brought you here,” I said, standing up.
“He brought all of us here.”
    She looked around at all of us. “But,
why?”
    “That is the question,” I
replied.

Chapter Four
     
     
     
    We took turns sleeping and guarding each
other. When the sun rose, the barn started getting warmer and
within a couple of hours, the scent of Gloria’s dead body was so
pungent, my stomach began to roll.
    “Poor Gloria,” said Anna, shaking her head
sadly. “She must have been so terrified.”
    Tara stood and walked to
the barn door. She grabbed the handle and tried pulling at it.
“Poor Gloria? Poor us… she’s dead and we’re still trapped in here.
With it .”
    I glanced up towards the
loft uneasily, wondering if it was awake.
    Clenching her jaw,