As I slowly opened my eyes, I found out that I was tied to a chair in an unknown place! “Where am I!?” I asked myself, but I couldn’t tell. Seemed like an old house, judging by all the wood panelling and all. I tried to move but I was tied up so tight! It was then that I heard a ground-breaking snort from behind my head, as if there was someone else tied with me. But I couldn’t tell who it was; all I could tell was that their snoring was destroying my ears!

Then the door banged open! Surprisingly, whoever was tied with didn’t wake up! But someone came in, I could tell by the footsteps.

“I hope the birdies are awake- what! You got to be kidding me!” Apparently he was surprised by Sleeping Beauty! He came closer, and I heard a slap!

“Uh, HUH!”

“Wakey wakey, little boy!”

“Where am I?” And just when I heard that, I recognized the voice: Flaming Star! “Who are you!?”

“Uh sorry, but no, not really sorry ‘cuz I didn’t kidnap you to answer your questions!” Being kidnapped was horrible enough, but now I have to tolerate Flaming Star, too! Perfect, just what I was looking for!

“Hey, Trap! You mean we kidnapped them right?” The voice came from outside of the room. I guess there were two kidnappers!

“Yes, Brad, I meant we! Now can you let me talk to our guests?” There was a pause. “Now, where were we?”

“That I shouldn’t ask questions, Trap!” He was messing with them and it wasn’t a good idea.

“Don’t call me that! Now, tell me your dad’s number so I can go easy on you!”

“And if I don’t?”

“I go hard on you!” I couldn’t see anything, but he sounded sure about what he wanted to do.

“I suggest you don’t if you want money and all, ‘cuz you see, any scratches on me will decrease the value. It’s called ‘depreciation!’” I don’t know why, but he sounded like being kidnapped was nothing. I mean, they could hurt us in any way they wanted.

“Clever boy, but I ain’t going to touch you. Her, on the other hand…!”

“Who?”

He probably didn’t notice me behind him, so I just announced it by clearing my throat and saying “Me!”

I sensed that he turned his head to look, “What are you doing here?”

“We’ve both been kidnapped I guess.”

“No, I mean why were you kidnapped, you don’t have rich parents like me!” To be honest he was right; there was no reason for them to kidnap me, unless they were hunting Equestrian unicorns. I was wondering why, when suddenly Trap appeared in front of me. He was tall and skinny and he had his face covered with a brown paper lunch bag with holes for his eyes and mouth. He held up a knife!

“Now, now, tell your boyfriend to give me what I want!”

“WAIT!WHAT!” we both shouted. I was surprised that they thought that we were a couple! That was just ridiculous!

“What is the problem!” he asked.

"SHE/HE IS NOT MY GIRLFRIEND/BOYFRIEND!" we both shouted.

He stepped back for a second, but then he put his knife to my throat!

“The number, NOW!”

I was scared, I could feel my heartbeat getting louder!

“Hey, hey, hey!” Flaming star said, “You want the number? Then write it down!” He took his knife away from my neck and picked his cell phone!

“1830 469 6768” Trap was keying in the numbers as Flaming Star was saying them. There was a pause.

“No signal? What do you mean, no signal?”

Wherever we were, we were in the middle of nowhere!

“Brad!”

“What is it, Trap?”

“Why don’t we have a signal?”

“You told me to find us somewhere out of reach, so I did!”

“Wha- no I- you watch the birdies, I’ll go get somewhere with a signal!”

“But we were supposed to stick together!”

“What about these two?”

“I don’t know, but I do know that we gotta stick together!”

“Fine! It’s not like they’re going anywhere.”

Then I heard the door open and close. I heard a car start, and then it faded. So I guess they were gone!

Author's Note

Make sure to cheek out other chapters too.

Special thanks to my editor Daniel Drazen.