Marco’s POV


I spent the night sleeping in the back seat of Carmen’s car. There was no way I was gonna spend the night out in the woods. I’ve never been much of a hands on nature kinda guy. I don’t like wakin up all early and catching your own breakfast……and great, now I’m being woken up by a loud tap at the car window.

“Carmen! What the fuck! Stop banging”

I tilt my head up and look out the window.

“Well well well. What do we have here?”

Fuck.

“Open the door kid.”

I take a look at all the guys around me and I do as he says and open the door. Then I get out and put my hands up.

“Put your hands down. I’m not going to hurt you….. I need you.”

“Need me? What the fuck, I’m not telling you where Carmen is…”

He pulls out his gun and puts it to my head.

“I don’t need you to tell me anything. I tracked down this car and found you, and when I first got here I had my boys search around. You know what they found?”

Damn this guy makes me sick.

“They found some lovely little markings on quite a few of the trees around here. I’m thinkin of following them. And your coming along…..I gotta have at least one hostage with me at all times.”

He laughs and has his men push me towards where the markings begin and we start walking……god I hope Carmen found Shane. And damn! Why’d I have to leave those marks on the trees. Better yet, why’s this even happening?!





Carmen’s POV


I wake up feeling sort of sore. So I go to strech out, but I can’t. Shane has a death grip around my body and I can’t move.

“Shane” I whisper to her and she just mumbles.

“Shane” I raise my voice a little and she lets go of her hold on me and wakes up

“Good morning.” She says in a sleepy voice

“Sort of. You had a death grip on my body! I couldn’t even move.”

“Sorry…..just didn’t want you to get cold.”

She puts her head down and looks sorta shy. She’s so damn cute. So I kiss her sweetly on the lips.

“Baby you don’t have to be embarassed. I think your absolutely adorable”

“Aww really?” she bats her eye lashes and smirks. Mocking me.

“Shut up” I slap her playfully

“Slapping huh? Alright….two can play that game.”

Shane stands up all of a sudden and I look at her confused. Then she picks me up and starts walking us out of the little cave.

“What are you doing? You can’t climb down and carry me at the same time!”

“Oh I’m not climbing down.” She smirks and then she starts to run. Then, with me in her arms, she jumps out and through the waterfall and into the water below. We sink far down and the water is actually warm. Probley from the morning sun.

We resurface and I’m out of breath from yelling on the way down. Shane just looks at me and laughs.

“haha gee Carm, I don’t think I’ve ever heard you scream that loud.”

She swims over to me, but I splash her and swim away.

“You gonna make swim after you huh?”

“Yup”

“Alright. Well just know, that I’ll swim forever to get to you.”

I stop my swimming and turn to face Shane. She slows up her swimming and creeps up to me.

“Hey”

“Hey yourself.”

She grabs ahold of me and kisses me hard. She takes my breath away with every kiss. And she’s making it hard for me to stay above water

“Don’t worry I got you”

She pulls me up by my ass and treds water. Her body is deffinatley an illusion. She’s so thin but so damn strong. I love that about her. She sweeps me off my feet and I just love it.

“I love you Shane.”

“And I love you more then you’ll ever know.”

“And I just love to spoil happy moments”


I look past Shane and see my ex and the bodyguards standing just at the edge of the water….they have Marco too.

“Do you dykes ever wear clothes?”

He laughs and has his men pull out their guns.

“Get out. Get your clothes. And let’s go.”

We get out and it’s so embarassing. We’re still naked from last night and my ex doesn’t take his eyes off me….This doesn’t go unseen by Shane and she pissed.

“Baby don’t do anything ok? Let’s just get our clothes alright”

“…….”

“Baby, please.”


“…….fine.”


We get out of the water and climb back behind the waterfall to go and get our clothes. And as we get dressed I turn to Shane


“This nightmare is never going to end is it?”

“Carmen I love you. I want to keep you safe for the rest of your life……we’ll get through this. I promise.”



She kisses me and we continue to get dressed. When we finish we climb back down the side of the waterfall and down towards the group and Marco.

“Good. Your fully clothed. Lets go”


We walk back to where I had parked my car. The bodyguards keep pushing Shane and smacking her with their guns. She keeps her cool. But me, I’m pissed.

“Cut that shit out!”

“Or what Carmen? You’ll get daddy over here to come protect you?”

The bodyguards laugh and I just drop my head. This whole situation is so unreal. And things just keep getting worse. Now we’re being thrown in the back of this all black van. With no windows. No seats. Nothing. How clichè.

“Oh and uh, you two….”

He points to me and Shane.

“No fucking back here alright. That dyke shit makes me sick”

oh please! WE, make HIM sick?? This guy is out of his mind. I’m really starting to think we’ll never get out of this.

“Carmen, its all gonna be ok.”

God, she reads my mind.

“How can you say that? Have you not noticed that we’re tied up in the back of a van! With my crazy ex boyfriend behind the wheel!?”

“Yeah, I noticed. But I also noticed your brother has his cell phone”

“What?”

Marco himself who’s been silent and scared shitless, looks down at his waist and sees that he does have his cell phone.

“What the fuck. I forgot about that.”

“Well big deal anyway Shane. There’s no one we can call. No one!!”

Shane slides over and kisses me on the lips. Then she pulls back and smiles.

“Are latin women always this loud?”

“Yup! All the damn time.”

“Shut it Marco” I look at my brother and he just laughs.

“Well look Carm, I do know someone to call.”

“What? Who?”

“At your dad’s little party for you I met this guy named Joe. Just Joe. No last name, nothin. And he told me somethings weren’t good with the business….and I thought he meant like the DJ business. But I’m guessin now, that I was wrong. He knew somethin was gonna go down. And he said for me to call him if I needed anything. He said he liked my style, then he told me his number, and said to memorize it”

“Well did you?”

“Yeah of course. The guy scared the crap out of me.”

“Well what are we waiting for! Call him!”

“Whoa! Easy….how long is this phone call gonna be? Cause dad’s making me pay the bill now and I don’t…..”

“Marco!”

“What?!”

“Just let Shane get your phone and stop being stupid.”

He rolls his eyes and then slides towards Shane so she can shimmy the cell phone out of his pocket. Which is really hard when your hands are tied together.

“Got it?”

“Yeah”

Shane flips the phone open and starts to dial the number. It rings for awhile. Her face stays stern until someone finally answers.

“Hello?”

“Hi, Joe. This is Shane. From the party…”

“Oh yes! Shane. What can I do you for?”

“Remember what you said about the business not lookin too good.”

“Yes….”

“I need your help.”