When I woke up everything was nearly black. I couldn't see where I was and there was no light anywhere. I could hear voices. It's sounded like a woman. I knew it was a voice that I didn't recognize. The room I woke up in was very cold. It was almost like I was in some type of metal containment unit of some kind. Still laying on my back I began to feel my way along the floors. Everything was cold. Almost like ice. This is the worst time to kidnap somebody. In the middle of winter? Seriously? You couldn't have done this shit like in May when it's nice and I can at least tolerate the chill? Asshole! Whoever you are you deserve a good old fashion ass kicking! Wait until my dad finds out about this shit. You won't like Prince Nelson when he's pissed. He plays NO games. I sat up but the a pain on the back of my head made me slow down because whatever chump did this knocked me out cold and then did it with a witness. Poor Tre. I hope he's alright. Hopefully he got away. As I rubbed the back of my head the fact that I wasn't tied up and gagged was pleasing to me. I tried again to stand so I stood up slowly minding that I was locked in some type of metal storage unit. The faint voice of a woman was now being accompanied by a man. THAT was a voice that I recognize. That's the voice of the man who called himself 'showing how much he loved me'. Now I'm in full panic mode. I need to find a god damn way out of here before this gets worse than what it is. Without making a whole lot of noise moving around so I could listen to the voices and see what I could pull from the muffled voices. This would have been a great for my dad to give me a cell phone. Gee dad you may be a musical genius but dude you need to step your dad game up! Teens don't just go asking for phones all willy nilly! We like life too! As I was mentally telling my father off about not having a cell phone the voices got closer and a light turned on.

  "Fuck!"

I whispered quickly covering my mouth and backing away from the door that was just revealed to me. The woman's voice came rushing up to the thing they were holding me captive in and unlocked the doors then swinging them open with force. The bright lights blinded me so bad that when I tried to back away I tripped over something and fell over backwards while shielding my face. I felt hands grab me by the legs and pull me out of the box.

  "NO! LET ME GO! PLEASE!" I shouted as I was being pulled.

  "Carlyn! Calm down! It's me! It's mama baby! Relax!" I heard the woman saunas she held my face.

  "I wanna go home! Please let me go!" I begged.

  "Carlyn you are home!" She said.

I opened my eyes and looked around to find that this wasn't home at all. It was a small apartment with very little furniture. It looked like her and this dude were squatting here because they were homeless. I guess she noticed that I was looking at the ransacked place and quickly came to its defense.

  "Oh! Don't worry about the mess. We're moving away! We're going to Orlando! Dwayne got us a new house and we can start a new life Just the three of us!"

Dwayne. That name sounds really familiar. I couldn't place a face with the name until he walked in. Now I'm really scared.

  "Hey there! Remember me?" He asked with a dark smile on his face.

His eyes were filled with nothing but pure evil and hatred. He was my nightmare come true.

  "You remember ya daddy don't you?" The woman said.

  "He's not my daddy." I whispered as I cried in fear.

  "Watch ya tone girl!" She snapped as he took a sip of his 40.

My heart was racing furiously and I could feel my body shaking hard against tone floor. I looked back at the man that molested me as a child and back at the woman claiming to be my mother. As I looked at her something caught my attention. She had no scar on her face. Or did she. I squint a little bit and lean in to see under left eye. It was there! The scar was covered with concealer! She's not! My mother! She's that bitch from the mugshot!

"Melissa?" I questioned.

Her face was flashed with shock and so was Dwayne's

"Her name is mama to you little girl!" Dwayne snapped again.

"She's not my mama. She's my mama's sister."

Both adults were shocked. Melissa grabbed me tightly by the wrists.

"How do you know about my sister?" She shouted as she pulled at me.

"Because of my father!" I snapped back.

"You father is standing right over there!"

"That's not my father that s a child molester!"

Suddenly it all began to make sense.

"Wait! You! Your the woman from the mall aren't you?"

She didn't say anything. She just looked back at Dwayne and then looked back at me.

"Yeah! You are! You've been trying to cover as my mom! You've had those pictures and said that you haven't seen me since I was five. My birth mother hasn't seen me since I was two months old! Where's my mother?"

Melissa didn't know what to say.

"Shut up little bitch that is ya mother!" Dwayne yelled.

"Dwayne no! She needs to know! She's old enough now. Sweetheart.....your mama gave you to me."

"Lie! I was taken from my mama in the middle of the night!"

"No you weren't! That woman couldn't take care of you like I could! She didn't deserve to have you!"

"Then she would have put me up for adoption! Not drop me off at a park at five! That was your doing! So what really happened?"

"That is what happened!"

"NO ITS NOT! YOU TOOK ME FROM MY MAMA!

"SO WHST IF I DID! SHE GOT EVERYTHING HER WHOLE LIFE AND I GOT NOTHING! WHAT YOU WANT ISNT GIVEN TO YOU! NOW YOU HAVE TO TAKE IT! SO THATS WHAT I DID! I WANTED YOU SO I TOOK YOU AND YOU CANT DO ANYTHING TO CHANGE THAT!"

My heart sank. Hearing that she took me from my mom was hard to hear but now things were starting to come together.

"So if you wanted me so bad why drop me off at a playground? What? Couldn't handle being a parent?"

"You were trying to take Dwayne from me."

"At 5!?!?!? LADY ARE YOU FUCKING SICK OR SOMETHING????"

"You knew exactly what you were doing!"

"Again I say.....AT FIVE!?!?!?"

"You were more attractive than me!"

Wow. Stunning. Let your boyfriend molest me and then once you get annoyed with him not paying you any attention you dump me at a park. Soooooo I guess sticking up for the kid must not mean shit. Huh! Interesting.

"Liss lock her ass back up." Dwayne said in a drunken tone.

She looked back at me with tears in her eye then stood up from the floor looking at Dwayne.

"Dwayne she's......been through enough today....let's just....."

"BITCH LOCK HER ASS BACK UP!" He said as he slapped her to the ground.

Melissa flew to the ground and he marched over to me and snatched me up from the floor. Trying to fight him off he tossed me back into the metal storage unit and locked me back inside. I was never more terrified than I was right now.

"Daddy? Where are you? Please save me."

Was all I could think about as I balled up in a corner and cried. I was maybe in there for an hour when the doors flung opened and I was dragged out by my legs again. A hand was placed over my mouth as I tried to run.

"Don't scream. I can get you home but only if you listen very carefully to me."

I was assured that I can get out of here safe and sound by this person who had dark hair and wore all black. I couldn't see her face but as soft as her voice was I can tell it was a woman. She took me by the hand and we slipped out the front door and out to a waiting car just at the end of the block.

"Thank you for saving me but who are you?" I asked as we got to the car.

"Friend. Get in. Your dad is worried about you."

"Wait! You know my father?"

She didn't answer. We just got in the car and we drove away without anyone catching us.