"Hey, stop staring at me like that." The boy squirmed in his seat. Melanie was gaping at him openly and he felt awkward about it. He had always been conscious of his too cute face which people always 'awwed'.

"Yeah, you're cute. You're fucking cute." He rolled his eyes he was almost used to that reaction but at least she didn't 'aww', that irritated him more than anything.

"How old are you?" Melanie asked then covered her mouth, she wasn't sure if it was appropriate to ask a boy his age, especially one that was a kidnapper.

He smiled to let her know it was alright. "I'm 17." He mumbled quietly.

"Wow, that's fucking young."

"Do you add 'fuck' to everything you say?"

"Oh,I wasn't aware I was saying it." She shrugged then put the biscuit in her mouth to distract her from the awkward conversation. They were both silent for a while as Melanie munched on the dry biscuits, she wondered what made them that hard. Maybe they were stale.

"Why did you kidnap me." She wasn't looking at him but she caught his sad expression. "Where are your parents? Why would they allow their son to kidnap people just to ask for ransom? If they wanted money they could just work for it you know? Not make their son do a dirty job to get it."

She noticed his expression harden and could see he was getting riled up, exactly what she wanted. "They didn't make me."

"What then? Did you run away from home?" She asked. "Weren't you satisfied with what your parents had to offer and decided to st-"

"I'm an orphan."

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After he dropped the bomb Melanie felt bad for everything she said to him and decided that apologizing was the best thing to do.

"I- i'm so-" she started but was cut off by him. "It's fine." He stared at his feet mumbling some words to himself totally ignoring her presence. She knew he was getting ready to leave and didn't want him to, she had managed to upset the poor orphan child, she should have known that he hadn't had an easy life. Wasn't it so obvious.

"What's your name?" She asked in an attempt to distract him from leaving, he sensed it but went with the flow,after all she wasn't to blame.

"Finn."

"Nice name." She commented hoping to get a smile out of him seeing as he hadn't smiled since she literarily called him a thief but he scoffed instead.

"Not as nice as Melanie."

Now it was her turn to scoff. "Really? As much as I like to say my mom was really creative she definitely wasn't when she gave me my name, she could have given me names like Abigail or Katie or-"

"I still prefer Melanie?"

"Yeah whatever." She rolled her eyes and tried to maintain a straight face. Something about the boy made her blush so badly. She shook her head when she realised she was acting quite strange to a minor's words.

"Yeah whatever." He mimicked her and smiled.

"Have you called my dad yet?" She asked the one question that had been troubling her and he immediately sobered up.

"Erm yes."

"Look I'm saying the truth, my father doesn't give a flying fuck about me cause the last time time I was kidnapped like this it was my mom that paid but I don't think she'd be paying now considering she's in a different world."

"Hey relax, we called your dad but he isn't the one paying us, it's your boyfriend."

"My boyfriend?"

Where would Bryan get that kind of money from, she didn't know the amount they asked for but she knew that kidnappers don't kidnap just to ask for something little. It would be huge.

"Are you sure he is my ....boyfriend?"

"Well..I don't know....he was pretty scary even with his disheveled hair I guess your disappearance shook him."

Disheveled hair? She only knew one person whose hair was always disheveled except in the office or special occasions.

"Kevin."

"Oh? That's his name?"

"Kevin is my uncle. He's the one with the always rough hair."

"Oh...but the one I saw...he looks too young to be your uncle..I don't --"

"Yeah Kevin is like that. BTW how many hours have I used in that hellhole? Did you call my dad immediately we got here?"

"Today's the second day and we called your father early this morning, from the look of it it didn't seem like he knew you weren't home."

"Yeah, not surprised about that."

"Hold on a min, how did you call my uncle? I thought it was only my dad you knew about."

"When we called your dad he said he couldn't pay but knew someone who could so he told us his company and we went there. On getting there we saw a man emerge from the company and he looked like he owned it so Jordan approached him while Ray and I stayed behind in case he tried anything funny.
Jordan told him we had you what we wanted before we could return you and he went batshit crazy at first but after some threatening from Jordan, he complied and said he's bringing the money."

"Who's Jordan and Ray?"

"Jordan was the one driving, he's 23 and Ray was the other one at your side, he's my age and we're from the sane orphanage home."

"Jordan's 23 and can do a good job to get honest money? Don't tell me he's an orphan too."

"He's not, he's only doing this to help us." Melanie frowned, not understanding what he was saying.

"How is making 17 years olds steal helping them? He's ruining your lives for godsake."

"He's not." This time there was warning in his tone. "He used to live on the streets with his dad because his step mom ran away with all money and sold their house. He didn't like that his old man was suffering so when he saw us trying to bolt from the orphanage home, he helped us find a place to stay for a while...on the streets and when he came up with this idea, we just couldn't refuse it."

"That still isn't a good reason to kidnap innocent girls."

"Fine." He snapped. "You keep judging us when you've had it very easy for you, your father is rich and even if he doesn't really care about you it doesn't matter cause you still live in styles, I mean look at the car you drive."

"The car I drive has nothing to do with this."

"Actually it has everything to do with this."

"What the fuck is this about?" A thick voice interrupted their bicker. Finn turned to face Jordan who was glaring at him. "Are you supposed to be having heart to heart talk with the girl? What if she uses any information against you."

"I won't." Jordan faced her and raised an eyebrow. "Well acquainted are you now? I hope you know that he's 17 and except you want to use him as your boy sex slave he has no use to you."

"Fuck no! Jordan!."

"You should have thought twice before going all dooey cooey with the kidnapped. Anyways the man is here for her."

Melanie's heart started to beat faster. She didn't like the fact that it was her uncle that'd be paying, she didn't know the amount but knew it might somehow affect him.

"W-what if he comes with the FBI?" She was scared that her uncle would come with some forces and they'd put a bullet in her skull if they found out.

"No need to worry darling, I told him I'd put a bullet into your pretty head if he tries anything funny. It's sweet tho that you think about us." Jordan patted her hair.

She gulped.

They were going to kill her if Kevin tries anything funny. She looked to Finn hoping he'd help but he only shook his head. "Do not worry, Ray is watching him from the forest end, he'd know if he brought forces and contact us." He led Melanie towards the front door and opened.

She opened her mouth to say something but couldn't.

The man standing in front of the cabin wasn't her uncle. It was a man with black hair and blue striking eyes.

"Toby?"

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Yeah , this chapter was quite shitty

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