The Tapes

Y/N's POV
"What about you? How'd you get here?" I asked, sitting against the wall the chain was coming out of, giving Lawrence direct eye contact.

"There's uh....not much to tell, I was on my way home from work and I don't remember anything else..." I nodded in response, the turning my head towards Adam. He was staring back at me. I was too embarrassed to say it aloud in front of Lawrence so I mouthed a
"I love you," to Adam. I saw a smile creep on his face then I read an "I love you too" dancing on his lips. I just wanna kiss him, for us to hold each other, I want to feel safe in his arms again. He then drew his attention towards the body, staring at it as if it was gonna wake up and carry on like everything's normal.
"First dead body I've ever seen....they don't move." He sounds so vulnerable. Normally, he's this loud,cocky asshole who only speaks fluent sarcasm. He only really acts like this around me, so it's weird seeing him act like this in front of another.

"From The looks of these chains, someone didn't want us to go very far either." Well no shit Lawrence.
Suddenly, Adam sprang up from the floor, gasping and slightly lifted is shirt up and turning around, it looks like he's looking for something.
"Can you see any scars?!"
"What?"
"This is what they do man, they kidnap you, drug you. Next thing, you're lying in a bathtub and your kidneys are on Ebay!" I sniggered a little bit, he's so dramatic and just a little bit clueless. Adam turned around and gave me a 'what are you laughing at?' look. I was about to say something to him before Lawrence stated;
"No one has taken your kidneys."
"How can you tell from all the way over there?"
"Because, you'd either be in terrible agony, or you'd be dead by now. Trust me."
"What are you, a surgeon?"
"Yeah." Me and Lawrence answered at the same time, causing us to smirk at each other.
The next few moments were silent. I had to break the ice somehow.
"We need to figure out why we're here. Whoever brought us here could've killed us by now, but they didn't. They must want something from us."
"The question is, what? Y/N we haven't got anything but each other." Adam replied, looking straight at me. I know Adam, I know.

"That clock...." Lawrence moved toward, pointing at the clock high on the shitted-up walls. It looks shiny almost....brand new. The fuck?
"What about it?" Adam grunts, still looking at me, almost admiring me.
"It's brand new."
Adam gave an almost angry and confused look at Lawrence; "So?"

"So...Someone obviously wanted us to know the time." I stated, realising the obvious.

"Wait....I think I may be able to reach the door." Lawrence tried to drag himself further towards the from what I'm guessing is a slide across door, stretching his arms onto the door. It kind of looks like he's trying to do wall press ups, and something else I REALLY don't wanna think of him doing.
Out of the corner of my eye, I see Adam looking through his pockets, until he reaches the back pocket and pulls out a plastic wallet with an envelope inside of it. He looks over at me with a scared expression, I made a gesture to the envelope, which resulted in him opening it. There's a....tape? What's he supposed to do with that?
If he has one, I should have one too...right? I have no pockets in my outfit so I patted myself down, not expecting to find something, until I reached my chest area, inside my bra. I pull out the plastic wallet, it has my name in capitals, my hand is shaking. Someone's touched me, possibly sexually assaulted me. Adam's looking at me, with his eyes slightly widened but you can still see the anger 'hiding' behind them.

"What are those?"We ignored Lawrence for a second, trying to figure out what to do.
"...Excuse me?"
"It's a tape..."
"Well where'd you find them?"
"They were in our pockets...." He glanced at me for a split second, checking if I was ok.
Lawrence then reached into his pocket, pulling out an identical wallet, but with his name on the envelope.
"It says play me." This caused Lawrence to rip his envelope open, but from what I can see, there's more in there than a tape. He also holds up a bullet....Oh my god. No.
He then holds up a key and instantly goes to try and unlock his shackle. Of course it didn't work, why would it?

"Throw it over here!" Adam says, gesturing towards the key, holding his hands out in demand. Lawrence has an angry look on his face, but he throws the key, over to Adam (who scrambles for it). He tries the shackle and the chain, no luck.
"Y/N, here." He throws it over to me and I catch it. I give a little cocky smile. "Show off." I hear Adam grumble, and I giggle silently.
"Fuck!" I throw the key to the floor as I try to unlock the chain, it bounces a little. I bring my hands to the back of my head and slide down the wall, tears rolling down my cheeks. My eyes are probably a little red.
"Baby it's ok, shhh. Don't cry."

"It's not ok Adam, is it? We've been kidnapped , someone's killed themselves and we're so close yet so far from each other!!! I just want you Adam...I just want you...."

"Y/N....babe please I hate seeing you like this. We are gonna get out here and we're gonna be together forever, i'm never gonna leave you. I love you."

I freeze as I let out a shaky breath. He can't promise that. He doesn't know, and he'll probably never find out. We'll both probably be dead before it even happens.

He blows me a kiss before he starts looking around again.
I can see that he's noticing something, and I see it too. A tape player! He tries to stretch is body forward to reach it, but miserably fails.
"Use your shirt."
Adam stretches back as he makes an annoyed expression at Lawrence, "What?"
"Your shirt!" He takes his shirt off and tries using it to pull the tape player out of the dead-man's hand.
"It won't work!"
"Well look around, there must be something else you could use!"
"There's nothing!"
"Well there must be something!"
My boyfriend looks annoyed, he doesn't like to be ordered around, let alone by a stranger. Lawrence was always straight forward so I can see why he looks more pissed than usual. He picks up the bathtub plug; "that'll work."
The plug hole gets attached to his shirt and he keeps trying to lure the player to him.
"Come on Ad you can do it." I say encouragingly.
His first attempt didn't work, "Again, Come on, come on."
Eventually, it works. Before it was barely in his palms, he picked up the tape and put it in, bringing it closer to his ear. We all stayed silent, this is potentially (one of) the moment of truth, why are here?

"Rise and shine, Adam. You're probably wondering where you are. I'll tell you where you might be. You might be in the room you die in. Up until now you simply sat in the shadows watching others live out their lives. But what do voyeurs see when they look into the mirror? Now, I see you as a strange mix of someone angry, yet apathetic. But mostly just pathetic. Your girlfriend thinks different, can you prove your worth to her?
So are you going to watch yourself die today, Adam, or do something about it?"

The voice is monotone, not much pitch. He mentions death like it's something to be played around with, that he doesn't care if we meet our fates in here. He must think he's helping us in some way(?). My body is shaken to its core, it's definitely not Tessa playing a prank on us.

"I don't get it."

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