Uki’s POV~

Pain.

Pain , man.

I mean, I had a high tolerance for the stuff, but being hit in the head twice, in the same spot, with an aluminum baseball bat was not fun. I could still feel my head throbbing and the blood was still pounding in my ears as I slowly opened my eyes. I started panicking slightly when I couldn’t see anything. Did I go blind?! Did they hit me so hard I lost my eyesight?! Oh my God, please, not that! Living in the world without the ability to see would be equivalent to the blind leading the blind. Totally and completely useless! Oh my God! I was still freaking out inside when my senses finally kicked in and I realized I had a blindfold over my eyes. Oh for the love of—ARGH, I AM GOING TO FREAKING KILL WHOEVER’S BEHIND THIS!

Oh my God, Alex!

Was she okay?! Did they hurt her?! Was she even here?! WHERE WAS HERE EXACTLY?! AISHHHHHHH!

“I think she’s awake,” I heard someone say in English.

It was that man. The one who dug his shoe into my ribs.

I.

WILL.

MURDER.

HIM.

I felt someone jerk me up into a seating position. I tried letting out a cry of pain from the sudden pressure I felt in my head, but it came out as a muffled protest instead. What the hell?! They gagged me?! OH MY GOODNESS, THEY ARE SO DEAD THE MOMENT I GET MY HANDS ON THEM! I tried reaching my hands around to punch something, or rather, somebody, but the stupid bastards had my wrists bound behind my back. Ugh. I hated this feeling. Feeling like a damsel in distress. It was sucha foreign concept to me!

“Just don’t struggle, and we promise we won’t hurt you, okay?” I heard a voice say.

I grinded my teeth. I was going to kill him first. His voice pissed the hell outta me.

“Nod if you understand,” the same voice said. I refused to do anything. He let out a sigh. “I can already tell that this one’s gonna be quite the rebel. I suppose we’re gonna hafta break her.”

Break her? What the hell was that supposed to mean?! If they try anything stupid, I am going to make sure none of them will ever be able to walk again!

“What about that one?” that same annoying voice asked. I was really getting sick and tired of hearing him speak.

“She’s awake, but she’s a good little girl and hasn’t tried anything stupid yet,” another voice responded.

Alex?! Were they talking about Alex?! She was here with me, right?! God, where the hell were we?! Suddenly, I slightly flew up in my seat after we hit a bump of some sort. Ahh, so I was in a car. Pfsht. How cliché. If they were gonna kidnap me, couldn’t they have at least, like, done something better as a getaway? Idiots. Wait a minute. Were we leaving Vietnam? Have we left already?! Yah! Siwon doesn’t know where I am! And my poor Donghae is probably crying his eyes out right now! Aish! My boys! They’re probably falling apart! I need to go back to my boys!

Oh my God, Troy! Where was he?! Was he alright?! I hope they didn’t kill him!

…

Did…?

DID HE ING SET THIS UP?! D:<

WAS THAT WHAT WAS GOING ON?! AIYOO, I AM GOING TO FREAKING KILL THAT MOTHEREFFING PIECE OF SH—!

I mentally calmed myself down and thought to myself. Okay. So if they were kidnapping us to a weird place, I’d just have to wait it out with Alex and simply survive for the first couple hours before we try to escape. Simple enough, right? I let out a mental sigh and leaned back, wincing as the pain in my head began flaring up again. Let’s just see what happens from here. Hopefully, it won’t end up with someone having to leave before their time was up.

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Somewhere along the way, I ended up falling asleep, and didn’t wake up until I felt myself being carried off somewhere. I could have walked for myself. I mean, it wasn’t as if my ankles were bound. Ugh. Whatever. My head was spinning so badly right now that I wasn’t complaining about being carried. A couple minutes later, we were in an elevator. Okay, so possibly an apartment building? Pfsht, yeah right, Uki, get real. An apartment building where people wouldn’t question seeing some random guys carrying in two girls that were all bound and gagged? Okay, that was definitely logical. I began fidgeting slightly, and the guy that had hold of me only hugged me closer.

“Just don’t fight it,” he whispered quietly to me. “Go along with whatever they say and you won’t get hurt.”

Okay, now I was definitely pissed!

TROY!

That was his effing voice! I would recognize it anywhere! WHAT THE HELL WAS GOING ON?! SO HE DID SET US UP?! WHAT THE EFF! I felt myself biting my lip so hard I thought I would bleed. Next thing I know, frustrated tears began coming, some being soaked into the blindfold, others falling down my cheeks. I was going to kill somebody! ARGH! I heard the little *ding!* as the sound of the elevator doors opening rang in my head.

“Bring them in this one,” I heard a voice command. “We needa have a little talk with the both of them before they decide to do anything stupid.”

I felt myself being let down on a soft surface, and someone being set down beside me. My eyes stung at the sudden brightness that flooded my eyes as they ripped off my blindfold. I blinked rapidly for a few seconds, trying to adjust to the intensity of the lights in the room. After a few seconds of blinking away the spots dancing in my vision, I looked at my surroundings. We were in an apartment. A very dull, run-down, sparsely-furnished apartment. I turned to the one who was sitting beside me and almost let out a cry of joy at seeing Alex. I was so happy to see that she was okay! Well, she had a huge bruise on her forehead from where they hit her I suppose, but other than that, she was okay!

I felt her let out a sigh of relief, too, tears pooling in her eyes as we turned back to look at our attackers. There were three of them that I didn’t recognize. Two were Korean, I could easily tell, the other Viet. How in the world did they speak English so fluently?! I examined them for a second. Nothing special. Average guys, neither ugly nor gorgeous. Tall, though. Definitely tall. And quite young. If I had to ballpark their ages, I’d say they were all around 24, maybe 26. Then I saw that idiot bastard that had me seething with rage.

How dare he?

HOW DARE HE JUST SIT IN THE CORNER LIKE THAT?! TROY MARCUS BURCHETT, I WILL KILL YOU IN YOUR SLEEP! D:<

“Okay, so here’s the deal,” the Viet one said, still speaking in English. Alex and I snapped our attention back to him. “You play by our rules, you stay alive and well. You decide to be a rebel and disobey us, you might get hurt in the process. We’re not here to hurt you, we’re not here to kill you, we’re here to just simply get some money, okay?”

I narrowed my eyes. He was the one with the annoying voice. I was going to kill him first.

“Nod if you understand,” he said.

Alex nodded immediately, but I just glared at him. Alex nudged me, but I ignored her. He glared at me.

“I said! Nod. If. You. Under. Stand,” he said between clenched teeth.

I just turned my head the other way, refusing to do as he bid. I bit my lip as I felt the sting of his backhand across my face.

“Come on, don’t hurt her anymore!” Troy piped up instantly.

The three guys turned their attention to him as I looked up at him, too. What the hell was he doing? Did he honestly think that by telling them not to hit me it was all going to be okay?! Oh hell no!

“Excuse me?” one of the Korean guys asked.

“She hasn’t done anything to you guys. If you continue beating her like this, no one is gonna wanna buy her off you guys,” Troy further explained.

Buy me? EXCUSE ME?! WHAT THE WAS THIS?! SOME PROSTIUTION RING?! WAS THAT IT?! I looked to Alex immediately, whose eyes were wide with fear. Her face completely drained of all color as she let out a muffled cry, tears beginning to fall. I let out an angry breath. I was going to make every single one of them suffer for making Alex cry. They can mess with me all they want, but the moment they mess with Alex is the moment I’m killing them all! I turned my glare to the three guys, who seemed to be contemplating something. Then the Viet one looked at me, coming up to stand right in front of me. He stooped down so he was eyelevel with me and took my chin in his hands, forcing me to look at him. I grinded my teeth in anger as he turned my face from side to side, as if he were examining a prized art possession or something. If my mouth weren’t gagged, his hand would have been gone by now.

“I suppose you’re right,” he said thoughtfully, “especially with one as hot as this. She’ll definitely rake in some big bucks. I’m supposing she’s still a ?”

My eyes widened at him, disgusted by his filthy question. I immediately kicked him, hoping I’d ruined the chances of him ever having kids, as he doubled over in pain. I smiled smugly as the other guys rushed forward to see if he was still okay.

“You filthy little ! I’ll make you regret ever being born!” he screamed at me, standing up and almost striking me again, but a hand shot out and grabbed his wrist before he could make any contact.

I looked up to see Troy. Why the hell was he defending me?! HE FREAKING SET ALL THIS UP!

“Tony, let it go! Don’t hit her anymore because I guarantee you that if you keep treating her like this, she is going to sneak into your room and put a pillow over your face until you stop kicking,” Troy said, throwing his wrist back down roughly.

The guy, Tony, just glared at Troy. Then he let out a breath and straightened up. “You did good, kid. We’ll spare you for now. But if they act up, it’s your head on the line, got it?”

Troy just looked at him. “I’ll gladly risk anything for Uki.”

Annyeong!~ (:

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