GET OUT

ADELINE'S POV

Screams. All I can hear are people screaming. The voices of scared little girls. I can almost feel their pain from where I am. I can tell how afraid they are form their screams. I switch on the lights in my room and pull my legs closer to my body. I can't sleep if this is how it's going to be all night.

It must be the new girls screaming. Colton told me that the guards are allowed to visit them twice a week and today must be one of those days. They're welcoming the girls with rape. I feel sick to my stomach. I feel like I'm going to throw up. I want to get out of this room and jump out the window but there is absolutely no way for me to escape from this place. The rooms are carefully designed in such a way that even if you wanted to escape, you wouldn't be able to.

I can't stand those screams. I don't even know for how long it's been going but I need it to stop. Before I know it, I start crying. I feel hot tears streaming down my cheeks and I know I don't have the right to cry right now or be in any kind of pain because I'm not the one getting hurt right now.

I'm not the one getting assaulted.

Before I know it two strong hands are pushing my doors open and I scream. I scream so loud and grab a pillow, anything to defend myself from the late-night intruder. My heart drops to my stomach as I remember what Adrian did to me before sending me to this place. I will die before I let anyone take me forcefully again. I'll kill myself before I let that happen.

I'm screaming and thrashing when two hands hold me. I open my eyes and realize it's Colton.

"I'm going to need you to calm down gorgeous. I'm here for anything but what you're thinking about right now." He says and places his hands on my shoulders to hold me in place.

"Let me go. Let me go. Don't you fucking touch me! Just leave me alone!" I scream and push him behind with as much force as I can muster up. He stares at me surprised, as if he didn't expect me to have that much energy. I continue crying as the screams from the other rooms don't stop.

"Relax!" Colton says holding his hands up in a defeated way.

"Why are you here?" I ask him as I continue sobbing.

"If you haven't noticed, I'm kind of responsible for you." He says with a defeated sigh. The bruise under his eye is fading but from his movements, I can tell he's still in a lot of pain.

"Why do you have to be responsible for me from inside my room?" I ask backing myself to the wall. I know Colton said he won't touch me but how well can I trust someone like him. He's the one who brought me here after all.

"Jesus, Adeline. I just…" He starts saying. "I was outside your room. I heard you crying. I just wanted to make sure you were okay." He admits. The look in his eyes is convincing enough. I don't believe that Colton can care about me. He must be a very good actor. He wants me to trust him. He wants me to be vulnerable with him so that he can hurt me even more. I won't let him. I won't let myself be fooled by him.

"You're hurt." I blurt out trying to divert the conversation.

"I'm fine." He says.

"Did Veronica do that to you?" I ask him.

"Veronica does a lot of things to different people." He states.

"Don't do that!" I say harshly.

"Do what?" He asks dumbfounded.

"Deflect. You don't answer any of my questions normally and it's annoying." I say wiping off my tears and getting back in bed, sitting up with my back against the headrest. I keep myself alert in case Colton tries anything.

"There are things best left unsaid." He defends.

"Like why you kidnap me one second and then act like you care about me the next? You know if you're not going to give me any answers then why don't you just stop pretending, stop checking up on me and just leave me the hell alone!" I don't know when I start raising my voice but I am. I don't know when I leave the bed and stand face to face with Colton, a deadly look in my eyes.

"You think I want to be here?" He asks me as he flares his nostrils in anger.

"Oh please don't give me that not everyone has a choice shit! You did have a choice and you chose to ruin my life! You chose to bring me here! You chose to be involved with these people! So just get out. Get out of here and leave me alone! I don't want you here!"

As I speak, he backs away slowly. From the look on his face, I can tell I hit a nerve but I don't care. I'm the one who's going to be used as a doll, not him. I'm the one who's going to be used as a play thing, not him so I don't really care how he feels. I just want him to leave.

The sight of him or any other man disgusts me to my core. I can't look at him. He nods his head once and then without another word, he leaves my room. I fall to the floor. I hold my body together like I was a fragile egg just waiting to crack with the slightest movement. I cry.

The screams have stopped but that feeling is still there. That feeling that one day, when Veronica is finally done with training us, those screams will be coming from me. I don't want to be that girl. I don't want to be here. I just want to leave.

I just want to go home. I just want to hug Liam again. I want to hug Dante again. I feel so empty and so alone. I have tried to be strong and I'm still trying but how much can I take? Just how much can I take?

I asked Colton to leave and he has but as sick and twisted as it is, he's the only person in this place I could have a normal conversation with. Every time I look at him, I'm reminded of the fact that he is complicit in my capture and I just get so sick to my stomach. I hate him so much and I'm so confused because I crave the conversations we have together. It makes me feel normal and sane in this not so normal place.