Chapter 1
RAVEN SHANZE
"Breathe you need to breathe!", my face is blotchy with sweat as I am running, pacing through the streets trying to find a way out of here. I have been repeating the same words for over a minute now, or two minutes? I don't even know, I feel my lungs trying to explode , ripping right through my chest , my oxygen levels are depleting, I feel lost, no, TERRIFIED. I feel terrified, these men have been following me for so long, keeping their distance enough to not attract suspicion but enough to not loose me either. I don't know who these men are but I'm not stupid, LA is a place of daily abduction, in my case, kidnapping. All I wanted was to get a nice dress for Maddison, she has been insisting on wanting one for so long. I feel a pang of guilt run through me, it's cheap But pink, "wouldn't notice " I say to my self. I'm not the one to get scared easily and even with my life nearly about to come to an embarrassing halt, I still manage to have these thoughts. How do I manage to have these thoughts? I need to focus, dad had me warned about the dangers of being a woman, as if I didn't already know, but he is dead now, and so is our only stable source of income. I nearly trip, willing my lungs to take in more oxygen and not let me die, I turn to the corner street, keeping my pace, I see trees and large banglows pass by, my fanatic brain panicking even more, God I would give anything to have another pair of lungs right now . Only when I know I can't go any longer without a breath do I dare to look behind, I have managed to loose them. Waiting a few minutes just to remove any doubts my brain has, and gasping air in, I wait for my heart rate to slow down. Once I know I will not pass out, do I lift my head up to further assess my surroundings. They really are gone. This has to be the first time I think anyone actually got away from one of these LA abductions, and it's not something I'm particularly excited to think about right now, I still need to go home.
