Only You Sweetheart

Charlotte had been crying for god knows how many hours. The medication had eased the pain her body had been victimised with but the space she was confined to was small, dark and cold and she was feeling incredibly uncomfortable and scared. Scared of what Matt had planned for her once he let her out of the cupboard, scared of his temper, scared for her situation … scared of the dark.

She wrapped her arms around her body as an act of security and to help warm up her top half, she sobbed quietly into her knees. For too long had she been pleading with him to let her out with no luck, now she just sat quietly. She had lost all hope of being freed, of ever seeing friends and family again … of seeing anyone but Matt for the rest of her life.

She dreaded everything that was coming to her, the aching in her legs was still there even if the medication had dulled it slightly, at this point in time she didn’t think she would ever live to see a day where absolutely no part of her body hurt. She felt sick at the promise he had made once he let her out, she also felt sick at her reactions to him not only did she not fight back, too scared at what would happen to her if she argued or fought but also at how sometimes she would feel safe with him. Somewhere inside of her liked his touch and his company which by all means made her want to kill herself because he terrified the life out of her and oh yeah, he was so a lunatic.


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CHARLOTTE GELLAR
SATURDAY 1PM SCHOOL HALL
PLEASE COME TO SHOW YOUR SUPPORT ON FELLOW STUDENT CHARLOTTE GELLAR WHO WENT MISSING ONE AND A HALF WEEKS AGO PRESUMABLY KIDNAPPED. IF ANYONE HAS ANY INFORMATION AT ALL PLEASE CONTACT EITHER MS HEMSHAW OR THE POLICE DEPARTMENT (SEE NUMBER BELOW)
PLEASE COME AND SHOW YOUR SUPPORT
THANK YOU

Amanda Regis didn’t laugh at Nina anymore; she still showed her wounds from Nina’s attack. She watched as the tall blond girl put up the posters around school, she hoped people attended the ceremony, if no one turned up she would feel horrible. She for one would be there and she would tell all her friends to go as well, Charlotte was a nice girl and she certainly didn’t deserve this.
“Do you need some help Nina?”
“Not from you” Nina looked disgustingly at Amanda, probably another joke at Nina’s expense.
“I’m being serious, when I laughed at Charlotte’s disappearance I didn’t know the full facts. I’m really sorry”
Nina stopped putting up the fliers and looked at the other girl.
“If this is some sort of game for you Regis those scars I gave you already will look like nothing after the next lot that I will carve into your face”
Amanda backed off slightly, but knew she couldn’t walk away.
“Its no joke, I want to show my support. To you and Charlotte. Let me help, I can even get the school football team to show their support before their next game”
“And how will you do that?”
“Trust me. I can get them to do anything. Their brain is in their pants.”
Nina resisted slightly.
“Go and put these bunch of fliers over by the lockers”
Amanda smiled as she took the leaflets; Nina had accepted her apology even if she was too stubborn to show it.
“Sure thing”

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Charlotte nodded off at different times during the night but not for very long, she hadn’t heard Matt come into the room. So she presumed he must be downstairs or out. Even thinking about him made her blood run cold, how could anyone do this to another human being, especially one they were supposed to of loved. What made Charlotte really laugh was that if he had persisted in wooing her in the normal sane person way she probably would of caved and gone out with him. She did like him before all of this, was just put off by the drugs and attitude. She might have gone out with him freely not knowing he was a psycho, maybe not ever knowing. Maybe he wasn’t one at all until he met her and it triggered it off. So really this was all her fault.

Or Nina’s, she too k her there after all. Charlotte shook her head slightly, Nina. She couldn’t picture her face properly; it had only been just over a week, she had spent longer periods of time away from her friend why couldn’t she see her face properly. Charlotte cried out in aggravation slightly,was was the cupboard and the madcap downstairs; he’d made her lose sight of things. She grabbed her face in her hands and cried harder this time, if she had the choice between life and death right now. She’d seriously consider death. She was already incarcerated in a coffin after all.

She must have nodded off again because the next thing she knew the cupboard was being unbolted, maybe he had calmed down. He did tend to lose his temper and then feel bad later on. He had just locked her in the cupboard for hours. As the door opened she noticed it was dark out through the window, and the heavy tapping on the roof told her it was raining. She knew she wouldn’t be able to stand, he knew it too. She felt him grip her under her arms and pull her onto the bed; he was on her in seconds and was gently kissing her face.
“Ready to make it up to me?”
Charlotte froze, for a good few seconds unable to move or speak. Fear was all too much of a familiarity to her now; it was only when some sense was knocked into her that she decided it was time to fight back. She used all strength that she had and pushed at his chest. “Get off of me!!!”
He didn’t budge; he bit into her shoulder as a warning. “I’m not gonna do that Charlotte”
“I mean it get off of me! I hate you so much”
The words stuck like glue. Words Matt, there just words. He didn’t move for some seconds, the words had stung.
“Why would you say something like that Charlie?”
He wasn’t allowed to call her that, only friends and family called her that!
“Because it’s true, I hate you. How could you ever think that I wouldn’t? You make me sick; everything about you makes me sick. I can’t stand being in the same room as you”
It was stupid to say it but at the same time it felt good to let him know exactly how she felt. She caught him off guard she pushed him with all her strength making him buckle slightly. She tried to get herself off of the bed but her movement was slow due to the inability to walk properly. He grabbed her arms and made them both fall off of the bed, him on top of her.

“I try so hard for you to love me but you just wont let me!”
“Most people don’t kidnap people so that they will love them”
Matt pushed her onto the floor “You always do this, say something so that it will hurt me, think it will stop me from loving you! I can’t get you out of my head; you’re the only thing I ever think about. Nothing you will say will get you away from me!!!”
She felt his hand collide with her face.
“And nothing you do will make me love you!!!”
Matt’s face scrunched up angrily and he punched her again “I’ll make you love me eventually, I’m gonna be the only person you ever see from now on. Soon you’ll think, sleep and BREATHE me just like I do to you”
His hands grabbed at hers and lifted them above her head “There\'s no getting away from me Charlie, Your all I have and I’m all you have” Her hands were handcuffed to the set of drawers by her head within seconds. Charlotte realise what he had planned.
“Matt … you can’t”
“Its too late, your too stubborn to reason with me so I’ll just have to show you how serious I am”
He unzipped her jeans and pulled them off and then unzipped his own, she felt him pull of her panties. She begged him to stop but he stopped her from talking by forcing his tongue down her throat making her gag slightly.
She felt the pain as he forced himself on her, her legs were in agony as he had forcefully yanked them open and was now brutally pounding into her. Hs mouthed was permanently fixed on hers and his hands roamed freely about her body. Had Charlotte the energy or the opportunity she would have screamed.


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Nina sat on her bed miserably; her best friend had been missing for too long. The thought of her being dead sent shivers of dread and distress down her spine.
“She’s not dead,” she whispered to herself. She lay back and closed her tear stained eyes, she wondered what Charlotte would think of her new friendship withnda nda Regis. They had been enemies since the beginning of high school, and Charlotte had nagged n to Nina that they should just make up.
“You finally got your wish hun”
She woke up not long after; she had not slept well ever since Charlotte disappeared. The thunder began to roar, she wondered if Charlotte could hear the thunder. Would she be scared?

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Charlotte lay on the floor motionless. He had left the room sometime before and she was still handcuffed to the drawers, too distressed from the recent past events to even move her head. She felt ent enter the room again even before she saw him looking down at her. As he knelt beside her to undo her hands, she jumped slightly. Evil bastard. His face said it all, he looked guilty. Whys that then I wonder.

He lifted her back up to the bed “I’m sorry baby, you just wouldn’t listen”
Through sobs she spoke “Listen to what. Your bullshit”
Matt thought back the urge to shout at her, she looked so fragile and upset, he just wanted to wrap his arms around her and make all the hurt go away.
He stroked her forehead and kissed it gently. “Ssh, get some sleep”
Charlotte cried slightly but held the rest back “Your never going to listen are you”
“There’s nothing to hear. Soon you’ll love me darling, whether it takes force, anger or tenderness, you’ll want me soon and when you do, I’ll make you the happiest woman on earth.”
Charlotte couldn’t cope with this much longer, the words said it all. He was planning on keeping her there forever. And what was worse was, what if he was right?