"Princess? Princess?" A muffled voice says, I want to open my mouth to speak, but I can't move it, or anything for that matter. The smell of peppermint and orange surrounds me.

I feel strong arms wrap around me and hold me bridal style. Gentle steps are taken and then I'm laid down onto a bed. The strong arms leave me, making me feel strangely bereft.

I hear Jake curse under his breathe as he dials a number. Everything is so muffled and strange sounding like it's underwater, or through a tunnel, or both. "Hey, what do I do? You know what happened" Jake's muffled voice says "hey! This is not my fault, it wasn't supposed to happen like this. Now what do I do with her? She won't move, her eyes are wandering all over the place." He informs whoever is on the other end of the phone. It's silent for a moment "I'm okay! Really" I scream, but nothing comes out. All there is is silence and I'm actually convinced that I must have died until I hear Jake's voice again "if I leave her here she's going to di-" silence again "fine, I'll leave her here then, if she dies, it's on your hands you hear me?" Jake's cold and angry voice replies.

And that's the last thing I remember hearing before passing out again from the pain of trying to communicate.

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I wake up I don't know how much later, when I open my eyes, they sting from the brightness, my eyes not used to light from being closed for who knows how long.

"Princess! You're awake" I hear Jake exclaim. I look over to see him sitting on a chair next to the bed, smiling broadly. "Uh yeah, that's me, awake" I answer awkwardly, taken by surprise by Jake's happiness to see me.

"How long have I been out?" I ask but just as Jake opens his mouth to answer me, the door to whosoever room I'm in opens and in walks a buff guy that looks like the Rock on steroids. "It's time" the guy says simply. Jake's eyes widens and he looks from me to the steroid dude and back to me, "no" He says in a worried voice "not yet, she's not ready" the steroid fellow seems to ignore Jake as he walks over and grabs me by the arm and yanks me forward, I feel like my arm pop out of the socket and scream out in pain "stop! Where are you taking me?" I yell but there's no answer. I look behind me hoping to see Jake running after me, but there's nobody there. "Stop!" I screech, I kick and slap and bite on the guy but it's like he feels nothing. He yanks me down a long dim hallway, taking turn after turn. I try to memorize every turn we take, but after the tenth one I lose track. He pulls me forward until we've reached a big, purple door. I hear shouting inside and gulp as the guy pushes me forward, telling me to go inside. I open the door, inside I see-

Just then I bloop away from all of that, and instead am laying in bed, my eyes closed, both my mouth and body unmovable. I moan internally as I realize I'm still stuck in this unmovable body and that was all just a dream.

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"Princess" I feel Jake's breath run down my ear as he whispers quietly, and just like that my eyes snap open "Jake?" I croak, my voice coming out horse and strange, sounding nothing like me. I look over at Mr Blue Eyes.

I see the happy expression that Illuminates his face, but almost as soon as I see it, it's gone and his normal bored/aloof look is back "about time Princess" he says "how long was I out?" I ask, sitting up in the bed, my head feels like there's a hammer on the inside, smashing my skull with all its might, my hand reaches up and rests down on my forehead. "Woah there, calm down" Jake say, gently pushing my back down.

"You've been...asleep for about-" he looks down at his watch-who still wears a watch nowadays? I swear I've never seen one on him before-"about twelve hours" Jake says nonchalantly. "Twelve hours?!" I yell, jerking up again only to have that pain that I felt early multiplied by a thousand.

"Calm down" Jake demands firmly, pushing me back down. "Don't tell me to calm down!" I exclaim "you've kept me hostage here for twelve hours now! My mom is probably worried sick! I'm gonna be dead when I get home, now move out of the way" I tell Jake, shoving him aside as I get out of bed to find myself out of my skinny jeans and tank top, and instead in a humongous orange tshirt. "What happened to my clothes?" I shriek, Jake awkwardly scratches the back of his neck. "Uh, the clothes that you'd been wearing were bloody and dirty, so I (murmurs under breath) changed you into my shirt" both Jake and I's cheeks burn with embarrassment.

Suddenly there's a piercing pain in my head and all I can hear is a strange whirring sound, it sounds like a electric drill but way, way louder. I put my hands to my ears and squeeze my eyes shut "seriously Princess, would you just listen to me and stay in bed?" Jake asks, his voice softened with concern.

I want to argue back, but my head is killing me and at the moment, I'm more worried about this sound breaking my eardrums than my mom killing me. I lay back down and instantly the pain is gone.

"What happened Jake?" I ask, looking up at him. He avoids my eyes "you don't remember?" He asks.

I scrunch my eyebrows down "I remember, the guy in the red masked came into my room and fought me, but what happened?" I inquire. Jake still won't look me in the eye, his eyes look anywhere but at me. "I'm not really sure" he lies. I know he's lying. I don't know how I know, but I know. I roll my eyes knowing he won't answer me.

"Fine, than can you at least tell me why I couldn't move? I was awake, for a while, I could hear everything but I couldn't move." I say. Jake's head snaps to mine and finally he makes eye contact with me "what did you hear?" He asks. I shrug "I don't know, something about how I was gonna die if you left me here or something" I say, suddenly not one hundred percent sure why I heard actually happened or not.

"Huh, must have been a dream" Jake shrugs "I'll be right back" he says and turns around, walking out the door, knowing that I won't move out of bed for fear of the pain I feel every time I do.

A while later Jake walks in with a tray filled with eggs, bacon, and toast, and a cup of orange juice. My heart swells. He did this for me? He must have noticed my wide eyes because he clears his throats and says "it's no big deal, just figured you'd be hungry after not eating for twelve hours" as if my stomach just now realized how long it had been since it ate, a loud grumble erupts from my stomach. Jake hands me the tray and I scarf it down, suddenly realizing how hungry I really am.

When I'm done (three minutes later) Jake gives me a strange look before grabbing my tray and leaving. My gosh that was some delicious food!

Jake walks in "it'll probably be awhile before you're able to stand, maybe three hours, wanna watch a movie?" Jake asks I nod and Jake walks over to his shelf. "Alright we got chick flicks, horror, comedy, rom-com, sci-fi and action, which is it?" Jake asks turning around back to me.

"Do you have Star Wars?" I ask, his eyebrows shoot up in surprise but he doesn't say anything about it "which one?" He asks "duh, episode four, A New Hope" I say with a roll of my eyes "you can't watch them out of order" he ignores the last comment as he slides the disc into the slot.

He walks over to the hard plastic chair that was set next to the bed and sits down. I feel a little guilt wash over me of the fact that I was sitting in his comfortable bed while he sat on a hard, no doubt uncomfortable chair. I scoot over and pat the part of the bed next to me, he hesitates a little but comes and sits up next to me, both of having our legs spread out straight and backs against the backboard of the bed. "Jake?" I say quietly "yeah?" He replies "Thanks" he nods, but says nothing.

Two hours later when the movie ends, Jake turns the tv off and tells me to try to stand up, I slowly stand up, squeezing my eyes shut as I wait for the sting of pain, but nothing comes. I let out a sigh of relief and walk forward, my head is feeling a little dizzy, and I'm pretty lightheaded, but other than that I feel fine.

I smile and lookover at Jake "I will find out why all of that happened, but for now, I need to get home" I tell him before walking out his bedroom door and racing down the stairs, across the lawn, and into my house. "I'm home" I call out and my mom walks in "oh hey honey, how was your sleepover?" She asks, smiling sweetly at me. "Y-you know about that?" I stutter.

My mom gives me a confused look "what do you mean? Of course I know" she says "and you don't care?" I question hesitantly, amazed and scared at the same time "honey what are you talking about? You know you're allowed to go to Abigail's house" my mom says looking at me like I've grown another head "uh oh r-right, Abi's house, yeah thanks for letting me go mom. I had a uh a lot of fun" I give her my best smile before walking past her towards the stairs that lead to my bedroom "Beth?" My mom says "yeah?" I freeze and don't turn around "you okay?" "I'm great mom" I say and turn around and blow her a kiss before running up the stairs and into my room.

It was time to figure all of this out.

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