You ever felt like you're lying in a pool of jet black water? Not completely submerged but you're lying on your back and you can see yourself laying there. Your face and the top of your head are visible but the rest is lost under all of the darkness. You find yourself gliding through this incredibly smooth silk and you feel so at peace? I slid around this seemingly endless river on my back forever. I've never felt so at peace before. What should have been eerie feeling was actually complete bliss. The only word I could use to describe how I feel would be calm. I'm not sure I ever want this feeling to end.

All of a sudden the silky water stopped guiding me and instead stopped moving all together. A very strong shooting pain in the back of my temple caused me to lose my balance in the river. I sat up with my hand on my head again when the next sharp pain which felt almost twice as bad, shot from the back of my head, around to the side and ended by my ear. I've never felt white hot pain like this before. It's as if I got struck by lightning through my skull. I should be dead right? In this kind of pain I have to be dead right or at least almost dead? The next surge of pain seemed to fill my entire head. What should have been a piercing scream leaving my mouth was in fact nothing. No sound emerged at all. I was hunkering down holding my head. The water, which had once felt so freeing was now clung to half of my body like muck. In little to no time at all, I had went from feeling like a mermaid, cruising my home in the Atlantis to being tricked into swimming in black tar. I opened my mouth and tried to scream again and the same emptiness came out. My hands flew to my throat, trying to desperately figure out what's wrong. Why is my head hurting? Why can't I scream? Is anyone out there?

The constant pound in my head is finally what brought me back to consciousness. I could barely open my eyes due to the pain in my skull. This is worse than any hangover I have ever had. Shit I don't even remember getting drunk last night. What did I do yesterday? That's when it all came came back to me —Mia and Johnny's fight, her beautiful face swollen and bruised, her pleading with me to keep it between us, hurting Dom again, my visit from captain douchenugget, and lying to Vince.

All of those things caused my eyes to water but my chest ached about lying to Vince. In all of our years from friendship, we were always honest. From the first night we clicked, technically it was when Tonio died but Vince and my friendship started there. I thought in the beginning he had a crush on me but he picked up that I was pulling back from him and set me straight. I still don't know why he clung to me for friendship. We were polar opposites. Maybe it was the loss that drug him to talk to me but he gets me. I felt myself with Vince, not in a lovers kind of way but in a best friend in the universe kind of thing. Mia's my best friend too but there were things I couldn't tell her that I never hestitated to tell Vince. It makes me laugh when I look back to the first day I met him by literally running into him and Mia was trying to match make. Vince, please realize I'm gone. Shit I doubt anyone else will notice other than Mia of course. Tears ran down my cheeks. I didn't even realize my eyes were watering, then it dawned on me. It's because I can't seem to open them without being in excruciating pain. My tears ran down my neck and hit my chest, definitely not easing the big ache there. If I don't get out of here, wherever here is, I'm going to miss Vince the most.

By protecting Mia's secret, my best guy friend has no idea what's going on. And by not knowing what's going on that means he won't be able to find me. I hurt Dom by unintentionally taking my anger out on him and he pretty much said he was done until I decided to call. I really let him down. I've waited for the last five years for him to be mine and now that he admits he likes me too I shit all over him. However unintentional it was I hurt his feelings and his pride. So in a way I get it if he doesn't notice that I'm not around. Now the only hope I had at salvation was if Mia decided to tell at least one of them what's going on. If Dom notices he will think I'm just avoiding him come to think of it. Great, I should have just kept my shittiness to myself because now if I die in here it's on me.

God please let Vince realize I'm gone. Once he realizes that I'm unattainable, he will go straight to her to demand answers. The thought of that confrontation almost put a smile on my face before I factored in Mia's mental health right now. Ah Mia, what had you gotten your self into? Why didn't you pick up on what a scummy he is? Why'd you never believe that I was looking out for you? Why did you let him turn you against us? Most importantly why did you go back? Is he responsible for where I am? Actually where the heck am I?

I tried to cradle my head in my hands but I quickly found that I couldn't move them. I rubbed my wrists together in order to figure out what exactly was bonding them together and found it to be a rough mix of duct tape and some kind of rope. I only know it was duct tape because I could barely move my hands at all for one. And two, I tried to come in contact with what was in fact holding them so tight, the rope burned my wrists with movement and the duct tape held it in place to make sure I wasn't able to escape.

My head was still pounding but I knew that I had to open my eyes despite the pain. Knowing what was going on around me was critical to my survival. At first the pain was so much that I shut my eyes again but I tried again and again until things were more clear. I tried to look around the room, you know to figure out my surroundings. That didn't happen. All that surrounded me was pure blackness, but I seen a sliver of light from the right side of the ceiling. So I'm guessing I'm in a basement. Ah not good because odds are my screams couldn't be heard from down here. I wanted to scream, to try to alert someone that I was here but I also didn't want my attacker to know that I am awake. My head shook with a sharp pain and ring enough to make my eyes water. I tried to remember exactly how I got here. I remember talking to Mia about Johnny and getting her a new phone and number. I remember feeling an odd sensation take over as soon as I left the house. I started to get nauseated and every hair had stood up on my body. I shook it off as nerves. I knew how much this would cause problems between Vince, Dom, and me. So of course I was nervous that I would be caught. I also didn't like lying. I mean I get her being worried about being involved but maybe if she let me tell them, I wouldn't be here. Or maybe I would. Maybe it would be so much worse if they knew. I need to concentrate. Remember how I got here. I went to the phone store.

The phone store, I felt it there too. Even as the clerk flirted with me and talked down to me because to some people country accent means illiterate and dumb. I kept my temper in check which I swear to God deserved a medal. The dude even asked me if everyone in the south has messed around with their kin. Who does that shit to someone they don't know? I could never imagine Dom saying anything about incest in general, especially if it involves me. Mia never acted as if I'm beneath her because I'm not from California. If Vince said something like that, I automatically would have laughed because I know V. You know to be honest Vince never made any incest jokes, I think he didn't want to offend me. Dom's smirking face filled my mind. Oh Dom, if I get out of here...my eyes blurred over with tears. I finally know what it's like to have his lips on mine, his taste on my tongue. God wouldn't torture me and take it away now would he? I take a deep calming breath. Focus Roxie! I have to concen myself with what happened last night so maybe it can shed some light on how I got here and how I can get home. Okay I played up to the flirting because it got Mia a free case and some bad ass wireless

headphones.

As I walked out proud of myself of how easily the man had been conned, well that and Dom didn't show up to be macho Man, the sickness got so bad that I almost felt like doubling over but I practically ran to my car; my safe haven. Something in my head kept telling me to run. Run as hard as I can. Only I didn't make it. I heard a laugh. The sound slammed through my injured head just like whatever the person hit me with did. The sound was creepy but familiar, like it wasn't something that I heard regularly. The last thing that went through my head was silently praying that Mia didn't try to come for me.

The lights flipped on and I realized why it sounded familiar. Johnny came walking down the stairs with a crow bar in his hand. Oh god! No wonder my head hurts. Did he hit me with that? Maybe I'm overreacting but with all the pain in my head and the fact that now that I can see everything is a little blurry, it makes sense that he hit me with it. This psychopath knocked me out with a fucking crowbar! Me, Roxanne DeLuca, five foot five inches and 150lbs. He walked around behind my chair. I felt every hair on my body right at that moment. He chuckled at my anxiety and to increase it I'm guessing I felt the cool metal of the crowbar against my skull. My fear overrode my spine and my stomach heaved all over in front of me, causing him to smirk even more. He walked back around to the front of me now and dropped the crowbar, the loud clang vibrated through the entire room. The now constant throbbing in my head continued despite all my prayers. He stood directly in front of me but his feet were spread apart, obviously dodging my vomit. I've always thought he was creepy but right now much to my dismay, he looked down right homicidal.

"Ahh little Roxie, how often I've imagined you here; tied up with my ropes or belts. That stubborn look of determination I can't wait to break. I hope you're worth the wait and trouble you've put me through." He ran his index finger down the side of my temple and over my cheeks until he cupped my jaw. He tightened his grip on my face and turned it to look at him.

"Jace was never enough for you was he? Too soft, you need a man to handle you. Someone to put you in your place for acting up or for all that shit that comes out of your mouth. I told him time and time again that he would never be enough but he still kept on. He couldn't stay away from you, how pathetic. He was obsessed with being around you, obviously he forgot his role." He let go of my face and paced around the small room. He looked confident. I replayed his words over in my head. What did he mean by 'forgetting his role'? What was Jace's role? Did I even want to ask?

"It's eating you up isn't it? Not knowing what I mean. Look at you now, whether you live or die is in my hands. Ah how things are finally coming full circle. Mia was always the untouchable. No one could even be near her, and you," he sneered. The more he talked and the more hatred I felt oozing out of his pores. I tried not to get discouraged but at that moment, I had a feeling I wasn't making it out of here.

"Acting like you're better than everyone else or that your pussy is liquid gold. Tell me Roxie, did you finally give it up to him?" I wanted to look away from him but I knew that was what he wanted. So I straightened my spine as much as I could and gave him a smirk. My stomach was already flipping again. Why does he seem so obsessed with mine and Jace's relationship? Thinking back, Jace was always agitated and aggressive after meeting with Johnny and his friends. He wasn't the same person after he seen them. Even if we passed them on the street his whole demeanor changed. I bet this is just the tip of the iceberg of shit he used to say to Jace. He rarely told me any of it though. Why did it matter so much to Johnny? Hell why does he want to know if I slept with him? Oh god...what if he tries to have sex with me? I don't want to lose my virginity to this piece of shit. I mean it will be rape but no no no he can't be the one. Should I tell him the truth? Or should I lie to make it seem like I'm nothing special? My head's so fuzzy it's hard to make the right choice.

"Oh yeah I did. Actually I just seen him for you know my 'monthly matinence' if you get my drift." I added the last part with a wink, which earned me a hard slap across the face. I held in the wince even though it almost killed me. Johnny was not going to see me weak and cowering to him. And I'll be goddamn if he takes my virginity before Dominic Toretto gets it. I've waited too long for this to be ruined by this scum bag.

"You're lying to me. Jace hasn't been here in years. I would know. If anyone sees his face in this town I would have had a call. " He was smug, too smug. Why would he have people watching out for Jace? I know their friendship ended on bad terms but this is beyond that. Maybe he was trying to enact revenge for Jace kicking his ass? I don't know but either way I was going to enjoy popping his bubble.

"Well someone isn't doing their job honey," I spat the word. "Jace was here four days ago. He spent two days with me. We went to dinner, watching movies and well you know. You can ask our old waitress at the diner she seen us and the video store clerk's. He comes to see me once a month." The response was quick but I caught it, fear. It spread in his eyes before he guarded it. Good let him think Jace would be looking for me. Or is it he's more afraid that Jace will find him? He surprised me by laughing.

"You're so quick to defend him. It makes me laugh, really laugh because you have no idea. Our crew had been watching you and Mia before we 'ran' into you at the mall the first time. What better way to get to Dom than through you two. Well honestly it was just supposed to be Mia but hey what a bonus we got. Natural Mia was mine, I wanted to crush Toretto. But Jace? He was a natural at bringing you in close. I never expected the response out of Dom when it came to you so I'm glad Jace was quick to jump in. After you two started spending time together, he knew what he had to do. We never could have imagined that Dom would give a shit about you but we lucked out." Ouch. That hurt. A lot.

"Why? Why still bother me then if I was just a game? " I was caught off guard by the slap across the face. He hit me so hard my ears were ringing.

"You think you run shit here bitch?! Well you were mistaken. This is only the first day of many for all the shit I have planned for you." I wanted to yell that they would find me. That he wouldn't get more than a day but maybe he was right. Maybe I should accept my fate now.

He reached behind his back and pulled out a knife. I wish I could say that I have knowledge of knives and all but I don't. Its way bigger than a pocket knife but smaller than a machete. I know wide variety right? This knife was about the size of my arm from the elbow down. He grinned at me as he leaned close. The tip of the knife started at my cheek, where he pushed in for more pressure. I felt my eyes water but I fought it. Come on Roxie, he's wanting to break you. That's the whole reason for this display of power. He dug it in deeper and I let out a yell, a blow to my own ego. I was trying to be strong. The blood slowly ran down my cheek and then down my neck.

"Thought so. You think you're so tough because you run with the Toretto's. They're little bitches just like you." I spit in his face which only succeeded in pissing him off more. I should have thought it through.

"Dom is four times the man you will ever be. It's not your fault, really. Blame it on your daddy for leaving all of the good qualities on the cum rag." He smacked me so hard I seen stars. He gained composure though. That was a good come back, I'm going to have to remember that one.

"Ah how had I forgotten. Mia told me all about your little obsession with her brother. We laughed about the little hick bitch who has been holding out for someone she can never have. You were a laughing stock to all of your friends and you have no idea. Ah I just love your innocence. It makes you such an easy target. You're not Letty, Roxanne. Or haven't you realized that by now? I've had you for 24 hours now. Where's Dom huh? Probably buried between her thighs right now." Okay he hit his mark there. That hurt so much at first I missed the fact that he said I have been gone for over a day now. Where is my Calvary? Did they decide I wasn't worth the hassle? Damn it, if no one else Vince won't leave me here...right?

Meanwhile at the Toretto's...

*Vince*

I pulled out my phone and tried to call Roxie for the hundredth time since I seen her yesterday. Something was wrong, I can't find her anywhere and that's saying something. Even when she hides from the world she still leaves clues for me to find her. Her voicemail immediately picks up. The last time I saw her she cried until she was hoarse over something she couldn't talk to me about which isn't the Roxie I've known for the last five years. She tells me everything. I even have to hear about her fucking period like she doesn't have Mia to tell that shit too. Whatever it was to have her crying that she couldn't tell me and not to push I know it's bad. I walk over to Mia's door to pound on it again . She keeps pretending like she's not in there but why else would her door be locked? Plus that's where Roxie came from earlier before her meltdown. I'm done playing these fucking games. She's going to answer this door or im kicking it in.

"MIA! I know you're fucking in there. You better open this door right now! I need to know where Roxie went. I can't find her anywhere. I know something bad happened Mia. But your best friend could be in danger." Silence filled the other side of the door. I leaned my forehead on it, trying to get my shit in check. Whatever this shit was going on with Mia, I know she wouldn't just accept that Roxie is missing. She probably thinks I'm lying so I start talking again.

"No one's seen her since she left your room yesterday Mi, no one. Her mom and pop, Dom, Leon, Letty no one. You know I always know where she is and I can't locate her. I think—" my throat closed up as I didn't realize I was getting emotional. "I think something has happened to our Roxie Mia. You're the only one who can help me find her. Please. She's your best friend too

A/n hey guys it's been awhile. I hope you enjoy it .