The Editor

Chapter 35: What Happened After Returning to L.A. from Michigan Part 4

~February 3, 2017, 1325 Pacific Standard Time(1625 Eastern Standard Time), Abandoned Warehouse in Downtown L.A.~

(outfit above is what Shelby wore to work)

Shelby's P.O.V.-

It has been an hour since I was kidnapped and I am really really scared because I now have cuts on my arms starting at my wrists and going up to my elbows. Remina, Wes' abusive ex, told me that if my friends mess up again that she was going to slit my throat and kill me, which scared me to death. When Remina walked out of the room I was being held in to go and talk to someone with a voice that sounded familiar, I texted Wes and told him how scared I was and how I wish that he and the guys would come and find me soon before Remina slit my throat and killed me. When I heard the male voice that Remina was talking to get closer, I realized that the male voice was my abusive ex Cody. When I realized that Remina and Cody were working together on this, I became even more scared because Cody scares the shit out of me and I didn't think that he would be getting out of jail anytime soon. When Remina and Cody came into the room I was being held in, Cody walked up to me and got super close to my face before telling me: "I would kill you myself, but I'm already a wanted man because I escaped out of the prison that YOU sent me to before I could go to college, you dirty shit bag! So, I am going to let my new lady friend, Remina, have the pleasure of killing you. Is that understood, whore?" I nodded my head yes in fear of what Cody would do to me if I nodded my head no. After yelling in my face, Cody and Remina walked out of the room, closing and locking the door behind them. When they left, I got out my phone and texted Wes asking him if he had come up with a plan to rescue me before I got killed or raped or even worse. Wes texted back that he had secretly called the police and that he, Joven, Marhinki, Lasercorn, Flitz, Ian, Anthony and the squad were working with the police to track where the texts that Remina and I sent were coming from so they could have my exact location to be able to rescue me. 

~1 hour later~

It has been an hour and I still haven't heard any sirens, gunshots or screams and I am starting to wonder if I am going to be rescued at all. Remina and Cody haven't come back to check on me at all yet either, which scares me even more. I picked up my phone and was about to text Wes and ask him if he was coming or not, when I heard screams and then footsteps thundering down the stairs and the faint sound of sirens in the distance. The door to the room that I was in was flung open and an angry Remina came storming in, with Cody following her angrily, clutching a sharp looking razor blade. When Remina got to me, she picked me up by the hood of my jacket and held the blade to my neck and pressing it into my neck and making me yelp. When the sirens got closer and louder, Remina slowly drug the blade across my neck so that by the time the cops, Wes and my friends got to us, I would be bleeding heavily and so that the blade would be halfway across my neck so that she could quickly drag the blade across my neck if someone who was rescuing me made a stupid move so that she could drop me and then run away with Cody, who was probably going to go back to jail for a really long time. By the time the sirens stopped in front of the building, Remina had the blade 1/4 of the way across my neck and by the time the cops, Wes and my friends found us, the blade was literally 1/2 way across my neck. "Nobody move or I finish dragging the blade across this whore's neck and kill her!" Remina exclaimed loudly. Wes went to make a move, but I weakly told him not to do anything and that if I didn't make it, that he would have to move on, even if his next relationship was nothing like our relationship. Wes shook his head no in response to what I said. One of the cops told Remina to drop the blade, but she wouldn't. The cop that told her to drop the blade reached for his taser and Remina forcefully and quickly finished dragging the blade across my neck and then dropped me, which caused me to yell in pain and then fall to the floor and land on my right wrist and make it snap. When I heard my wrist snap, I screamed bloody murder because I knew that I had just broken my wrist. When I fell to the floor, the cop that told Remina to drop the blade and 2 other cops went after her and Cody while 2 more cops, Wes and Mari ran over to me to talk to me to see if I was coherent, responsive and alive. Wes was the first one to get to me, so he picked me up and talked to me while Mari and the cops tried to pry Wes off of me. "I won't let you die Shelby, I won't. You can't die because if you do, I don't know how I will ever be able to move on with my life because I love you so much and you bring so much joy and happiness into my life, even when you are a cranky pants and want to be left alone. Shelby, please don't leave, I really need you and I know that you need me. Please..." Wes said as he held me in his arms and cried. Wes was eventually pried off of me and 2 paramedics showed up and put me on a stretcher. As I was pulled away from Wes, I weakly clutched his hand with my right hand before I passed out. The last thing that I heard was Wes' sobbing and the paramedics talking to each other and saying that I was fading fast.

Wes' P.O.V.-

We ended up calling the cops secretly and then having them trace where Shelby was texting me from so that we could find her. When the cops finally finished tracing Shelby's text, they said that she was in an old abandoned warehouse in downtown L.A., which wasn't that far from the Smosh House. When we were a mile out from the abandoned warehouse, I could hear a familiar scream come from the warehouse. When we arrived at the warehouse, Me, 5 cops, Marhinki, Flitz, Joven, Lasercorn, Ian, Anthony, Courtney, Olivia, Shayne, Keith and Noah all got out of our respective cars and ran inside the warehouse. When we finally found the room where Shelby was being held, we saw Remina holding Shelby by the jacket with a razor blade to her neck and blood slowly dripping out of Shelby's neck. "Nobody move or I finish dragging the blade across this whore's neck and kill her!" Remina exclaimed loudly. I went to make a move to try and get Shelby away from Remina, but Shelby weakly told me not to and that if she died, that I had to move on with my life. I shook my head no in response, but Shelby didn't see because she had her eyes squeezed shut in pain. One of the 5 cops told Remina to drop the blade, but Remina wouldn't drop it, so when the cop that said something to Remina went for his taser, I watched in horror as Remina quickly and forcefully finished dragging the blade across Shelby's neck. When Remina finished slitting Shelby's neck, she dropped Shelby to the ground and then took off running with a man that I have never seen before. When Shelby fell to the ground, all that was heard was Remina's footsteps and a loud snap that came from Shelby. As Remina and the strange man ran off, 3 of the 5 cops took off running after them and I ran over to Shelby, who was laying on the ground, half concious. I picked Shelby up in my arms and talked to her to see if she would respond and as I was talking to Shelby, Mari and the 2 cops that didn't go and chase after Remina and the man tried to pry me off of Shelby. "I won't let you die Shelby, I won't. You can't die because if you do, I don't know how I will ever be able to move on with my life because I love you so much and you bring so much joy and happiness into my life, even when you are a cranky pants and want to be left alone. Shelby, please don't leave, I really need you and I know that you need me. Please..." I said to Shelby as I held her almost lifeless body in my arms and sobbed uncontrollably. I was eventually pried off of Shelby when 2 paramedics came in and pulled Shelby out of my arms and placed her on a stretcher and talked between themselves. As I stood there and watched the paramedics, Mari came over to me and tried to comfort me by rubbing my back. I started to sob even more when I heard one of the paramedics say that she had passed out and that she was barely alive due to so much blood loss and they wheeled her away on the stretcher towards an ambulance. Since I was to emotional to drive, Mari gave her keys to Sohinki and drove me and my car to the hospital where we waited for 9 hours for Shelby to wake up.

~9 hours later, L.A. Community Hospital Room #512~

Shelby's P.O.V.-

When I finally came around, I was blinded by something above me and I could hear a beeping sound off to my right. I looked around and tried to get my bearings so that I could figure out where in the hell I was. When my eyes finally adjusted to the light, I could see that I was in the hospital, again. When I realized that I was in the hospital again, I began to panic. Eventually a nurse came into my room followed by some familiar faces that I knew and loved and didn't want to kill me or rape me. When I saw Wes walk in, I looked at his face which was red and puffy and stained with tears from all of the crying that he had apparently been doing. Wes eventually looked at me and our eyes met and his sad chocolate brown puppy dog eyes turned into happy, cheerful chocolate brown puppy dog eyes because he was happy that I was awake and alive. "I will NEVER let anything like that happen to you again, even if that means moving your desk into the already over crowded recording room at work." Wes told me as he pulled up a chair and sat on my left side and grabbed my fingers lightly, so he didn't hurt me or cause me any pain. I went to pick up the hand that wasn't full of needles and things and I looked at my left arm and saw a cast on it and realized that when I was thrown to the ground, my wrist had snapped. I was going to use the sign for I love you and show Wes because my throat had been slit and I wasn't sure if I was able to talk. "You look like you want to say something." Wes told me, "Go ahead, Remina didn't cut any of your vocal chords." Since Wes told me that I could talk and that my vocal chords hadn't been cut, I hoarsely whispered, "I love you so much." to Wes, who in return kissed me on the lips and rubbed his tongue on my bottom lip, but I denied him access to explore my mouth. When Wes and I broke from our kiss, he gave me a big hug and then told me that my doctor wanted to keep me here overnight for observation to see if anything was seriously wrong with me. I asked Wes if he would stay with me and he told me that he wasn't allowed to stay with me and that he would be back in the morning to stay with me until I was released from the hospital. Wes and Mari stayed for a little while longer until the nurses realized that it was after 2300 and that visiting hours had ended just over 2 hours ago. Mari waved good bye and Wes came to my bedside and gave me a long kiss on the lips good bye and told me that he would be back at 0830 tomorrow morning. I nodded yes and then watched as Wes walked out and left me alone in my hospital room for the night.