Found You by Sarah Jules

Author:Sarah Jules [Jules, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-10-12T23:00:00+00:00

It was almost like his mother wanted to gloss over his little breakdown because when he left the bathroom she accepted the excuse of an upset stomach with a sickening ease. Liz, on the other hand, not so much. She glared at him from across the living room, her eyes boring holes into his brain. He knew that she’d ask him more when she got the chance. But he couldn’t tell her about the last message. It was all too much. She’d want to see it and that couldn’t happen. There was no way you could go on loving a person, or at least being attracted to them, after having seen them in such an embarrassingly awful state.

The way he looked in that photograph, Cameron was certain, would haunt him forever. The lack of power, the helplessness of it, made his skin crawl with fear. If that photo got out and people saw him so feeble, so sad, it would kill him. It wasn’t the prospect of people seeing his nude body that petrified him. Hell, he’d been seen nude by plenty of people over the years. What hurt the most was people seeing him so broken and pathetic.

Trying his utmost to continue with the conversation around him, Cameron said the odd sentence, trying to appear as normal as possible. He even made excuses to visit the bathroom a couple of times to back up his story. Whenever he stood, he placed his aching hand into his pocket for fear that his family might notice the growing bruise.

On his third trip to the toilet, he made up his mind to delete the image. He wouldn’t message back. That would surely just cause them more joy. The thought of the bald man laughing over his naked body while he pressed a knife into him was already too much. There was no way he was about to chance Liz seeing it too.

The photograph vanished from the chat. Cameron was still unable to breathe easily, but it came easier. The photograph no longer lived on in his phone. But did it live on elsewhere? Was it saved on somebody’s computer? Or posted to their social media? God only knew where that image had circulated. The question still remained of when, and where, and how, the photograph was taken. It couldn’t have already happened. The explanation that he hadn’t ever been tortured seemed to withdraw that from the running.

What if it is yet to happen? What if this is somebody from the future sending me these images?

For a second, the thought seemed reasonable. Like it was the only logical explanation. Only a few moments later, he realised that this thought was beyond ridiculous. That the very fact that he was contemplating somebody from the future sending him these images proved that he’d finally reached a point of insanity in which he should seek professional help.

The phone vibrated in his dry hands.

YOU SHOULDN’T HAVE DONE THAT.

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