[ WP ] You wake up to hear your friend sleeping nearby whispering , `` Help me ... ''

`` Help me...'' 
 
 I slowly opened my eyes to darkness as I heard my friend pleading to someone. 
 
 My body froze. I quickly shut my eyes again. I tried to breathe as quietly and deeply as possible to feign sleep as icy fear slithered through my extremities. No need to let them know I was awake. 
 
 Once more, I heard his voice hiss out in a pleading wheeze, seeping through the lazy summer air like poison. `` Please... I need help, someone, please help me. I ca n't, I ca n't move.'' 
 
 I listened to his breathing grow shorter and more panicked, and my own fought to race faster as if in challenge. 
 
 I could vaguely hear some static, and the sound of a calm adult asking questions from far away. 
 
 `` I-I do n't, I ca n't hear you. What are you asking me? I think-... Oh god, oh god. What is that?'' 
 
 Even if I could n't see it, I could hear it. I squeezed my eyes shut harder. 
 
 The static grew louder. It sounded more urgent. More angry. 
 
 `` Please, someone, help. Oh god. Oh my god. Help me-'' 
 
 Bolstered by his cries, I gathered the courage to slowly reached out a hand, using my memory to find his clammy palm somewhere in front of me. It was wrapped around his useless cellphone in a death grip. 
 
 Ironic. I fought the inappropriate giggle that struggled to escape me. 
 
 `` What-'' 
 
 `` Shhhhh,'' I shushed him. `` Calm down.'' 
 
 `` Sam, you got ta help me, man. I ca n't move, what the f*** is going on, I ca n't move.'' 
 
 I slowly pried the phone out of his grip to wrap my trembling hands around his sweaty palm. My friend began babbling as he squeezed back. 
 
 `` Sam, look, do you have your phone? I had mine, I think they forgot to take them away from us.'' 
 
 I breathed out a confirmation. I could feel the familiar shape of my iPhone in my back pocket. 
 
 `` You got ta call someone. You have to-oh god, I'm so sorry. After you fell asleep, I had a few drinks and, and someone else was in the house. They knocked me out, and, god, I do n't know where we are, man. I do n't know where we are.'' 
 
 I squeezed his hand again, comfortingly. 
 
 `` But look, it's good you're awake. I ca n't, I ca n't move. I think they tied me down or something. But you can, so, so we can get out of this. We're going to get out of this.'' 
 
 I listened quietly to him gain courage, feeling my heartbeat slow as he calmed down. A frown creased my brow as I inched my body closer to the heat of his body. 
 
 `` Sam? What are you doing? You-'' 
 
 I shushed him once more before I glanced into the darkness across the room. Then I looked down at the phone in my hand, and the call that was still in progress. 
 
 My voice came out shaky with fear as I whispered into his phone, `` Hello? M-my name is Sam and my friend and I, we're in trouble I think-... oh my god, please, please stop! No-'' 
 
 The sound of the phone crashing into the wall echoed as the sound of static and urgent questioning cut off. 
 
 `` Sam? What the f*** did you just do? Why would you-'' 
 
 I desperately snuggled closer to my friend's body heat as I shushed him one last time. I saw the darkness creeping closer. 
 
 It was too bad that they'd know there was someone else here, but at least Sam was n't my real name.
