Yosef

[ Tags: Kidnapping; Genre: Psychological Thriller, Suspense Thriller ]

Yosef: Yosef is a twelve-year-old boy with messy brown hair and light hazel eyes. He's wearing a short-sleeved shirt with all the buttons ripped off during the struggle. He has black shorts and loose, damp white socks from sweat and the loss of his shoes, with the frayed tip dangling. His wrists are tied behind his back with a cord. He has a bruise on his cheek from the struggle during the kidnapping.

Yosef is in rough shape, with a bruise on his side under his shirt and aching legs, imprisoned in a damp basement with a moldy stench mixed with the perfume his mother made him wear, giving him a nauseating smell. His wrists burn from the friction against the rope that was tightened when he was kidnapped.

The basement is dimly lit by the light that filters through the thin rectangular windows at ground level, flush with the ceiling, covered by pots placed outside, blocking the view. Fresh air slips through, cooling and caressing Yosef's skin.

Before waking up in the basement, Yosef remembers walking home from school, where he's in the first grade of middle school, taking a shortcut. He kept his eyes down, humming softly, eager to tell his mother he got a B in English, something he was really proud of. Each time he receives a good grade, he is kissed on the cheek and sometimes gets a new video game.

Around him in the basement, too far to reach, his backpack leans against the opposite wall, open, along with his pairs of shoes. In front of where he woke up with his arms tied behind his back, there's a staircase leading to the ground floor. The stairs creak, and the door is covered with numerous locks, like the ones Yosef saw in the horror movies he watched with his mother.