Present
” How Can I forget what you did, Maria!” I scoffed at her but she just stood there without any remorse or guilt on her face. How can she be fine after hurting someone to the extent they decided to take their life and always felt self-conscious and suffered from mental health?
” I did everything to gain your attention, Scarlett! I was suffocating with being only your friend and I want more from you but you never looked at me like that.” Tears gathered in her eyes and she looked so broken but now I can easily predict when she is going to change. She is behaving like someone who has a switch in her head that is turning off and on every second.
” Maria! I’m so sorry that you felt suffocated and I never noticed your feelings towards me but if I would have known then still wouldn’t have reciprocated your feelings.” I respect her feelings and I would have supported her and helped her but she didn’t approach me but rather walked a negative path, a path of destruction.
” I know that but I still wanted you, Scar! I don’t regret what I did to you and how I stopped that stupid Noah from taking you away from me.” she started laughing hysterically like she did the best thing but not betrayed me. Her betrayal was worse than Noah’s because he was not in my life for long but she was my best friend.
” I forgive you for the things you did to me Maria and I am slowly moving on from the things which were holding me back from enjoying my life and I will forget everything, even this too but please let me go and you need help, Maria! Let me help you.” I started pleading with her. I want her to not destroy her life like this. She still has some good in her and I know with the help she will heal and move on and I will make that happen.
My hands are tied behind my back to the chair and I was trying to untie the knots from the moment I gained consciousness. I need to untie myself so I can run away the moment I get the chance even if I have to forget to help Maria, first I need to be alive to help her.
My wrists are burning as the rope is digging into my flesh. I am twisting my hand to loosen them. I hope I lose them before Maria’s switch turns off negatively.
” I don’t want your forgiveness, Scarlett! I have done so many bad things and I can’t be helped now and I can’t see you happy with someone else other than me.” she has this sickly evil glint in her eyes which made me shudder in fear. I can clearly see her determination.
” Please, Maria! Don’t do anything. Let’s get help, it’s not too late.” I pleaded again for her and my sake. I don’t want to die in her hands like this when I know my family is waiting for me and Omar is waiting for me and when for the first time I was moving on and doing something for myself.
” Shut Up! I don’t want to hear your whining Scarlett! Be a good girl and keep quiet.” She scowled at me and left the dingy filthy room.
I looked around my surroundings and there was nothing other than my chair, a table some feet beside me, and a couch. It looks abandoned.
I slowly tried to move toward the table while moving my body in the chair to scrape the chair near the table so I could lose the rope from my hands. I started moving slowly trying not to make any sound and alert Maria.
As soon as I reached the table I tried to put the rope on the end of the table to loosen rope so I can have the chance to remove even one of my hands it took so much pressure and concentration to loosen it but finally, I can able to wiggle my hand from the rope making me sigh with relief. I don’t have much time to enjoy my victory, I don’t want to get caught again so I hurriedly turned around and removed the rope from the table and my other hand.
Bending down I untied the rope from my legs and stood up with unsteady legs. I don’t know how much time has passed but being tied down to a chair is not a good thing and it shows very well.
I didn’t stop to check if Maria was coming or if someone else was there. I slowly took the steps toward the only door I can see trying not to make any noise. My heart started beating so loud that I thought I was going to have a heart attack any second.
My hands felt so clammy with sweat and my breathing started to come out in puffs and my ears were ringing due to the blood rushing through them with nerves.
I turned the knob, holding my breath and praying that it was not locked. To my surprise and luck, the door unlocked and I took a relieved breath, at last, to get my freedom from Maria. Happy tears started streaming down my face and I didn’t wait for a second more to see if someone was watching me or not and started running down the stairs. I could see large trees surrounding this small house.
My face got whiplashes from the tree branches and the leaves crunching under my feet. My arms were burning from the gashes they received from the pointed trees while I was running so fast like a bullet train, not stopping to take a breath.
My priority is to get out of these thick woods but I can’t seem to find the exit from the trees surrounding me.
Adrenaline rushing through my body makes it easy for my legs to move fast even though my legs are begging me to stop. I hope I have the time to get out of this trap and get help. I need to tell Omar how much I miss him and how much I love him even though we didn’t spend much time getting to know each other. I will not push him away this time and give a chance to love and life
I was so into my thoughts and the fear of getting caught that I didn’t see the log before me which was hidden with the leaves and small branches which made my body stumble hard and roll on the sharp twigs. My leg which made contact with the log is throbbing so hard, I don’t know if I had broken my ankle or it was just temporary pain but nonetheless, it’s hurting like a bitch.
I was still on the ground clutching my leg which was hurting and groaning in pain.
” tsk tsk, You shouldn’t have run like that Scar. Look what you did to your leg.” my body stilled hearing her cold voice which raised goosebumps on my body and a shiver down my spine. I thought I had run a long way and she wouldn’t find me but I had already gotten caught by her. The pain I am feeling in my leg is nothing more than the pain and fear from getting caught is much more.