The Escape Plan: NYSSA
My legs and hands were still tied and I didn’t know what to do for a moment. It looked to me like the men in charge of my kidnap left durin’ the evenin’ since they couldn’t spend the night in a place like this.
It was me who could spend the night in such a place. I sat up with my back, lookin’ around as I thought ’bout a way out. Many thoughts ran in my mind and I thought in my head that I had found a way to treat my mess.
Without any hesitation, I crawled to the window side with my butt on the floor and caught up with it, liftin’ my hand as I used the window glass to cut off the rope.
“Stupid men.”
They should have known I wouldn’t stay here for long. I reached for my leg and untied the rope, jumpin’ on my feet the next moment and walkin’ to the door.
It was locked.
Not from inside but outside.
I now looked around me and didn’t see anythin’ like a key. It was at this point that I knew I needed to reach out to someone. At least, I had a phone with me in the space so I just reached for it at the back of my pants and took it out – smilin’ as I moped at the screen.
Then, it dawned on me that the man I should be married to had married another woman who wasn’t me.
How did Calypso convince ‘im to do a thing like that? My gaze didn’t leave the screen of my phone for one moment, and I sat on the floor where I sobbed for moments, makin’ up my mind to leave this place.
But how was I supposed to go ’bout it?
I looked around me again.
It was an empty room with not a tool to break the door. It was high time I reached out to someone. Anyone at all and it couldn’t be Kazmir. He didn’t have an idea what was goin’ on and I didn’t have to call ‘im. Especially if I didn’t want to be caught by Calypso who would reach out to her men and then me at the snap of her dirty fin’ers.
Then, it struck me.
Ariadne.
How could I forget her?
I looked around again to verify there was no one in the space with me and then searched the whole of my phone for her contact. Fear was an understatement of what I could feel and I wished in my mind that she would pick my call without wastin’ my time.
“Ariadne?”
“Yes, who’s this?”
She sounded from the other end and I didn’t know how to start explainin’ myself, but I eventually figured a way out. “This is Nyssa Draven, Ariadne. I need your help and that’s why I’m callin’.”
“You sound sick-” she said and I heard footsteps.
“Give me some time, can you? I’ll be at the house before the next hour ends.” She said, makin’ me also realize that she also fell for whatever it was Calypso had done.
“No!”
“What?”
“I’m not the one in that house, Ariadne. It’s my twin. She’s been deceivin’ you all and I’ll advise that you don’t make a noise ’bout it.”
“What?!”
“Yes. I was kidnapped many days ago and woke up days later in this dusty room. I need help and this is why I’m reachin’ out to you.”
“Oh, no-!” from the other end, she cried.
“I should have known somethin’ was wrong when she said she had issues with her Sim and then changed it. It wasn’t you.” Her voice seemed like she would burst out cryin’ the next moment but that wasn’t what I needed.
“I should have known!”
“Ariadne?”
“Where is this place and how are you usin’ a phone? Such careless kidnappers.”
There and then, I explained but at the same time, looked out in case someone was comin’ into the buildin’. I couldn’t be caught, and my legs were already weak. Ariadne had to do somethin’ ’bout gettin’ me out. Anythin’ at all.
“I need you to get me out of here. I’ve sent the location to you, Ariadne. Please, you have to brin’ me out. Kazmir has to know I’m not the woman he’s with, at least. I can’t possibly be with ‘im anymore but he deserves to know the truth. You need to get me out of here.”
“I’ve seen the location.”
Thank God!
“I can’t come there on my own, inasmuch as I want to get you out of there. I have no strength of my own. Not any, Nyssa, so give me some time to reach out to the others.”
“What others?”
“I’ll see if I can get through to Darius, and then those men that came with us to the restaurant for the meetin’ with your sister. Are they always there in the mornin’s? Or is it only during evenin’s?”
I should have lied, but I couldn’t. If not for anythin’ but the safety of the woman and those she would come with.
“They’re not here in the evenin’s. Does that mean I’ll spend another day here, Ariadne? I haven’t had a thing to eat in days and I’ll die if care is not taken.”
“You have to endure.”
“And don’t use your phone again until we’re there. We can’t track this location if the phone is seized.” She said and ended the call, leavin’ me more than stranded.
I started cryin’ again, wonderin’ what I would do if these men came in the mornin’ to see the rope gone from my hands and legs.
I didn’t need to be told before knowin’ I needed to tie myself once more – which was done before the end of the next hour. And now I drifted to sleep, hatin’ myself for goin’ on that meetin’ with Calypso.
I hated the fact that she didn’t die from the infection. Why did that nurse take her in? I had wondered before dozin’ off, openin’ my eyes hours later to see it was another day. How long before evenin’ would come? Lookin’ around,
Then, there were sounds I could hear.
A voice I recognized sounded and I jumped on my feet, unsure but needed to be certain. It wasn’t even evenin’ yet, or was it?
Scatterin’ the ropes again, I took my phone out of my pocket and fixed my gaze on the screen. It was evenin’.
How come?!
And how long was I asleep?
“Are you in there, Nyssa?!” Ariadne’s voice sounded, and the door was bein’ hit.