Chapter 48
Tessy’s POV
After a long drive with the guns still pointing at every one of us, we got to an unknown destination.
They opened the door asking us to raise our hands where they could see them and walk out quietly.
“That’s it, just obey us and we won’t kill you.” They said on repeat.
“If any of you misbehaves, a bullet will be placed in your brain.” The other said and I knew he meant it.
“I’m so scared Tessy, we are doomed,” Elizabeth said with tears still streaming down her eyes.
“Just do as they say and I know we will be fine, for now, I guess.” I whispered.
“Hey, you two!! What are you whispering about??” One of them approached us and we were already shivering in fear, what should I do?
“Are you planning to escape??” He yelled and we went on our knees immediately with tears in our eyes.
“Please don’t harm us!!” I begged and they yelled saying, “Follow the others or I chop off your head.”
“Yes sir..” We obeyed following others immediately and right now we don’t know if someone can help us.
A lot of questions played in my head, why kidnap us? Is there a wealthy child among us? Are they trying to blackmail the Mayor of our town? This isn’t right, I just really hope they don’t end up killing us.
They brought a basket when we were fully out of the bus after we were made to line up.
“Now listen students, you are going to follow my instructions, just a mistake, I will end your life, is that clear??”
We answered in a low tone and he fired an empty spot yelling, “IS THAT CLEAR??”
“YES SIR!!” Terror could be heard in our voices, everyone is consumed already with fear and it increases when he pulls the trigger, this shows they will kill us when they finally get the chance, it’s over for us.
“Now every one of you is going to submit your phones and everything in this basket, do that immediately!” They ordered taking everything from us and they went as far as telling us to take off our shirts as they searched us around, what pains me the most was the fact that searching us was like harassment as they felt our bodies with that opportunity, I found it disgusting but what can I do? This is happening already.
Seeing how satisfied they were, they had to separate the males from the female, we were being locked up in an empty room with a lot of people guarding each entrance.
“What do you think they will do to us?” Elizabeth asked with her voice barely above a whisper.
“I wish I knew, let’s see what happens next, I am certain they will tell us what they want from us.” She added.
“Do you think they want money to release us?”
“I really don’t know Elizabeth but you need to calm down at this rate okay? You just need to remain calm.” I held her hands. Truth be told, I am more scared here because I have been in situations in the past making me stuck in my nightmare of the masked figure haunting me day and night, now this is taking place, will I ever be able to recover from this anytime soon?
I had hoped maybe my father would contact the police and they would track my phone leading them to this place to save us all.
“We will be out of here in no time, “I said trying to encourage my friend.
It was hours and no one was coming for us, not even the people who took us hostage, then a thought crossed my mind, what if they are planning to sell us into slavery? Maybe they are waiting for the slave masters to come and make the highest bid on our heads. Oh no, this is going to be mad, my life will be done for, I don’t want to end up as a slave to anyone. Oh Lord please save us and deliver us from the hands of our enemy!! I pray oh Lord!! Amen!!!
I didn’t know the time I fell asleep in the arms of Elizabeth who also was fast asleep.
I had the repeated nightmare, the Mask figure chasing after me again.
I stopped because I was out of breath and I asked him, “What did I do to you? Why are you after me?”
I waited for a response but he didn’t say anything, he just hovered around me with his iron fist caressing my face sending a thousand messages of fear to my entire being.
He is going to kill me, I know it and there is no escape place for me. I closed my eyes and I could feel the heat of his fury from the mask as he held my head and about twisting it to my death, I felt cold water on my body, immediately I jumped up with a scream!!
Elizabeth hugged me saying, “It’s okay, be calm, they are here waking everyone up..” I nodded but I was shivering already. What if the Mask figure is behind all this? What if he wants me dead? What if I am the reason for the suffering of everyone here? What will I do now? I was not wrong to face this kind of torment.
“Now listen everyone, your phones have been destroyed already!!” immediately I heard this, I knew there was no hope anymore, the little hope I had has been taken away. Let’s face reality now, that’s just it.
“We are going to be checking you all or better still if you don’t want us to check you, do this simple task!!” He said with a sinister laugh.
“If you have a tattoo on your body, come this way but if you don’t that way!” He pointed. Elizabeth and I had to go to the other path because we bear no tattoos on our skin.
About five minutes later, they stripped the ladies with tattoos and started checking them one after the other. I couldn’t bear to see this, so I closed my eyes, praying deeply for this nightmare to be brought to an end soon.
I heard when one of them mentioned, “They are just regular tattoos and not what we are looking for!!”
“I see, what if they disobeyed us? What if the one with the tattoo we are looking for pretends to be in that direction!!” He pointed at us and I looked at Elizabeth, whose eyes were red already.
They approached us saying, “Everyone of you, strip!!”
Elizabeth held her body firm because she didn’t want to but it attracted their wrath.
“How dare you disobey?” He slapped her hard on the face and didn’t stop there, he continued to hit, she was going to die at this rate, I needed to do something.
“Please let my friend go, please, we will strip as you have demanded!!” I know I shouldn’t be acting all brave now but I needed to protect my best friend.
“You bitch!” He faced me and slapped me so hard that I had a cut close to my lips.
He forced me to the ground with his hands gripping my neck as he used his force to strangle me. I couldn’t breathe properly, my eyes were going to pop out, I was helpless, and I was going to die at this rate.
“Please don’t kill her!” I heard Elizabeth crying and close to my grave, someone gave him a hefty blow.
“You idiot!!” the person continued to pound on the one who tried to kill me, still coughing Elizabeth rushed to me saying, “Please Don’t die!!” We held each other arms crying and I managed to speak, “I will protect you!”
We overheard them arguing, “I told you to keep that silly temper of yours in check!” He continued to hit him.
“Enough?” Another stopped them.
“Fine, I will stop but take my brother out of here else he will ruin things for us, if I was a minute late, he would have ended up killing the girls one after the other when he knew the mission we were on.”
“I will handle your brother, just handle the rest!” The other person said to him and he nodded in agreement.
“Put on your clothes at once and gather here!” The new person gave us an order and we obeyed immediately.
“Now listen very well, every order we give is meant to be obeyed, if you are rebellious, we will kill you after we get what we want, always remember that!!” He continued with his speech.
I touched my neck still feeling a lot of pain around it, it hurt so much that I couldn’t stop crying for any minute.
“We are not here for your damn money!” this conversation caught my attention and I decided to listen properly to know why we were taken.
He gave every one of us a deadly gaze and he opened his mouth wide to speak, “We know Dragon daughter and Viper lover is among you all, if you know what is good for you come out now and reduce everyone’s sentence..”
TBC.