A THOUSAND PIECES

Completely Trapped

Max left the room. I didn't know where to, but I guess to the kitchen. He came back with two pieces of meat pie in a plate, I knew he bought it; he difinitely didn't make it himself.

He also had a bottle in his hand. At first, I thought it was a drink but when he came closer, I saw that it was a perfume. I didn't know the name ( it wasn't clear), but from the look I could guess that it was one.

He wants to gift me a perfume on my first visit. Awn, how sweet! I thought to myself smiling. He placed the meat pie before me smiling and made for the fridge to get a drink.

"Should I bring star radler?" He asked. I refused it knowing too well that it has some percentage of alcohol.

"Young lady, this is fine. The alcohol is just as good as nothing" he tried to convince me.

"2% may be nothing to you, but surely means a lot to me" I insisted.

After much argument about what to drink, we finally settled for "fayrouz". I thanked him and started biting down on my meat pie.

While doing that, we discussed about random things. We talked about the future, what we would like to do differently and a whole lot of things.

It was already one hour gone and I told him I was ready to go. He pleaded with me to stay a little while saying that I just got there. I agreed with him and decided to stay a little longer.

I should have gone when I had the chance. Agreeing to stay a little longer turned out the be the greatest mistake I made.

He reached out for the perfume. I had completely forgotten about it untill now. I thought he was going to give it to me, I was already smiling.

He didn't give it to me, instead he said he no longer liked the scent of the room and that he'd like to apply some perfume. He asked me if I had any problem with that and I said no.

He sprayed the perfume randomly in the room. It was much but he was still spraying. I jokingly asked him if he wanted to feed me with perfume and he laughed.

When he felt satisfied, he stopped. But it was already too much for my system to handle. Something suddenly felt weird.

"What's the name of that perfume?" I asked him. He looked at me but didn't reply. He had a Stern expression on his face. He was smiling few minutes ago, why did his countenance change immediately?

I told him I was leaving but he didn't move. He kept watching. Like someone waiting to play out his role. I stood up and took a breath full of whatever it was he sprayed in the room.

Instead of going to the door, I sat down. I no longer had control of my senses. I looked at him not understanding what was happening, he smiled at me. I didn't know if that should make me feel safe, but it did not.

I immediately knew what was going to happen, my reasoning was the only thing functional but there was nothing I could do. Tears dropped down from my eyes.

I've heard stories of things like this but I never imagined that I would be a victim.

How did I get here? I could feel darkness enveloping me.

The last thing I wanted to do was sleep, I tried to fight it but my eye lids shuttered so many times.

Tired of fighting the sleep, I gave in.

I gave Max a sad look as the darkness wrapped me up. I slumped into the chair, wishing that I'd never wake up…

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