RESCUED

the instruction

You can see the theme here. My life was great, my job was no exception. Daniel introduced me to his friend Cory, and he was the human resources at Stone mines, and he hooked me with a job there. I became the junior accountant there and it was great. The paycheck and benefits were what I always dreamed of when I was at university. I worked well with my colleagues and was well-loved by everyone except this one older lady. The first time we met, she heard the audacity that there was a bad aura around me. She always made it a point to tell me that I could fool everyone else but not her. How could I even have a bad aura if I hadn't done anything bad? Not yet at least, but I ignored her. She was just a bitter old lady, that is what I said. Only a mean young lady says that forgetting we all get old. Looking back, I think she was the only person who was really honest about how she felt about me, because I would soon realize no one really loved me, including my perfect Daniel.

I was living a good life. I was able to start various side hustles selling clothes and makeup with the help of Daniel and The Queen. Of course, before I started my side hustle, she invited me to the house and I told her of my plans, and she gave me this small token to put in my shop and let's just say people didn’t window-shop in my shop. If you looked and entered you would definitely buy. It was like nothing could fail. I started looking for apartments near my friend Charity and she helped. We started living five minutes away from each other. Her house became my house and vice versa. We shared everything, a friend who knew all my secrets and all. This all before 6 months passed, and I hadn't had any contact with my extended family all this time. They didn't know all this progress I was making until my cousin started following me on i********:. My relatives are not bad people and as I sit here looking at them, I should have asked for help when I was being overwhelmed with life. But then again, I wanted a good life and not the comfortable life they would have offered me. What that says about greed is that it turns loyalty into betrayal. And I truly betrayed my family, forgive me please.

On my birthday, the 26th of June, I decided to throw a party for myself. I had the money, so I invited some old friends from school and new friends from work. They were so in awe of my apartment, just like I was back then when I visited Charity. It was that kind of party that people had talked about for weeks. The theme of my party was royalty meets fantasy. I got this big towering cake and it stole the spotlight. It was a time of joy, the reunions and definitely the envy I could feel from some of my friends. Daniel didn’t disappoint. He made an epic entrance with so many gifts that he had people help him carry them. He kissed me in front of my friends. I still have a picture of that moment on my nightstand. It was a beautiful night, and I got so much love and gifts from my friends… it was like the world was celebrating me.

The reason I’m telling you about my birthday is not because I just want to reminisce about how awesome it was but because something happened that night; one of my Christian high school friends pulled me aside for a moment and warned me that I had made a rod for my own back and I brushed it off to jealous. We never listen when things aren't going our way. There is something she saw that day and I wish she would have told me more. Do you think i would have listened? Yeah, I don’t think so either. That was my second warning, I guess, about the deal I had made with The Queen. Everything has a price, but why the hell did i think this didn’t have a price?

Daniel and I flew to the Cape after my birthday, one of my gifts from the amazing Daniel. We went to the beach and had fun. I loved my man. During that trip, though, he was very distracted, making a lot of calls. The weirdest thing that happened on that trip, though, was that I heard late one night chanting in the bathroom and when I walked to the door he was on his knees holding something in his hand. I was too scared, so I rushed to my bed and didn’t ask anything I didn’t want to pop the bubble. If I could go back I would pop that bubble quickly. The mess is so big because of him. He screwed my life. I’m so angry right now. I did some nasty stuff, but Daniel was pure evil and I let him. After that trip, Daniel became a bit distant, but he was my prince charming and I held on to the dream.

My six months were up and my chance to be allowed into the inner circle, Charity, my best friend, told me I had nothing to fear, and she had gone through it and her life was now set. I could see that my friend was opening mining companies and going to the next level and I wanted that. And I will soon prove to you how much I wanted it because I did everything I was told.

The six-month initiation began in silence and shadows. The Queen is beautiful, ageless and terrifying. Her voice, in an u-terrifying way, told me the three things I had to do to be accepted and to keep all the things I had already gotten. So you see, I not only had to do this to get more, but if I didn’t, I would lose everything I had gained. First, I had to offer my own blood to the oldest tree in the forest, my willing sacrifice would bind me. The second thing I had to do was to hunt and kill the sacred wolf that guards the threshold between the worlds and the forest that would accept me and, lastly, I had to bring a gift of loyalty on the sixth night of the sixth month, something that truly showed I belonged to them and I did was nod. A chill steered into my bones, and it was rooting deeply inside me. My heart pounded so loudly that it drowned her voice for a moment. There was a weight on my chest now, it felt like a stone. Her eyes kept me frozen in place, her gaze was ancient and unblinking. I realized then that this was no invitation, but this was a command and whether I liked it or not, I was already hers. My life really got screwed up from that moment. There was no turning back now, in for a penny for a pound. My friend Charity drove me home that night and told me that there was nothing to be afraid of. Though her instructions were different from mine, it was no big deal. The only thing that was similar was the gift part and Charity had given her unborn child to show her loyalty. That honestly had my head spinning what the hell was I going to give The Queen. But don’t worry, I figured it out and that is why I am here right now. At this moment, I am not only surrounded by my clan but the elders of the forest and the guardians of the wolf. I have wronged a lot of powerful people, and they want retribution from me and my family. My family has to pay for my sins even though they know nothing about what I did. I made the stupid decision myself, and it has affected us all. As I look around at the angry, sad and mad people around me, I don’t know why I wanted it all. It is pointless because I lost the most important thing in life. I don’t know if my family will have my back at this moment or will just let me pay for my sins alone, because I also hurt them deeply. My parents would be ashamed of me right now, the values they taught me everything, and where is my best friend at that moment? She is so deep that I can’t find her anymore. She is six feet under now, silent and still. I still hear her voice sometimes. I only wish to ask her one question though: why lead me along this path to Charity? She didn’t warn me when she saw what was coming for me. You are the reason I am here. I want to blame you so much, but this is also my fault. I was too greedy. I wanted the world, and forgot. Every choice I made led me further from who I was. The blood on my hands is not only of my family, the wolf, my friend and most of all mine. Now I only have regrets, and it's heavy cold and constant and I still have to pay for my sins to give back what I took from everyone. I made my bed shadows, and now I am surrounded by sorrow every waking moment.

Now let me tell you exactly what I did to face such wrath from all the people who are surrounding me. Will I face death for what I did? They are the ones to judge my fate. I’m truly hoping there will be saving grace. Hope in my heart I’m going to survive this and have a hero at the end of this.