When I heard the men's voice far away from my room, I removed the blindfold with the help of a cracked wood corner on the wall of the room. I tried to untie my hands, but it was so strong, I could not remove the knots, it started to hurt, so I gave up the idea of untying the hand. I ran to the washroom and kicked the corner wood as hard as I can. Finally, after many kicks, it was broken.
I took out the broken woods away by kicking it, I was lean enough to go underneath the wall and reached the other side. The floor on the other side of the wall was filled with wet soil. I could not figure out which part of the house I was at that moment, due to darkness.
I slowly walked without making a noise and found a door, opened, and reached the backyard of the house. All I could see was just trees, it was only trees around the house? The house was in the middle of a jungle and I could not see any lights nearby. I could feel the wet soil and could hear crickets chirping.
Aowww! Aowww!
Suddenly I heard a big howl noise which was not far away. I was agitated hearing the howling sound. I realized running into the forest was not a good idea. I should reach the entrance of the house for a way out. I should at least reach near to the entrance to reach the road and I can follow the road after that.
From the back yard, I started moving towards the front of the house, I stopped because I saw some noises at the house entrance. I peeked and saw few men including that tattoo guy were sitting around the campfire, drinking and laughing loudly.
The Tattoo guy had a winner cup in his hands, pouring beer into it, drinking whereas all others celebrating it. One man patted him, ‘You are the best in bike Race for the next decade. Every time I bet on you’, they both were laughing.
I started moving slowly into the bushes, when no one noticed, went far enough until the men’s laughing noise diminished.
Suddenly heard a big shout, ‘The girl is gone’. All men shouted, ‘Find her, find her’
Shit, they found I was missing, I did not expect that one, I did not even turn back and started running into the forest as fast as I can.
I was running, running, and running with my hands tied behind!
Until I was exhausted and sat under a tree. I was breathing heavily, and I was relaxed that they lost me. Just within two minutes, before even I process what was happening, someone held me and pressed me on the tree, so hard, which made my head hit strongly on its stem.
It was the tattoo guy. I froze to death.
‘i***t, I told you, I will let you out. Why didn’t you just stay there?’, he gritted and roared at me.
‘Please let me go! I will give you how much ever money you want. Please’, I begged.
‘How dumb are you? Do you think you can run into this forest and escape?’, He shook my shoulders vigorously and growled at me in a low voice.
I didn’t say anything and looked at him nervously. He saw my eyes which was filled with fear, noticed my uneasiness, and stepped back.
‘Listen, there are many tigers and hyenas out here. These are forbidden areas. Even if you die, no one will come here to pick your dead body’. He spoke as if he was trying to help me.
‘Anyways, I am going to die in that house. I will take the road and I will go. Please let me go’, I snapped.
He rolled up his eyes as if my words were more annoying and stared at me with his cold eyes.
‘You have to walk 10 miles to see the neighbor house’, he said in a cold voice, while I was still staring at him and sniffling.
‘I will let you out. Come with me. Let’s go to that house. Just stay here for a few more hours. I will let you out’, he said this as if he really means it.
I was not sure whether he really means it, or he was just acting so nice to make me believe. But he really doesn’t have to act. Because even if he slapped me once, I would faint to the ground for sure. Because he was way too strong and fit, and his muscular body shows that he was regularly using the gym. I was like a poor little kitten in front of him.
‘No, please! I cannot go there,’ I cried.
‘Listen to me, That’s the only way, even if you run from here, do you think they will let you live happily? No matter where you are. They will find and kill you because you have already known their identities’
I sniffled in fear and remained silent. I did not know whether to trust him or not. Of course, I cannot rely on him, he was one among them. But I was afraid to run into this forest as well. This is the last decision I made in that day, even this decision played well to lead my life into a total miserable.
He held my arm, shouted, ‘I found her’ and we both started walking towards the house.
At the house entrance, I saw all the men, who were waiting for us and every man looked furiously, they looked terribly threatening. They were all thugs, drug smugglers, and goons and even some were hitmen. In that frantic situation, I glared at every one of them and memorized their faces, despite my fear of getting killed.
Even today, I used to wonder where I got the courage to face that situation and glare at men without fear, probably, because of the man who was holding my arm at that moment.
One of the men, who had a lot of scars on his face that gave a perception that he had already involved in many violent activities, slapped me so hard, I even fell on the ground. Suddenly, I could hear a roar, ‘Leave her,’
‘F*ck you, Frank! she has now seen all our f*cking faces. She is now a threat to us. Kill her’, the man who slapped me growled at the tattoo guy.
‘I SAY LEAVE HER’, the tattoo guy roared so loudly, the noise echoed the whole environment, and other men stepped back submissively.
The man who slapped me was still staring at the tattoo guy coldly.
The tattoo guy pulled my arm, though I almost fainted because of the pain in my cheek, somehow, I managed to get up. He took me inside a room. He actually helped me twice from the other people.
I remember the tattoo guy’s name, someone mentioned him as ‘Frank’, maybe it was his name, or they were using fake names. Regardless of that, I just remembered his name.
He tied me with a cuff lock, attached it to a rod of a window, and left the room. No matter how hard I tried, I could not break that lock.
I was so hungry and thirsty as well, no one gave me a glass of water. I was completely drained off, laid on the unsubtle floor due to tiredness.
I did not even know what time it was, and it was still dark outside. After an hour, someone opened the door, a man who was wearing a sleeveless shiny black jacket and a black jean, long chains, fancy bracelets, and a biker gloves, approached me smiling evilly.
He gave me some bread and water. I drank all of it and ate all as soon as I get it from is hands since I was starving for many hours. He stood near me and stared at me while I was having the food.
When I was done eating, he came so close to me and wiped my lips with his thumb, which was so disgusting. His motive was not at all good, I could say that with the way he touched my lips.
He sniffed my neck. I abruptly punched his face as hard as I can when he was near to me. He slapped me back and started to remove his pants and was trying to kiss me. I grappled so hard until a voice from behind, ‘What are you doing here?’, Frank who was already half-drunk, asked him in a deep voice.
The man, who was molesting me stood up, wore his pants, and started walking out. When he was about to pass Frank, Frank pressed him on the wall so hard and crushed his shirt collar, ‘Leave her alone’, growled at him.
He neither reacted to Frank nor afraid of him. Just left after giving a cold look to Frank. Staring at me, Frank locked the door and left.
I did not know when I slept and passed that horrible night. At dawn, I was woken up by the sun’s light. After a few minutes, Frank opened the door. He kept the door wide opened, I could see everyone, who all were standing in the next room and discussing so seriously about something. I peeked to hear and overheard a few man’s voices,
‘Super Lilly’s private jet has reached, and Lilly will be here in any minute’
‘What are you going to say… about this girl?’
‘I will take care’, said Frank.
After a minute, ‘Super Lilly has arrived’, another man said in an agitation tone.
I peeked more, regardless of my cuff lock to see Super Lilly’s face, I was so curious who it would be, whether Lilly is a man or a woman? This was the Lilly that the whole city police were searching for.
I could see someone wearing a white suit and standing in the middle of the living room, the man in the suit was about to turn his head over me, I moved back quickly and sat near the window.
Lilly and Frank came into the room. I saw Super Lilly. What? I could not even believe my own eyes! A GAY! Yes, I saw a gay who was wearing a white suit, pink colored lipstick, one earring, and everyone called him as Lilly.
What? The underground Don Super Lilly is gay? He looked so fit and rich. He was wearing expensive outfits and watch. I stared at him in a gaze with my eyes wide open. He smiled at me, but I gave an angry hatred look and looked away.
Frank told something to Lilly, and Lilly gave a gesture that seemed like he agreed to something. I did not hear their conversation since they spoke in a very low voice.
Once Lilly left the house, Frank came inside the room and untied me, showed me the washroom, ‘Use it’, said carelessly.
After I used the washroom, I took a broken piece of the wall, which was long enough to hit Frank and run away from that place. Since that was the daytime, I could see the road clearly, and I plotted a plan to escape.
I heard Frank’s voice, ‘Come soon, I will drop you to your home’.
What? Did he say he will drop me? What is happening? I threw the wood away and went out of the washroom.
He gave me a men’s t-shirt, ‘Change it’, and left the room with courtesy. I was in fact impressed at him at that moment. Surprisingly, I felt good about Frank.
He could have done anything to me, could have r***d me, or even killed me and could have thrown or buried my body in this forest, no one would never come to know.
Instead, he actually behaved like a gentleman. Unlike the other men in the gang, Frank seemed different and unique in his character.
After I changed the t-shirt, Frank took me in the car, traveled four hours just to reach the city. I was right about the hill station that they had taken me to the hill station when I was kidnapped.
Only I and Frank were traveling in the car, he did not speak a single word to me which provoked me a little interest in him. Once I reached my street, ‘stop here’, I opened the door hurriedly and was about to run to my home.
I abruptly stopped my haste action when I heard, ‘If you say anything to anyone? you know what will happen?’, Frank said in a threatening tone.
I just nodded and left for my home. I was still not relaxed; I could still feel my heart beating so fast due to fear even after two or three hours. I noticed myself wearing a men’s shirt, removed and threw that away.
I was so restless, and I was afraid to be alone. That previous night’s incident actually affected my peace, so, I called Rose and told her that I would be staying with her that night.
…
At Rose’s room.
Rose was wondering, ‘Where were you? You did not inform your leave to Eric madam? She was mad at you…’, she was speaking to me and asking so many questions. I did not even listen to her and was nervously thinking about what happened on the previous night, biting my nails and lost in thoughts.
Even after 1 week, I was still startling of big sound, to walk alone, and could not sleep properly at night. I was afraid to be alone in my house. I started staying in Rose’s room almost every day. She also understood that I was not fine and allowed me to stay at hers.
Slowly I became normal, it took more than 2 weeks for me to become normal and sleep alone and to walk alone in the street.
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One weekend, Rose took me out shopping. I went with her and purchased some makeup stuff. Someone was announcing on the speaker about an event to be started.
Rose was so excited to hear that, ‘Nora, let’s go and see’, I smiled and nodded.
We reached there where I could only see some bikes, speakers, happy crowd everywhere cheering and shouting some player’s names, I could not process what was happening for a moment. Then I realized, it was a bike race.
When I turned my head to see the players entry, a man wearing a white and orange jersey, passed me wearing his helmet, I saw his face for a second. ‘Oh no, Is it Frank?’.