I am Darling

My Intuition

I am Darling, I was Invincible. I’d been through a lot of stuff and there was I, still alive and kicking. The death of my beloved Uncle had forever destroyed a portion of my heart, mind and soul. It was a different feeling when family member passed away. You had to live with it every single moment. You got used seeing him on the table having dinner with you, talking with him while watching television when you were having spare time, seeing him having conversations to each member of your household. And suddenly he was not around anymore. How it would break your heart realizing that you won’t be seeing him for the rest of your life and all you had left were memories.

Daniel, Isabel and I were on our way out when I saw Rhea rushing out of the Dean’s office. “Hey, what’s going on?” I asked. “Thank God, you’re still here. I want to tell you something. Come.” Rhea told. “Mr. Russell asked about the incident happened here last summer. Parents of those we had encountered had filed complaints against you and Jessy, that’s why Mr. Russell wanted to talk to us supposedly but I explained everything and he told me he has to wait for these parents to come over and he will call us. In the meantime, you can go now and I will just let you know.” She added. “Thanks, Rhea.. you know where to call me.” I said. I wasn’t minding about their complaints, what was inside my head was inside my shirt. I wanted to know more about Gab and what was bothering him that I never noticed. I was also very curious about that old woman who talked to me outside Shawwie’s apartment. Did she know Gab? Were they related? I never asked Gab about his family before so I didn’t had any idea of anything about him at all. The files I had might give some information and I had to read it before the clinic found out it was gone. We were approaching the car when somebody called my attention. There they were again. The group of that girl Caren. I opened the car as if not hearing all their mockings, got the file from my shirt and hid it under the car’s seat. I then went out and closed the car’s door. “What is it that you want now?” I asked Caren irritably. Daniel and Isabel were at my back calming me down. “Are your bruises not enough? You want more?” I added. I was acting like I was too tough but deep inside I was worried. Who won’t, they were many, at least 8 and we were only 3. Daniel was trying to prevent the commotion and said, “Hey we don’t want any trouble, leave us alone.” “So you have a new boyfriend now.” Another girl said to me. These people hadn’t learned their lesson. I was trying to walk away because I had something else important to do than wasting my time to this nonsense. I just turned my back when I saw one of these guys hit Daniel’s head. He fainted and I went crazy. “What do you think you’re doing?!” You crazy idiots!” I was screaming and I was about to pull one of them and start a fight but someone also hit me in the head and I also got knocked out.

I regained my consciousness in a dark place. I could hardly see them but with a little light coming out from the window I could see Daniel, Isabel and myself being locked and tied up in a dark place. We were being tied on a pole and I could hear Isabel’s cry next to me. “Where are we?” Daniel whispered. He had awakened. “I don’t know.” I answered while I was trying to get away from being tied up. I was pulling and pulling trying to untie it from my hands. But it was too tight to handle. I felt the pain and the blood running out from my hands because of trying to pull it off to no avail. “Help.. heeelp..help us please!” Isabel was screaming and crying. “Sssh… we’re gonna get out from here I know, just calm down.” I told her. Daniel was also trying his best to untie himself. Suddenly we heard voices and footsteps from next door talking and we can hear their laughter making fun of what they did to us. “What are you planning to do with these rats?” Someone asked. “Leave them there to die in hunger.” Another answered. Then we heard another prickly laughter and they were all getting into my nerves. Then the door opened and I saw these guys whom we had trouble with and this time they got me. “What can you do now you kung fu girl, can’t you untie yourself?” The guy taunted. They were laughing and saying lots of crazy things but I wasn’t listening at all. I was just eager to untie the ropes from my hands and I kept on pulling but still I can’t do it. “Free us please.. what do you want from us?” Isabel asked. “We want you and that kung fu girl.. we want you to be dead in here.” Again their laughing was heard all over the room and we could see and smell the drugs they’ve been using. They were all messed up and I was just so frustrated that I can’t untie myself. How I wanted to crush them one by one and I was going to bang their heads on the walls and how I wanted to suck their blood from their necks and leave them crawling on the floor. I was really very angry but i know i can't kill anybody, i was just being so anxious that moment that i wanted to get away from being tied up. I felt so helpless. They went out of the room but still the echoes of their mockings were being heard from where we were. I was getting hopeless. But I tried to comfort Daniel and Isabel. “We’re gonna get out from here, just wait and see.” I told them. “Don’t push it Darling, take it easy. I can see blood coming from your hands.. easy.. easy.” Daniel told me. I was trying and he was too. He kept on pulling his hand out from the rope and tried very hard to untie. Isabel was grabbing something from her skirt. “What are you doing?” I asked. “I am trying to get my nail cutter from my pocket. I have to get it.” She replied. I got excited and told her, “Okay, Isabel try harder.. we have to try harder. Come on..get it.. get it.” I was pushing her to do it. But she just can’t. She had done everything but she just couldn’t get it from her skirt’s pocket. We were a little far away from each other so I couldn’t help her with it. We all did our best to untie ourselves but I thought we have to do better. “Our parents will be worried. We don’t know how long we’d been here.” Daniel stated. That’s what I like with my cousin Daniel, he was so responsible. He was such a caring person and he loved his parents so much. He worries everytime his parents worry and I admired him for that. I was glad I had cousins like them though I knew them a little later. If only I knew them when I was a kid, I could have been a better person and none of this was happening. “Don’t worry Danny we will get out from here very soon.” We were so tired of trying and everything else was to no avail. So we rested for a while and I fell asleep. I was awakened by a loud noise coming from outside. We were all so surprised and curious of what had been happening.

“Someone has entered the place and we don’t know who” We heard somebody from the outside said. Luis and Shawn are after him.” He added. We could hear clearly what they’d been talking. Daniel, Isabel and I were just staring at each other and wondering who that would be. We were just waiting for some upheaval and probably whoever that was would help us get out from there. Help was coming and it came soon enough. Then we heard what we had been waiting for. Help was on its way. We heard shouting and screaming. The upheaval we’d been longing was now happening. We heard banging on the wall, on the floor and seem like tables and chairs were displaced from those commotions and we were so worried in there. We couldn’t see anything so we just decided to try to untie ourselves again. Then we heard. “Who are you? It’s you?” Someone had asked. Then we heard a gunshot once, twice.. and a lot more.. and that made me afraid. Isabel was shaking and Daniel was so vexed. Then we heard someone saying in a harsh voice, “Why don’t you just stop. You bunch of fools.” The voice sounded so familiar.. “Gab.. Gab.. is that you? I screamed. I was calling him from the inside and I really couldn’t believe I heard his voice again. “Gab.. Gab.. please talk to me.. please.. is that you?! I kept on calling him but a total silence filled the place. Commotions stopped and there were no more voices saying any word anymore. A little later from the window flew a pocket knife and landed to where Daniel was tied up. I couldn’t get over who I heard and I was so sure that it was Gab. They told that girl’s intuition seems to be right most of the time but was it working on me? Was he the one who helped us? But he never showed his face. Was I being played around by my delusion to see Gab again?

Daniel was trying to reach for the knife and Isabel was keyed up. “Go get it Danny, you can do it.” I said. He kept on reaching it by his feet, he kept on pushing and pushing and at last he had kicked and drove it near within his reach. At last he got the knife in his hands and started cutting the ropes. While watching Daniel untying the ropes, we heard a car was being parked outside and thought they were another group who were rescuing their own but no movements were heard after. “Was it him?” Daniel asked while doing his thing. “I don’t know, I don’t know what’s true and what’s not on him anymore. I have to know what happened to him and it’s his voice I’ve been hearing..” I told Daniel. “You definitely have to read his clinic file and you will find something interesting. I was wondering if the file I got was safe from where I hid it. Was the car safe? I asked myself. If we could get out from there would I still find that file? So many questions were coming out from my mind. After he had untied himself he went straight to us and untied the ropes. We never wasted any time and we immediately went to that door but it was locked. We had to break the door knob and pounded it for so many times so we could get out from there. When the door opened, we were so terrified by what we were seeing. Deaths bounded every corner of the room. Six people clothed with their own blood lying on the floor. And there was blood all over the place and I couldn’t stand what I had been witnessing. Isabel ran back to the room and vomited by what she saw. That place became heinous and we were very shocked of everything. “Isabel.. Come on, we have to move, we have to get away from here.” Daniel cried. With her body shaking, she came to us and we slowly walked through the dead bodies. It felt like hell in there and if Gab was the one I heard, how could he do such a terrible thing. If he knew where these people brought us he could have just called the police before coming in here. Or he could have just brought some two or three friends and helped together punched them in their noses or simply fight man to man. But he couldn’t just get in here shooting everyone. They were still human beings, no matter what, they still had the right to live. How could he do this ?

As we walked through the exit door, we saw our car parked and we immediately ran to it. I noticed that we were in a remote area surrounded by trees. Luckily the key was just hanging on the rear view mirror and we drove off. “Thank God we made it.” Daniel told. “If Gab did this I’d be losing my mind.” I said. Isabel was silent. She was still in a state of shock. “Where are we?” Daniel asked. “Just drive, we’re gonna find the road later. We have to drive away from here!” I exclaimed.