Vitus and Leila

Chapter four: kidnapped

The next day was a Monday, even though Leila was sat in one of her favourite university courses her thoughts kept wandering back to the coffee shop the day before.

After the men had ordered politely and eaten in absolute silence, they had got up and left the shop silently, leaving one man to pay the bill.

Leila just couldn't get her head around the men, or rather one man in particular. He had sent such chills down her spine just by looking at her, it dawned on her that she was absolutely terrified of him.

On her way back from university Leila decided to take a short cut. She slipped down the back road behind a small italian restaurant and was about to walk around the corner, when she suddenly heard voices "I don't care why you haven't paid yet, fact is you haven't paid yet!" A man was shouting agrily, another man was sobbing "I know, I'm sorry, I'll pay, I promise." "You've been saying you'll pay for months now, we've waited long enough, you know the consequences." After a small break Leila heard an ear piercing scream, she took all the courage she had and peeped around the corner. A few metres away she saw four men standing and one man kneeling on the ground screaming and clutching his own hand, there was blood all over him. Leila retched and ran over to the garbage can on the other side of the alley way to be sick. Suddenly all fell silent "did you hear that?" One of the men asked the others "yeh, it sounded like someone was puking" said one of them. "You two stay here, Bert, you're coming with me!" The man odered sharply. Leila, who had just stopped being sick, looked back over to the men and saw them coming towards her! "Sh*t" she groaned as she started running back the way she had come from. But the men were too fast and Leila too slow, they caught her in no time. "Let me go!" Leila screamed, "please let me go" she begged "I didn't see anything I promise!" she cried, but no matter what she said it made no difference, the men tied up her hands and legs and gagged her mouth. "Shut up you stupid b*tch" one of the men ordered, "Stop wriggling otherwise, I'll have to knock you out" said the other. Leila tried to free herself from the ropes but they were too tight. Suddenly she felt a sharp pain in her side, she groaned "Stupid b*tch, try to free yourself again and I'll kick you again." Said one of the men. Then they picked Leila up and carried her down the alley way to a van which was parked up at the end of it. Leila tried to kick and scream as much as she could, which was not very much. She didn't want to go into the van, she didn't know who these people were or where they were going to take her. She just knew she wanted out.

Suddenly she felt a sharp pain at the back of her head and then everything went pitch black.

After a to her unknown amount of time, Leila awoke slowly and prised open her eyes, she blinked, it was so bright she couldn't see a thing, "finally the little sn*tch awakes" a man sniggered. Leila tried to speak, but the rope in her mouth prevented it. She tried to move her hands, to touch her pounding head, but they were tied together behind the chair. The man came walking over to her and crouched down beside her "now you listen to me, sn*tch b*tch, I want to ask you a few questions, so I'm going to remove the rope in your mouth, if you scream or if you shout, it's going straight back on, understand?!" The man said gruffly. Leila nodded silently. The man took the rope off and sat down on the chair opposite her. "What did you see?" The man cut straight to the point. "Nothing, I didn't see anything!" Leila cried, tears started to roll down her cheeks. "I swear I didn't see anything!" The man questioning her, rolled his eyes "Why do these sn*tches always have to be so dramatic" he sniggered. "Ok let's try another question, who sent you?" He demanded. "Noone" Leila said dazed, "sent? Who would of sent me" she asked a loud. "Oh for f*cks sake" the man shouted "stop acting the fool and tell me the f*cking answer!" Suddenly there was a knock at the door. "Bert, come here now!" A strong voice commanded. Bert, was obviously the man that had been questioning Leila, as he turned as white as snow and slowly got up. Leila swallowed, "oh no, what was happening now?" She asked herself, "it can't get any worse, can it?" Leila began to shake, she hadn't eaten all day and she didn't know how many hours had passed since she had been in this dark room with the extremely bright light.

Another man came in. "Sorry about that darling, that Berts new, he hasn't got a clue what he's doing" the man grinned showing his rotting teeth. Then he walked over to the table which was next to Leila and layed down several instruments, one looked like a nut cracker, one like a knife, the other three she had never seen anything similiar before in her life.

Then the man sat down "I'm going to ask you some questions now, and you're going to answer them, if you don't answer or lie, then I will hurt you, do you understand?" Leila nodded "yes" she said. Let's start of easy "What's your name?" Leila let out a breath, she didn't know she had been holding in, finally a question she could answer "Leila Johnson" she said quietly "how old are you?" The man carried on "nineteen" Leila replied. The man carried on asking questions. When he got to the two questions 'Bert' had asked she winced "I'm going to ask one last time, if you don't answer me honestly, I will hurt you!" The man said. "I really wasn't sent by anyone and I didn't see anything" Laila promised. The man got up and grabbed an instrument with a thin sharp blade at the end of the handle. He sat back down, grinning and showing his black rotted teeth, he grabbed Leilas hair and pulled down hard exposing her neck to him. Leila screamed, "hush hush" the man said sardonically "the pain is going to get much worse in a few seconds" he cackled. Leila gasped and closed her eyes whilst holding her breath.

Suddenly there was a loud bang and the door and the opposite side of the room was flung open. A fat man came rushing in:"Stop! Stop! Boss says we have the wrong girl!" He shouted at the man who was just about to cut a deep mark into Leilas shoulder. He stopped "What do you mean the wrong girl?" He snarled. "She isn't the right girl! The sn*tch b*tch is still on the loose" the man gabbled. He put his hands on his knees and panted loudly. The man who had been sat infront of Leila stood up. "What does the boss expect me to do with this b*tch?" he asked the panting man. "He said nothing about it, he doesn't like us killing innocents though, but she's seen our faces, what shall I do? shall I ask the boss?" The panting man replied. Leila looked at the two men and a thought came to her "Do you really want to bother your boss with such petty decisions?" She asked sweetly, the men looked at her "I'm sure you two are clever enough to make your own decisions, aren't you?" Leila continued. The two men nodded "of course we're clever" they replied proudly "but you've seen to much" they sighed "we can't just let you go." "I haven't really seen anything, it's very dark in here, the light shines so brightly that I can hardly see your faces and I was knocked out when you brought me here, so I don't know where we are." Leila explained carefully. "She's right Bert, we could just let her go" the other man nodded "Ok, Bert, tie a blindfold over her eyes and gag her mouth. And then we'll carry her out of here." He ordered. "Are they all called Bert?" Leila wondered silently whilst she was blindfolded and gagged. She tried to calm her nerves by thinking about something else whilst she was silently praying that the men wouldn't change their decision.

Leila was carried for a long time, she could feel them going along long drafty hallways, and up multiple flights of stairs, after what seemed like an enternity, they came to a halt. They stood Leila up and she felt one of the men move away from her. Suddenly she heard a door creaking and felt a cold breeze. The man came back again and they carried her out through the door and into a van. They threw her in and slammed the doors. Leila layed on the cold floor of the van. She didn't know where she was and she hoped that they were taking her back to where they had found her. After a while the van stopped and the two men got out, they dragged Leila out of the car and opened what sounded to Leila like a large garbage can. They put her inside and untied her hands and feet, they pushed her down and forcefully put the lid down. Then they quickly ran to the van and drove off. Leila untied her blindfold and blinked a few times. It was dark. Really dark. The she remembered that she was probably in some sort of garbage can. She felt above her head and pushed upwards. The lid opened and she saw she was right, she got out of the garbage can shakily and started to walk down the road, "where was she?" She wondered. The sun was setting and she didn't recognise where she was. To top it all off, she hadn't eaten for what felt like days and was starting to feel faint. She stumbled along the road and tried to find her barings. She looked up "Cups and spoons" she read "Cups and spoons!" She said excitedly and pushed open the door. She was greeted with a "What the hell happened to you!" And then she fainted.