CHAPTER 4
1658 Words
Tera
In rage that I had an affair with a stranger, he became very angry.
“How could you? How could you stoop so low to pick crumbs of emptiness, when I have cherished you. How?”
“I-I-I didn't know what happened in the hostel room when you left me. It was like a dark night covered in doubts brightened by stars, falling slowly. How colourful can my life be in these passing moments? I was alone. All alone, sleeping to my own lullaby until a man stepped into my room. A total stranger with a kind of charm.
Did you send him to my room?”
“Will you shut up, and listen to me!”
It was no joke anymore as the atmosphere of my room was tense. He banged out of the room, without saying anything…
I was now thinking, looking at myself.
“What actually happened? I remember the party, the ride to the hostel and now…”
Questions with no answers. I knew I was either drunk or something. But I was totally not myself.
While I was trying to get it right. Dante banged into the room just the way he had left.
“You have caused me pain, you know. Serious pain that I cannot let this slide easily.”
“But I said I am so–
“Shut that filthy opening you call a mouth. Am I a kid, that you could trick so easily? Am I that senseless that I cannot think of how disgusting your action could be?
“You did it with him, so disgraceful. Opened your legs and off, you were gone.
I am so ashamed of you right now.”
He banged out of the room when he discovered that he was calling the neighbours with his shoutings and poundings on the door.
“What next now? Will he calm down and understand the situation? Or will he take any other action? How do I know. But I told him I'm sorry. Aaahh.”
“How cursed it is to live through smeared emotions. It's all cursed.”
Crying these words I began groaning on my mattress, till I slept off.
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I woke up in a strange room and the darkness smelled unfamiliar.
“Where am I?
“Anybody here? Can anyone hear me?”
It was at this point I felt betrayed and alone. All again, lonely.
The lights came up, it was a strange place. Very strange and my wrists hurt from the chains.
“Is anyone listening? Can you help me. Please. Please, help me!”
“Well, well, well…”
Clapping his hands in delusion.
“...help has come. That which you have so longed for. I help you, you know.”
“Because, right now, you have no idea where you have land yourself.
You need to feel the taste of my boiling rage. Sweet in the end.”
He pretends to call for help, but it was doom.
“Hey guys, come help unlock her chains. Hahaha.
How could you not be ashamed to do it?”
They came to pull the chains against each other, and it hurt so badly.
“Aaaahhh! Ah ah.” Trying to catch a breath.
“What did I do to deserve this, what? You mean you didn't love me like you promised or what?”
“You are wicked to have done this. Why? Why so heartless when you have your own flaws tucked in your pocket.? Why?”
“Oh, my sweet girl calls me wicked. Is that really true? Hmmm. We shall find out.”
He then asked me to stand up from the floor. It was hard. I was in terrible pains all through the moment of seeing myself in that room.
“Guys, come and lend a helping hand since she cannot be up by herself.”
That was how I was dragged up in the chains. “Aaaaaahhhhhh” I screamed, helpless. Hopeless.
“How long will it be like this?”
“You can as well ask your stranger lover. Sweet, right? Rubbish.”
He left the room, and it went dark.
“Hell, is what it is. I'm lost and gone. But how could Dante? Ooh the pangs of love; lovely claws, bloody in the end.
“Hummh. Save my soul.”
So, he kept coming to the room to do all manner of bully and torment. Like a slave, I could do nothing than yield voicelessly.
I was gathering stones one day that they left the light on. I was calling for help from unknown places. It was funny and crazy how I was a mess. I truly needed help.
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At Nikolai’s Place with Justin:
“Come Justin, look up here,” pointing him to the clouds.
“I see a strange lining. This have not appeared in a very long time. What could it mean? Do you feel any attachment to this sign? Talk to me, Nikolai? Tell, I'll do anything.”
With his gazed still fixed at the clouds. He whispered gently.
“Someone or something I know may need help. Somehow.”
He started feeling a sharp pain. A bond. Something mutual.
“Oh f**k! I knew it was that one night stand. The reckless drunk that I marked. I see she is in some kind of pain.
This is a signal that is uncommon.”
“So, what do want me to do. Shall I ransack the whole of the Solar city in search of her?”
“Keep calm, Justin. Think. It's not a children rally. Worst of all, you don't even know the person in question.”
Justin went calm and sat at a couch near Nikolai, who was thinking with his head on the table.
“Someone very wicked must have her. Someone. Somehow. The feeling is pain and anguish. A pain as deep as a cut made with revenge.”
Let's fix this boss. You are the Alpha. You can do something.
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At The Cell:
“Will help ever come? I am all messed.”
Worst of all, it's usually dark both day and night that I cannot tell how long I have been in this hell of a place.
“Please, someone, help me…” I cried out with the last known strength in my body.
“Please, anyone, just help me…”
With this last shout collapse in my own weakness. How could I sleep, when it was stolen, weeks or days ago? I could not feel myself again. The pain was deeply rooted. I knew it was not me. But how do I accept a truth that's not mine?
“Haaaa, help…”
I tried to whisper again and again, till I passed out from darkness to an unknown darkness.
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Nikolai's Place:
“How dare a soul to do this evil in the hood? How dare a careless wanderer, plot a scheme and come up to it?”
These were his low questions. He dare not distract Nikolai in his thinking.
“If I could paint her face, then we can send a search party.” These he said to himself trying to gather some drawing items from all over the room.”
“Is there anything I can help with?” Justin asked.
“I will call you when I need you.”
“Yes, this board will work perfectly for a portrait. And this hard black too.”
“From the sketch, I will find her bones. Then to the shades, he face will be revealed.”
These words he spoke to himself as if invoking a spirit. After a moment, he was held in his hand a picture of Tera.
“Take, have this find the girl. Check through all the Solar pack. Fix this pain for me. Make she comes out unhurt. I repeat, make sure she comes out unhurt.”
“It shall be done.” Justin then sets out for the mission, in search of Tera.
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At Tera's Cell:
“Maybe death will call in anytime soon. But am I ready? No!...” With false assurance I was trying to create some hope.
“I cannot die here. Help will come.”
I was muttering these words of hope to myself even as I was shaking vehemently because of the freezing cold.
Suddenly, there was a sound in the distance walking towards the room where I was kept.
“Who's there? Have you come to help or torment me?” I couldn't hold it but was crying profusely.
Justin saw the whole place dark. He called out. “Just keep calm, miss, I have come to help you. Just keep calm. Or are you not Tera?”
There was total silence. I was bittered.
“I have a portrait of you here from the one who asked me to rescue you. Just be calm.”
Fear gripped my empty soul, as he loosened the chains. Still I am wondering how he could do that in the dark if he is not with Dante and his guys.
“Ooooh, save my soul.” I cried the more without strength.
“Just keep calm miss, you are safe.” His words fell on the floor as I seek my escape. I know no one. Oooooh, Seinders, who care about the games on love's trap? Hmmm.”
When I felt right there that my legs and hands are free from the dragging of the chains, I pretended to have fainted.
“Oooh pains, aaah ah, I'm gone.” Listening and waiting. Watching carefully in the dark, he was trying to look for how to help I guessed by his movements. I stood up and ran without my strength, a survival bought with pain.
I ran as far as I could. And up here in Dria city I found myself–free. Lonely again.
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