What took you so long? …..

The room was dark a light cold wind keeps on blowing from one corner which has a small window close to the ceiling the rooms wall look dark blue in color. It is dark out. Alya tried to check where they are by climbing the box like last time, but she was too short to reach the height. A single dimmed light bulb was lit in the middle. She sat leaning on one of the box. Brian closed his eyes to rest for a bit. One corner of his lip burst in addition to his black eye. ‘ That eye needs some cold press.’ Tyler left them stuck in the room a long time ago. His words made Alya think ‘How much grudge this guy was carrying to not care about anyone’s life. Right now, we need to get out of this place how to do that?’ She thought of different film solutions. “Stop do not think about those, none of them will work.” Brian spoke without opening his eyes. Alya looked at him surprised at his words, “ How do you know what I am thinking?” Brian smiled, “ Knowing you that is what you are doing thinking so hard.” Alya looked around the room anxious, “ Well I cannot stay still. Who knows what that crazy guy has planned for us?” Brian moved a bit changing his sitting position, “ Save your strength we will need it for whatever he is planning.” His corner lip looked bright red, Alya could not help herself and moved close to him to erase the it with her sleeve. As soon as her sleeve touched his corner lip, Brian opened his eyes looked at her eyes. This made her stop for a bit, ‘ Oh my such beautiful eyes.’ She thought and went back dabbing the blood off his cheek softly scared to hurt him if she put too much pressure. He looked at her for some time as if searching for something. Alya cleared her throat she felt embarrassed to look at him directly, “ Are you alright? You seem to be in pain.” Brian nodded and went back to close his eyes. “ So, since we have time. Why is Tyler holding us?” Brian, “ Probably to make my father think I abandoned the company on an important signing day.” Alya felt confused, “ And your father will believe that? Will he not think something is wrong?” Brian opened his eyes to look at her, “ It is a bit complicated. I did not want to join the business; I was made to.” She looked at him with a confused look. He continued to answer, “ It is complicated.” Alya pouted her face and looked away, ‘ There he goes again hiding things.’ She put her chin, “ So what will you do now? I mean will Tyler get your position? ” Brian, ‘ It can be possible. He is my cousin; he did work hard for the company.” Alya, “ So did your father not choose him? Why you?” Brian smiled, “ I want to ask the same question to him.” They both went quiet for a while. There was drop sound from outside, it was raining. Alya was reminded of the office scene, ‘ Who would have thought today would be like this? I wish I did not walk out from the office in the morning. This happened because of me.’ “ Brian I am sorry you are stuck here because of me.” Brian, “ It is not your fault. I heard everything from Helea you were depressed with the news.” Alya, “ Still I should have handled it with maturity. But I ended up walking out and putting you in trouble along with me. I shouldn’t have done this in the morning.” Brian laughed at her, “ Morning are you talking about this morning? You did not do anything this morning.” Alya, “ What are you talking about? I walked out of the office this morning.” Brian moved closer to her and put his hand on her forehead, “ Are you feeling alright? Cause this morning you definitely were not in the office.” She looked at him confused, “ What do you mean?” He moved back to sit in his already vacated space, “ Alya you were missing for more than a day.” Alya, “ What are you saying? Is that true?” His eyes did not look like it was a joke. ‘Is this the reason he came here without a plan?’ She felt more embarrassed to look at Brian after that. “They are looking for us right?” Brian nodded, “ They must have informed the police by now. Unless Tyler is making them look the wrong way.” Alya, “ I guess you are right. They will believe him.” She got up and walked towards the door giving it a kick. “ If only we could get out from here.” Brian, “ We have to wait for now. There is nothing we can do now.” Alya felt frustrated and sat in front of Brian, “ How are you so calm right now?” Brian took a deep breath before answering, “ I am just waiting for him.” Alya did not get the chance to ask for clarification. The door opened interrupting them. They both stood up ready to face whoever it is. Brian pushed her behind him again. It was Aiden who walked in grinning, “ Sorry for being late.” Brian walked towards him, “ What took you so long?” Aiden, “ The tracker stopped working a few miles from here. Besides I had to wait till it is clear.” Brian looked at his left cufflink, “ Your right it must be when I fell.” Aiden, “ You look a mess. They did not hit you too much did he?” Brian shook his head, “ We are fine. Did they get everyone?” Aiden, “ Yes you better see this.” He motioned for both of them to follow him. Alya followed without any word. They left the room to a big hallway. They passed some uniformed people and one of the detective came and asked some questions to Brian. The whole walk seemed long and slow. They entered a large room which seemed like an entrance room. It was filled with people some in casual some in uniform. ‘ Just what happened here?’ Alya thought looking around curious. ‘ More than that where are we?’ The large room had some plastic chairs set up in corners some wooden slabs and bricks were kept in the other corner. ‘It must be for fixing something.’ The floor was made of wood and the ceiling white in color. The room had a double door entrance to it. There was a large table in the middle. “ Is it a reception area or something?” she asked still looking around the place. Aiden, “ It is one of the abandoned office under Tyler’s management they were going to turn it into a new storage area.” She looked around and saw some of the police taking notes of something. Tyler was handcuffed and he was face down listening to an older guy he looked like a detective who escorted them here. Brian walked towards Tyler his eyes looked unfocused and a little pissed, “ You said what belongs to you. Did you mean the company?” Tyler laughed loud, “ tch, you think that is all? You think you deserve the company just coming out of nowhere after a long time? I worked so hard for so long and you can just take the seat from me? ” “That’s it?” Alya spoke from the back. “ That is all? We had to go through this? Because you wanted the seat of the company?” Tyler almost got up from the seat, “ You think it is small? That precious chair should be mine.” Alya felt anger, she looked around and saw a wooden slab and picked it up, “ You crazy freak.” Brian quickly hold her from the back, “ What do you think you are doing?” Alya struggled to move, “ Let me go! I will kill this guy imagine the amount of potato head I was moving with and the reason is just a seat.” Brian somehow pacified her to let go of the slab. The detective took this chance to remove Tyler from the place he would be facing charges and imprisonment. Aiden came back after talking to the detective, “ Are you sure you do not need to go to the hospital? You need to get checked.” Brian shook his head, “ I just need some rest I will be fine. I need to talk to father first. ” He quickly left asking Aiden to drop off Alya. Alya, ‘huh what was that did he just dismiss me like that?’ she thought confused. Aiden motioned her to the main door, “ Are you coming?” Alya, “ Yeah let’s go it has been a long day.”