Chapter 5

‘Huh?’, Ziah woke up from her sleep feeling like someone was touching her legs. It was a month after her parents’ accident. She lived with her uncle after her parents died in a car accident, or more like, her uncle and his wife lived with her the moment her parents died. She instinctively caught the hands of someone on the middle of her legs, and tried to sit up on the bed, only to find out that there is a knife pointed on her neck.

“Who are you?”she asked, the lights on her room is off and only the moon gives light to her room.

“Shhh. Don’t be afraid. It’s just me, Uncle Lucio.”, Ziah’s eyes adjusted in the dark and started to see faintly.

“Uncle, what are you doing in my room? And why do you have a knife with you?”, Ziah said fearfully.

“I just want to be sure that you are sleeping soundly and that there is no one here who wants to harm you.”, Uncle Lucio grinned at her full of lust.

“You want to be sure that no one is going to harm me? But from the looks of it, it is you who’s going to harm me!”, Ziah said full of anger.

“Oh no my dear, I won’t harm you, instead I will make you feel love and pleasure.”, Uncle Lucio started to sniff her neck down to his breast.

“Stop! Uncle please don’t do this!”, Ziah pleaded.

“Don’t worry, it won’t hurt, I’ll be very careful and considerate of you.”, he grinned evilly and started to kiss the top of her breast which is exposed in her pyjamas.

“No! Stop! If you won’t stop, I’ll scream.”, she warned.

“Go! Scream as loud as you want, but before your scream will be heard I’ll put this knife in your neck.”, he said as he shrugged.

“No, you won’t. If you do that, people will find out and you’ll be in jail for the rest of your life!”

“No one will find out. I’ll bury you inside this property, this is so big that no one will be able to see where I buried you.”, he laugh evilly, his eyes full of lust.

“I’ll tell your wife!”, Ziah started to have tears at the side of her eyes, she’s on the verge of crying out of fear and anger.

“Go! Do you think she doesn’t know?”, after saying that he forcefully pulled both of her wrists upward and placed it on top of her head and started kissing her. She avoided every kiss and started struggling so she had a small cut on her neck.

“No! Stop! Please…” she said in between of her struggling. She wanted to escape from his hands. Her struggling annoyed Uncle Lucio, so he gave her a slap.

“Stop struggling, you can’t do anything against me. Just be obedient and you will not get hurt. Looked at your neck, you cut yourself.”, his faced looked nasty, full of lust and hunger for her body as he looked at her body while travelling the knife all throughout her body.

“Good girl.”Lucio started to kiss her neck and licked the small cut in it. “You taste, incredible.”, the man grinned full of satisfaction to her submission.

Ziah woke up, drench in sweat. She realized she was having a nightmare and clenched her fist. She stood up and went to the kitchen to get a glass of water. It was four o’clock in the morning; it is still too early, so she went back on the bed and thought of what happened in the past. Her parents died in a car accident seven years ago, when she was thirteen. After the burial of her parents her Uncle Lucio and his wife Selena moved to their house and lived with her. They were her only family left, and they were her guardian since she was a minor. She respected them and decided to treat them as her new parents, but it only last for a month. After a month of living happily with her guardians, her Uncle Lucio, the adopted brother of his father, did something terrible to her.

“No! Stop! Please…” she said in between of her struggling. She wanted to escape from his hands. Her struggling annoyed Uncle Lucio, so he gave her a slap.

Ziah took a deep breath and tried to calm herself down. She needs to calm down and think of a way on how to get out of this situation. Lucio might have sensed that the girl started to calm down. The trembling of her body disappeared. He put the knife on the bedside table so he can touch her. Ziah did not resist, she allowed him to touch her, she wanted to vomit in every touch but she endured it. She need to think, she have to save herself. His hands went down from her neck down to her breast and to her stomach, Lucio might have been so engrossed on what he’s doing that her other hand which was holding Ziah’s both hand loosened its grip. Ziah felt it, and used all of her strength to kick his dick using her knees. Then he pushed him to get out from his body. Now she can moved freely, she used her martial arts skills to fight his uncle, and because of her sudden attack he was not able to retaliate. After the kick that landed on his face Ziah took the vase from the nearest table and broke it in her uncle’s head.

She got out of that situation and was able to avoid the disgrace that may have happened to her. It was good that she studied martial arts when her parents were still alive, she was able to use that skill to protect her.

She was a minor then, and has nowhere to go, she hasn’t even finish high school yet so even though she wanted to run away, she decided to stay at her house. She thought her Aunt Selena would help her and reprimand her husband from doing something bad to her, but to her dismay, she did not do anything. Her Aunt Selena cannot give her husband a child so she just agreed to whatever her husband wants, just so he would not leave her. His indecent attacks didn’t stop, so she learned how to fight for her life, to protect herself. When she turned 18 she thought that she can live by herself, but her Uncle Lucio was smart enough, before she gained her rights over her parent’s inheritance, he was able to transfer everything into his name and left her with nothing. She was able to finish college by that time and believed that she can get a decent job to live a normal and independent life. But her uncle blacklisted her to their companies and its subsidiaries, their company is huge, and being blacklisted to a huge group of companies, other small companies became hesitant of hiring her. She tried living with her friends from college, but they refused. When she lost her parents, she lost everything, her home, her family, her wealth and her friends. So she stole money from her uncle’s safe and runaway.

Maybe she really brings bad luck, wherever she goes, bad things keep on happening. She applied as a waitress in a restaurant, but the customers keep on bugging her, giving indecent proposals. Some are bold enough to touch her and she did not put up with it, so she was fired. Everywhere she go, anything she does, nothing goes on her way, because of her looks. If she is not harassed by a guy boss, she’s being fired by the lady boss because of jealousy; they accused her of seducing their husband. There are also times that she’s being fired for constantly fighting with her co-workers or even customers, accusing her of seducing their boyfriends or all of her men co-workers. So she went on the countryside, ‘Maybe the people here will be nicer than the people in the city’, she thought. She heard that the people on the countryside are hospitable and helpful to one another, but just a three minute ride on a taxi and she was harassed by the driver. Maybe her looks is a cursed.

Ziah sighed and shook her head, there is no use in thinking the past. She has to find a job and make a living. She doesn’t know anyone here, but she’ll manage, she’s used to do everything on her own. She checked the time, five o’clock. It is still early but she cannot go back to sleep anyway so she decided to run around the neighborhood. She got a white tank top and wore a hoodie, paired it with black tights and a running shoes before she went out of her apartment.

She saw a fruit and vegetable stand on the way back, and decided to stop by and buy some fruits and vegetables. She was carefully picking the produce then she saw fresh strawberries, she suddenly felt the urge to buy strawberries, but by the time she reached for the strawberries someone grabbed it. ‘Oh, no, that was the last one!’ She looked at the person who grabbed it and saw a handsome guy, ‘He looks familiar’. She shook her head, stood up and look directly to the guy.

“Excuse me, that’s mine”, Ziah said pointing to the strawberry pack on his hands.

“I am sorry?”, the man asked cluelessly.

“That strawberry pack, that’s mine.”, Ziah is starting to feel annoyed.

“How can these be yours? I paid for this.”, the man said raising his eyebrows.

“No, I mean, I was going to get that but you snatched it away.”, Ziah’s irritation is evident on her faced.

“Excuse me, I did not snatched this away. You were looking at it for a while but it seems that you are not going to buy it so I got it. I already paid for it, so it’s officially mine. I am leaving.”, the man said arrogantly and walked out. Ziah remained standing there speechless. 'How arrogant he is!'

Lello is walking back home, he can’t believe himself. ‘Why did I do that?’, he asked himself. He is usually a gentleman, he don’t usually argue with people, especially if it’s about simple things. He doesn't know what happened to him as well, but the moment he saw that familiar beautiful face, he had the urge to keep on talking to her. He felt like getting her attention, and when he saw her annoyed face, he felt amuse. She looked more beautiful to him. He shook his head and walk back to their apartment thinking where did he saw her. ‘Her faced really looked familiar, where did I meet her?’ He was thinking that, when Nally suddenly appeared in front of him.

“Nally, what are you doing outside?”, he asked her sister.

“I am just stretching up big brother. Where have you been?”, she asked curiously. It was a weekend, he usually sleeps until seven in the morning during weekend.

“I run around and went to buy some fruits.”

“Did you buy strawberries?”, Nally said smiling.

“Yes, I bought it on the way back, come inside, I’ll cook our breakfast and make you a strawberry flavoured milk.

“Okay. Big brother, is there something bothering you?”, she asked.

“Nothing, why?”

“I just felt like you did not saw me and almost bump into me just a while ago, are you thinking about something?”

“No, who would I think early in the morning?”, he answered defensively.

“Ohhh. So you are not thinking about something, but you’re thinking about someone? Is she beautiful?” Nally said teasing him.

“What are you talking about? Stop that nonsense and go inside.” he said dismissing the topic. Now he remembered where he saw that beautiful face a while ago. It was the same woman some three days ago, when Nally went missing. ‘Did she move here?’, he thought.

“Big brother, I think the woman who bumped into me three days ago moved here in the neighborhood.”, Nally said out of the blue.

“Why do you say that?”, Lello asked curiously.

“Granny Perry said there is a girl that moved into one of her apartment yesterday. That girl smelled like the woman who bumped into me and I think they have the same voice, but I am not really sure if that is the same woman.”, Nally said smiling.

“Why?”

“Granny Perry said, that woman who smelled nice is a beautiful girl, but you said that the woman you met is not beautiful, maybe they are not the same.”

“Yes, maybe they are not the same.” Lello smiled. ‘So she lives around the neighborhood.’

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