The horror won't stop anytime soon.

Valentina suddenly opened the hatch and asked me to go upstairs. She kept shouting. I was horrified by the situation. I was just staring at her. She asked me to go upstairs again with an eye gesture.

I screamed. I cannot walk. Just go. I am coming in a minute. I crawled up the stairs. It was a small attic, filled with junk and dust every day. A second later, Valentia comes up through the hatch. She closed the door behind her.

I was sweating profusely. She looked at me with a smile. We are fine. I am not letting them hurt us. Valentina said it with a smile. Now I am scared of her because she has a bag and a gun in her hand. She looked at the gun to see how many bullets she had in the gun. After looking at the gun, she opens the bag and takes out the ammo boxes.

I was just sitting there staring at her. Now the sun is coming up. The sun's light came from outside the house through the window. I am starting to feel pain in my right leg. I did not feel pain before. It was new to me.

Valentina was lost in her own world. I was thinking about how naive she is. She cannot beat them. She is alone; there are a lot of them. Then I felt sorry for her and promised myself that I would save her because if she still fought, they would kill her.

They gave her chances, but she did not listen, so they had no choice but to kill her, so I started talking to her. Hmm. Can you put down the gun?" I asked. Valentina was humming. She was not paying attention to me.

I closed my eyes and then opened them. I am talking to you. Look at me?" I spoke. She grabbed the dirty cloth from the ground and started cleaning the gun. I grabbed her hand. "Can you stop for a minute?" I spoke.

Umm... I know what you are going to say. I know it is not the ideal situation, but we should fight," Valentina said. I was suddenly shocked. With whom did you fight? You have gone mad. We cannot fight with anyone. I cannot fight with these people at all. I yelled.

My hand started trembling. They will kill us. She was just gazing at me, and a second later she burst into laughter. You are scared. You are acting like a baby. They will never hurt us. They need us," Valentina said.

I was confused and did not understand what she was talking about. I nodded my head. I think you should surrender. We will find another way," I said while taking the gun from her hand.

Valentina pressed her lips. She shook her head. There is no other way. It is the only way to get out of this hellhole. I am telling you. She then crawled to the window. She then sat against the wall. For a while, she sat there quietly.

A while later, she started talking. It took me a while to get a gun and collect that ammo because no one here was helping me. Sometimes I think I will lose my mind. I tried to knock on every door to get my answers, but I was disappointed. My family hates me," Valentina said while sobbing.

I tried to comfort her. Hmm. I know what you are feeling right now. You were alone. But there is a bright side now; you are not alone anymore. I am with you. If you surrender, we will find out the truth together. I spoke.

Valentina started staring out of the window. There was no one in front of the house. Now there was silence again. Valentina was also silent. She was also not saying anything. I give her time to clear her head because I do not want her to die.

So, I started looking around the attic. There were boxes everywhere. I crawled to the corner and looked into the boxes. When I opened the box lying there, there were baby clothes in it. When I opened the second box. So, in this also, baby clothes the strange thing was this: Then I opened the next one; it was also filled with boys' clothes.

I started calling her. Can I ask you something? How many brothers do you have? I mean, how many sons do your parents have? Valentia gets shocked by my questions. She looks at me with surprise. "Why are you asking?" She asked.

I am asking because all these boxes are filled with boys' clothes. From these, it seems that your parents have dozens of sons. She crawled up to the boxes and took out the clothes. It cannot be real. I told you they were hiding something.

Valentina was mumbling. I grabbed her hand. Look at me. You did not answer my question. How many siblings do you have?" I asked. Valentina was staring at the clothes. It seemed that she had seen a nightmare.

I shake Valentina's hand vigorously. She looked up at me. I raised my eyebrows. I have no siblings, and my parents do not have any children other than me. She nodded her head. Where did this all come from?" Valentina said while sitting on the ground.

She holds her head with both hands. She sits quietly. I started looking at other boxes. Children's toys are found in one of these boxes. It was strange for me too that why they have all these things.

At last, I opened the one box in which there were wires. It is the one box I did not find clothes or toys in. Valentina was still sitting there silently. She was pretty shaken up after seeing this. I called her.

Valentina, Valentina,

She said nothing. not even looked at me. I again called her. Valentina, Valentina, what happened?" I asked. She looked at me with a sad face. How many siblings do you have? Valentina asked.

Hmm... I have three brothers and one sister. They are younger than me. I find one thing odd: that they fear our parents. They obey them, and they never break a rule. I have never seen them misbehave. I always ask myself why a child fears their parents that much. I spoke.

Huh... have you ever seen your parents mistreat them?" Valentina asked.

I sit leaning against the wall. No, I did not. No, but there was one incident when my brother did not help me when I fell, so later that night, I heard Alberta yell at him and punish him the next day. I exclaimed while looking into the box.

She went to the window and looked out. So, tell me, have your parents put their hands on you?" I asked. Valentina looked at me.

She nodded her head. No, they were never mad at me. They were irritated sometimes. You said that your girlfriend was engaged to a guy who you did not like. Can you tell me his name?"

Hmmm. What did you remind me of? My whole mood got spoiled. "Well, his name is Elais," I said while taking a deep breath. Valentina burst into laughter.

He is a great guy. He helped me. He is a good listener. When I saw Valentina showering praise on Elais. I looked at her with narrow eyes. Do not tell me you have a crush on him. Valentina presses her. Mm... kind of. He is a great guy.

I nodded my head. The girls in this town are blind. I am quite sure. While we were conversing, I found a picture of a man who was standing in front of the table, and after seeing the picture, I stopped talking.