CHAPTER 4

excuse me mam" I greeted with my best smile

"Yes, who are you and what can I do for you?"

"My name is Mimi. I don't know if there's anything I can help you with so that you can pay me. I can do anything"

"Are you not supposed to be in school?"

"I dropped out"

"why? What about your parents?"

"I lost them"

"poor you!! I can't imagine what you will be going through now."

"Thanks for listening Mam"

"come and sit, am making lunch. I know you are hungry after that we will talk "

"thank you, Mam. I appreciate"

After some minutes, she was through. She served me some which I devoured like a hungry lion. She was so nice to me. we talked and she employed me as a cleaner although her pay was small I still managed to find a better job.

The next day, she introduced me to her family, her husband, and two children. Her husband is a freak. The way he looks at me scares me. Maybe it's my imagination. I can still avoid it I think. For one week everything was going smoothly. free food. I eat morning and evening. seven, I closed for work and resumed at nine in the morning, the next day. So, everything was fine till one certain Wednesday. Everything crumbled down in front of me.

"you know, you are such a beautiful girl "

"Please sir don't do this"

"See, I don't care how you do it, is either you give it to me freely or I take it by force. I get what I want. if you like a scream, no one will hear you, no one will save you from me. It is just you and I who choose. the choice is yours."

"Please sir, please I beg you, I have not done this before. Please don't do this. I'm just a little girl who is looking for a way to survive. I'm just fifteen. Please I beg you." I was crying begging maybe he would have mercy and change his mind. He grabs me and throws me on the floor. Dining Room floor. He did not even care if I was hurt. He tore my clothes and rape me brutally to the extent that I can feel my private part tiring into two. I was a virgin so imagine how painful it is. There was blood everywhere. The pain was so much that I couldn't feel anything anymore and tears were just flowing freely from my eyes. At a spot, his wife came in,

"oh my God!!!" her husband jumped from me and started dressing up

"Honey I can explain, she's the one that...."

"How could you?" I was lying there. I can't move. I can't feel my body. I was losing consciousness when she pushed her husband and angrily stormed at me

"so after all I did for you, this is the way you will pay me back?"

"plea...se.." I said weakly. can't she see the state I am in? Before I knew it, she started beating me. She kicked, marched, slapped, pulled me up, and threw me on the ground. I started coughing out blood but she didn't stop to the extent that I couldn't feel anything, you know when your brain can't register pain anymore, it becomes used to it. The husband was just standing far away from us. He was just watching, waiting for his wife to just kill me. Everything became blank, I lost consciousness. The last thing I heard was the husband's voice

"Honey stop, she's dead" Am I? I don't know. How I wish I was..........

I don't know what time it is or will I say day? When I open my eyes. I don't even know where I am. everywhere was indistinct. I tried getting up but I couldn't move. The pain was outrageous. How could they have dumped me here? They could have taken me to the hospital at least. After some minutes of trying to get up, I heard some noise.

"switch on the light. They will be here any moment."

"ok sir"

They switched on the light, and that's when I noticed my surroundings. It is an abandoned warehouse. You know, that kind of place bad people use for their meeting in a movie. that's where I am now. I crawl silently, bearing the pain that I'm feeling, to hide so that they will not see me. silently listening to their conversation.

" they are here"

"Mr Chase, you are late"

"oh spare me that Prado. You know how business can be"

"Then let's go straight to business. I believe that you are here with what my boss asked for?"

"of course. You know I love doing business with your boss. That's why I always come in peace. "

" But you rat him out to Mr Cameron. You know how he can be"

"come on Prado. don't hold it against me. Mr. Cameron holds something of mine, so I have to give him what he wants to grab what is mine. I came prepared Prado. So let's do this business in peace without a fight"

"hahaha! You are funny mr Chase. One must go down and you know that"

Before I inferred, they began to exchange bullets. I was scared to death. bullet, passing around me. I was trembling and weeping silently. I folded myself as if there were no bones in my body.

"Mom, Mom, I'm sorry"

"Boss! Someone is hiding here" I heard someone assert after when everything calmed down.

"Someone?"

"yes, boss" I was yanked out from where I was hiding. I moaned in pain. I was shoved to a kneeling position in front of their boss. I looked around me, dead bodies were everywhere. are they going to kill me?

"Please, sir! don't kill me. I didn't hear anything. I..i.I found myself here. Please don't kill me"

"you did not see anything?"

"no sir. I didn't. I swear, I didn't see or hear anything"

"did you think I'm a kid?"

"Please sir, I will not say anything"

"yes, you won't because you will not be alive to tell the story"

"Please, Sir. don't kill me. Please"

a bullet was fired. Not from them but from their falling antagonist. Maybe his target was the Prado guy but because I was kneeling in front of him, I was shot instead. They killed the man who fired the gun. They were all staring at me. watching me breathe my last breath in agony.

"sa...ve...me....plea...see" I lost consciousness. everything became blank.