With a scowl, Jade tucked her blonde hair behind her ears. Sometime later, she caught sight of a scene from the corner of her left eye. She was actually hiding by a big rock, away from someone who's after her; her step brother Kelvin.
The scene before her took her by surprise, she wanted to see it more clearly. A guy with a hood over his head and two people groveling before him.
"Please spare us" One of the men on his knees shrieked in fear. He was to be killed. Jade stifled a laughter. Were they acting a movie?
The guy with the hood pulled the trigger, a shot aimed straight at the man's head. The other man stood up out of fear, running towards the corner where Jade crouched in hiding.
She felt her heart thumping. The guy had killed someone and the blood, It made her sick. She stood up to run from this ugly scene but a hand grabbed her. It was the man on the run.
"Save me" he said before something moved in swift behind him. Then the man coughed blood and fell on his back, his eyes wide open as death swept him away.
Panic engulfed her immediately. She could almost hear the thumps of her heartbeat. A real murder was committed before her. Suddenly, a sweet perfume scent filled the air, penetrating her nose. It was coming from behind her. Someone was behind her!
"Turn around" His commanding voice could have almost snuffed life out of her considering the state she was in.
She turned around meeting his gaze. His hood was now pulled down revealing his handsome face. His manly features were seductive especially his red hair which caught her eyes so quick and those sea blue eyes of his that could make you fall heels in love with him. His eyes sparkled.
He placed his right hand on the side of her face pulling her to shudder. Her body trembled the more as he kept on looking at her. He had no smile nor frown, just an expressionless face. He bent towards her still examining her like she was some sort of toy or special object which he was drawn to.
The thought of how he murdered these men made her shook with fear. She wanted to just run. Maybe to the cops. Would she ever make it out of here alive? Her father? she would not want him to be sick once she dies.
"What are you?" He asked placing back his hands into his pocket. She exhaled a little. All her mind was filled with thought of escaping.
"I asked you a question " he said, his hand reaching to pull her to himself. She shivered, about to move away but made it much worse. He grabbed her by her slender waist.They were so close to each other. Even his breath
"First, I am not an object you address with a 'what' and secondly, Can you let go of me?" She glared at him. "I am not supposed to be here"
He laughed " What do you think?" He cupped her face and traced circles on her neck with the tip of his finger. She pushed him off her already running with all strength.
This made him laugh. The more he laughed, the nearer the sound of the laughter got. She chose a path across a T- street. It mostly had enough places to hide.
While she ran, she knocked her foot on something and ended up hitting her head on a pillar. Realization suddenly hit her. This was no longer the street. She was now in front of a mansion. She gasped, turning around.
There, by a black car in the compound that stood the mansion was the murderer.
"Tell me this is a dream" She yelled in tears. She could have just stayed back home but on a second thought, she wouldn't bear her step brother who is lusting madly after her.
She slumped to the stairs where the pillar that had hit her head was. Her face was buried in her palms as she poured out the tears she held in a while ago. She never wanted to cry this much.
"Are you scared of me?" He advanced towards her. She quickly wiped her tears trying to face him since he was now standing beside her.
"You killed them. Now you want to kill me next? Spare me please"
"Shut up!" the tone of his voice made her flinch in horror. He was angry.
"Don't ever say that! Spare you? How much of a person do you think I am?Well I guess I showed you a little. I'm cruel, I love to watch people die and the fear I instill in people" he yelled
She was disgusted. He loved the fear he instilled in people? She clenched her teeth in fear trying to go down the stairs and avoid missing a step. To her dismay, she lost her step and fell from the stairs.
Her head spinned. She was feeling dizy. Her eyes could still see him rooted to a spot. She winced in pain as she tumbled from the stairs to the floor.
He was no gentleman at all, she murmured before falling unconscious.
"Jade! Jade!!" A voice echoed in her head. It was hard to recognize it yet but it made her uneasy.
Flashes of her mom's face came through making her to wriggle in pain. She fought hard to wake up from this nightmare. The look on her mother's face when she was stabbed with a broken bottle. The blood and her helpless state too. Reason why she hated the sight of blood. She was too innocent to have been deprived of a mother.
A tear trickled down her cheek. She felt it. She hates these murderers. Why this nightmare now? She struggled to wake up but even her yells and screams in this dark portal of the world could not help her.
"Jade! " the voice called again. She jerked up fully awake. Her eyes took time to note the place she was before she tried to climb out of bed.
"You are awake now" the voice began. She looked. It was Kelvin. *Sighs* The devil himself.
She could only blink with joy plastered on her face. It was all a nightmare all along. He placed a tray with two bowls of noodles in it. Noodles! That was her favorite.
She tried to feed herself. Strange enough, her arms ached so it couldn't even give her the pleasure to eat the food herself. Instead, kelvin fed her.
She watched him taking up the noodle hung on the fork and opened her mouth wide but to her dismay, he stuffed it in his own mouth.
That was her bowl of noodle. "You escaped last night. How smart" he commended between his munch, advancing towards her.
"Now, let's eat the food in my mouth together" he said. Maniac! She moved off the bed quickly but fell back. Her ankle hurts a lot.
He took this opportunity to lay over her while he focused on trying to kiss her. The struggle took almost a minute with her yells.
"Get away from me kelvin! I won't warn you again" She yelled. He proved stubborn not knowing what awaits him. He lost his guard but the terrifying thing there was the strange evil look in her eyes as she sent him flying towards the wall.
His head smashed in the wall. Quickly, something seemed to leave her before her senses came back.
"Kelvin" she ran towards his weak body. He could only glare at her with disgust before he gave up the ghost.
"No! Kelvin. I didn't mean to. I don't know how I did this" She cried.
"You killed him" the familiar voice laughed. She gasped moving away from Kelvin's body. The murderer.
She was met with the guy from her nightmare. Wait a sec! Kelvin had spoken of her escape. So it had all been real but how did she get here from the strange mansion.
"The mansion! The pillar!! You!!!" She hit her knuckles on her head "you murderer what are you doing in my house huh?"
He laughed "You yourself are a murderer" That gave her the chills. She stared at her blood stained hand. She resulted to murder? She hated murderers including her mother's. Now she was one of them. How is this possible?
"Weakling! Hmm I could not even stand the sight of how weak you were when he grabbed you. Don't be so cocky right now" he ran a hand through his hair.
"You are not strong enough to kill a fly even. Tsk! I possessed you and look at him dead" he laughed the more "but you as well could take the blame if you don't listen to what I have to say"
She remained quiet and he understood she had gotten what he said down into her head. She looked up to him.
"I don't know what and how it came about but I can't seem to let you out of my sight ever since last night. I want you" he said
"Come with me back to the mansion and I will resurrect him. I can do that just like I possessed your body a while ago"
She looked at Kelvin's pale face and then at the monster of a man before her. Even if he used black magic or witchcraft, she still needed his help.
Her father would hate her once he finds out she had killed his son. He may not be his flesh and blood but the man loved kelvin same as her. Her father's hatred would be unbearable.
"Fine"
He stared at her to be convinced. She was unmoved still rooted to her decision. He snapped his finger and yelled kelvin's name. Kelvin jerked awake.
She looked and realized they were now in the living room at a corner watching kelvin from a distance.
"Why hasn't she returned?" Kelvin yelled "I hate your guts, jade"
The murderer grinned at her. Enough proof for Jade not to bother him to waste any more time here. He grabbed her hand and they disappeared into thin air arriving back at the mansion and in a car.
Shortly after he had parked his car properly, he came out of the car. He expected her to come out even though he might have forced her out here.
She finally came out of the car, hesitant to walk with him into the mansion.
After a long while of staring into nothing, he nudged her along till they got to the door. An older man pushed open the door as if on cue.
He was putting on a black and white uniform with his moustache in a much fancy way. It was sort of tinted with white. Ahhh!! Silly her! That was not a just a tint but a sign of old age for the man.
She looked to her side, the murderer wasn't there anymore. Her best time to escape from here. She moved back and fell into a race. Back then in high school, she won so many awards during each race for the school.
She bumped her head into someone's body earning her to twist her ankle. She fell straight into his arms. The perfume scent, it wasn't the same as the murderer's. So that means this was another person.
She looked up to catch his gaze that was fallen on her. He was partly in resemblance with the murderer except for his surprisingly green eyes. He was red haired too but his was a darker red.
"Who are you?" He asked. She pulled away from him abruptly. "I have been kidnapped here, I want to escape"
"Ethan" That voice called. She turned swiftly with her eyes begging the ground to swallow her up. She was going to be trapped here forever. The guy whom she now knew was Ethan by name held her along to meet up with him even with her yells.
"Oh Brother, who is she? You haven't brought home a girl before." Ethan pushed her to a halt in front of him.
"Butler T, take her to the room. The maids have cleared it up." The murderer ordered the old man who had surprisingly allowed her earlier to fool herself by running.
Jade frowned "Ha! You Murderer, you are planning on killing me in that room. Strangling? Shooting? Or perhaps you butcher people in there. No! I can't go."
"I have a name" he said " call me Nathan" The butler took her further into the house. It was glamorous. The living room was times ten of her own living room that harbored three counts of chairs and a table as part of the dining make up. It had always been three chairs even before her mother died and when her father married another woman with a child. Shockingly, the woman never lasted two years before she died. That made her father to result to being unmarried.
The maids laughed at a corner while the butler took her away into a corner. It was a hallway. They crossed several rooms before he halted in front of a door. He opened the door and pulled her along to see it herself.
The room was beautiful. It was painted pink. Typical girl's room. She bounced on the bed. The bed was comfy, she murmured. The butler smiled on seeing the joy on her face.
"I'm glad you like it"
"Sir wait"
"I'm not called sir over here"
"But you are older than I am"Jade frowned. The older man laughed hysterically.
"Just call me T"
"What's your real name then?" Jade asked. Calling him T was not what she would be comfortable with. He was older than her.
"My name is Timothy" he replied. She liked the name but sticking with sir.
He left afterwards after introducing her to few maids who would wait on her to wake and also notify her for her meals when ready.
She coiled up in the bed. She had not said goodbye to her father. How foolish of her but if she gets over to him, she might end up revealing that she had followed a strange guy home. What was his name again? Nathan?
She missed her father so much. Why did the psycho had to go through so much to get her. What's her importance to him? She missed her job too, including her friend at work. She used the pillow to cover her face. Later on she angrily pressed the pillow to her face.
She had remembered when he called her a weakling. She sniffed. What was she to do? She's not fit enough to be brave. She's always been timid and probably clumsy.
"Don't murder yourself" his voice made her stomach to rumble in disgust. She brought the pillow off her face to see his stupid face.
She sat up with her eyes aching so much. "Why do you want me?"
He was caught off guard due to her sudden question.
"I dunno"
Psycho! He doesn't even know? Arrrggggh she wanted to skin him alive. She climbed out of the bed and pulled the ball point pen around the nightstand, heading straight to him. She pierced it into his chest and he groaned in pain. He never imagined she would make that move.
"But I like your face, it makes my blood warm" he said bringing her out of her imagination. Damn! She's really a weakling. She just imagined doing a brave thing. She wanted to say something but swallowed hard the imaginary lump.
She shrieked back on remembering what he just said "My face? I'm not even that pretty so what's my face got with making your blood warm"
"I'm called the rabid dog you know" He said rubbing his knuckles against his jeans. The look she gave him soothed him from within, she was giving in to a discussion with him. How sweet!
"And you like that name? Geez!" She adjusted her bum on the bed. He opened a can of fruit mix and gulped it all down.
"That's why I need you, I think so. Having you around kind keeps me calmed. Do you still remember yesterday? I killed those people. Well you needn't pity them much. They are the bad guys but I kill the good guys too so how about that?"
"You need the asylum"
"Chitchat is over " he said standing to his feet. His demeanor returning to the usual. He left her room without turning back and later on that day when she deliberated on shutting her eyes to sleep, she heard moans from the room adjacent to hers.
Damn! The girl in the room was so loud that she had to block her ears with two pillows but it wouldn't do. She threw the pillows aside and twisted open the door of her new room. The moan increased as she came out. From within, she was disgusted. If she were at her house, these moans wouldn't even be sounding to her ears. She gave a light knock on the door and the person that opened the door happened to be two naked ladies.
She almost puked on the sight she caught from the inside. They weren't just two girls with the man inside, there were two other more inside there apart from the two at the door and they were displaying their nonsense in there on him.
"Could you please reduce the noise in the room? I can't think straight with such noise. Not even a wink of sleep." She revealed her worry.
"Who the fuck is there?" The familiar voice asked. It was Nathan's. Oh! so he's the man in there with four sluts on him.
"Ai brother, you should go on. I forgot you were busy " Ethan said and pulled her away. Good! He had showed up earlier if not the girl would have been an adittion to his sluts. When they were seated in the garden, he brought out a pack of cigarette.
"I see you needed some fresh air. Don't try disturbing Nathan. He may even include you to satisfy him so steer clear off his business"
"I want to go away from here. I don't belong here and would never be. I have a perfect family. Ok, if not perfect but I miss my dad already" Her lips trembled like she would break down any moment.
"Shh It will be alright. I know how my brother can be. He wouldn't let you off his sight seeing that you coincidentally showed up and cooled him off in his rabid state" he said puffing out so much smoke from his nostril. He threw the cigarette pack at her and asked her to take one if she wanted.
"I don't smoke" she threw it back at him.
"So, now that I am here. Would I end up only eating, sleeping and waking up? I would need to continue my job, have a boyfriend and also get marred to have my own kids. I am a human and not someone with magical powers like him"
He threw the cigarette butt on the floor and called out to his dog that was few distances away from where they were.
"I can help you have those things you wish. You will not be stuck here, I promise you"
"And what do you mean by that?" She asked already irked by that. It bothered her that he could help her right now but had stopped her earlier from escaping.