Trapped In Hell

The last thing she remembered was when her mother kissed her on the cheeks before she slept off.

Hazel woke up late In the midnight thirsty, she took the torch beside her bed and jumped down from the bed.

"Mother" she called as she walked towards her parents room.

"Mum am thirsty" she said as she opened the door but her parents were not there, confused, she rubbed her sleepy eyes and proceeded to get water by herself.

She walked to the sitting room table and poured her self some water.

CLANK! The cup fell on the floor and broke to pieces, while Hazel stood in shock, her mouth agape and her tiny body shivered in fear, she had read a lot of fairytale, and watched a lot of horror movies she knew she shouldn't have watched, but this was no fairytale nor was it a horror movie, it was right in front of her. A giant wolf, three times the Normal size of a wolf she had seen on TV, its fangs covered in blood as its bloodshot eyes stared at her, tears gushed down from her eyes. She was shaking and trembling in fear, she didn't know what to say or what to do, seeing the big wolf above her father with wounds on his body, his clothes were torn and blood gushed down from his stomach, his weak eyes pleaded with her to run, but she couldn't, her feet were rooted to the ground, she muttered.

"Dad"

The beast looked at her as it moved slowly towards her, like though it enjoyed the fear in the eyes of its prey. As it walked front, Hazel stumbled backwards.

She suddenly heard a low growl from the beast, her father had stabbed it's leg with a knife, and was holding it tight.

"Hazel run" he said, his voice barely louder than a whisper, although still in shock hazel took her tiny legs and ran as fast as she could, she didn't turn back even when she had the slashing sound as the beast finished her father off.

"Mum, mum" she shouted as she ran towards the door, she had almost opened it when she saw herself flying towards the wall, and with a thud she landed on the ground harshly, her back arched and she felt a sharp pain, the beast looked at her satisfied.

"Mum" she called, she could still hear Jackie her dog barking loudly. Ignoring the pain on her body, she stood up and continued her race, when she heard another growl, she turned to see her mother facing the beast, she was drenched in blood and was already very weak, her eyes looked at hazel and pleaded with her to go, with tears in her eyes hazel forced her legs to move, she turned back one more time, and she saw light emitting from her mother's hand, it was so bright that she had to cover her eyes, by the time she opened her eyes the beast had already stabbed her mother, she knew she had to escape.

"Faster hazel, faster",she urged herself, she could hear the thud sound from the beast feet, but she kept running, and suddenly she fell into a rabbit hole, she hit her head on the ground.

"Ahhhhhhhh"

Hazel woke up from her nightmare, a nightmare that was once a reality, she scanned her small tiny room and looked at her already packed luggage, she yawned widely and muttered...

" What a way to wish myself a happy birthday".

Have you ever felt a little bit tired of life?

Like you are not happy,

But you don't want to die,

Like a numb little bug,

That's trying to survive.

..Em beihold.. (poem)

"That would be fifty bucks please", hazel said to the customer as he paid and collected his Ice cream, seeing that there was no one else on the line, she took a chair and slumped on it.

"Today is the day you leave the orphanage and yet you still came to work", a white boy with an average height, messy hair and glasses, he was putting on a red and white check shirt that he didn't tuck in his jeans, overall he had this nerdy look, his name was James.

" Like though your boss would even let me take a ten minutes break," Hazel said as she tied her hair into a ponytail, she had a long brown curly hair that matched the color of her hazel like eyes, her white skin as pure as snow, except from the few cuts she had from her various parts time jobs, her Rosy red lips was a bit charred due to the cold and hazel couldn't care less about it.

"Besides, I already packed all my bags this morning and I have no one to say goodbye to, it's not like the government is going to pay for all my expenses, they are only paying for a small room for me for a year, which I have to maintain in the remaining years to come, so i need my job" she said to the nerdy boy.

Hazel was an orphan and she had been living in an orphanage home, her parents died when she was eight, the investigator said they were killed by a bear or a fox or some sort of wild animal, they were right of course, but there was more to the story, hazel mother was an orphan, and her father had only on brother who moved to Africa after their death, he refused to take hazel with him, saying that she was a curse, and so hazel was dumped in the orphanage, but some time later her parents death kept repeating in her head which made her throw tantrums, there was a particular day every month specifically during full moon, hazel would feel excruciating pain in all parts of her body and she would scream and cause a fuss, so the orphanage had to put her in a psychiatric hospital, until a year and half when the doctors confirmed that she was now cured and they dropped her back in the orphanage.

Hazel off course hadn't been cured, she still had those nightmares scary visions and she still felt that excruciating pain every month and she never knew why, but she did know that no one cared for her and she had to be strong for herself, no one likes her in the orphanage, and she didn't really care, as much as she hated her life, for some reasons, she still wanted to live.

She was twelve when she met James, James was always on his own with a rocket or scientific stuff, other kids weren't really fond of him because he was, as they would say "boring" all his discussions were about science or some nerdy stuff, and kids at that age didn't care about them.

"You dropped this" young hazel Said to him and she picked up some tools from the ground, James was hiding behind a tree, crying silently.

"It's ok, I don't need it anymore", he said.

" Why?" Hazel asked, staring at him with her hazel like eyes which made the boy feel pressured to answer.

"I don't do nerdy stuff anymore."

"I think you are actually smart", hazel said, and tears poured down from his eyes, that was the nicest thing someone had ever said to him since his parents died, they died in a car accident.

Hazel walked forward and dropped the stuff beside him.

" They laugh at you because you are smarter than them, so they want you to feel like you are weird and stop being smart," hazel said as she scrutinized him and added "seems like their plan is working"

"Of course not" James said, hurriedly he cleaned his cheeks, picked up his toys and stood up, "who said I'm gonna quit being smart", he said sharply and a faint smile appeared in hazel face.

"Teach me how to make toys", she said plainly.

" Really?"James ' eyes beamed, "but why?" he questioned.

" I want to make money" Hazel said and James stared at her confused, but he ended up teaching her, they earned a lot of pocket money from selling the toys to rich kids. Hazel and James became very close,they were called weird nerds.

Hazel was a year older than James and James looked up to her like an elder sister, and he was very protective of her.

When Hazel turned sixteen, she already had three part Time jobs, she was always working and even provided little money for the orphanage. She didn't like the life she lived, nor did she feel like she was living, but for some reasons she wanted to live.

"Hazel, hazel" James called and she immediately snapped out of her thoughts.

'did you hear anything I just said"

"Huh?" she asked surprised

" I said it's already four, aren't you late for your part time job," he said and hazel eyes widened as she jumped from her sit and flinged the apron away,

"Help me park up", she yelled as she took her bag and ran out,her second part time job is at a bar, and it would take her extra ten minutes to get there by bus, she ran to the bus station and was lucky that the bus wasn't full yet she hopped in and took a seat, her heart beating loudly.

When she arrived at her job, her boss give her a disgusting look, he never liked the way she dressed, it didn't attract customers, she was always in big hoodies and baggy trousers looking like a boy when this was a bar, other girls wore mini skirts and bum shorts and attracted a lot of customers but she was always so plain, but he couldn't fire her because she was great at her work, the other girls would leave his shop messy but she would always clean up, but still, he didn't like her.

...

...

"You are twenty minutes late," he said

"Am so sorry, it wasn't easy getting a bus."

" Hold your excuses and get to work", he snapped and Hazel immediately took a towel and started cleaning the tables, ready for the usual evening rush.

The place was buzzing with music, as different lights coloured the Celine, guys drank and made out with girls.

"Miss Frowny is back again", a hefty guy with a bald head and a bulging stomach said.

"Oh you mean the girl in jeans?" His companion asked, "I have seen the ass of every girl here except her. Why does she hide so much? I wonder what's under those jeans" he said , licking his lips and the hefty man smiled.

"Hey Bonnie", the hefty man said to one of the sales girls.

" Yes", she answered, chewing her gum noisily.

"What's up with Miss Frowny?" he asked.

"Like you don't know, she is always minding her business and acting all holy" she answered and walked away.

Before the other guy could say anything he saw the hefty man walking towards hazel.

"Hey beautiful", he said and Hazel threw him a side glare.

" You want a drink?" she asked.

"Yea" he answered in a deep tone.

" What drink,whiskey?" Hazel asked, feeling uncomfortable by his gaze.

"Something better, something you have down there, I promise to pay you well". He said and Hazel just stared at him, ignoring the nonsense she just heard.

" You still haven't told me your drink, if you aren't ready yet I have to attend to other people" she said and took two bottles in her hands, she walked passed him but he grabbed her hands, and whispered to her

" I can pay all you want, all I ask for is a night" he said and his hands traveled down her thighs, she struggled free with him.

The sound of the drink breaking, got everyone else's attention as they watched how he tried to force himself on her. Hazel struggled with him but he was too strong.

"Let go, let me go" she yelped.

"Mr Drake", her boss yelled.

"I won't tolerate such insolence here, if you have to do such nonsense do it when the working hours are over" he yelled and the hefty man smirked as he let go of her, hazel scurried away.

"Now get back to work", he yelled at her, she walked past the hefty man and Continued her work. She kept checking the time as she couldn't wait to go home.

Once she saw that it hit eleven, she packed up her bag and went straight to her boss for her pay.

She looked at the money he gave to her and it wasn't complete, she looked at him with her eyebrows up.

"My pay isn't complete", she said

"I reduced your pay because you came late, and you broke a bottle, you should pay for that," he said with a straight voice, hazel was a quiet person but she wasn't dumb, she had a sharp tongue for whoever tried to get in her way.

"Ha ha ha ha...."

Her laughter filled the air, she laughed like a maniac and her boss wondered what was funny, but she kept laughing, suddenly she stopped and wiped the single tear that fell from her eyes as a result of her laughter.

" I did not just go through hell today, of a near sexual assault without getting my full pay, I work two times the way others do, and what, I came late, you set up my time by 4pm while others come by 6pm, and yet we get the same pay, you think I didn't Know, am not a fool boss so don't think that I am dumb, pay me my complete money if you don't want to see the other side of me, because its very ugly," the look in her brown eyes made her boss shiver with fear, but he refused to succumb to it.

"How dare you speak to me like that, everyone here works equally, so who are you to say that you work more".

" Ahhh, my back really aches, should I report to the police for sexual harassment, this is a bar not a club, am sure they would be curious to know what is happening here" she said.

"What nonsense are you saying, if you are tired of working here then leave".

"I will, and I will like to see you find another hard working girl like me, let's see if your sexy girls can do all the hard chores when I am gone" , she said.

" Take, take your money and stop spurting nonsense," he said and gave her the remaining balance.

" Thank you" she replied with a mock bow, she walked a few steps when she turned back and said.

"You should tell that mad dog to pay for the drink he broke," she added and left.

Hazel stood by the bus station as she thought about how she just quit her job.

"Arghhh, you are in no position to quit, so why, why did you quit", she said to herself in frustration.

You know what, it's a good decision that place is dangerous, she thought as the bus arrived and she got on.

She got down from the bus and walked down the lonely street, everywhere was calm and quiet, it was really late and only few people walked down the street, hazel was never really fond of the dark, she always made James come meet her so they could walk back to the orphanage but she didn't want to disturb him, he would be tired from his part time work.

Nothing bad really happened in the street, it was filled with churches and a lot of Christian's but still that didn't stop hazel from walking fast, she suddenly noticed a shadow behind her but she thought they were just probably going the same direction, but after taking two turns she realized that the person was following her, she walked faster, she turned back abruptly and saw the hefty guy with a smirk on his face, fear crept into her heart and she began to run.

The street was so quiet that she could only hear the sounds of her feet running. He chased behind her and began to catch up to her. He had longer legs and ran like an athlete.

Hazel took several turns, because she knew the in and out of the place very well, she tried to get him off her trail. She reached into her bag hurriedly as she searched for her phone, she bumped into someone and her phone fell. She was about to ask for help when she saw the face of the person and recognized him as the hefty man's friend.

"Who are you running from my pretty... " he couldn't complete his sentence because she suddenly hit him in the groin and he yelped, she turned around and saw the hefty man at her front few steps away from her, she couldn't run back either because his friend was behind her, she looked to her side and saw a narrow road, she had never walked that part before and had no idea where it led to, but she didn't care, she ran down the path and her pursuers followed suit, she ran down the path and it led to a Forest, she didn't see the billboard that indicated a danger sign as she ran into the forest.

"Stop! Can't you see the danger sign" the hefty man friend said to the hefty guy as he stopped him From entering.

" Danger sign my ass, she is getting away", he said and tried to shove his friend off.

"That is a very dangerous forest, no human being has ever came out of there alive, it is said to have the most dangerous wild animals in there, do you really value lust over your own life," he said and the hefty man sighed not moving from his spot, he could only watch the tiny image of his prey running deep into the forest.

Hazel kept running until she tripped on a twig and fell down, her ankle was broken and she had a long scratch on her leg, she saw the blood on her leg and winced in pain, she turned back only to notice that she was no longer being followed, she sighed in relief, but her relief soon turned to fear when she saw that she was in a Forest, everywhere was pitch black and she could barely see a thing.

She urged herself up and stood on one leg, she turned around trying to survey the area, but when she looked in front, she saw someone in front of her with bloodshot eyes, her heart stopped a bit, and she fainted in his arms.