The Moon Is Shining (MjFantasy)

Chapter 1 - The night when it all started

The sun was almost rising when I decided it was time for me to close the bar.It was a September night, the sky took that wonderful dark-blue color and the stars were slowly disappearing.It was almost 4 a.m : on the weekend I wasn't allowed to close the bar before 3:30 am.
I sighed heavily, as I was cleaning some tables with a rag : I was completely exhausted. But I couldn't really complain about my situation. It wasn't so bad. I was 20 and I was studying in one of the most famous, prestigious and reputed university of the state...

People think that I'm insane for having took that decision. My previous situation was even better : I was living in France with my parents. They are rich, kinda. So if I only stayed in Paris with them, I would be living in a little cocoon right now. Without having to worry about how to pay my rent, or my food, or how to deal with the fact that I am overworking... But I refused. I refused because it was the easy way out and I prefer to keep my liberty and my independence. I don't even accept the money that my parents keep sending me every week.

I just don't feel like I need it.

I like better to handle myself.

I left the bar a couple of minutes after. The street was deserted, as usual, at this time. I was working in the most desolate part of Atlanta, in a filthy and dark district, but I needed that money to live in good conditions and pay my rent so I was just ignoring it.

I was walking towards my car when I suddenly heard a thump coming from behind me.

I quickly turned around but I didn't see nothing.

Really nothing.

The parking lot was empty.

That was weird... Really weird.

I made a step forward hoping to find a stray cat or dog hiding in the darkness and who could be the reason of this sound that I heard earlier but I still didn't find anything. I began to feel nervous, something was going wrong. I knew that this sound wasn't from my imagination. It was strong and close. Really close. Somebody must have caused it.
I tried to calm down during some minutes, convincing myself that I was just really tired and that I had no reason to be so afraid. I was just overreacting .

«That was nothing, you're getting anxious for nothing girl... I seriously need to get back home and make myself a hot bath and relax. A really hot bath, filled with bubbles and a cup of tea. Yes, it sounds like heaven right now. Damn, I really need it. »

I decided to come back to my car and while I was walking, thinking about my cup of tea and my hot bath I looked around me one last time and I froze.

A man was standing next to my car. It was too dark : I couldn't see his face. All I could tell was that he was very tall and that he was looking at me.

My anxiety raised at the top immediately. What was he doing here ? What does he want ?
My legs were shaking violently and my breathing was now more than audible. He began to walk towards me, and I decided to run away from him before he could catch me.

I took a deep breath, trying to keep myself together and turned around, but I paused when I noticed that another man was standing on the other side of the road, just in front of me.

« Oh shit... I'm trapped... »

I felt oppressed, and really frightened. They trapped me in a deserted street, a Sunday night, while I was completely alone and without any protection. All my body was shaking at this point and I couldn't even manage to stabilize my breathing anymore. I was at the point to break down : There was no way out.

Unless if... There was one more way out. Only one more chance. I knew that behind the bar, not too far from where I was standing, I could find a little back alley that could bring me to the adjacent street. It was there that I was taking out the trash.

The two men began to come closer. Without hesitation, I ran toward the back alley as fast as I could. I've never ran so fast in my life. I ran without looking behind me, not even once. Really quickly, the smell of trash, and rot overwhelmed me, making me feel the urge to throw up, but I forced myself to ignore it and just keep running.

I was breathless and there was a roaring in my ears : I wasn't able to hear anything about what was happening behind or around me. All I knew, it was that the two men were running after me and that they were gaining ground so I sped up.

Finally I saw the end of the back alley, I was almost there !

But suddenly I felt a horrible pain coming from my left leg : It was like if my skin was burning, it was unbearable. I cried of pain and fell ruthlessly on the ground.
I tried to get up, but at the second I lift the upper part of my body up from the ground, two big and powerful hands shoved me back down. A man was standing above me.

He was staring me with his intense grey-eyes. His head was shaved and his face really intimidating. He smiled, sat on my hips, making impossible for me to move, and while he done that, he also pressed my wound on my leg, making me cry of pain once again.

He smiled more and more, as I was crying harder. His face came closer to mine. His breath reeked of alcohol..

"Bitch, you run pretty fast ! " he said, breathless.
" Leave me alone !" I screamed, trying to escape from his grip.

He sat on my belly, depriving me of oxygen.

" Shut up bitch ! You don't want to wake up all the damn city, do you ? "
I couldn't answer : I was literally suffocating.

"Gary" he said, looking to the second guy standing behind him "Give me the scotch tape and the tranquilizer."
Gary handed him a black bag.
" Get off me..." I barely said with a weak voice, still unable to breath.

The man standing upon me pulled a knife out from his pocket and pressed it against my neck. My eyes widened and my heart stopped as I felt the cold of the knife against my skin.

" Open your mouth just one more time and I swear that I'll cut your throat. Understood ?"

I didn't answer. I didn't need to, I couldn't do anything, anyway. I was completely trapped and helpless. All I could do, it was to hope and pray to stay safe.
He used the tape to tie my hands and my legs together. The pain in my left leg was becoming unbearable at this point.

Then suddenly he thrust a syringe in my arm, making me cry of pain once again.

- Just in case... If you wouldn't cooperate. " He said smiling.

I felt the drug spreading in my veins slowly but inexorably. It was a torture. A horrible torture. I tried to move my body, but it wasn't reacting anymore. Gradually, the sounds around me began to get weaker.
I felt my aggressor lifting me up from the ground.

My vision became blurry and within a minute I felt like I was falling into the void.

And then everything around me became black and I was emerged in a deep and compact darkness.

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Here is the first chapter !!! I really hope that you liked it...

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I know that the chapter isn't perfect but I promise that I'll get better !

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