I woke up in a room sitting in a chair with my arms and feet tied with metal chains onto it. I looked around and realized I am in a motel owned by our captain. I tried to get loose from my strain then someone came from the bathroom, someone I know, my partner.
MARTY TALONS:”That’s what I like about you the most, you are a very strong woman Gabriela, you fight even if you are in a hopeless situation.”
ME:”Why are you doing this?”
MARTY TALONS:”Before I answer your question let me ask you first, how did you find out, how did you know that I am the real pop candy and not Victor Brazen?”
ME:”The scar on your left arm, and the initial on the handwritten note.”
MARTY TALONS:”Very clever, I knew you will figured that out, that’s why you want to clear our board in the office, you are not satisfied with the results, that’s why I followed you, unfortunately, I’m smarter than you.”
ME:”Why kill those innocent girls, why me?”
MARTY TALONS:”Those girls were not innocent, they’re mean, plastics, and you’re the same as those girls.”
ME:”What have I done to you?”
MARTY TALONS:”Remember junior high, well…you were a junior I was a senior, quiz bee national championship, and you are part of the team with this nerd guy…gosh! I can’t remember his name.”
ME:”Arnold Hughes”
MARTY TALONS:”It’s so nice of you to remember, but not him, the other guy…”
ME:”Brad Hamilton.”
MARTY TALONS:”That guy! Yeah, after that championship, in which of course you guys took the honor, i mean "we" took the honor and make our school proud, I sent you love letters.”
ME:”Wait! You are Brad Hamilton?”
MARTY TALONS:”I was, and I still am.”
I look at him trying to recall Brad Hamilton face, he looks different and Marty seems have read my thoughts.
MARTY TALONS:”Don’t ask, change my blonde hair to black, I did some work on cheek bones, jaw and chin too, anyway…remember the championship game, not the quiz bee but the basketball championship game. You happened to be the cheerleader and before the game you called me, ask me on the court, do you remember that?”
ME:”I don’t know what you are talking.”
MARTY TALONS:”I will help you refresh your memory, you’re the campus queen… quiz bee champion… smart… beautiful,… adored by many,… same characteristic with pop candy’s victim, and you also the famous “hot cheer leader”, who asks me to come down at the court that night then told me to take the popping candy followed by soda and then BOOM!... I choked, pop candy plus soda your mouth will produce foam. And instead of being worried you laugh at me and announced how silly I am to do that, and to my surprised everybody laughs with you…YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW HUMILIATED I AM!”
ME:”That’s not me, that was my twin sister, you stupid bastard!”
MARTY TALONS:”Yeah, I didn’t know you have twin, I only realized that after your twin sister was found dead two weeks after the championship, raped and murdered as I recall, unsolved case, isn’t that’s the reason why you became a detective?”
ME:”How did you know that? You were gone after the championship.”
MARTY TALONS:”I didn’t leave, well… I left this town but I never left you Gabriela, I know every move you make, after your twin sister died you isolate yourself from everybody, you never go out, never had fun, but you finished high school, nice valedictory speech by the way. And we went at the same academy, you just didn’t notice me.”
ME:”Why did you do that, why are you watching me? I never did anything to you and my sister paid everything, was being raped and murdered isn’t enough for you?”
MARTY TALONS:”NO! I should be the one who took vengeance, and don’t tell me you are innocent because you are not! You told your twin sister about me, you let her read my letters, both of you made fun of me. When I heard about your sister I was disappointed, I told to myself both of you will pay, when she died, I burnt myself with cigarette, to take away the pain, the pain of the thought that I can’t avenge with her. SEE THIS SCAR ON MY PALM! This is your sister’s fault.”
ME:”You’re crazy!”
MARTY TALONS:”I AM NOT CRAAZZY!!!...”
ME:”Yes you are, the way you killed those girls, that’s a work of a psychopath! You are lunatic!”
MARTY TALONS:”Maybe I am…you know how long I’ve waited to take my revenge, long enough to be this crazy, I’ve waited for an opportune moment, then your partner was relieved, that was my chance, then I realized it would be stupid to just kill you, where’s the fun in that? Then I saw how every case affects you, so I came up with a better idea, made you suffer at the expense of others…”
ME:”I don’t want to hear anymore of your nonsense, why we don’t end this.”
MARTY TALONS:”Not so fast sweetheart, you are going to suffer more, I will kill you slowly, until you beg me to kill you. Let’s start with a candy and a soda.”
Marty grab my hair and opened my mouth, I fought him but with a restrain there is nothing I can do, he poured candy and soda in my mouth, he didn’t stop until I choked, there were soda’s coming out from my nose, when he felt I’m out of breath he let go of me, I gasps and cough so hard that I vomit everything.
MARTY TALONS :”( laughs like crazy) THIS IS FUN!”
After I catch my breath, Marty grab my face again and poured my mouth with candy and soda. He’s done that until my body became weak, he felt my immunity with what he was doing that I stop being resistant.
MARTY TALONS:”C’mon partner, don’t tell me you are giving up?”
I didn’t answer, I composed myself and gathered my strength, I have to be strong, and this is not over yet. Afterwards, Marty put a cloth and duct tape in my mouth, then he light a cigarette and burn my left palm.
I am screaming, I know I am, but nobody can hear me. I am crying, I can’t endure the pain anymore but I will never beg for my life. Marty kept on doing the cigarette thing at me, I feel like I’m going to lose my consciousness, I lift my head and closed my eyes, I wish this to be over.
Never have I given up on anything, never in my life that I lose hope, as long as I’m alive, I can make things better, but right at this moment I doubt that.
“Please let me die, please God!” I said to myself.
I’m convinced that my situation is already hopeless, I’m about to give up when suddenly the door forced open.
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Detective Gabriela Prescott (Book I)
Misterio / SuspensoGabriela Prescott A.K.A Detective Gabby Prescott is quite like a celebrity in a small town called Ores. Her achievement as a detective made her famous. She solves every crime that was assigned to her in no time. For seven years everything was easy f...
