Unexpected Encounter

Chapter 3

Lando

Together with Max, Daniel and all the other drivers, we are in a restaurant having dinner. Max is treating and everyone has something to drink, whatever they want. Lewis is sitting around looking around a bit. It seems like there's something there.

"Lewis, what is it?" I ask him half shouting, trying to rise above the others.

He looks up disturbed and looks around for who asked him. I look at Lewis and immediately he discovers that I was asking him. For a moment I see him sigh, but then indicates that he would rather not say it now. I nod understandingly at him and continue eating my plate. Now I also start to look around me and see that someone is missing. That's strange, who are we missing?

'Max, we are missing someone. Do you have any idea who?" I ask with a Belgian accent in it. Max looks up, from his conversation with Checo. He also looks around, but then also discovers that we are missing someone. 'We are missing Pierre,' Max answers my question. I nod and sigh for a moment. 'He wasn't here a moment ago either, because he had to go somewhere. I just don't remember where,' Max says, but I half understand him.

'Max, please speak in English. I only half understood you, because the rest was gibberish,' I tell him.

'He wasn't there a moment ago either, because he had to go somewhere. I just don't remember where,' Max says and I sigh. Pierre did act mysteriously when Roxanne discovered him at the door. I'd better go see Roxanne later when we're eaten out and done.

Roxanne

Slowly I come to. I immediately notice that I am tied up. Where am I? What happened again? It feels like my memory has been beaten to a pulp. I have a hard time remembering all the things. All I know is that I had been with Lando and Max, after which I walked home. Other than that, it's vague what happened then.

In front of me I see a door open and I lift my head. There, in front of me is Pierre Gasly! Then I know a bit more about what happened. He kidnapped me, but why?

'And...,' Pierre begins.

'And what!' I fall out against him.

'Let me finish!" he says in a low voice that makes me shudder. 'What do you remember about today?'

'Nothing more,' I lie and quickly look away with my eyes so he can't see that I'm lying.

'Speak the truth!" he attacks me immediately. I swallow. He's figured it out!

'I can only remember going home from Lando and Max, running into you at the door and then going home,' I sigh and look down.

'And what else?" asks Pierre on. Pfff, what a lot of questions all of a sudden! Does he really need to be told literally everything?

Nothing more,' I say and slowly start to get angry with him. Then suddenly he pulls a gun out of his pocket and points it at me. Immediately my anger is gone from my face and I now look at him anxiously.

'Do you really not remember anything or are you lying about this?" he asks impatiently now and lets go of the gun. Shit! He doesn't believe me. I still try to bring everything forward, but I can't think everything back clearly. It's like a fog in my head, where you don't know from where you came and where you should go.

'I really don't remember anything!" I say anxiously now and I can almost cry with fear.

Then he points the gun at my legs and shoots at my right leg. I immediately cry out in pain and tears stream down my cheeks.

'Why the hell, did you kidnap me? To shoot me for sure!" I sob and look down at my legs, where I see that my leg is bleeding.

'Why the hell are you shooting at my leg?" I ask screaming at him. He looks at my leg for a moment, startled, and then comes running towards me.

'Sorry, I expected it to go past your leg. That you only had a graze, but not this. I'm sorry! I'll get the first aid kit and tend to the wound quickly, before you lose too much blood later,' he forgives himself to me, trying to make amends. But I can only look at him sad and angry. He quickly gets up and makes his way across the room, to the door. Then he leaves the room and I see that he leaves the door open.