IS IT A DREAM OR REALITY?

CHAPTER SEVEN

Mrs Carroll enters the basement,
Even I pretend I'm unconscious, I can feel her
She closes the door and heads toward us,
She bents down to bring her face close to mine, she keep staring at me for a long time, I swear if she stayed for one second I would open my eyes and spoil everything, but she goes to Matt after some time
She is checking whether he is properly tied or not to be sure that he won't try to escape again,
She turns to me again, but this time she is determined  to wake me up violently,
She takes a bucket of water and pours it on my face,
I breathed deeply after the water hit my face,
After all this acting and pretending,
I regain consciousness,
The water enters my mouth, my eyes, my ears, and all my clothes got wet
She pulls a chair and sits in front of me, stretching her hand towards me to hold my hair, she grabs my hair from behind,  pulls me to her, she glares at me, her looks radiating hatred and anger,
I want to scream
I want to cry
But I can't,
I worry that anything I do will be against me, so I delay to pretend to be calm,
She comes close to my ear and says
"Did you think I wouldn't know about your relationship?  Did you think you'd keep your malignant relationship a secret from me? I never imagined that my childhood friend would cheat on me. With who? With my husband"
...I don't say a word, I keep my silence
But this making her angry even more
She grabs my hair tightly and pulls me to her, and says
" Answer cheap?"
She hurts my head, I feel like my head is going to be pulled from its place because of the wound in my neck, and yet I keep silent
She says  "You don't want to talk, do you? It's okay I know what will make you talk?"
She turns towards Matt,
And inside of me I repeat, "Please don't hurt him... please.... please..."
She holds his face and tells him "At least your love is working for something, she will speak after seeing you suffer, Mike"
Mike says "Please don't do it please Carroll...Carroll no..."
I am here, I do not know what she is going to do, but I am sure it is something terrifying
She holds Matt's hand and pulls it towards her, then starts pulling his nails with a tweezer
Matt screams, his screams reflect the pain he feels
I don't know what to do
Matt suffers in her hands, she is not going to stop until She heard what she wants, and she wants me to admit that Matt, who she thinks is her husband, and I who is her childhood friend are together and we cheating on her
She's laughing in a scary way, and seems to enjoy what she is doing
I can't bear hearing him screaming anymore,
I scream "Carol please stop... please don't do this to him, he didn't do anything wrong, we both didn't do anything" 
Carol exclaims "What? How dare you say that?  You two deserve this I'm the one who didn't deserve what you did to me, you hear"
She stands up, comes up to me again and says "I'm the one you betrayed, I trusted you, I considered you like my sister, I never thought you would do this to me, you ruined my life, you caused my torment, and now here you are in my hands, you can't get out of here until I make you taste the torment I went through  all these years because of you, you brought this on yourselves both of you"
I say in a stammering voice out of fear "You don't understand, Mrs Carroll, I'm not the one you're talking about, and Matt isn't Mike, we just came here to get you your pizza, we don't know what you're talking about, I swear."
She says "Do you think I will believe you, this cheap trick of yours will not fool me"
I say "I swear to you, I'm not lying, we are not what you think"
I didn't see her hand until she slapped me hard until my face turned, it is painful, and tears starts to fall from my eyes profusely
Carroll says "Shut up, I'm never going to run into you, and I swear I won't let you in until you feel exactly the way you made me feel"
I can't feel anything yet, we are chained here, Matt's hand is bleeding, my neck is bleeding, I doubt that even if we loosen our chains, we will not be able to move, and Matt, he  not eaten for a while
Matt told me that he is still alive because she gives him a piece of bread every morning, thinking that he is her husband, maybe it's out of pity for her love for him for the past years, and perhaps she loves him... No no, it's impossible, I think she feeds him to make him alive so she can torture him as she wants, for as long, and the same will apply to me...
Suddenly she gets up quietly, heads for the door, and outs
I turn to Matt, to see if he's fine, even though I know that he's not fine, he's strong, and no one will take this count of pain in his place, even me
I say while I'm trying not to cry "Hey... Matt, are you okay?"
He says "No, but it doesn't matter now, what about you, did she hurts you badly?"
I say "No, I'm fine, but we need to get out of here, no matter what happens or what will take...your condition will get worse if we stay here more"
Matt takes the knife out of his back pocket, he gives it to me to cut the ropes that bind us,
His hand is in bad condition so he gives it to me so I can do it 
It is difficult to control the knife from behind, but we have no choice, we need to try
This time that I spent here with Matt taught me not to despair
I success in cutting the rope that bound my hands, and then I cut the cord that bound my legs
I go to Matt and cut the ropes that tied his hands and feet as well
I help him up, although my neck hurts every time I move, Matt's condition is much worse than mine
I approach the small window in the corner of the basement, I can see her watering her yard
Whoever sees her doing this will never believe that she is imprisoning and torturing two people in her house basement
We have a great chance to escape, we need to succeed With the same knife, Matt opens the door lock, we walk to reach the stairs, I help Matt to lean on me so we can go upstairs together trying not to cause any noise
She is still out of the house
We go upstairs, I take Matt to hide under the stairs and then I go to open the door, I open the door and I cut my hand, and stain the door handle with blood as well as the floor,
Matt and I, had previously agreed that we would not run away from the house as soon as we got out of the basement, but rather we would hide somewhere until Carroll comes and when she'll find out that we escaped she'll go straight outside, then we'll go out and hide somewhere around here until she comes back and then we'll go.
With this plan we want to ensure that at least we will not run into her on the way of our escape because there is only one way, and if we turn to it, she will also be there looking for us and then we will meet.
And this is not what we want...
I go back to Matt, but unfortunately, it happens what I don't expect  to be happening
On the way back to Matt, I walk quickly, I don't notice, and I tripp on one of the pieces of furniture, then the vase on the table fell, it breaks, I run to Matt, I sit next to him with a sense of fear and terror, he holds my hands to him
Then we hear that voice, the voice of footsteps, she's here, Carroll is home, she comes to see what happened...