Just Friends

Chapter XXIII: The End

***Mentions of Rape, sexual assault, and physical abuse, will be in this chapter. Please be advised.***

Mayari Sekani Thompson

I don't know how long i've been here. A few days? A week? Maybe longer. I always wondered how in the movies people would lose track of time so easily. But I get it now, within my first few hours here I felt like i'd been here for months. Then after that time just passed me by.

Every time I wake up I think why haven't so died yet? Every time I come to consciousness I think maybe i'll be gone from here and somewhere safe. Anywhere but here. But i'm always i'm this dark, mold infested room.

I'm scared if I do get out of here will I ever be normal again? I remember being so scared of rats and mice. Really any creature that was foreign to me. And now? Well now they bring me comfort, I don't feel as alone.

Truthfully now I wish they'd just kill me.

Whenever I heard about others being intimate with another person I was told it was amazing, comforting, and euphoric. But all i've felt is pain and disgust. No matter how much I begged for him to stop he didn't. I think maybe it turned him on more to see me cry and scream. So I stopped. The tears would come out but no more screaming, no more begging for him to leave me alone. I just laid there emotionless.

He hasn't done anything since, well i'm not sure. But it's been a while now. Instead he focuses more on hitting me. He did do that before too but not as much now that's all he really does.

I'm bound to a chair when he's not assaulting me. The chair is chained to a wall and i'm chained to the chair. It's cold in this room but he doesn't care the most I can wear is the laced bra and panty set he gives me. And even then I must change in front of him to ensure i'm not hiding anything.

I wonder what Messiah is doing right now. I wonder where Tj and Alyssa are. I wonder if my momma is doing okay. I hope she doesn't miss me too much. I hope she's not spiraling. I'd like to believe Mrs. Sherry is with her taking care of her, reassuring her.

I feel like maybe now I have regrets. I should've been a better child to my mom. I ask myself in what way? I did everything for my mom, for my friends. But still i'm sitting here with regrets. One thing I do have a clear regret about is not telling Siah how i've felt all these years.

What would've happened to us if I had just said it? I'd like to think we would be together right now. And in a few years married, living successful life's in our careers. And after a few more years with children. Alyssa and Tj would be the godparents, and of course my momma would be obsessed with her grandchildren. She's always wanted them.

I feel like i'm holding onto whatever strength I have left to keep me alive. I have cuts all over my body. Bruises decorating my skin on every part as if it was an accessory. And then pain I feel in my face, making my head feel like it's pounding against my skull.

I've been positive until today. I hoping and wishing i'll be saved soon or can find a way to escape. But today all that optimism is gone and reality is kicking in.

That man they call Tasman comes in here to rape me or ask me questions. Now mostly just asking me those questions. But I don't know anything about what he asks me. He was the one that told me about the things Messiah and Tj do and what they have done. I wish they had told me themselves. I wonder if they thought i'd react badly but I wouldn't have if they had just explained it to me.

I wonder if they thought they couldn't trust me.

I hear heavy foot steps coming towards the room. Then muffled speaking and finally the sound of the door opening.

"Hey baby. Ready to talk to me yet?" I can't see the person speaking but just from the sound of his voice it's Tasman.

I stay quiet which only ever makes him more mad. He comes up to me grabbing my face his breath smelling horrid as always.

"You must want me to teach you a lesson, hmm? What have I told you about ignoring me?!" He lets my face go and slaps me not once but a few times. My face starts to burn with each slap.

"I'm tired of you not fucking speaking when spoken to. Do you know the shit i'm going through because of you not cooperating?!! He's taught you well. But i'll break you. And i'll make you all mine, he won't even be a thought in that pretty little head." He says unbuttoning his pants and starting to loosen the chains around my wrist and ankles.

He grips the back of my neck and starts to kiss my neck, right over the bruises he's created. I can't help but shiver in disgust at his mouth on me. "You try to run i'll break your fucking ankle."

"You understand me or you deaf now too?" I don't respond I only nod and he lets me go pushing my head forward to unchain the collar from the wall. He had put a dog collar around my neck and chained it up to the wall to restrict my head movements.

As he's about to pick me up when one of his minions call his name from outside the room.

"What the fuck you what man? I told you lil niggas not to bother me when i'm in here." He doesn't turn around but keeps loosening the chains.

Without being told it was okay the guy comes into the dingy room, making Tasman turn around i'm sure with an angry face. For the first time in a long time I see light coming from outside the room, even from where I sit now, it still makes my eyes squint in responds.

"I'm sorry boss but it's important. Um..." The guy from what I can make out is looking between me and Tasman. I guess trying to see if it's something he's allowed to say in front of me. Seeing as how this is the first time since i've been here anyone has needed to interrupt it must be important.

"Man if you don't spit that shit out already. She ain't gone do shit so just speak nigga."

The guy clears his throat and says the words I was wondering if i'd ever hear. But dreamed since i've been here that I would finally hear.

"We think King is here and he's brought friends."

Tasman doesn't say anything for a few seconds, maybe shocked? Did he not prepare for this just in case? Is he really that dumb to not have a backup plan?

"Sir wh- You've gotta be fucking kidding me!! You nigga weren't watching outside?? Fuck was y'all doing throwing dice my nigga? How do you even fucking know that no-" before he can even finish his rant he stops talking at the sound of gunshots. A lot of them and it seems from multiple different places.

I jump at the sound but realize this might be my chance. Tasman isn't moving nor speaking and neither his is minion. They are too caught up in all the sounds. I'm loose enough from the chair and wall. I have to try, one last time.

Tasman walks past the guy and starts speaking but honestly i'm tuning them out. I grab the chain that was attached to my collar and get up from the chair and jump on the back of the random guy choking him. I wrapped it so tight and so fast he had no time to react. I felt scratches on my arm and I heard yelling but I couldn't focus on it until I heard a snap and the guys head went limp forward and we fell.

Next thing I know i'm being pulled off the guy laying motionless on the ground then I feel a punch to my right temple and everything goes blank.

To Be Continued...

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