The Sweetest Obsession

6: the plan

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ALANISE

How did we end up here?

That was the question I had in my mind as I stared at them. How can these pure and beautiful ladies become captive of these psychos.

After the so-called breakfast— the four disappeared in an instant for an unknown reason, leaving us inside the house.

It was said that, the disappearance of them was only meant that they have a new toy to punish— the torture room as Maila stated near the storage room at the backdoor where their captive or someone who went against their will— neither able to came back alive or dead.

And right now, the echoes of screams of pain and agony were echoing near the storage room, those sorrowful and painful grunts— the sobbing and yell of torture from someone who's sadly a victim of those four.

It's scary.

Maila and I looked at each other with fear as Jen who seemed traumatized kept her silence as well as Shane who just looked down as she squeezed Jen's hand.

Jen who has tears in her eyes made me weak and diminished the moment she muttered the news.

"They found my brother..." She stated with a trembling voice. Fuck.

It was Jen's brother this time— how cruel can they be?

The silence in the living room was suffocating. We sat in a circle—Jen, Shane, Maila, and me—trapped together in this nightmare we never chose.

The air was thick with fear, each of us haunted by the same invisible chains. The room seemed smaller, the walls closer, as though the very house was a prison.

Jen's hands shook as she wrapped her fingers around a cup of water, the moist rising in fragile tendrils. Her eyes, once bright, were now hollow, as if life itself had been drained out of her.

I could see the exhaustion in the dark circles under her eyes, the way her shoulders sagged under the weight of everything she'd been through. She took a shaky breath, breaking the oppressive silence.

"I know my brother was trying to save me, to save us but they found him— I warned him before but he was persistent until Cohen found out,  they caught him." Pagkwento niya.

"I begged her to spare my brother's life but Cohen— she just laughed. She still proceeded, fuck. My brother doesn't deserve this. If I only listened to my brother before hindi aabot sa ganito— he'll not experience this hell from those demons" She silently cried, wailing the pain.

I couldn't move as I just listened, wala silang sinasanto kahit sino— even the love ones of their captive.

Shane rubbed Jen's back as a comfort even though she was shaking too, Maila and I were just sitting— heart was breaking, emphatizing with Jen until she spoke again.

"Akala ko dati iba siya," She began, her voice trembling, barely above a whisper. "Si Cohen... she was so charming. Ang bait niya noong una. Pero... pero hindi ko alam na ganito ang mangyayari."

Jen's voice cracked, and I watched as she tried to hold back her tears, her hands trembling as she placed the cup on the table.

"She—she controls everything. 'Di ako puwedeng lumabas. Wala akong pwedeng kausapin... Ayokong isipin, pero ginagawa niya akong parausan lang." Her voice broke, and she covered her face with her hands, shoulders shaking with the silent sobs she was trying so hard to suppress.

"She didn't care about what I felt as long as she was satisfied. This is not what she promised me— she tricked me to be with her and everyday I regret that I fell on her tactics"