Original by Ana Ida
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ONE: MEET JAMES HAVELOCK
The family’s princess, Ann Li, had just graduated from high school with high honors. She had always been like that. She would always come home with awards and good news. Both a mommy and a daddy’s girl, she was her brother’s favorite girl, too.
“Since you’ve been a very good girl, I am finally going to let you ride my sports-” Yuan, her seven years- older brother was not even able to finish his surprise’s introduction since Ann has hopped inside already.
“Come on! I’m excited,” with cheerful and excited voice, she yelled.
“Yeah, I’m-” but just before Yuan could get inside, a man on a motorcycle hit his head with a gun. That instant, he lost his consciousness as the attention of people near especially their parents was caught. Another man opened the driver’s door and locked Ann inside.
“Aaaaaaaah!” Ann yelled as she tried to get out but she couldn’t anymore. The guy in a black bonnet had locked her in and the next thing she realize, they were already half a mile far from her school.
“Yuan! Mommy! Daddy!” she cried her hearts out, looking back at her brother, lying on the road and parents going hysterical. As she was being the same, the guy pulled her and indirectly asked her to sit straight. Shaking, she tried to calm herself by thinking that everything would be okay. There were already cars running after them. But they weren’t as fast as his brothers’ car and the drivers were not a professional as the one taking the steering wheel.
“Who are you?” she tried to ask while wiping her tears, trying to get some information about her abductors. She was so scared to utter a word but it was also hard to just sit still and wait for what the man would want to do to her.
But there was no answer.
And after a couple of minutes more, he finally stopped the car. Another man on a motorcycle stopped in front of them, wearing a red helmet and a black leather jacket.
“My Boss right there…” his voice was deep and scary. He pointed to the man on the motorcycle whom she assumed was looking at her, too. But she couldn’t see even just a glimpse of his face as the pair of sunglass was covering his eyes inside.
“He wants you to tell your brother to take care of you well,” he opened the door and left her. The boss handed another helmet to the driver. And a few seconds after, they were both gone.
***
Nobody could still talk to Ann after the incident. She was just silent the whole time after she was rescued a few miles from the University. There were no signs of injury or stress on her body but she was clearly shocked and traumatized by what happened. Those were just less than ten minutes of her life, but she knew that if those guys wanted, they could have killed her- or her brother.
“Tell me, Ann. Did they say something to you? They should have. Why did they do that?” Yuan, getting a bit impatient now was giving her a slight shake.
But she kept on staring on nothing.
“Ann… Tell Yuan what you know. Please,” her mother begged.
Then she dropped a tear.
“He told me that his Boss wants me to tell you… to take care of me,” she looked at him with her almond eyes. She was as scared as when she was found alone in the car.
“I didn’t see how his Boss looks like. But he scared me. He’s so damn scary, Yuan. I don’t want to see him anymore. Not even his shadow,” she started to cry.
