buy or die / jjk ∴ ksg

One

They transported me to another van. The smell of this van makes me sick. Plus, a sack covering my face makes me sick even more.

The vehicle halted and a man held my arm and yanked me out of the van. We entered a room and they made me sit to a chair, tied my hands to it violently. "What do you want?!" I shouted as I struggle to get my hands untied. A man removed the sack covering my face. I squint my eyes to help adjust to the light and the sight infront of me boils my blood.

"Shut up missy or else you'll get hurt." A man said as he walked towards me and placed a masking tape in my mouth. "Our boss will be happy when he sees this." Another man chuckles and he gestured to my direction.

I tried to lick the tape placed in my mouth to lessen the stickiness. I'm not scared in this kind of situation, this already happened to me multiple times.

I wiggled my head and desperately removed the tape. And when the tape finally went loose, I shouted, "Ya! Who's your boss? Huh?"

The man looked and approached me. "Shut up I say!" He slapped my right cheek and took out the tape to replace a new one. "I won't say a word just leave the tape alone." He gave me a confused look and faced one of this companions.

"Feisty eh?" He leaned closer. "What? You don't trust me? Trust your friends first." I said as I exaggerate the word friends.

Two things that I have learned from this whole kidnapping scene is to confuse your kidnaper and to observe him. And as I see, it is obvious that they don't know each other well, that's why they don't trust each other.

"What do you want anyway?" I asked. "Money? Fame? Money? Jobs?" The man tilted his head and said, "This is our job and he pays us money just to fetch you." I'm even more curious about their boss. "What will happen when your boss gets here?"

The other man butted in to the conversation and said, "Stop asking so much questions, little girl. Curiosity can kill."

He picked up the tape. "I said leave the tape alone and I won't talk even a single word." I stare coldly into his eyes.

"Fine. But I'm watching you." I rolled my eyes. "Do something stupid and you won't see your family again." He added and walked away. That's better I think. To not see my family again. They never gave me protection anyway, all they did was to have sympathy in me and pay for ransom because they have to. No love, nor concern.

Our family is rich, that's why I always take the bait of danger. And to prevent scandals, my parents always pay the ransom no matter how much it costs. As they say, 'What good does money do, when you can't show it off.' The hell with that. See what family I have? They are the slaves of their own money.

I stayed quiet as I untie the rope in my hands. All I need now is an excuse or an opportunity to run. There is an open window to my left, there are glasses to the sides but it will do. And I see trees outside, they brought me to a forest I think.

I'm with three men in this room, only one man has a gun and the rest are unarmed.

*Riiiiiinnnnnnggggg*

The man beside me tooked the phone and walked. "The Boss wants to talk to you privately." He handed the phone to the armed man and made his way to the door. This is my chance...

I bolted towards the window and jumped outside. I accidentally cut my shoulder during slipping to the window with broken glasses. My heart was pounding the moment I heard the two men shouted that I got away. I didn't waste any time to look back.

I got up on my feet and kept on running to find a road that leads back to the city. They took me to the middle of the forest, where that abandoned house is. After a few minutes of running, I found the road. I came across with a car and waved for it to stop as I shouted for help.