Pain for Suffering

Chapter One•Trickery

Echo
Julia chased me out of the park, late at night. Everything was going according to plan.

I headed to the park, pretending to look sad. I sat on a park bench near Julia's house, hoping she'd see me.

I sat around for an hour or so, and she finally came. She started running towards me, so I stood up and bolted out of the park. I headed for an alleyway not far from here.

I finally reached the alley I was heading for, making it look she had cornered me by a dumpster. I planted a look of fear on my face, her approaching me with a smirk.

"What are you doing out here all alone, freak? Got nowhere else to go?" She said mockingly before laughing.

A smirk crossed my own lips. It was time to put my plan to action. I pulled something from the back pocket of my jeans.

"Listen, princess. Stop taunting me like it doesn't hurt. You deserve payback, bitch." I hissed.

She looked furious. "How dare you talk back to me, bitch! I am Julia Kil! Everything goes my way! Everything! Everything! EVERYTHING! EVERYTHING!" She screamed.

"Karma always returns..." I said slyly.

I let her process my words for a second, before plunging the string I held onto her neck. She let out a shrill cry if lain for a split second, before collapsing on the ground into a drug-induced slumber.

I picked up her body from the alleyway grounds, using the cover of darkness to make my way back home.

I arrived back at my house, my mom on a business trip for a while. My dad left years ago, and my mom trusted me enough to be alone.

I carried Julia into my cellar, binding her wrists and ankles together with chains I had found in a junkyard. I left her lying on the stiff ground, asleep.

* * *

The next morning was a shining Saturday. Today, I wasn't going outside. No. I was off into my basement, where I found an alert and panicking Julia.

The second I stepped in, she flipped. I locked the door behind me before standing in front of her thrashing body.

"Good morning." I said with a creepy grin.

"Let me go!" She shrieked.

I pretended to think. "Hm...no." I concluded.

I walked over to a rusted metal of am aspect meant of things, tools of pain. I had collected them all from the junkyard along with the chains and the chair in the corner of the room. I grabbed a special little tool from the selection...

Julia
I laid eyes on her, looking sad at the park. I snitch from my house, starting to run towards the freak. She stood and jolted off running, and I of course followed.

We ended up in an alleyway, where I firms red her by a dumpster. I was smirking, whilst she looked afraid.

"What are you doing out here all alone, freak? Got nowhere else to go?" I mocked with a laugh.

I could faintly see her smirk deviously as her hand moved slightly. I thought nothing of it, she'd never try anything. She was just scardy cat Echo who didn't speak up.

"Listen, princess. Stop taunting me like it doesn't hurt. You deserve payback, bitch." She hissed with a grin.

I was furious. Anger bubbled in my stomach as I prepared to speak.

"How dare you talk back to me, bitch! I am Julia Kil! Everything goes my way! Everything! Everything! EVERYTHING! EVERYTHING!" I screamed.

"Karma always returns..." She smirked slyly.

I was confused. She stood there for a second, before I felt a sharp pain shoot groggy my neck. I screamed shortly, before collapsing to the ground in darkness.

* * *

I awoke in a dark cellar, confused. Unopened my eyes only to close them again.

Is this what death feels like?

I opened my eyes fully to see a dimly lit basement, and a table and chair in the corner. It was now I realized I was chained. My wrists and ankles were bound.

Nope. I'm alive.

I started thrashing around, engaging full panic mode. I screamed for a bit, my voice scratchy for some reason.

It was then, when she came down...