Forever and Beyond

Chapter 5

"Danial. Omigod, you're here. Tell these brutes to get off me", I said.

Danial was here. He would save me from these weird people. Who the fuck did they think they were? I felt adrenaline coursing through my organs. But the panic wouldn't go away.

"Oh, is the princess being treated badly?" Danial says, slowly stepping out and around the other girl who is sobbing uncontrollably now.

"What? Danial- I"

"Oh, no no no, Zay. They're not brutes, they're good guys. Oh well, not good exactly", he said chuckling at his own joke. "They're my mates. Let her go, dude".

Thank you. Please, thank you.

"But you're losing us a-"

"Fucking let her go, dude. Don't you hear me?" Danial cuts off whatever his friend was going to say. They loosen their arms on mine and I push at his stupid asshole chest. Fucking bastard. What the fuck did he think he was going to do to me? Fucking rape me? That fucker.

"You trust me, don't you, Zay?" Danial says, a smile etching across his perfect jawline.

And put thy trust in Allah. And enough is Allah as a Disposer of affairs. – Al-Ahzab:3

I nod.

"You gonna do everything I tell you to, right?"

I look at him. Suddenly, there is a movement to my left and I jerk away. The girl lying on the floor gets up in a horrible state. Tears streaming down her face, she looks exactly like a madwoman.

"Don't trust him, he's horrible! HE'S HORRIBLE!" She shrieks, clawing at the guy next to her. Danial immediately moves his foot and whacks her right on her stomach so she doubles up in pain and slides down on the floor, sobbing loudly.

I feel my hands tremble.

What should I do? Please help me.

"And besides Him ye have neither patron nor helper." (Surah Al-Baqara, 107)

I turn around.

"Thankyou and I'll be going no-" I start to say, pushing at some guy's chest, desperate to get out of here.

"Not so fast, Zay". Danial appears right in front of me. "You haven't even experienced the fun part yet".

"Danial, please just let me go now, I have to-" I plead but he doesn't stop smiling. I try dodging him but he's fast.

"Honey, this is exactly what should happen to sluts like you. Let me go. Let you go? LET YOU FUCKING GO?!" He roars and I flinch.

"You have no idea what I want to do to you. Don't worry, you'll love it. You love being used, don't you?"

He says with a smirk. His tone is deadly and his expression mocking. This is all my fault. I should never have come here. I should have listened to Mariam. I should have listened to God.

I hit Danial with my arm and dive towards the glass door before the staircase but he grabs me and pushes me roughly so that I stumble back, my spine hitting the reiling of the staircase.

He makes some kind of gesture to someone and my arms are pinned behind me. I hear a few chuckles and some guy makes a rude comment.

"Do you even know how your stupid bestie-bestie insulted me for being your 'boyfriend'?" He says, using his fingers to quote 'boyfriend'.

Saif? Saif insulted him?

"You're the one who's going to pay, love. He insulted me before my whole family. Do you know what my dad fucking did? He took my car and my phone. ALL BECAUSE YOU COULDN'T BE A GOOD FUCKING GIRL!"