We Could Happen

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

The sound of a speeding car close behind urged him to steer his car onto the pavement and almost through a shrubby fence. Anger overwhelmed him.  And now he was battling to free it from this shrubby fence. The car's airbag covered his face, making it impossible for him to see what he was doing or the scoundrel who was speeding like a maniac in a built-up area.

Abruptly he became aware of the car that had come to a standstill right behind him. It was a black car with dark-tinted windows. A man who was dressed in jeans and a red T-shirt and another three of them was standing between him and the car's opened door.

The other guy was holding a piece of wood or a bat and smashed it on his head..

The next moment he found himself inside the car, gasping for air under the unbearable weight of a man's body, stinking of cigarettes. The car was moving fast, cutting corners evidenced by screaming tires.

Jacob: " Sino kayo at anong kailangan nyo sa akin?"

"Tumahimik ka nalang at malalaman mo rin mamaya" the man beside him replied

His mouth was as dry as a whistle, his heart was hammering in his throat; the realization that his life was in danger paralyzed him like an anaesthetic.

A power inside him took over. The next moment he found himself sitting in the corner of the back seat, twisted with his arms around his legs. In the process of freeing himself, he had kicked the man in front of him but the other man pointed a gun on his temple, "Mag pumiglas ka pa at mauuna kang mamamatay kaysa sa girlfriend mo" the man said to him 

They were driving on the highway. Nobody on the outside could see him through the tinted windows. The steel-blue eyes, in the rear-view mirror, of a driver with a big shaved head, sent shivers with blades through his veins. he had no doubts, he was facing Death.

"Aireen" he whispered

"ohh you missed her? malapit na kayong mag kita! the driver said

He jolted in shocked

Jacob: "Taohan kayo ni Zach?!

"yes" the man answered, He gave him a grin.

When the man next to him, started to hit him in the face again and again, his mouth is now bleeding, he felt no pain. The hate and contempt in their eyes penetrated his soul and released the tears no one was supposed to see.

"So you are a fighter?" he snarled, and, with his fingers around his neck, he slowly started to strangle him, as if his agony was his delight. "Just because your rich you can insult him like that..."

"Shut-up!" bellowed the man behind the wheel. "I said no talking!"

  The car was no longer on the highway, but on a bumpy, graveled road leading to the abandoned house.

The Man grabbed him and dragged him out of the car..

Then a familiar figure of a man came out from the house "Zach" Jacob said..

  The man was pulling his hair, forcing his face into his lap. He was calling his name, shouting, demanding the unimaginable, threatening him with an enormous flat-file.... "Please me and maybe I will let you live, or would you like them to rape your beloved Aireen in front of you!...." 

Zach: " Pinahiya mo ako sa lahat ng tao doon, and now ikaw ang mag mamakaawa sa akin ngayon"

Jacob: " Please wag mo syang saktan, ako nalang!

The two men grabbed him like an animal. dragging him inside the house, they get into a small door, Its like an old basement.

They tied him in a chair facing to a woman lying on the floor, her mouth is covered with handkerchief and her arms and legs are duct taped.. She's unconscious..

"What did you do to her!" Jacob yells

"Nothing yet" Zach replied

  Despite the cuts and bruises, Jacob tries to free himself  from getting tied but it gets tighter and tighter with his every move.

He was calling her name many times but she couldn't hear a thing..

Zach picked her up on the floor and settled her on the chair in front of him. then he removed Aireen's blind folds.

Then the two men started hitting him again. 

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  I arch my back and scream, a loud, tortured, bloodcurling scream. It gets trapped in my chest and is ripping to tear free, but no more sound escapes. My ragged breathing is getting harder and harder, a gray fuzzy grit seems to block my vision, and my ears feel like a knife's being driven into them. I'm fighting for air, my lungs feel as if the whole world is pressing on them, denying me the air I want so much.  

 Aireen start to cry after seeing him right in front of her with blood all over his face and shirt, burying her eyes in his face. Why? Why are you doing this to us?!" Aireen said