A battered Maya stumbled down the stairs.
Her fairly tanned skin was pale as snow and her eyes were red from crying. Her wrists were tied up tightly in rope and they were sore and bleeding from it.
"I'm sorry" she cry-whispered
She took two unsteady steps toward me and I went to hug her but Richard pulled her back roughly. That's when I noticed there was a string attached around her neck and he held the other end in his hand
Like,
Like a dog on a leash.
She winced out in pain and there was a bloody line around her neck.
"So, who knew about this then Maya?" Richard spat in her face and Juliet had to hold me back before I pummelled that asshole. I would never loose the fighting streak inside me.
"No, no one did" she said, her voice weak and shaky.
"Liar!" He shouted "liar! You fucking lying bitch"
"Now that you won't tell me, you'll suffer. What did you think? You would be free?" He scoffed. His voice was barely a whisper now "you'll never be free, I'll make your last time here hell"
He shot her in her left thigh.
"Please!" She cried "leave me! I'll do whatever you say!" He shot her in her right thigh.
I heard the gentle sobbing of Aaliyah next to me and I held her tightly, she broke down in my arms and I stroked her hair.
"It was me! I knew! Don't kill her!" I heard someone shouting, I turned to face Juliet sobbing too and she took a step forward.
"Juliet what are you doing?"
"Saving Maya" she whispered, she sounded bold and confident. Something I've never heard from her before.
Richard grabbed her by her hair and threw her on the floor next to Maya.
He kicked her once in the rib cage and she screamed out in pain but he kept kicking her, until she was coughing up blood.
This was my fault, I knew, not Juliet.
I wasn't one for drama but I wasn't going to watch this, my fault, kill the only people I love.
"Richard, stop" I gathered all my strength but I thought my voice was very quiet.
"Richard I said stop! It wasn't her for fucks sakes it was me." I let go of Aaliyah and stood up.
"Really? Now your getting stupid Aubrey!" He fired a shot next to me on the floor. "What? You see this as an escape?"
"I don't believe you Aubrey. But in case you are telling the truth"
He shot Juliet in the head and she fell to the floor.
I heard Maya crying but I refused to open my eyes.
I couldn't.
I can't believe what's just happened.
I can't believe she's dead.
I opened my eyes.
But this time he was holding the gun to Maya's stomach. I grit my teeth when I heard the deafening sound of the gunshot.
I ran over and pressed my hands on her bleeding wound, desperately trying to stop the gushing blood. But it wouldn't stop.
"Maya, don't move, stay with me!"
I removed my hoodie and held it against her, but it didn't help. I started crying
"Why the fuck won't this work!"
I knew why Richard didn't pull me off her.
She was going to die.
So I stopped and took her in my arms.
I brushed the strands of blue hair, which had badly faded, from her face and kissed her forehead.
"I'm sorry Maya" I whispered and she squeeze my hand.
"It's okay" she laughed gently.
Then she breathed her last.
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Stolen (COMPLETED)
Short Story"Aubrey, your mine now, I'll never let you go" Aubrey was stolen when she was six. Taken from her front garden and hasn't been seen since. That was nine years ago. But she's not alone. Aubrey and six other girls were stolen. Used for human traffick...
