My Mind - Short Stories From My Imagination

Part 13 ~ Imagine ~ Intersect

If calling people names is swearing then there's mild swearing in this chapter.

You lie in bed. You're all alone. Your roommates are either home or on a class strip the rest of the week. This is the first time you've ever been alone in your room for more than a couple hours. Tonight you were gonna experience your first night without them to tell you to put down your phone and sleep. Tomorrow you would try your first morning where them shuffling around won't wake you up.

That is, if you make it through the night.

As I said, you've never slept alone in the room before. Sleeping alone in a foreign bed is not always the easiest thing to do. So you lie there. Listening to your favorite band, while looking into the darkness that is the bed above you. The volume is very low on your phone and you're only listening with half an ear. You feel yourself slowly drifting off and finally fall asleep. The sleep didn't last long though.

After just a few minutes you're awaken from your light slumber. You hear something shuffle around in the corner of the room. You're unsure of what it is so you slowly turn towards it. Your eyes are still trying to adjust to the extremely limited amount of light in the small room. After some minutes your eyes have adjusted enough to make things somewhat clear to see. And what you see is really not what you hoped you'd see.

You had tried falling asleep during the day and then wake up with someone in your room. Either your roommates or their friends. But not this time. This time it was different. It was someone else. Someone you didn't know. Someone you didn't wanna know. Someone you just wish would silently go away again. But things usually never go that way. Otherwise there would be no story right ;)

The person in the corner didn't seem to pay that much attention to you. Why there was a lack of attention you had no clue. After all you were the only other person in the room. And it was the middle of the night so the probability that someone would enter this room was very small. He then finally turned his attention to you. But not the way you wanted it.

He got up from his chair and brought it with him. All the way over to your side of the bed. Before doing anything else he not-so-gently poked your stomach with one of the chairs legs. Your stomach absorbs the hit and your body responses accordingly. By letting go of all your air and making you almost sit up to grasp for more. As you sit there coughing he rearranges the chair. Now the chair is lying down. The back of the chair is pinned to your chest and almost hitting your throat while the legs of the chair is preventing your arms from moving completely freely.

"Where is it?" The man asked you with a deep strong voice.

It was too dark for you to be able to see him. But you did know a few things about him nonetheless. It was a man due to the deep voice. He was strong because he could hold you down with a chair in a weird angle. And he knew what he wanted and thinks you have it which could make him dangerous.

You were kinda happy that none of your roommates were here. You don't like them at all but you still think that it would be best to keep them out of your trouble. After all, there's no need to hurt someone who hasn't done anything wrong.

"What? Where's what?" You asked confused.

"Don't act dumb. You know exactly what I'm talking about." He leaned forward and in the process he was also pushing the chair further down on your body.

"No sir. I swear I don't know what it is you're talking about." You forced your lungs to keep fighting for air.

"Tell me kid, do you know how easy your ribs are to break? Ribs are far easier to break than one might think. In some instances people get broken ribs when someone is trying to save them. To help the heart beat manually you have to put all your body weight onto one spot, on top of the heart. Sometimes that pressure is too much for the ribs, and they break. That's when someone is trying to save a life. Unfortunately for you I'm not here to save your life. I'm here to retrieve an item you have, no matter the cost or method."

"You can't do this. You have to have some kind of boss or superior and I don't think they would appreciate it all too much if you tell them you almost killed a child."

"That's where you're wrong. You see kid, my superior doesn't care how I do stuff. All they want is results. I don't question my tasks and they don't question my methods. So I'm free to do whatever I feel necessary to get the information I need. You got that?"

You gulped and he took that as your answer.

"Good, now here is it?"

"I've told you already man, I don't know what you're looking for so I don't know."

"Fine then. You get it your way." He pressed the chair even further down on your body. You could slightly feel your ribs being pressed even further down. it was getting harder to breathe and you started gasping for air. "Ready to tell me were it is?" He almost sounded like he was enjoying what he was doing.

"I told you already, I don't know what you're talking about." You had some trouble speaking due to the non-existing air in your lungs.

"The Intersect, moron! Where is it!?" He pressed the chair even further down on your body. The faint sound of ribs starting to break could be heard had they been dead silent.

"I don't know where your insect or whatever you called it, is. I don't even know what it is. Or who you are for that matter."

"I'm the guy they send to get information when they don't want their hands to get dirty. And it's called an Intersect, stupid. Not insect. We got a tip that someone in this house had it, and since I've already checked all the other girls' rooms you're the last one. So I'll ask one last time, where is it?"

"I told you already. I don't know." 

"That's too bad for you then. Now you're gonna feel a little sting." The man said right before he jabbed a needle with an unknown syrum into your arm. You felt your body relax right before you fell asleep.

When you woke up the next day you couldn't remember anything from the day before. But oddly enough you and all the other people in the house all woke up very late and had accidentally skipped a few classes... and lunch.

*Tell me if you want a full story on any of these chapters. I can do that if people want me to. All you have to do is ask. ^.^ *