Reaching Out (Zhu Xingjie FF)

10.5

Flashback 1 year 2 months ago

"Hey miss." a voice called out. I looked around trying to push my feelings to the side. "You think you could ran away from me?!" anger was evident in his voice as I remember one person who I ran away from before when I first came to China to work. I started to walk towards the road but he suddenly pushed me to the bushes.

"You can't ran from me, you whore!" he shouted. I tried to scream but no voice came out as someone was covering my mouth. I moved so hard trying to free myself in the other guy's grasp but I couldn't. Where's police patrol when needed?

I stopped from moving when the person infront of me flashed a knife in face. This isn't real! They pushed me to the ground and tear my shirt open. Tears ran down my face, this isn't real, this isn't real! my mind kept shouting the same words. 'Lord please save me!'

They both stopped when a siren was heard making it's way towards us. " Kill her!" the other guy ordered. "We can't risk going to prison!"

"p-please!" tears streamed down my face as I begged but he swung the knife to me and hit my right side of my waist starting from my stomach. I gasped in pain as they stormed to ran away.

"Stop! police!" patrol officer shouted as he made his way inside the bushes but he stopped when he saw me. "Holy shit!" He took his phone out. "I need an ambulance. There's a girl wounded in-" I couldn't hear the words he's saying when I felt drowsy and in pain.

"P-please h-help m-me." I uttered. He came to me taking off his jacket to cover my exposed body. I saw him take out his handkerchief and placed in on top of my wound trying to bring pressure to stop the bleeding.

"Stay with me miss. Ambulance in on the way. Everything's going to be okay." He said. Feeling so weak and tired. "Stay with me." Everything went black.

"Tell us what happened." Fainted voice was heard. Am I dead? Am I alive? I couldn't feel anything, I couldn't feel my body.

"I was patroling and I saw someone move by the bushes and then 2 guys running away. I thought it was weird in that neighborhood so I stopped and shouted for them. When I tried to follow them I found her. I think this is a case of attempted rape and murder." someone said. I'm alive?

"I hope she wakes up soon." the policeman said.

"Find out anything about her?" another voice asked.

"No. The criminals took her things." said the other. I moaned as I tried to open my eyes and then pain hit me. I'm alive! "She's awake! call the doctor!" the police officer ordered then minutes passed and doctor came rushing in doing a couple of tests on me.

"She's okay." he said. "Don't move so much or your stitches will open up okay." he said that I nodded. "How do you feel?" he asked after he made me drink some water.

"Painful?" I faintly smiled.

"Can you tell us what happened?" Officer asked.

"I- I was o-n my wa-y home when they p-pushed me to the bushes. T-they t-tried-" I sniffled in cries.

"It's okay. You're safe now." said the patrol officer.

"T-thank you for b-being there in t-time " I said. I knew then that he patrols there every night. Good thing he was when it happened.

"Tell us. Have you seen the people who did this to you?" an officer asked and I nodded. "Do you remember their faces?" I nodded. Their faces! it's painted in my mind. "I'm calling a sketch artist." she said to the other cop when I stopped her and asked for a pen and a paper.

I started sketching when she gave me what I needed. Accurately putting on every details that I remember, even tattoos as they stood there watching. My fingers are weak but my will to have those people pay is much stronger that the pain I'm feeling right now. Hour had passed when I finished sketching them both.

"Wo! you sketched the other guy as if you knew him." the male office said and I nodded.

"He helped me before when I needed help but he was actually after something else. I was able to ran away but I didn't think he'd come looking for me again." I explained now gaining some composure to myself.

"We've been asking you what happened but we haven't asked for your name." policewoman asked.

"I'm Jia Reiko Ramero. I work as at a factory and sometimes I work as a call-in kitchen staff at The Bar. I just got out of shift last night. That guy, I thought he was actually a nice person turns out I was wrong."

The others talked and left after telling me that they left officers outside to protect me. 3 days had passed when they came and told me they were able to capture the guy's accomplice however I was told the other tried to ran away so they shot him to death. The policewoman Inspector Wang told me that she already talked to my boss of my absence and will remain what happened a secret, that I'm good to go back to work once I recover.