Premeditated Pseudonym

8|Secret Enterence

As we entered the building, we looked for anything suspicious or out of the way. It was really difficult since we knew nothing about Chinese culture, except they are the only people who make fried wontons.

Abby looked behind the counter while I looked at the bookshelf, pulling books as I saw in the movies. Sabina looked around at the wall ornaments and found something strange. The maneki-neko, or beckoning cat, as it's known to us in English, wasn't looking forward as it should.

Sabina then twisted its head to look straight ahead, and to our surprise, the room spun half of a circle, revealing another room within the room. This one was dimly lit, bare concrete walls with two knight's armors on both sides of a doorway. Above the doorway bore a peculiar symbol that we have never seen before.

This made things drastically creepy, but we needed our husbands so we proceeded through the doorway. An even dimmer staircase led downwards to God knows where, so we held hands and slowly descended into the unknown.

The stairs went on for, what feels like forever and it grew a bit chilly, the further we descended. We were also beginning to get dizzy from the number of spiraling stairs we traversed. As we went down a couple more stairs, I noticed a brighter light in the distance through a doorway.

"I think we made it down girls," I whispered as we approached the doorway. We stacked up along one side, looking into the room. There we noticed a stage with about a hundred rows of seats that filled the rest of the room. It was dark so we couldn't see all the way back properly, so I could be wrong about the number of rows.

We had to be extra careful since anyone could be hiding or waiting for us around any corner of this huge place. We eased across the stage to another room where we believed was the backstage area of the facility. Backstage there was a corridor with a few doors and a waiting room. One was a dressing room and the others were unmarked doors.

As we made our way down the corridor, the place suddenly went dark. As my mind got time to process what was going on, I realized that I was being carried away, hands and legs tied up and a black bag over my head. I screamed but all I could hear was my own echo along with the frantic begging of Abby, and Sabina's foul language. No mistaking that foul mouth woman.

I was a bit at ease now that I know Abby and Sabina were there with me. Suddenly I felt my body upright, my hands strung up and my feet dangling, unable to reach the floor. The bag was still over my head so I didn't know what to expect under my feet.

I then felt something snap around my neck while they told me not to scream. As they were finished doing the same with Abby and Sabina, I heard the creaking sound of a rusty gate closing and a lock snapping in place. The men, then walked away as I could hear the footsteps getting quieter with every step.

"Abby? Sabina? You there?" I asked

"We're here Chelsea and we need to find a way to get out of here," Sabina replied.

I listened for anything suspicious or familiar, while I thought back of the sounds I heard on the way here. It was necessary to get an idea of the area in which we resided, recalling the steps and directions so we can find our way back to where we were snatched. I wasn't a hundred percent correct on the number of footsteps since we were panicking, but I can recall all the turns we took in the way here.

I then heard footsteps again. The light sound of boots trying its best to be sneaky slowly inched toward us. "Hello! Is someone there?" I asked, but there was no answer. Suddenly I heard a shuffle, followed the sound of someone sucking a fruit, but it was more of a rude smell than citrus. I then asked, "Abby? Sabina? You alright?" Abby answered but Sabina's voice seemed muffled.