It starts with a beginning

Chapter six

            My body stiffened with long pause. I wait for another sound and another knock along with soft thumps filled the room. I slowly sit up and gently maneuver Quinn off me. I tipped toed towards the window and attempt to peak through the small crack of the long dark curtains. Seeing nothing but darkness, I attempt to quietly walk to reach my gun when with a hard pound, my window shattered. Letting out a piercing howl, my hand swung to grab my gun as I suddenly felt large calloused hands cover my mouth, muffling my screams.

"Aw, why so quick hunny? I'm only looking for a place to stay." A woman's southern accent makes my ears perk and I bite her hand as hard as I could. The metallic taste leak in into my mouth the woman let's go with a painful whine and I rush to finally get the gun. I swerve after and point it in the womans shadowed face.

By the looks of it she was only a few inches taller than me and we seemed to be the same weight, but would I be able to beat her without having to shoot?

"What do you want?" I ask, my first her itching against the trigger. She lets out am exaggerated sigh like it was the dumbest question.

"I done told you what I want honey. I didn't even know y'all folk' was in this cabin!" She steps closer and my body tenses. She pauses and it was like I could feel her roll her eyes. "Look, I'm sorry I broke the window, no hard feelings? Just put the gun down." She attempts to soothe me, and I felt myself lowering my gun slowly. Could I even shoot a living person?

"Are there others with you?" I ask demanding answers. She laughs and my frustration is beginning to show by the way I'm gripping my gun and the tapping of my foot.

"Of course, not child! Do you see anyone else?" She then proceeds to walk around the room as if making herself comfortable and I look at her with a quirked eyebrow. "I know you're not going to shoot me because if you are you would have by now." As she said that she began rummaging through my drawers without a single care and I realized that she's taking my stuff.

I stomp over to her and grab her shoulder aggressively. "You're coming with me, honey." I pull her away from my things and she sighs.

I hear shuffling and a soft voice, "Rae? What's going on?" I look over at Quinn. She rubs her eyes tiredly and I curse under my breathe.

"Oh, you have a child! Isn't she a cutie?" The woman says bitterly, and I squeeze her shoulder as a sign to shut up.

"I'll be right back, go find Veronica." using a motherly tone she quickly gets up and wonders off. Just as I was going to turn back to the woman, she lunges a punch into my lower stomach making me hunch over in pain. She quickly swipes got my gun, but I saw it coming and moved it from her grasps and kicked her in her shin making her almost buckle to the ground.

She quickly recovers and tackles me to the ground throwing punches at my face and I could feel my face begin to swell up. With all my strength I flipped up over and slapped her in the face with the handle of my gun over and over until she grabs my wrist and we begin to struggle against each other. "Let me go!" I yell and I felt my gun slip out my hand skidding across the room. The woman quickly threw me off her in one push and crawled to get it.

I forced myself to stand up and I kicked her as hard as I could, but she grabbed my gun and turned back to me with a pointed barrel ready to shoot. "Oh, how the tables have turned. I honestly wasn't planning on anyone being in this house, but because you thought you could manipulate me, I'm going to take all your things." As she said this, she made her way to the broken window, crunching the broken glass and waved her hand out of it. All while keeping her eyes locked on me and the gun held high.

"You can't do that!" I growl and I almost lunged forward when three men came from the window with a dirty smile on their face.

"I can and I will. So, I'll go ahead and tell you the plan! These men will now ransack this place, while I watch you and probably kill everyone in the process. Then when they are done, I am going to strip you and let them have their fun, then leave you here for dead." The all howled in laughter as if this was all some sort of game as they began to come further into the room.