No more

Tying a knot

"The worst pain in the world is losing someone that you loved." -Unknown

" Wakey, wakey."

" Oh, don't." I said, burying my face in the pillow.

" Oh, come on. I only got you today. I don't want to waste any minutes."

" Rachel." Riley urged me.

" Give me 5 minutes. You don't want to hang out with sleepy me." I mumbled into the pillow.

He sighed. "Okay."

I felt his bedside dipped. Opening my eyes, I saw Riley gazing at me.

" You know you're so beautiful, right?" He spoke softly.

I didn't reply. I just looked back at him. None of us moved or broke eye contact. That was the moment that I felt loved. The moment I knew I was in love with him. Even though none of us said anything, I could feel it, see it. I saw my future with Riley. I knew that he was the one. Somehow, I feel like he was thinking the same as me.

I woke up to the brightness that shine on my face. I used my hands to cover my eyes, but my left hand seems to be stuck. Adjusting to the brightness of the morning, I noticed that my left hand cannot be pulled down. I looked at it and saw that my hand is being handcuffed to the headboard.

I started to panic and realized that the surrounding isn't my room. The room was bright as the wall was painted in grey and white. I looked to the left and see a big glass window, while on the right side was the door. Facing the bed, there are two doors. One of them must be the bathroom because I could hear water running. I tried to think back to what happened but unfortunately, I couldn't remember anything.

I tried to get out of the bed, but I had to drag the handcuff along with me to the side of the bed. As soon as I stand up, I almost fell back. My whole body was sore, as if I was just exercising for 5 hours.

I looked out the window and saw nothing familiar. The first thing I noticed was the view of the sea, and the beach. Where was I? I also noticed the garden that was separated from the beach. I started to feel dizzy as I tried to recall what had happened. The water in the bathroom was still running which means someone was in there. I looked on the nightstands to hopefully find the key to the handcuff, but there wasn't any.

" Good morning. Looking for something?"

I gasped, as I turned around to find a half-naked man in towel. Memories started to flood back as soon as I saw his face. Memories from last night. He was in my kitchen. Then he was in my room, and I fight him. He drugged me.

" You... drugged me." I repeated to myself as I started to shake uncontrollably.

" I had to. You were causing a lot of trouble." He said causally. " Now, were you looking for this?" He held his hand out to reveal the keys.

I was frozen in place as I tried to process everything. He started to walk toward me which makes me tense up immediately.

" Don't come any closer!" I said out loud almost like screaming out loud.

" Then how can I uncuff you?" He said sarcastically.

Even talking sarcastically, I could tell that he was pissed at me for screaming at him. He continued to walk slowly towards me.

I tried to step back, but there was nowhere for me to go. He didn't stop walking until he was so close to me that I could hear him breath. I didn't dare to look at him, so I kept my head down.

He slowly reached his hand out to uncuff my hand. He did everything slowly as if he was teasing me. Then his other hand touched my face, my cheek and down to my chin lifting my face up.

I just realized that he's tall, because I had to look up to see his face. I felt small compare to him. It made me feel like I couldn't do anything. I was so tense that I couldn't breath properly as I don't want to know what he want from me. His touch made me remember the moment in my bedroom, the moment that he almost raped me. I started to see blur as tears started to fill my eyes.

Then he leaned down toward my face. He held my face in place so that I won't move. He kept leaning until his lip almost touch mine.

" Can I...use the bathroom, please?" I blurted out.

He paused, smirking. " Sure."

He let go of me and turn to the side allowing me to walk to the bathroom. I walked to the bathroom and immediately shut it behind me.

"What the fuck?!" I mumble to myself. I wanted to scream.

I fell down on the floor trying to catch my breath. I let all my cries out silently. I remember what happened last night, but I don't know what he meant by what he said. I was confused, most importantly, terrified.

Then I heard the door shut. I assumed that he must have left, so I gathered myself and got up. I was so scared that I didn't want to leave the bathroom at all, but I had to.

I slowly opened the door and peaked my head out. I looked around to see no one in sight, so I stepped out. I quickly walked towards the door and opened it. To my luck, it wasn't locked.

Outside the room was a long hallway. I booked it out of there. I didn't even make it far before I felt my head was pounding as it hit the ground hard. That impact made my vision blurry that I almost passed out. I looked up to see him pulling me by my hair and dragging me back.

" Agh!" My scalp hurt so much, but he didn't seem to care. He kept dragging me to the room without even looking at me once. I cried out in pain, but I couldn't stand up at all. I shouldn't give up now, but I was too exhausted and my whole body hurts. I screamed and thrashed around even though I don't know who can hear me.