My Heart Still Beats For You
Episode 9
I bit my lips as badly as l did that l felt a cut on it, it b.led. Closing my eyes so tightly, I couldn’t believe my foo.lish carelessness, I forgot about the phone completely. John moved slowly towards me on the bed and l struggled to get up.
Getting to my feet, a thousand of thoughts ran through my mind, thinking of what next to say. John raised the phone to my face and l couldn’t find any words, nothing came to my head, all l felt was an overwhelming fear.
Taaaarr! John’s slap came resounding in my ears. The intensity of the slap almost made me go deaf. I fell to the floor as l had lost all stamina.
John bent down almost immediately and dragged me back to my feet. ” Who did you call? Why did you do this Dian?” John screamed into my face and l felt hot steam emitting from his sweat. I was weak with fear already, all l wanted to do was pass out.
The horror was more than my being could take.John held me by the hair and pushed me to the bed. I hit my head on the bed stand and l gave out a loud scream. I bled, my vision became so blurry and everything spun before me.
John pulled me, dragging my body as he made me lay on my back. The blood line streamed to my lips and John went kis.sing me, licking the blood off my lips.
I fought to breathe as John’s face had covered my nostrils as had he begun kis.sing me so aggressively. He tore my clothes and he groaned on top of me. “I really wanna make love to you, but not now, we’ll do that when we get to our new home.”
He got up immediately as he had ended his sentence and he made for the wardrobe. He pulled out some clothes, and he got hold of a gown. He came straight to me on the bed and he dragged me up, stuffing the clothes on me. I felt so powerless, I hated him the more.
He moved away from me and went to his shelf, I saw something like a metal sparkle but I couldn’t figure out what it was. I laid on the bed, I wanted this nightmare to come to an end.
He went for the bags that he had arranged, picked them up and came to me on the bed, he dragged me up so aggressively. I jolted up as the force that pulled me up was too powerful to resist.
I staggered as we both walked out of the room. He rushed us down the stairs, getting to the living room, he suddenly stopped and dropped his bags, leaving my hands and l staggered like a drunk.
He searched his pockets and he murmured to himself. ” Fu.ck! The car keys,” he said as he bent searching his lower pockets and then he bent down the more searching his bag.
An iron light stand was by the wooden stool beside the cushion. I swallowed hard as a thought popped into my head. A tear dropped from my eye as l imagined failing at another attempt of escaping, I could lose my life.
John was so focused on his bag and l hurriedly picked up the light stand. It was a bit heavy and l was really out of strength, I screamed out loud as l wielded it with all of my strength and sent it banging on John’s head.
John made no sound as he went falling face down to the floor. I screamed again as l made to hit his head with it one more time. He made no movement, he went still.
I bent down and blood gradually trickled out from his head. I sat on the floor as l cried out loud like a wounded lion. I breathed out so badly as l thought of what next to do, I thought of my life.
A sudden sound came blaring in the air. It was the siren of the cops. The cops had come for us. I thanked the delivery agent in my heart. I scrambled to my feet as l ran towards the door. The sound came to a standing point at the entrance of the door.
I took the door by the knob, it was locked. I screamed as l sent a kick to it but instead of it opening, l fell right to the floor. I scrambled my way back up as l felt a new surge of energy in me, the only barrier to my freedom was the G
god dam.n door.
I went to the glass window beside the door and l opened it. I stretched forth my right hand as l made to scream out to them. It was getting dark already and hence their headlamps shun all over the building.
One of the cops held a speaker in his hands and he brought it to his mouth. “We have our men all over the building. The only thing you can do now is to surrender yourself. I repeat, surrender yourself to the police.”
I screamed out and l went banging the glass with my fists, “Help me, I’m being kept hostage here,” I called out almost crying.
The speakers blared out again with a deafening effect, my ears were hurting from the slaps I had received from John. “One hostage in sight, hold on fire. I repeat, do not fire,” He said commanding his squad and l felt a reliving sensation for the first time.
Tears rolled down my eyes as l held on to my breath, I breathed in and out so violently. I felt a sudden presence at my back and l froze as ice. A tingling sensation found it’s way to my neck, a cold metal was placed on it.
I sunk in air as the metal was pressed to my neck almost severing my skin. John held me tightly to himself as he breathed hard at my back. I felt something drop on my skin, It was blood, it was John’s blood.
I closed my eyes so tightly, whatever was to happen, I was prepared to embrace it.
ROSANLA SEYI
DEPRESSED WRITER ยฉ
