Chapter 5

Narrator’s POV—

Rest of the day passes quickly and Emily spends most of her time lying in her bed, pondering about the memories. She had a shocking revelation and has been able to solve the mystery of the dreams, flashes and memories! Only a few pieces of the puzzle were left to be solved but one thing she was sure about. Her eventual shifting to the new town Odessa was definitely a call of destiny!

Sunday morning Emily wakes up early and quickly gets dress after her morning routines! She is happy today because her best friend Linda is supposed to reach by afternoon.

“Emi! Will you go to the market and get some meat and groceries? I want to cook something good for Linda and you!” Sella says while placing a piece of egg on Emily’s plate. She ruffles Emily’s hair and smiling kindly she says in a soft voice, “I am happy that we both shall join work from tomorrow and my girl will be able to have proper meals from now on!”

“Mom! I love everything you make for me!” Emily says pulling her mom into a quick hug. Sella sits beside Emily and watches her eat the beacon and scrambled egg attentively. Tears of happiness well up in her eyes!  In last twelve years since Emily’s father’s death, Sella has hardly been able to provide two full meals for Emily but now by God’s grace, things seem to be getting better for them.

Since Linda is taking care of their rent and transportation, Sella and Emily’s earning will be enough to cover the food and minor expenses and also save a little every month!

“You should eat proper breakfast Emily! You study a lot and from tomorrow you are also starting a job!” Sella says caressing Emily’s hair.

“Don’t worry Mom. I think from now on, we can have good food every day!” Emily grins relishing her food.

“So, will you be visiting the market?” Sella asks again while collecting the empty dishes.

“Sure Mom! I will leave in ten!” Emily gives a quick peck and runs to her room to change her dress.

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 Emily drives to the supermarket and parking the car, she hurries to collect the things her mother has asked for. She puts all the things she needed, in a cart and stood at the counter to pay for the same. The bags full of grocery she purchased were heavy and managing several bags in both hands, she heads out of the store, almost unable to see anything at front, as her line of sight was blocked by the huge bags.

As Emily steps outside the store and walks towards her car, she bumps into a hard chest and falls flat on her face, on the road, making her bags and her purchases scatter all over the street.

“Ahhh!” Emily whimpers in pain but slowly gets up and starts gathering her things without even looking around! Her long hair was messy and fell all over her face! She somehow manages to put her things inside her bag, but the moment she lifts the bags, someone hits her hands, making the bags drop again!

Emily snaps her head up to glare at the person, only to find that it is the same guy from the café who also tried to molest her in the woods. She was furious with rage but she couldn’t utter a word as her eyes met with the deep green orbs! Emily kept staring at the guy with jaws dropped and she hears a very faint whisper from a faraway universe…….. “CLARA! COME TO ME!!”

Emily narrows her eyes and tilts her head, her gaze boring into the stranger’s eyes! Those eyes were magnificent, deep and familiar! Those eyes reminded her of the man of her dreams---- Edward!

Emily stays still like that for a long while, completely lost in her thoughts when suddenly a pair of wet and warm lips crashes on her and two strong arms pulls her tightly into an embrace!

“If you so want to spread your legs for me, we should get inside my car! All of us can enjoy together!”

The male voice and specially the heinous suggestion breaks Emily’s trail of thoughts and she stumbles back a bit in shock of what happened! Turning her head around, Emily notices that she is surrounded by the guy and his friends again, only that this time the group is bigger!

“Come on Babe! I know your type of girl! I will pay you 100 dollars for two hours with us!” the guy says pulling her again into his chest, holding her wrist.

“What the hell are you doing? Let me go!” This time Emily pushes him hard on his chest and frees herself. She turns to leave ignoring those boys but she feels a strong pull on her wrist again and with that she is pulled back. Her back bumps into the guy who wraps his arms around her and starts kissing her neck right on the road surrounded by the group of boys.

“Trying hard to get? HUH??” yells the guy as he tightens his hold on her while whispering through the kisses, “I want you! Don’t’ make this hard for me!”

His hands start to roam over her belly upwards while the other boys stand smirking, whistling and laughing.

“LET ME GOOOOO!!!!” She screams on top of her voice but a few people who stop around, turns a blind eye to her as soon the gang of boys glare at them.

“AD! AD! AD!”

The boys around laugh and cheer while Emily is turned to face the same guy who she has started to hate! And without warning he pushes her back to the car and pinning with his body, he starts kissing her hard again.

Emily mustering all her courage and strength, kicks the boy fiercely at the place where sun doesn’t shine and standing up straight slaps him hard on his face.

The guy whimpers in pain holding his crotch and Emily slaps him hard yet again and then pointing the car key at him, she growls panting and shivering with fuming anger, “Not every girl is available to sleep with you, bastard! Touch me again and I will pull out your eyes!”

Meanwhile a distant sound off sirens is heard and the boys scatter away quickly, leaving Emily alone. But before leaving, Adrian stops for a second and whispers through gritted teeth, “This is not over! You will soon pay!”

Emily spits on his face and slaps him again! The guy glares once last at her but leaves the scene!   

The guys leave in a sports car and soon after a police car stops in front of the store. Emily, exhausted and shaken by the humiliation and trauma, slumps on the road against her car and breaks into a cry burying her face in her hands.

“Miss? Are you ok?”

The voice of the police officer makes Emily look at him, still shivering and in shock.

“Miss?” the man sits on his toes in front of her and asks again.

“No! I am not Ok. I want to file a complaint!” Emily replies red with shame and anger!

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One hour later, Emily has already gathered back her things into the bags and after loading them in her car, she has driven to the local police station. Luckily most of the things she purchased were not spoiled and they could be used after proper cleaning. She has a few bruises and scrapes on her knees, chin and hands which happened due to the fall. After reaching the Police Station, a female officer has cleaned her wounds with antiseptic.

Emily sat on the chair in front of the officer who rescued her, drinking her coffee. She is still shaken from the incident though her nerves have calmed down a bit.

“I am Officer Karl, miss….?” The officer extends his hand.

Emily extends her hand which was still trembling a bit and says in a low voice, “I am Emily….Emily Millers.”

The officer was a handsome young man with dark brown eyes and a tall muscular feature but Emily was so disturbed that she didn’t bother to care for his looks.

The officer opens a register and then looking pointedly at Emily he asks, “So what happened in the market Ms Millers?”

Emily takes a deep breath and starts explaining everything! “I have just arrived in this town a week ago with my mother. There is this guy, who humiliated me in the airport!” Emily briefly narrates the incident at the airport.

“I see… I am really sorry that you had to face such a horrible incident right on the first day of your arrival Ms Millers, but I assure you that Odessa is a rather peaceful town. Yes, I won’t disagree that there are a few notorious bunch of boys who cause trouble once in a while but until today no one has reported them!” the officer says sighing and then asks her, “So what happened then?”

Emily continues to tell him more, “I was in the woods yesterday exploring a bit and the same guy harassed me there as well and today outside the store he dropped my things and assaulted me! I don’t know what he would have done if the police didn’t arrive in time!”

The officer frowns and then with an apologetic look, he places his hand on Emily’s hand which she had placed on the desk and says sadly, “I am sorry again Ms Millers that something so unfortunate happened with you! But on the bright side it is good that we reached right in time, else things could have gotten worse, as I can see from what you briefed!”

“I can’t believe that someone would have the audacity to harass another as he wishes, that too in the broad day light in a market place! I am afraid that I feel it was a wrong decision to come here!” Emily snaps in anger not bothering about the officer’s apology.

The officer sighs again and then pressing his lips into a thin line he questions, “So, do you know the name of that guy or of anyone from the group?”

Emily shakes her head into a ‘No’ frowning! Biting her lips she says, “No! I am new here and I don’t know any of them!”

“I-I don’t know how I will help you if you cannot give me a name, but I will try to enquire around if anyone can give us their names!” The officer says shaking his head too and in a voice which says that his hope to catch these guys has been wiped off.

Emily’s face falls and her heart sinks thinking about how the guy would go unpunished because she couldn’t give his name!

“In the meanwhile, I will lodge a complaint and show you pictures of people with criminal history. May be you can recognise someone from there?” the officer says and asks someone to get the file.

While the person hurries away to get the file, Emily sits in silence thinking about the incident that has happened. Suddenly recollecting something, Emily’s face brightens up and she quickly asks in excitement!

“Officer Karl! What if I give you a short name and his description? I don’t remember if I heard his name during the incidents but I remember that his friends were cheering him! They called him ‘AD’!”

Hearing the nickname ‘AD’ the officer frowns and shifts uncomfortably in his chair.

“Are you sure miss, that you heard them say AD?” the officer asks bending over the desk and furrowing his eyebrows.

“Yes, I am hundred percent sure Officer! And he has a unique green coloured eye balls!” Emily describes the boy as much as possible.

The officer falls silent as soon as Emily finishes and after a long wait he mumbles frowning, “As much as I understand, his name is Adrian! Adrian Ford, the son of the richest man in town!”

Realisation dawns on Emily and it doesn’t take long to understand that if she lodges a complaint against Adrian, not only she would lose her new job but she might even lose her scholarship!

‘I would lose my job and scholarship both if I lodge an official complaint!’ --- Emily frowns thinking in her mind. 

“Oh! I didn’t know that!” the officer says sadly.

“Oh! I didn’t realise I said that loud!...I……” Emily falls silent.

“What would you like to do, miss? If you want, we can make it an anonymous complaint but I am afraid that won’t do much good! He will be merely warned over a call or called here and warned at most!”

Emily takes in a deep breath closing her eyes and then staying still for a second or too, she says with conviction, “I would lodge a proper complaint, Officer!”