Chapter two: Escape plan

      I paced up and down, left and right continuously but couldn't lay a finger on what is actually happening.

"That arrogant brat might come anytime soon, I wouldn't want him to meet me here and continue nagging." I thought.

"I have to leave".

I turned to leave only to find my stomach rumbling.

"I'm so hungry, I wish I could eat a thousand muckleberries." I imagined myself in a pool of muckleberries when I remembered that there was a huge freezer in the house.

      Rushing to the freezer, I hurriedly opened it and found different types of food but couldn't find a muckleberry. I searched and searched but couldn't find one.

      So I have to manage the bread and milk which tasted horrible to me. When everything seemed to be sour and tasteless, I closed the freezer and left the house with an empty stomach.

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      Everywhere seems strange, nothing seem familiar to me. I started walking slowly, dragging my legs along.

      I walked pass an area where some crazy looking guys sat smoking. I quickened my steps when I noticed that they were following me, all of them. Whenever I turned to see where they are, they would either hide in the bushes or pretend to be doing something else.

      Since it was early in the morning and the sun hasn't risen yet, the entire neighbourhood was calm and everywhere was silent.

"Should I turn back and race to that man's house so that he could protect me or should I just run as fast as I could in order to escape from the gang" I thought while I quicken my steps.

"I can't possibly race back to him, he would laugh and make jest of me then he would ask me to fall by his feet and ask for forgiveness which I can never do. So I definitely have to protect myself."

      I turned back after thinking of a plan. I saw them, they weren't that far from me. I have to do this even if it's the most embarrassing thing in the whole world. I walked stylishly to them holding the leader of the gang by the collar of his shirt, after spotting him amongst others.

"Hey, am I pretty?" I asked.

He smiled showing his brown teeth,

"Sure darling, you are the prettiest".

I was disgusted by his wrinkled face. He ought to be a grandpa.

      His brown teeth and the odour coming from his body irritates me the most but I have to follow the game if I don't want to be discovered. I wrapped my hand around his neck and whispered in his ear,

"Tell them to excuse us, I have a surprise for you". He grinned and signaled to his gang to move far away.

      They quickly obeyed him without thorough thinking. They moved about fifteen miles backwards and continue their smoking.

      I smiled at him and we both entered far into a nearby bush. I told him to pull off all his clothes and he did so. I also pretended to off mine too, then I grabbed the rope holding my robe and tied it around his neck while he chokes.

       I tied it even tighter and wrapped the other end around a tall tree. He stared at me with blood stained mouth and screamed. I rushed out through the other side of the bush and finally reached the road.

      His screaming alerted other members of the gang and they rushed into the bush only to find their leader hung on a tree trying to pull the rope away from his neck.

"Get me that lady dead or alive, I want her here!. I would punish and kill her little by little!" He shouted.

      Five members stood with him trying to untie the rope while three rushes after me.

       I ran with all my strength though I have get back to the main road, there isn't lot of people there. While running, I turned back and realized that I was being chased.

       Since my robe has no rope to pull it together again, it started swinging from one side to the other. I torn one hand of the robe and wrapped it around my stomach instead of the rope.

       I heard a fast and loud sound, I turned to look at what it was. A bullet ran past me and I fell with a thud to the ground. Wow! So this is how it feels to be shot. I felt a lot of pain in my arm. Then I heard a sound of glass shattering and the voices of the men screaming for help.

       I watched as each of the three men were killed. Like troop of monkeys, another set of five hefty men came running. It was really easy,they were all killed with a small broken glass. All I could see was blood, blood,blood.

      The leader of the gang who I hung on tree came last as he saw me almost lifeless on the ground, he started laughing and was happy that I would soon die and I felt like I could hear what he was thinking.

      The laughter within him made him unconscious of his environment, a long piece of piece of metal was thrown through his stomach and he laughed his last. I looked up and found someone trying to carry me up. I chuckled and fainted.