Ouch,” she cried out, holding her arm. Sharp pains shot through her right arm which had made its second hurtful contact with the floor that day.
She didn’t have time to think because she was immediately dragged harshly off the floor by the man she fell with, who had already stood, still looking murderous.
“Who the f**k do you think you are,” he spat angrily.
She cringed at his raised voice, then began trying to free her left arm.
“Let go of me, you bastard!”
His nose flared at her audacious outburst.
“You must be out of your mind…and…and.. sick!” He said breathing roughly.
He dragged her along, while she kept twisting her arm to free it from his tight grip.
“You’re hurting my arm!”
“Well if you stop that thing you’re doing with it, it’ll hurt less,” he said matter of fact, tightening his grip.
The cops were already waiting back on the road when they got there. He handed her over to them with her still squirming and yelling out incoherent words.
“Hello, I’m Jacob,” the athletic guy said, shaking the hand of one of the police officers.
His friend still had the blood-covered handkerchief over his nose that had since stopped bleeding. He wanted the police to see clearly the extent of the damage done to him, including his car.
“It’s good you caught that b**ch, Jake,” Jacob’s friend, Damian applauded.
At the police station, when she realized that she could spend the night, more even, in the cell if nothing was done, she resulted to pleading.
Tears welled her eyes as she thought of her siblings at home. She didn’t regret her actions, she only wished she’d gotten away successfully.
They wouldn’t let her leave until the victim of her wrath came and with the way things were, she was likely to get sued. The dude that chased after her was really determined. He wouldn’t go through all that just to let her go.
Two hours later, Jacob arrived at the police station. He had sent Damien to the hospital and came on his behalf with the damaged car.
As soon as he entered, the girl he had caught who was seated at the corner in cuffs rushed towards him.
He was apprehensive for a bit and almost backed away from her because, from his little knowledge about the lady, she was a crazy person capable of anything.
She fell on her knees when she reached him and began dragging at his clothes, begging him to let her go.
He was taken aback. What had happened to the crazy lady that had wreaked havoc to Damien’s car, bashed his face in, and fled? She must be bipolar, he thought to himself.
One of the policemen had rushed to the rescue when she made her leap, but Jacob had signaled him to stop.
“Please, let me go! I can’t be here right now. I need to get back to my siblings!” She wailed, tears rushing down her face.
He had wanted to be brutal on her. Exert his anger on her. She did a lot of damages, to his friend’s nose which might not get back to normal, but, when he took his time to look at her, like, really look at her as a sane human being and not just a crazy bipolar lady, he saw pain and hardship.
She was looking worn out and skinny. Dirt patches stuck at different places on her body and torn clothes. Her wrist was bruising and he guessed it was his doing.
“Are you listening to me?!” She yelled, almost getting angry again. She couldn’t bear the thoughts of her three little siblings Brianna, Michael, and little Joanna crying their eyes out and then starving to death.
“My friend is pressing charges,” he stated.
She paused for a while, digesting what he said. What else could she do. A chance to see her siblings was all she could think about.
“Fine, fine, but can I just go home? My siblings are alone. They need me right now!”
“Do you think I believe that?!” He asked, his anger slowly rising. He thought she was lying about her ‘siblings’ to get away from what she got herself into.
“I’m not lying, I’m not, please!” She said frantically, her eyes darting from one side of his chest to the other. “You can follow me. You can bring the police along, I’m not making this up, please!” She wept and then ever so slowly crumbled to the floor, clenching her fist against her chest to stop the severe pain that ached her heart.
He blinked severally. It looked real to him. Even if she was faking it and it was all an act, it was an Oscar-winning worthy performance.
He sighed and signaled to the policeman. He knew his friend wouldn’t be happy. Damien had wanted her to suffer the consequences of her stupid actions, but to him, her current state was punishment enough.
Damien was partly to blame, he thought. He was the one driving and arguing loudly with his girlfriend over the phone. He must have tried to run her over or something. Speaking of that, he didn’t even find out her reasons, he only concluded she was crazy. Now things were looking different. What did Damian’s car do to have provoked such reactions from her?
It was too late to ask because immediately he signed the release document, she was out the door.
Jacob exhaled slowly as he made his way out of the police station. He didn’t know she could run off and disappear immediately without a trace. His mind was conflicted. He felt he did the right thing by letting that girl go, but this sort of feeling always got to him prior to a betrayal or deceit. This has been the reason why he'd become rigid and authoritative to his staff. Allow them sniff weakness or pity from you, boom, they bring out their devious cards. He couldn’t figure why her case got to him. Was it her tears, or the fact that she was in a bad shape? He didn’t know. He drove the car onto the road and towards the direction he came from, still in thoughts, when suddenly his eyes came in contact with someone limping down the sidewalk. It was as if his thought morphed into reality because there on the road, was the same lady, still in her messed up clothes, dragging her left feet along. He didn’t realize her wounds were that severe. She looked intact when she was running. Even
He jumped out of his car, went over to the passenger’s side, and flung the door open. He then ran over to her and gently grabbed her on both shoulders.“Please leave me alone,” she strained.“Shut up, or else I will drop you so hard you wouldn’t be able to get up again.” He threatened.The threat successfully got her to seal her lips. She allowed him to help her into the passenger’s side of the car, strapped her in, entered from his side, and drove off.He aimed to take her to the hospital, get her looked at, and then leave with a free conscience because deep down, he felt he was the reason for all the bruises and limping.“Stop!!! Please stop here!” She screamed as if in severe pain.“What?!”Jacob was actually worried and a bit scared. He didn’t know the extent of this lady’s wounds, and wouldn’t want to associate himself if her condition deteriorate
Rebecca hobbled quickly towards the direction of the shack she shared with her siblings. She could see the shack up ahead but not her siblings. Michael and Joanna should have been perched on different sides of the dilapidating construction, playing, while Brianna should have been curled up on a chair reading a novel. But none of them were in sight. Her heart fell into her stomach. She increased her pace, ignoring her protesting leg.Around her, people she’d known all her life, both old and young were all staring at her. Most of them had worried looks on their faces but no one dared stop her. They knew that dark look on her face. On good days, she would chirp all day, greeting and conversing with the people in her small community, but today wasn’t one of those days and they knew it. All they could do was worry and hope she wouldn’t hurt herself.James and John were at both sides of her, gauging her movements. They were walking sideways, their bodies sl
She was driven out of her thoughts when she felt a tug on her dress. She looked down and saw 6-year-old Joana looking up at her with her two big Heterochromia eyes of the shades green and blue. “Your dress is dirty,” Joana stated, touching the torn part of Rebecca’s dress. Rebecca squatted and took Joanna’s little body into an embrace, pecking her cheeks. “Yea, I fell in a puddle.” Just that statement left a bad taste in her mouth. It brought back the thoughts of earlier events. “What are you guys eating?” she said, trying to expunge the thoughts from her head, and stop herself from bursting into tears. “Umm…Mrs. Butterworth gave us this…uh, yours is in the flask over there,” Brianna answered, pointing to a small green food flask on the table. Rebecca carried Joanna into her arms and walked the short distance to where Brianna and 8 years old Michael sat, still eating. She touched Michael who hadn’t noticed her presence. He looked up and saw her. A huge smile engulfed his face as
Damien had made a fuss that night. “Why the f**k would you let her go. You’re not the one with the broken nose and a smashed car. It wasn’t your call dude, why would you do that?!” He yelled, alongside other profanities. “Piss off man. If you hadn’t been yelling with that deceitful girlfriend of yours, all these wouldn’t have happened,” Jacob yelled back. “She said she was drunk!” “And you believed her man! Seriously, you believe that crap. This ain’t the first time, neither is it the second nor the third, yet you take every rubbish that spews out of her mouth. A lady mistakenly gets into your brawl, she gets hurt even, yet you want to take out all your frustrations on her. You know what! You are a b**ch, bro.” Damien threw a punch at Jacob's face, jolting him backward and onto the table in his study. In turn, Jacob leaned off the table and rushed towards Damien, sending his own punch right into Damien’s abdomen. Although Jacob was furious and in a fit of rage, he avoided Damien
“There’s no need for that, I don’t want him to worry,” she had said. Jacob knew Damien. He knew his friend would leave everything he was doing and rush over to his house to pick up his girl, even in a raging tsunami. He knew Bianca knew that as well, so his best guess was that she had another agenda. He, however, didn’t want to jump to conclusions. Damien would definitely leave the house but might end up getting stuck in traffic for the rest of the night, so he decided against it. At about two am, Jacob began feeling a pleasant pressure on his groin. He had sleepily opened his to see Bianca grinding her bare core on his clothed hardness. He had jerked his head up while his eyes widened like saucers as realization dawned on him. She was just putting on the t-shirt he had given her to change into. He had also given her some shorts but she wasn’t wearing them as she straddled him, her hands grasping her breasts as she moaned loudly. For a split second, Jacob wanted to leave her there.
*splash* The puddle flew, dropping its scented contents on her. She had jumped out of the road to avoid the speeding car from running her over, yet, the fate she met was comparable. The contents of her bags went flying in different directions, while she crashed to the ground. “Oh God, no!!” She wailed, staring at the food that would have lasted her siblings and her two days, scattered all over. “What to do, what to do?” She kept muttering to herself as she stood up, her soaked clothes, a far cry from her current predicament. She was exhausted from all the work she’d done to pay for the now perished food. The thoughts of her siblings, sitting hungry at their shack, desperately waiting for her return brought her to tears. They’d had nothing to eat since the night before and it was 12noon already. “No, no, no!” She cried out, bending over to savage the little she could, but every attempt seemed fruitless because the food kept soaking into the wet ground. Unfortunately, it had rained
“There’s no need for that, I don’t want him to worry,” she had said. Jacob knew Damien. He knew his friend would leave everything he was doing and rush over to his house to pick up his girl, even in a raging tsunami. He knew Bianca knew that as well, so his best guess was that she had another agenda. He, however, didn’t want to jump to conclusions. Damien would definitely leave the house but might end up getting stuck in traffic for the rest of the night, so he decided against it. At about two am, Jacob began feeling a pleasant pressure on his groin. He had sleepily opened his to see Bianca grinding her bare core on his clothed hardness. He had jerked his head up while his eyes widened like saucers as realization dawned on him. She was just putting on the t-shirt he had given her to change into. He had also given her some shorts but she wasn’t wearing them as she straddled him, her hands grasping her breasts as she moaned loudly. For a split second, Jacob wanted to leave her there.
Damien had made a fuss that night. “Why the f**k would you let her go. You’re not the one with the broken nose and a smashed car. It wasn’t your call dude, why would you do that?!” He yelled, alongside other profanities. “Piss off man. If you hadn’t been yelling with that deceitful girlfriend of yours, all these wouldn’t have happened,” Jacob yelled back. “She said she was drunk!” “And you believed her man! Seriously, you believe that crap. This ain’t the first time, neither is it the second nor the third, yet you take every rubbish that spews out of her mouth. A lady mistakenly gets into your brawl, she gets hurt even, yet you want to take out all your frustrations on her. You know what! You are a b**ch, bro.” Damien threw a punch at Jacob's face, jolting him backward and onto the table in his study. In turn, Jacob leaned off the table and rushed towards Damien, sending his own punch right into Damien’s abdomen. Although Jacob was furious and in a fit of rage, he avoided Damien
She was driven out of her thoughts when she felt a tug on her dress. She looked down and saw 6-year-old Joana looking up at her with her two big Heterochromia eyes of the shades green and blue. “Your dress is dirty,” Joana stated, touching the torn part of Rebecca’s dress. Rebecca squatted and took Joanna’s little body into an embrace, pecking her cheeks. “Yea, I fell in a puddle.” Just that statement left a bad taste in her mouth. It brought back the thoughts of earlier events. “What are you guys eating?” she said, trying to expunge the thoughts from her head, and stop herself from bursting into tears. “Umm…Mrs. Butterworth gave us this…uh, yours is in the flask over there,” Brianna answered, pointing to a small green food flask on the table. Rebecca carried Joanna into her arms and walked the short distance to where Brianna and 8 years old Michael sat, still eating. She touched Michael who hadn’t noticed her presence. He looked up and saw her. A huge smile engulfed his face as
Rebecca hobbled quickly towards the direction of the shack she shared with her siblings. She could see the shack up ahead but not her siblings. Michael and Joanna should have been perched on different sides of the dilapidating construction, playing, while Brianna should have been curled up on a chair reading a novel. But none of them were in sight. Her heart fell into her stomach. She increased her pace, ignoring her protesting leg.Around her, people she’d known all her life, both old and young were all staring at her. Most of them had worried looks on their faces but no one dared stop her. They knew that dark look on her face. On good days, she would chirp all day, greeting and conversing with the people in her small community, but today wasn’t one of those days and they knew it. All they could do was worry and hope she wouldn’t hurt herself.James and John were at both sides of her, gauging her movements. They were walking sideways, their bodies sl
He jumped out of his car, went over to the passenger’s side, and flung the door open. He then ran over to her and gently grabbed her on both shoulders.“Please leave me alone,” she strained.“Shut up, or else I will drop you so hard you wouldn’t be able to get up again.” He threatened.The threat successfully got her to seal her lips. She allowed him to help her into the passenger’s side of the car, strapped her in, entered from his side, and drove off.He aimed to take her to the hospital, get her looked at, and then leave with a free conscience because deep down, he felt he was the reason for all the bruises and limping.“Stop!!! Please stop here!” She screamed as if in severe pain.“What?!”Jacob was actually worried and a bit scared. He didn’t know the extent of this lady’s wounds, and wouldn’t want to associate himself if her condition deteriorate
Jacob exhaled slowly as he made his way out of the police station. He didn’t know she could run off and disappear immediately without a trace. His mind was conflicted. He felt he did the right thing by letting that girl go, but this sort of feeling always got to him prior to a betrayal or deceit. This has been the reason why he'd become rigid and authoritative to his staff. Allow them sniff weakness or pity from you, boom, they bring out their devious cards. He couldn’t figure why her case got to him. Was it her tears, or the fact that she was in a bad shape? He didn’t know. He drove the car onto the road and towards the direction he came from, still in thoughts, when suddenly his eyes came in contact with someone limping down the sidewalk. It was as if his thought morphed into reality because there on the road, was the same lady, still in her messed up clothes, dragging her left feet along. He didn’t realize her wounds were that severe. She looked intact when she was running. Even
Ouch,” she cried out, holding her arm. Sharp pains shot through her right arm which had made its second hurtful contact with the floor that day.She didn’t have time to think because she was immediately dragged harshly off the floor by the man she fell with, who had already stood, still looking murderous.“Who the f**k do you think you are,” he spat angrily.She cringed at his raised voice, then began trying to free her left arm.“Let go of me, you bastard!”His nose flared at her audacious outburst.“You must be out of your mind…and…and.. sick!” He said breathing roughly.He dragged her along, while she kept twisting her arm to free it from his tight grip.“You’re hurting my arm!”“Well if you stop that thing you’re doing with it, it’ll hurt less,” he said matter of fact, tightening his grip.The cops were alre
*splash* The puddle flew, dropping its scented contents on her. She had jumped out of the road to avoid the speeding car from running her over, yet, the fate she met was comparable. The contents of her bags went flying in different directions, while she crashed to the ground. “Oh God, no!!” She wailed, staring at the food that would have lasted her siblings and her two days, scattered all over. “What to do, what to do?” She kept muttering to herself as she stood up, her soaked clothes, a far cry from her current predicament. She was exhausted from all the work she’d done to pay for the now perished food. The thoughts of her siblings, sitting hungry at their shack, desperately waiting for her return brought her to tears. They’d had nothing to eat since the night before and it was 12noon already. “No, no, no!” She cried out, bending over to savage the little she could, but every attempt seemed fruitless because the food kept soaking into the wet ground. Unfortunately, it had rained