Chapter 3

Chapter 3

I was afraid when I wakened to found out that I was lashed to the chair. My hands were on my back, hardly tied up while my feet were tied on the seat's poles.

"What's going on?" I thought, but I was perplexed as I noticed that I was inside my room. Then a minute later I could hear a voice coming from the outside, there were too many voices, "Who are they?"... I wanted to shout for help but there was something in my mouth. I was sweating as I tried to moved and make a noise, but I stopped and shrieked... whoever did this was smart, he even tied the chair to my bed, making it secure, making it sure I won't make any sounds, making sure that I wouldn't do anything that not appropriate to his likings. " Who are you?" I thought.

"Is it that man?" I  thought then I started to tremble, my eyes expanded and I couldn't breathe normally. 

"Come on, Ash, relax," I murmured as I breathed in and out. I was afraid and gasping some air, but the thing inside my mouth made me harder to breathe even more. I was like breathing through my ears, hard to explain it.

I was panicking, "What is going on?" I tried hard enough to recall what happened but  I could only remember that I fainted in school and after that, I didn't know what happened next.

"Yeah, I was in school," I was confused.

But the suspicion is, how did I end up here?

Voices were still downstairs and I was here, all tied up. "Can somebody help me?" I spoke ones' mind, "Please, enter my room," I was praying for my life, trembling as I thought of perishing.

"No, I can not just die like this," I teared up.

I was afraid but somehow I was waiting to see the man who kept sending me gifts, I wanted to see his face... until I could hear some footsteps coming nearer and nearer... My heart was thumping too fast.

"What is this strange feeling?" I thought.

...and nearer... I was catching my breath, I never been scared like this before.  I couldn't think clearly, the fear was treacherous for my mind for me to concentrate and calm down.

...and nearer...

**Click...Click**

I could hear my heavy breathing as I heard the doorknob's noise.

I stared at the door... I never looked away and I was waiting for someone to pop out from that door.

I gulped, 'Who are you?" I thought of fury and nervousness. I was still trembling as I watched the doorknob turning its head.

**Click...click...click...**

When the door was slightly opened, I prepared myself. I was nervous, afraid and I was having a mixture of feelings, it was a strange feeling, it was too strong.

I was wondering who might come out of that door? Am I going to be surprised? Is he was someone I knew or just a stranger? Did I meet him already?

I was afraid of my own question, but what I needed more is the braveness to survive. If I survived, I could finally avenge Dravo's death once I saw who he was. I would surely escape and hunt him to death, I would also break his face and I will leave no brain and skull, I would let him suffer what Dravo tolerated in his hands. My lips trembled in desperation, "Show yourself," I whispered.

My brows were trembling as well as I bit the clothe in my mouth, "Come out, you bitch! Show yourself," I kept thinking, narrowing my eyes on the door even more.

"Come out now, please," I whispered.

 The door created a creepy squeak while the man was slowly pushing it.

"Come out, come out. Let me see who you are," I was whispering yet I was still afraid, of course, who would be happy to be here? Praying for life and not death.

I was sharpening my eyes on that door's entrance as I gritted my teeth again, I was profusely sweating, and then I saw his feet first.

I looked down, and how I wished and I didn't look down to see whose feet it was.

"What?" I thought when I saw the feet, I couldn't believe whose feet it was... I knew who it was. I shuddered and thought, "Is this real? No, it's impossible, that person was Dravo's killer? I was confused and when I lifted up my head to see that person's face. I wanted to make sure that my hypothesis was right, it was that person, but then I heard a whisper.

"Are you okay?" a voice said, then I was even more confused.

"Amanda?" I said and I heard her answered, "Yes, are you okay?" she repeated.

"Am I okay?" I thought and I opened my eyes when I came to the realization that I was just dreaming.

"Amanda?" I whispered too fast that she nearly didn't understand what I said.

"Are you okay? You were talking while sleeping," she said.

"Yeah, I was just dreaming..." I paused and I looked at her eyes, 

"Dreaming?" she asked and I was silent for seconds.

"Ash? What happened? You're trembling, for goodness sake," she asked and I shook my head, "Nothing, Amanda, never mind. It was just a bad dream," I responded, I was still trembling but I was glad it was just a dream because it was impossible that, a sigh... that, that person was the killer, that was entirely impossible. I would never accept it.

"What happened?" I asked when I noticed that I was in our school's clinic, but before she explained to me I remembered everything. And at that moment I forgot about that dream and cried in pain. My life was not happy anymore. It turned out to be horrible and suffocating.

"How could they fear me?" I asked and cried, then, Amanda hugged me and patted my back.

"I also didn't want everything to happen, Amanda," I sobbed, she teared up.

"Everything is gonna be alright, Ash, just rest and ignore what happened today, okay?" she said and I leaned my head on her shoulder. 

"Thank you, Amanda, thank you for being here," I said.

"I told you, I will always protect you," she mumbled.