Chapter 2|| I am precious

**Zara Todd’s POV**

The whole drive is silent. The people in there seem more like they are grim reaper. They were all dressed up in black suit and their face have weird kind of expression which neither looks like they are smiling nor it seems like they are angry.

I have seen such kind of expression only in eth silent shows and no where else. How can they be so much silent like this?

And suddenly this things runs through my mind.

Did I just get in the wrong vehicle? This isn’t exactly like they have informed me. Am I being kidnapped right now? My heart starts to beat out loudly but I am completely trying to hide those weird feelings I am having right now.

“Excuse me! Can I please get out? I need to use the washroom!” I say. I don’t know if they are going to buy my lies but I really can’t get into here. I feel everything strange over here. Even the air I am breathing in here is completely different and I am feeling quite suffocated.

“You might be late for the morning roll in dorm girl. Why don’t you wait for sometime?” one of them answers and his voice is almost contradictive of his attire and the expression he is wearing in his face. It is quite gentle and almost sweet like he is sugar coating someone.

I feel even more weirder now. I grab my stomach and then try to act like I am in complete emergency. I just have to get out from this car and in any cost. I already think that I am in the wrong vehicle. It was supposed to be bus and seems like I got picked up by some burglars.

Are they mafia? Or maybe thugs? Burgler? What the hell are they? I don’t even have a single penny that I could offer to them. Then why am I even being carried away like this?

Don’t say me they are rapists?

No! No! I should just get out of this car. I don’t want to rot over this car and get raped by these men?

“Please, it’s an emergency. I forgot to do the long one early in the morning and my stomach is paining like hell. I feel like I will die if I don’t discharge it now,” I say holding my stomach and trying to act as sick as I can.

The one in the front loos another and he nods his head to the one sitting next to him. The car stops and I get out slowly.

“Can I get some privacy please?” I say as I pretend like I am going to walk towards the bushes to do the shit in there.

For their kind information, I am a civilized citizen and I don’t do shits elsewhere than on the toilets. I make my way towards the dark bushes and just some metres away I can see the lights. People live in there.

If I reach there and get a help from them I would just be saved by these monsters.

So, I think of speeding my feet towards the light. You have to do this. You have to do this Zara. You can’t just like this. Being fucked by some people who you don’t even know.

Gosh! Today is my birthday and how much beautiful dreams I had seen last night about my birthday but there seems to be some mistake with my stars.

How can I be in danger when I was so much happy last night?

Tears roll down my eyes as I strengthen my heart to get out of there. I don’t want to die. I don’t want to be touched by anyone who isn’t the one I loved.

All my life, I have dreamt of my prince charming that he would come to me and rescue me from that shitty house and take me away from there but I have never thought that I would be …

I wipe away my tears with the sleeves of my coat and run towards the light. Maybe few more steps and I am there. Just I don’t want to be tired before I get there.

But I am slowly feeling tired. The place with light seems quite far from my imagination. It was just some metres away when I first saw it but now it has become more and more huge now.

I don’t know how long should I walk?

I am all sweaty. I can feel the sweats underneath my shoes as well which is making me really hard to run. It’s slippery and quite uncomfortable with sweat all over my feet.

I take it off and hold it in my hands. I am not going to throw these.

I have a little pinch of hope that I can be saved by all of this. No! I have to be saved from this and I am going to wear this shoes one more time. These are new ones which I have bought by working at some houses secretly.

I run holding those shoes in my hands but as I run I find that they are already running back of me. By this time they already have known that I have tricked them and there is no way that I would return to them.

“There? She is there. I can see her running away. Please don’t let her run away,” one of them shouted and hearing them say that makes me even more anxious and scared of them.

I just don’t understand why the hell are they chasing me for? I don’t have anything. I don’t own anything then why? Why me?

What wrong have I ever done in my whole life to others?

But I knew that no one is going to answer my question, not even me know the answer of it.

They are more and I am less. I don’t know the way. It’s dark but it surely will get bright soon and I will be able to escape away from them.

I think it’s better for me to hide somewhere until it becomes completely daylight. I even didn’t have the proper breakfast this morning. I am going to die hungry in this way.

As I run, I find the huge black drum which is used while construction. I think that I should hide in there. So, I immediately get in there and get myself rolled in the ground. I don’t know where will it reach but I have to make sure that it won’t reach them.

I hide inside that drum for almost some minutes and I don’t hear a single noise of anyone until something makes me come out of that drum.

Diva!!!

She is barking. With her barks, I can realize that she is searching for me desperately. I told that animals could be so much good and here is the proof of it.

Should I get out of here? I don’t think they could be here anymore.

And suddenly, I hear the crying barks of her and it makes me realize that something has happened in there. Something bad and she cannot control herself from crying.

Are they here? Will they get me in this way?

My heart pounds really loud within me as I close my mouth with my palms. I want to cry hard right now but I guess that is never going to work in here.

And in some seconds, I hear the sniffs of Diva. She finds me. I try not to come out of that but it’s already too late for doing anything because I see that they are standing right in front of me.

“Please don’t kill me. I don’t want to die. Please,” I say as I plead my hands and they just shake their head in disapproval.

“Her dog is quite helpful. As his job is already completed just throw him somewhere in the ponds,” one of them says and I quickly get out of there.

It might be dog for them but it is so much more to me and I can’t let her die in my instead.

“Please. Let her leave,” I plead trying to get the dog but one of them jerk me on the ground and I get a bruise.

Seeing me getting on the ground, another one glares at him and slaps him right on his cheek.

“Are you mad? Don’t you know who she is? You want to be killed by madam, don’t you?” he yells and my eyes widens.

Madam? What kind of madam are they talking about?

They are catching Diva and they throw her mercilessly on the ground and she runs away from there.

“No, why the hell did you do that? Leave her alone,” I shout as I see a man trying to hit her running legs. They are real monsters.

But before I could run after her, I am drugged and pulled inside the car.

“Don’t you dare touch her. I am telling you. She is precious and she shouldn’t be harmed by any one of us,” I hear this before I lost my complete sense.