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This Time, Enjoy Your Deadly Journey

Short Story · Rebirth
By:  Zac NealCompleted
Language: English
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Independence

Face Slapping

Scumbag

Childhood Sweethearts

Melodramatic

A week before summer break, my boyfriend’s childhood sweetheart threw a fit, insisting on going to Tanond to watch a strip show. She even convinced our entire class to go with them. I kept warning them that it was not safe, that it could be some kind of new scam, and begged them not to go. When they refused to listen, I secretly reported it to the police. On the day of their departure, the police stopped them right at customs. A few days later, a male stripper suddenly went viral overnight. When she found out about it, she got so furious her eyes turned red. “It’s all Zoey’s fault! If it weren’t for her, we could’ve seen an international superstar's strip show!” On the first day we went back to school, they drugged me and made ten men teach me how to dance. “Didn’t you stop us from watching a strip show? Then you can perform one for us yourself.” The next day, my photos of strip show were all over social media. After that, I jumped off a building out of despair. When I opened my eyes again, it was once again the day his little sweetheart demanded that trip to Tanond.

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10 Chapters
Chapter 1
“I heard Tanond has several stars who shot to fame after performing strip dances! Who knows, we might even get to see a future international superstar's strip show!”When I opened my eyes, I heard Natalie Dunn, my boyfriend’s childhood sweetheart, talking excitedly to our classmates about Tanond’s strip show culture.The boys exchanged suggestive looks and grinned, while the girls blushed, but their eyes gleamed with curiosity and anticipation.Then someone turned to me.“Zoey, are you coming?”The question hit me like a ghost from another life. I had heard those exact words once before.In my previous life, Natalie had rallied the entire class to go to Tanond for a strip show.Back then, I was still foolishly kind, and had constantly warned them about the frequent kidnappings there and begged them not to go.When they refused to listen, I went to the police in secret. On the day they were meant to leave, the officers stopped the group right at customs.Sure enough, a few days
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Chapter 2
“I was just trying to be nice. I wanted to take Zoey along to see the world…”The moment tears filled Natalie’s eyes, Sebastian’s eyes widened and his face twisted in fury.“Zoey, drop the act, will you? You think you’re some saint? You’re only with me for the money anyway!”The moment the words left his mouth, the whole class turned to stare at me. Their eyes were full of disbelief, disgust, and judgment.“So she’s been dating Sebastian for his money? And here I thought she was all innocent!”“It’s no wonder she’s always been jealous of Natalie. She’s just afraid someone might steal her sugar daddy!”Listening to their whispers, Sebastian could not hide the satisfaction tugging at his lips.“Well? Have you made up your mind? If you’re not coming, then give back every cent I’ve ever given you now!”“You!”My fingers trembled with anger, but under their scornful stares, all I could do was clench my teeth and nod.“Fine! I’ll go!”…Sebastian was my sponsor, but our relations
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Chapter 3
I rolled my eyes and let out a cold laugh.“Weren’t you the ones whispering behind my back saying you’d teach me a lesson once we got to Tanond? Should I pull up your group chat and remind you of what you said?”The moment the words left my mouth, every face around me changed.They exchanged nervous glances as suspicion flickered in their eyes.No one knew how I found out, only that someone, somehow, had leaked their secret.They would never know that in my past life, after I stopped them at the airport customs, I found their secret group chat — the one they made just to leave me out.It was all because I had tried to stop them. They created a group chat and came up with a plan to steal my phone and passport in Tanond, leaving me stranded and helpless in a foreign country.Back then, I kept wondering if I had gone too far and blamed myself for interfering too much. Perhaps Tanond was not as dangerous as I thought.Then came the headlines — tourists vanishing one after another a
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Chapter 4
Sebastian’s gaze dimmed for a moment, clearly swayed by her words.“Nat…”When Natalie noticed that he was actually moved, a smug smile flashed across her face. She immediately pressed her advantage.“Sebastian, why don’t we just strip her and lock her up? At least then she won’t dare to run off and rat us out.”Strip me?I froze and my body stiffened as panic shot through me. I immediately struggled desperately.“No! Please, Sebastian, I won’t say anything!”However, Sebastian’s eyes were locked entirely on Natalie at the moment. He did not pay the slightest attention to what I said.The entire class descended on me, ripping off my clothes layer by layer like peeling an onion.When they reached my underwear, I twisted and thrashed, screaming for help. Natalie panicked and yelled, “Who’s got rope? Get her tied up, fast!”In the chaos, someone pulled out a few charging cables.They bound me tight. The cords cut deep into my skin, leaving a web of red marks.Just then, the ai
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Chapter 5
“Mom, I’m safe now. Don’t worry.”A familiar voice came through the line. The tone was deliberately light, but I could hear the faint tremor underneath.If everyone had said the same thing, it would have only sounded more like a carefully coordinated lie.The police officer in the hospital room clearly noticed it too and was about to step forward to ask questions when the calls abruptly ended. It was as though the signal had been cut.The parents exchanged nervous glances. The fear they had been holding back erupted. Some of them could not help but cry out.It was not long before the police brought news.The moment they landed in Tanond, the so-called local guides tricked them into a telecom fraud operation.The boys could barely keep in touch, but most of the girls suffered inhuman abuse.Those who resisted fiercely did not even manage to send a single message of reassurance to their families.This rare case of high school students encountering danger abroad quickly caused a
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Chapter 6
A woman dressed in black lunged at me. Her fingernails nearly jabbed into my face.“My daughter’s only seventeen! How dare you trick her into going to a place like that!”The parents around me erupted like a pack of lit firecrackers, closing in on me from all sides.Spit flew into my face as a torrent of curses rained down on me.“Murderer!”“Heartless monster!”“You deserve to die!”I struggled to get up, but someone kicked me hard in the back, slamming me down again.My eyes were filled with blood and dirt, and my vision went completely fuzzy.“I didn’t!”I wiped my face. My voice was hoarse and raw.“I never told them to go to Tanond!”“Liar!”The crowd suddenly parted. Natalie walked out, flanked by several other survivors. Her eyes were red and she looked pitifully fragile.“Zoey! You were the one who begged everyone to go to Tanond to see a strip show! Then you disappeared at the airport. You must’ve taken money from those people and tricked us into going!”Another
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Chapter 7
A few of the students behind Natalie instinctively took a step back, avoiding my gaze. The uproar from the parents suddenly ceased. All eyes locked onto the phone in my hand. The only sound in the room was the sharp clicking of camera shutters.The police officer quickly stepped forward, taking the phone and connecting it to a laptop.When the malicious chat logs were projected onto the temporary white screen, everyone drew in sharp, shocked breaths.“She actually said that?”“She even said she wanted to teach Zoey a lesson… That’s sick!”Natalie’s mother suddenly screamed, “Lies! This is fabricated! My daughter would never say such things!”She lunged to grab the laptop but was blocked by the police.I watched Natalie trembling like a fallen leaf in the autumn wind, and I could not stop myself from laughing.“Fabricated? Want to hear what she actually said at the airport when she tied me up?”I pulled the recorder hidden in my collar and pressed play. Instantly, Natalie’s s
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Chapter 8
“How are you going to make up for my daughter’s life?!”The police tried to push the crowd back, but the angry wave knocked them aside.“Don’t hold back! These bitches deserve it!”A man in a suit kicked Natalie square in the chest.“Do you dare look at the photos of my son’s severed fingers?!”Natalie was coughing out blood when she suddenly screamed, “They went willingly! Back in Tanond, they agreed to let me leave first!”“Nonsense!”The tiniest survivor lunged forward and bit off a piece of her ear.“You said that if we killed Zoey, your dad would get us all out!”The chaos did not stop until the wailing sirens of ambulances pierced the air. By the time stretchers arrived, the survivors were barely recognizable.Natalie was carried off with one leg twisted at a grotesque angle. Her eyes still fixed in my direction.Later, I heard that these survivors suffered more than anyone else.Even though Natalie’s father used connections to bail her out, she was left permanently d
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Chapter 9
The tip of my pen scratched across the draft paper, making soft sounds, like a quiet sigh for all those who had died in vain.Sebastian would probably never understand. He had protected Natalie all his life, but by the time she was rescued and brought back home, she was already telling people that Sebastian had willingly stayed there to make a fortune.All the things he had done to me to please her had become thorns in his heart.That night, I watched the storm lash against the window and suddenly remembered the days before summer vacation, when they crowded around Natalie, laughing excitedly about going to see the strip show. The sun was fierce and their smiles were foolish. No one could have imagined how that ridiculous trip would drag everyone straight into hell.My phone buzzed. It was a message from the police with the case closure notice. It stated that those involved in the Tanond trip had been dealt with according to the law and that the missing individuals had been off
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Chapter 10
Extra Chapter — SebastianThe rain here always carried the scent of rust.I curled up in the dog cage, blankly gazing at the mold creeping along the wall. I could not stop myself from thinking back to the summer of senior year.Natalie wore a pink sundress. She swung my arm, telling me that she wanted to go to Tanond to see a strip show. Rays of sun slipped through the camphor trees, illuminating her hair and turning them into strands of shimmering gold.Zoey stood at the end of the corridor in her white shirt, a corner lifted by the wind. She was warning us not to go, saying that it was not safe.I frowned and wondered why this girl always felt like an old rag — so stubborn and a buzzkill.“Sebastian, she’s simply jealous because someone actually cares about Nat.” One of my lackeys nudged my arm.“Just look at her, all shabby and nervous. She’s clearly worried that we’ll leave her behind.”I snorted.Zoey did need money. Her mother’s hospital bills were piled up like a
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