I couldn’t sleep all night and didn’t even touch the food which I always complained was too little. My stomach wouldn’t have been able to take it if I had tried.
I was nervous and scared. Something didn’t sit right with the way Samantha stalked out so calmly after learning that I was pregnant. She was too calm and it could only mean she was planning something deadly.
I sat on the broken bed, staring out of the windows. The freedom of the birds that were flying freely in the sky had me so envious. It’s been so long since I saw other people. I was stuck here and I had lost count of how many days or even weeks that I’ve been here.
It’s been unusually quiet since Samantha left but yet there was so much sign of her again and I could not help but feel agitated at that. I know that she had not decided to let me go but instead, she may be planning something extremely dreadful and it made my chest burn with the thought.
The door opened and Fred came in holding a cup. He handed me the cup and I looked at it suspiciously. They never give me anything during the day, not even an extra bottle of water.
“Take it. It’s just orange juice” He rolled his eyes when he saw my eyes narrowed suspiciously and darting between him and the cup he held in his hands.
“Why are you giving it to me?” I asked. I would have been less suspicious if it was Jason because the man liked to act as though he was a saint even when he had kidnapped me.
“Because you are pregnant? I figured I should do something nice” He grumbled out and there was no way I believed him, not when he looked like he would be rather somewhere else than handing me a glass of orange juice.
“That’s not enough reason. I don’t want it so you can take it back. You don’t have to torture yourself by being here” I told him and turned my back to save him.
“Take it and drink it while I am being nice” His tone suddenly turned serious and threatening.
“Why does it seem like you are threatening me to drink the orange juice? I’ve told you I don’t want it so you can take it away. How hard is it for you to understand that?”
“I don’t want to waste it after I took so much risk to get it for you. Do you know what Sammy would do to me if she found out I even brought this here?” He grumbled and it made me feel a bit bad
“Fine. Since you went through all the troubles to do something nice for me, I guess I should take it since you went through so much to get me this” I took the cup and drank the entire glass but it wasn’t until I emptied the cup that I noticed the look in his eyes.
He looked nervous and I could see the beads of sweat on his forehead. His eyes kept darting around the room and his eyes followed the drink until I emptied the cup. I suddenly had an awful feeling and it felt like I was going to throw up.
“What did you do?” I threw the cup against the wall in shock as I realized the oddness of the situation. Something didn’t feel right.
“What did you put in my drink?” I asked in horror but he just gave me one last glance before turning and heading towards the door.
I scrambled up from the bed and rushed towards him to grab him before he could open the door. He pulled his hand from mine and I stumbled a little from the force.
“You better lie down, you are going to start feeling dizzy soon” He advised and I took a step back, terrified.
“Oh my God, My baby. Please please please don’t let anything happen to my baby” I sank to my knees and held his trousers. My chest constricted with fear and my hands found my belly.
Fred didn’t give me a second glance and just shook my hands off his trousers before stepping out of the room. I stood up and ran to the bathroom.
I sank to my knees again and plunged my fingers into my throat so I could vomit whatever he gave me but it wouldn't work. I wretched and wretched but nothing came out, My stupid belly and throat won't give way for it to come out.
I yanked my hair in frustration and fell to my bum on the dirty bathroom floor. My eyes became wet and soon the tears were flowing freely and my top began to get soaked with tears.
My heart was thumping loudly and I didn’t know what to do. My hands were shaking and I was trembling all over from fear. I didn’t want anything to happen to me and my baby.
“Atty, where are you? Please hurry up and come find me. I don’t know what they’ve given me. Please get me out of here” I whispered and cried to myself.
“God, please. Let them find me soon before anything goes wrong. I know I do not pray to you but please, I beg you from the bottom of my heart, Please show them the right thing or hint or whatever that would help them find me” I begged.
A thought hit me. I should go beg. Maybe if I beg so pitifully they would help me. Let me believe that Jason was as good as he claimed to be. If I pleaded and crawled on my knees, maybe they would help me before it all went wrong.
I stood up but I think I stood up too fast because I stumbled and almost fell with the room suddenly spinning so fast. I staggered but managed to grab the wall to steady myself before
I fell head-first to the ground.
I groaned at the onslaught of headaches. My head was pounding so hard and it hurt a lot. Suddenly the room was too bright and I had to shut my eyes since the light kept making the headache worse.
I used my hand and the wall to guide myself out of the bathroom and it was a struggle since I had to keep my eyes shut most of the time. I walked to the window and shut the sorry excuse of a curtain. It didn’t do much but it made the situation a bit better.
I found the door but I was suddenly too weak to even shout. I lifted my hands to knock on the door and even that seemed like a lot of work.
“Jason? Can you hear me? If you can please help me out, I beg you.” I continued weakly with my voice barely above a whisper but no one replied to me.
I found it difficult to stay on my feet and my vision was getting blurry and I could barely see. My dizziness was getting worse and I had no other option but to struggle back to my bed to lie down.
“Let me just lay down for a bit. I can’t fall asleep. They would do something to me. Hazel, you can’t fall asleep” I was about to lie down but opted to sit down instead so I don’t fall asleep.
I smacked my face hard and painfully so I wouldn’t fall asleep but the heaviness in my eyes wouldn’t go away and my cheeks only ended up hurting really bad. The only thing it did was to make my cheeks red and throbbing.
Before I could stop myself, I found myself falling to the bed and becoming unconscious. My eyes wouldn’t open no matter how hard I tried to keep them open and I didn’t even have enough power to even be scared but my mind was a chaotic place.
“I can’t fall asleep” I mumbled before darkness completely consumed me.
I was going in and out of consciousness and in that hazy dream, I heard the door open and people enter the room. I felt them lift my body and place me onto something and I tried to protest but no word would leave my lips.
I groaned in protest but it fell on deaf ears. I felt myself being carted away while I lay there vulnerable. I could make out voices of heated discussion but I could not point out a single thing they were arguing about.
“Hurry, wheel her to the room. I would never let this happen” I heard Samantha’s voice and even in my state, I weakly began to struggle on the bed because I knew that her presence was a bad thing.
She was going to harm me and my baby. I knew I should never have been so relaxed when she left. I felt the tears slide from my eyes as I lay there weak.
“She’s awake, what should we do?” That was Fred’s voice
“Let her be. I need her to be aware of what she wants to go through” Samantha’s voice came next
“We’ll have to wait for her to wake up then” The voice was a stranger this time. The bed came to a halt and I felt myself finally go to sleep.