You can see the video renditions of my poems through spoken word poetry on my YouTube channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuQWrN-P0_uibjyCS3dgZSg

I know I have written a short story with the same title, but here is a poem, in the same vein.
I guess I am in love with the word and with thrills(needless to say lol)

TRAPPED
She scurried past the last locker
Making for the door
But he was faster
So he barred her from the door

She retraced her steps slowly
He followed closely
As he made to grasp her,
She dodged and ran faster!

Jumping lockers! Breathing hard!
She played her chess so darn hard
When she got far...
He checkmated her

The windows could make her free
But that would mean standing
Between the devil and the deep blue sea
For it might be a suicidal ending...

Then in a moment he was down
By the chair in her hand
The beast in her had eased the burden
Even before he said Jack Robinson

Another nightmare!

©D. S Alan

Ann2012:
Well done OP

It is truly a suspense filled story with many questions at the end to keep us thinking

Thank you. That was the plan tho �

skyblueking:


Many questions are unanswered!
*What became of her friends?
*Her father's reaction
*Trauma


Anyway, as the queen wishes!

*smiles

skyblueking:
Is it the end?

"Short story". Do you want part two? �

~~~
How strong was this man that he could remove a whole window? Amblessed began to fumble with the keys as she saw Cole climbing into the room. The door was refusing to open and the man jumped in. Amblessed did not wait for him to gain his balance when she picked the nearest item to her and threw it at him. She was a good shot. It was when the item hit his head and he screamed that she realized the object was a bottle. Blood splashed everywhere, as well as the shattered glasses from the bottle. Cole grabbed his head, screaming as he did. He had not seen the bottle coming.
Finally, the door opened and she ran out, closing the door behind her and dashing for the gate. She heard the door open and close behind her which meant he was still after her. She did not turn to see him as she ran out the open gate. She started running toward the roadside, neglecting the sting from her wounded leg.
“Come back here! Why are you running away?!”, he shouted behind Amblessed.
Seriously? Because I don’t think today is the right day for me to die, that’s why!
And the race continued.
Where was the police when one needed them? And how long did it take for them to get here?
Amblessed felt like the junction to the roadside was farther than she remembered it earlier. What was worse? Cole was catching up with her, blood all over his face. She mistakenly hit a stone and fell face flat on the ground. She could not feel anything but pain in places on her body she never knew she could feel pain. Soon Cole was on her, punching her from every corner. She was tired of struggling and fighting. She welcomed whatever he decided to do with her. She closed her eyes and took her last breaths. She could see the light welcoming her…
“Step away from the girl and raise your hands where I can see them!”, a voice ordered in the quiet dark night. Cole did not stop. He kept screaming and hitting and saying, “she deserves to die for…”
Kpa! Kpa! Kpa! and more and more shots rang in the air. Amblessed closed her eyes shut but her hands were too weak to cover her ears to stop the sounds of the shots ringing in her head. She felt Cole fall beside her but she still refused to open her eyes. Few seconds later, someone touched her and said, “Amblessed, can you hear me?”
She nodded her head and it felt like lead.
“Open your eyes, you are safe now”, the voice said.
She did so, slowly. She laid her eyes on a policeman looking down on her, concern written all over his face. He asked, “where are your friends?”
“I think they are dead”
“killed by this man?”, he asked, nodding toward Cole by my side.
She nodded her head.
“My colleagues will go look for them. I will take you to the hospital, okay?”. With that said, he helped Amblessed to her feet. Realizing she couldn’t stand, the policeman carried her to one of the cars and began to drive to the hospital. He said, “give me your father’s number so I can call in case they are worried about you”
“No please don’t”
“Why? Won’t you want them in the hospital?”
“No please. I beg you please don’t bother them”
The policeman looked uncertain. He decided not to push it so he kept quiet and kept driving. Amblessed closed her eyes and let the pain course through her body and the tears run down her cheeks.
She would never go on an adventure in her life again.

Chapter eight

Amblessed remembered the man she saw crying and pleading with her father and herself for money to save his daughter that day and it dawned on her: Cole.
“Oh my God!”, Amblessed exclaimed.
“She remembers”, he said. Then he continued, “that same day, my baby died and I vowed to deal with your father for not helping me with the money I needed to take my daughter to the hospital. And so I observed and I realized you were a witch to your friends. So I recruited your classmates to be the chief manipulator that would convince your so-called friends to teach you a lesson for being such a bitch to them. And when they were convinced, who else to turn to than the guy who has been rumoured to be the best in the game? You see, it’s all about mind games and planting seeds and manipulation girl”.
Amblessed was short of words. All she could say was, “I’m sorry…”
“Sorry will not bring my Nafisat back!”, he screamed.
Then, bang! bang! bang!
Cole was trying to break down something to get into the room. But the sound was not coming from the door, Amblessed realized. She followed the sound and discovered a window she had not seen earlier because of the curtains that covered the whole walls. Although the window was locked from within, Cole was making progress in removing the whole window from the wall. In panic, Amblessed jumped up and began to move the things she used to block the door, the bed being the last thing in case he gave up on the window and came to the door. It was a messy situation with Cole on the window and Amblessed on the door. She was tired and cold but she couldn’t give up now.
Crash!!!
The window fell into the room.

skyblueking:
DSAlan drag your ass here and drop an update..

Don't keep me waiting pls!
The suspense is damn much..

Sorry for keeping you waiting.

Chapter eight (and the final chapter) will be posted this evening by 6pm at the latest.
Watch this space!

~~~
Damn! Amblessed swore under her breath. She remembered the man who came to her family house the previous year to beg her father for money to treat his daughter. Amblessed had been in her room when she heard her father shout at the man to leave the house. She had come out of the room to see the man on his knees pleading and crying while her father was saying, “This is not the first time you have come with one bogus story or the other just for money. The ones I gave you in the past, have you paid?”
“No Chief. But I promise you, after this, I will pay you back in full”, the man had replied.
“That is what you said the last time. You said your wife had an accident, the other time it was your daughter that broke a leg. Is it the same daughter that is now sick?”
“No sir, I have five daughters”
“So tragedy is only meant for your family right? And why won’t you be a pauper when you have five daughters and how many sons sef?”
“Three”, the man replied, looking down in shame.
“See your life? please, stop using your family to extort money from me that you don’t pay”
“Sir, I swear…”
“Get out of my house! Let me not come out of my room and meet you here”. With that, her father stormed into his room, slamming the door behind him.
The man turned and faced Amblessed, still kneeling down. He looked up to her and said, “My daughter, please talk to your father for me. She is my first daughter; she is just like you. Imagine if you were in the same situation”
“Noooo…back to sender. I cannot be in such a situation as you claim. There is nothing I can do to change my father’s mind. For him to say how you have been using your family to get money from him, how sure are we that you are not lying again?”
“Ah! I swear I am not”, the man licked his index finger and pointed it towards the ceiling.
“hmmm”, she sighed. At the same time, the security man at the gate came into the living room and guided the man to leave the building. Amblessed went into her room and that was the end of the matter; she didn’t even talk to her father about it.
But the man did not forget, not after his daughter died.

As a way of making up, I will post the last two chapters today. Remember, it's a short story.

Chapter seven

She tried to calm her breathing to no avail. She could hear her heart beat heavily in her chest as she heard him walk towards the room. He began to hit the door fervently. Thankfully, she had locked it but she didn’t know how it would take before the door gave out.
“Oh God please let the police come!”, she cried in her heart.
“Open this door! Stop delaying the inevitable”, he said.
Bang!
Then he began to laugh hysterically, which confused Amblessed. Why was he laughing?
“You know, I have pictured this moment in my mind over and over again. It has been my obsession for months and now my time has come. Too bad your so-called friends got caught in the crossfire. You see, no one can stand in the way of my plans, even if it means they have to sacrifice their lives”, Cole said.
Amblessed yelped and covered her mouth with both hands. Was this man trying to say he had killed Tiana and Trish? She shook her head violently and tried not to cry out loud.
“oooo…I can hear you crying little baby”, he teased
Pause.
Then…bang!!! He hit the door again.
“What have I ever done to you to make you want to kill me?!”, Amblessed asked from inside the room. This man was taking things too personal and she didn’t even know him. Now he killed the man who worked for him and might have killed the same people who hired him, all just to get to her. She just had to know why.
He stopped banging the door and said, “so you can’t remember”
Silence.
“Of course you can’t. You are just like your father, you are selfish and you care for no one but yourselves”, he said.
She knew it! This attack was because of her father.
Then he surprised her and said, “It is because of you and your father that I lost my girl and now you must pay with your life; a daughter for a daughter”
“Me? what did I do? I have never killed anyone in my life”, Amblessed protested.
“Oh but you did! Your father’s refusal to help me with money for medical bills for my daughter and your refusal to convince him otherwise killed my daughter Nafisat!”, he ended angrily.

~~~
The story concerning the name ‘Amblessed’ was thus: her parents had married in poverty. They had suffered immensely for the first ten years of their marriage and for those first ten years, they had no child. Eventually, her mother got pregnant and had a miscarriage. That was the first of three miscarriages. The fourth pregnancy had been welcomed with fear and uncertainty. At this point, the families of both husband and wife had given up on the possibility of a child coming out from the union. The families had been proven wrong when the pregnancy stayed on till the ninth month and a beautiful girl emerged. As the baby was being pushed out to the world by her tired mother, her father received a contract of twenty billion naira which he had been pursuing for a long time. It had been the answer to years of prayers. That baby had grown to know the story by heart.
“So why did you not name me Blessing?”, Amblessed asked once when her mother had finished telling her the story for the umpteenth time.
“You are different, you are special. Blessing is a common name so we decided to call you ‘Amblessed’ because you are indeed blessed”
And oh, how different the girl was.
First of all, she preferred to be called, “AmB”, the ‘B’ pronounced as ‘Bee’. She saw herself as a Queen Bee, a special being.
“I am purple”, she would often tell her friends. Of course they agreed she was royalty.
Tonight she did not think they had been honest with her.
She heard the gate open and her heart missed a beat. Cole had finally succeeded in opening the gate.

~~~
“What Is your name?”, he asked.
“My name is Amblessed Alkali”
“As in the daughter of Chief Ambrose Alkali?”, he asked.
“Yes yes yessir”, she replied urgently. She knew her father was popular in these quatres but now was not the time for familiarity so she added, “Sir please come get me before I die!”
“Ok, Ok…where are you?”, he asked.
She quickly gave her location, adding “please hurry up before he opens the gate, please…”. She broke down in tears.
The police officer told her to keep the line open while waiting for the police and Amblessed would have it no other way. She held the phone for dear life.
Then she heard a sound on the gate like someone was trying to break it down. The security man must have locked the gate behind her, she hadn’t noticed. She suddenly noticed: the shooter wasn’t trying to shoot the gate open. Perhaps the bullets had finally been exhausted.
“You can’t escape from me, stupid bitch!”, Cole yelled from outside, which meant he was the person after her. What happened to Trish and Tiana? She wondered. Well, now was not the time to worry about them; they had set her up to get kidnapped and killed.
Bang! the gate was hit again.
She whispered urgently to the person on the other line, “they are trying to open the door, please come quick! Please!”.
In panic, she dropped the phone and began to push the bed, the chair, the stove, just basically anything and everything she could find to use and block the door to the room, just in case the person found a way to open the door. She sat on the floor in a corner of the room. It was at this point that she realized she had truly been shot and she began to feel the pain. She removed her jacket and tied up her leg. She grabbed her knees to her chin and shook violently. She was very cold despite the fact that there were curtains round the walls of the room.
Then she began to cry once again. She prayed to God to forgive all her sins. She told God that she would become a better person if he let her live. Her parents would die if she did not make it tonight; she was their only child.

Hi everyone!

Chapter Six

Amblessed screamed and ran into a small room that looked like the security man’s room, shots trailing her. Once inside the room, she locked it with the keys in the keyhole. She breathed heavily as it dawned on her that she was trapped.
“Oh my God!”, she exclaimed. Her phone was gone, she had no way of contacting anybody for help. She searched the room hoping to perhaps find the phone belonging to the security man. Luckily, she found a telephone on the table beside the bed. She picked it up and dialed the emergency number for the police. She thanked her mother for always insisting she knew the numbers of security agents off heart in case of emergencies. This was definitely an emergency.
As soon as someone picked, she began to speak fast, narrating her ordeal, “I went out with my friends for an adventure in the hills and they suddenly disappeared and one big man attacked me and I escaped and I fell down the hill and I fainted and I woke up and tried to run to where my car was but I met another man who also tried to kill me and my friends came with the big man and this other man shot the big man and I fought him and I escaped and left my friends to fight him because it turns out they all planned to kidnap me and now the security man here is dead and I am trapped in his room I think and this man wants to open the gate and…”
“Calm down miss”, the person at the other end of the line said.
“They want to kill me!! don’t tell me to calm down!”, Amblessed screamed. Her whole body was shaking.

skyblueking:
DSAlan nice 0ne...
I repeat, nothing should happen to my crush oo...

Buh recently, your updates don dey short lyk devilpen pr*ck..
lolz,..
*runs away*

���

~~~
Kpa! Kpa! More shots! At this point, her only advantage was the darkness or rather, dimness of the moonlight. Still, she began to run in zigzags to disable the shooter from aiming at her and actually getting her.
Then she saw the building. Her momentum increased, any minute now and she would reach the gate. She was already screaming, “help! Help! Help!” even before getting there. In an instant, she felt a shot hit her leg, sending her crumbling down in spirals.
She was now numb to pain so she could care less. She landed at the gate, hitting it hard with her body as she did. The security man was already at the gate; he must have heard her scream for help. He looked lost at the sight of her and she wouldn’t blame him.
“Open! Open before they kill me! please help!”, she screamed. She was glad the shooter had stopped shooting. Maybe his bullets had finished, she hoped.
Please God let him not have more bullets to use, she prayed in her heart as she waited for the security man to open the gate.
The security man opened the gate and locked it the moment she rushed in. She dragged her leg that was shot, not feeling any pain with all the adrenaline gushing through her.
“Where is my car?”, Amblessed asked.
“What happened? I was worried about you when your friends came to take the car without you o”, the man said. He seemed more confused about what was going on.
“What?! My friends did what?!”
“They…”.
Kpa!!!
The man’s statement was cut short when a shot hit him on his head, he fell flat on the floor.

~~~
Tianna again replied, “who is talking about killing here? We only planned to scare you, then we decided to kidnap you and make some money off you. In fact, the plan was for Cole to kidnap you and bring you to where we were all ‘tied up’ so it won’t be suspicious that we left our friend alone and she got kidnapped”
Trish continued, “But then, we waited in our hiding place for so long with no sign of either of you so we decided to come looking, only for Mister Big Guy here to capture us and threaten to kill us if we didn’t do as we were told. And then he works for Cole and the shock just made us spill the beans, dang!”.
“Big Guy works for me and he has his instructions. Now Big Guy, thanks for delivering”, Cole said. The other man smiled sheepishly and said, “Boss, you know I got you, as long as I get paid my cut”.
“What is going on here? That wasn’t the plan Cole”, Trish asked the question on the faces of all the girls.
“Plans change”, Cole replied and then…
Kpaaa! Kpaaa! Kpaaa!
Three shots ran through Big Guy’s head.
“AAAAAHHHHH!!!!”, all the girls screamed, Tianna and Trish hurdled together.
“What the Bleep are you doing??!! Nobody was supposed to die!”, Tianna screamed at Cole, who was still pointing the gun at the body on the ground.
Before he could say a word, Amblessed launched at him, throwing her whole body weight on him which sent both of them crashing down the hard ground.
More screams.

This sudden move surprised everyone, even Amblessed. She tried to grab the gun from his hands but he recovered from the shock soon enough to stop her from doing that. As they struggled, she heard shots been fired, obviously from the gun and she heard the girls screaming the more and saying something about someone getting shot. Right now, all she cared about was getting out of here alive.
Soon both girls joined in fighting Cole who seemed capable of handling them all. Amblessd found herself getting flung on one side of the road. She was getting used to the ground and pain at this point. She got up in seconds and began to run down the road, going as fast as her legs could carry her. She heard more shots behind her but she did not turn to see who shot who or if the guns were randomly fired into the atmosphere. It was dark but she sprinted all the same, using the little light provided by the moon crescent in the sky. As she ran, she prayed to catch sight of the building by the foot of the hill.
Silence.

She hoped whoever it was didn’t not have the gun with them or even if they did, they shouldn’t have bullets in the gun. How wrong she was!

Chapter five
Amblessed had always thought she finally found a group of girls who were not just friends but sisters to her. Growing up as an only child in a house with high electrified fences and gate and in a street where one never knew one’s neighbours, she had been quite lonely. Her only friends were those she made in school and she saw them just at school. That was why when she met the T and T, she found another family that wanted nothing from her but true friendship. They had made a pact to always have one another’s backs like sisters would do. Now all she could feel was sadness and disappointment that they would do this to her.
“Trisha. Tiana. Why?”, at this point, she was close to tears.
“Because you are a selfish and terrible human being”, the man called Cole replied.
Amblessed was in shock. “I did not ask you! I want them to answer me by themselves”. She looked at her so-called “friends” square in the face and dared them to reply. Moreover, what did she have to lose? She was going to die anyways so it would be preferable to die knowing why her friends detested her so much they arranged to have her killed. It was even more demanding seeing that she just announced their adventure after their exams that same day.
This could only mean they had been planning to hurt her for a while now and were just biding their time. She had given them the right opportunity! The tears began to flow freely down her cheeks and she didn’t bother to wipe her eyes to see clearly or even wipe them from her cheeks no matter how much their saltines stung the cut on the cheek.
“Answer me!”, she screamed.
“Oh please stop being a cry baby. Right from time, it has always been about you. You think we became your friends because we liked you? No! your family has connections which we could exploit not just for ourselves but for our families. But you have always been a bitch about everything. When I finally found Tunji, the love of my life, you snatched him just as you have always snatched any guy we liked”, Tiana said with so much fury.
“Not forgetting my own boyfriend whom you slept with and when I confronted you about it, you said you were only helping me know what a cheat he was”, Trisha said.
Amblessed had never felt so bad in her life.
“I only told you about having an adventure today”, she continued, “how long have you been planning this?”, she asked.
“Oh baby…for so long…”, Tianna replied.
“So you arranged to have me killed?”, Amblessed asked.

skyblueking:
Abeg come post update jhor before i go hungry...

I have updated, don't be hungry

~~~
“AmB!”, someone shouted her name from behind. Amblessed turned and saw her friends coming out of a bush nearby, the huge man pointing his knife behind them.
"Look who I found lurking in the bush…what a reunion of friends!", the huge man said, smirking mischievously.
“Finally, I was beginning to wonder where you disappeared to”, the other man said.
“Boss, this girl is surprisingly fast o. I couldn’t keep up with her in the hills and then the rocks, man”, huge man.
“Cole, you know this man?”, Tianna asked.
“He threatened to kill us!”, Trish exclaimed, terrified and angry at the same time.
“You know these men?!”, Amblessed asked. She was beyond shocked to think her friends knew who these men were and even more upsetting, that they had planned it all.
“We don’t know him!”, Trish replied, pointing at the huge man.
“But you know him!”, Amblessed, pointing at the man who cut her, the man called Cole.
It was at this point that Tianna and Trish seem to realize they had given away themselves in the heat of the moment; their facial expressions said it all.
Her friends had set her up.
And what was worse? They had set her up with only one man but there were two men holding up knives at them

skyblueking:


She would find her way home after the torments..
lol

We'll see

~~~
Amblessed burst into tears, more out of fear at the manner in which he said it without emotion than anything else. This man meant business.
“That just irritates me!”, he exclaimed and slapped her face, making her to scream. And once she began to scream, she wouldn’t stop.
“Shut up!”, he shouted and waved the knife close to her face, slightly cutting her cheek. Amblessed felt a surge of sharp pain course through her but she covered her mouth with her palm so she wouldn’t scream and annoy him the more. She felt blood dropping from the cut but she ignored it.
“Keep walking”, he commanded her and she wished she had not started retracing her steps backward and deeper into the meandering roads between the hills. No he reduced the chances of anyone ever discovering her or her body in the hills.
She resumed walking and as she did, she put her hand in her trouser pocket and felt her jackknife. Had it been in her pocket all this time? She could not remember when she put it there. She had just had an instinct to reach for her pocket and as usual, her instinct was right. Well not ‘usual’ to be honest.
Immediately, she pulled it out and brandished it at the man. He sneered and said, “ooooo…see what our little princess has brought out to play. You are not as fragile as they say”
“Who’s ‘they’?”, Amblessed asked.
“Do you think it’s a coincidence that myself and the huge man are here? We are just doing our jobs, well, he is just doing his job”
“Who sent you?”

~~~
“Sir, don’t worry”, she said, “I will just go to the junction and try to get to the nearest police station”
“What about your friends?”
“The police will come find them”.
“And what if I say you can’t go anywhere?”
“Excuse you?!”, Amblessed replied, clearly taken aback.
Her confusion ended when the man pulled out a knife similar to that of the huge man. She gasped. The man began to walk towards her and she backed away slowly, asking as she went, “who are you people? What do you want from me? what have you done to my friends?”
“Hmmm…If I must answer your questions, it would take me a long time and time is what I don’t have. I will make this painless and fast but if you try to stop me, I will make you suffer”.
Although Amblessed had an inkling as to what he meant, she still asked barely above a whisper, “what…what are you planning to do to me?”
“Kill you”, he said, as-a-matter-of-fact.

Chapter four

She heard the sounds of river flowing. She looked up to the sky in thanksgiving. She ran towards the sound, hoping it was the same river she and her friends had been. All she had to do was get her bag pack and set out to find her friends or escape, she did not know which to do first. When she got to the river, she saw her bag pack lying on the floor. She heaved a sigh of relief and picked it up in a hurry. She still saw her friends bags lying down as well as the plates and cups and bottles they had eaten and drank from. She was dying to shout their names as she walked down the road but she was too afraid of even her footsteps sounding too loud. She felt like removing her shoes but at this point, her whole body ached badly from the fall.

She saw someone approaching her. She gave God thanks and ran towards him. She grabbed him and began to talk rapidly, “sir, please help me sir, there is a man after me. I don’t know where he is and I don’t know where my friends are. Please we need to find my friends so we can get out of here please…”
“Calm down, calm down. What are you doing here by this time?”, the man asked. Amblessed was about to ask him the same question. Instead she said, “We came for…it’s a long story. Right now, I just need to find my friends so we can leave this scary place!”. “The man you are talking about, is he very big?”, he asked.
“Yes, yes he is!”, she replied eagerly. Now he got her attention.
“Is he wearing ripped jeans?”
“Yes, have you seen him?”. The man said, “just come with me and we will find your friends okay?”
Amblessed did not trust this man. What was he doing here? How did he know about the man after her? Why did he not answer her question?”. She became very afraid and all she needed was to coyly get away from this man.

skyblueking:


You just have to add some suspense...
I can detect what would happen next...
Watch that ma'am

Out of curiosity, What do you think would happen though?

skyblueking:
Hmmm..
Well-planned trick from her friends to teach her a lesson...quite unfair...

Mr 0p, let nothing happen to my crush, AmB...
Plea...se!

We'll just have to wait and see...

~~~
It was settled. Calls were made, she got into the university of her choice. There was nothing patriotic about her schooling in Nigeria, she was scared of living abroad on her own or doing things for herself. Amblessed went to school from home; she drove the car her father bought her when she got admitted to the university. The school was just thirty minutes’ drive from her home so she didn’t bother getting an accommodation around school. Her main reason though was because she did not want to live alone. Her friends who rented an apartment near school had tried to convince her to come live with them but she insisted on living at home and visiting them once a while like whenever they went clubbing and got back late or just for some weekends. She was practically living with them with the way she was almost always at their place. But she insisted on living at home.

The truth no one knew was, Amblessed was dependent on her parents and as much as she did not show it, each time she was away from them she was filled with immense fear. So the girl who loved the wild side of life put up a front to hide her inner unexplainable fear.
Now, the fear almost ate her up from the inside out.

~~~
She thought about Tiana and Trisha. They had become friends with Amblessed when she transferred to their school in SSS1. It wasn’t long before the girls became an inseparable trio. Amblessed had been the head of the group and she dictated what they did most of the times. Ofcourse she had always suggested crazy things like jumping the school fence before school was over just to go shopping in town, going out with strange boys to hang out in weird places. Amblessed was the one who introduced the other girls to alcohol and clubbing and smoking even while they were in SSS2. The girls were all from rich homes but Amblessed was richer than them both; in fact, her family was one of the richest in her school and most girls would have given their right breasts to be friends with her.
Amblessed and her friends had secured admission because she had pressured her father to use his connections to get them all the same university so they would be together. Her father had wanted her to school outside the country but she would have none of it.
“I want to school in Nigeria as a patriotic citizen. I want a federal university. I don’t care about the strikes and delays. I want to experience this life for once daddy! Everything has been given to me on a platter of gold all my life but for a change, I don’t want it that easy any more. Daddy please…” and she had made that puppy face that got her whatever she wanted form her parents. The puppy face had not disappointed her this time around.
“You are such a drama queen”, her father had said.
“You know I’m your one and only queen right?”
“Don’t let your mother hear you”, he whispered.
“I won’t”, she whispered back.

Chapter Three

Amblessed slowly opened her eyes and saw herself on a bare ground. She was not dead afterall. She attempted to stand up but a sharp pain pierced her back, causing her to scream and fall back down. She felt for her back and realized a twig had stuck to it. She slowly removed the twig, pressing her lips together as the excruciating pain ran through her body. She could not risk shouting again; perhaps her attacker was still around. When she had succeeded in removing it, she felt blood trickling down her back. Now, she had to find her friends so they would get out of this place. She feared that the worst must have happened to them. She began to feel guilty for persuading them to come out on this risky adventure in the first place. She would not forgive herself if anything happened to them.
She walked down the road carefully, looking out for signs of the huge man. she reasoned that since they walked up while coming, this must be the way back. She could barely see; where was the full moon when one needed it?