Cloud - Chapter 19: Chapter 19

Trees, trees, and trees, I thought as I looked outside the window of the passenger seat. My legs were brought close to my chest on the seat as I sat quietly in Cloud's car going god knows where. So far only trees were in my sight.
I looked to the side, glancing at Cloud whose eyes were directed on the road. He did not say anything since we got in his car. Like he told me yesterday, he was in front of my house at 10 am precise, knocking on my door. Unfortunately before I could reach the door, my mom was already opening it.
I did not want those two to meet yet but it had to happen. Seeing Cloud in his completely black clothes and his shirt "I like the devil", my mom immediately gave him a dark look. Moreover, I seriously did not know what passed through Cloud's mind but the boy polished his nails black, freaking black. My mom thought that he was some kind of Gothic drug dealer who lost his way and when she learnt that he was in fact the Cloud that I was supposed to hang out with, she nearly got a heart attack.
"That's the type of friends that you have," she had told me, incredulous, "Where did you meet him? In the dark corner of a random street? Are you out of your mind, Luffy?"
That seemed to amuse the little devil but I did not find it funny at all. After I got the courage to tell my mom that he was just a friend at school, she started to question Cloud about possible illegal acts that he might have done. I just wanted to go away at that moment and it took some minutes of reassuring her that I would be alright before she finally let me go away with him.
"You are strangely silent," Cloud said at last, breaking the silence that reigned between us.
"Oh, I was just thinking about my mom," I told him and he chuckled.
"She seems to adore me," he said, clearly being sarcastic and I rolled my eyes.
"If you had acted a little bit more nicer, she would have adored you more," I told him, "And why did you polish your nails black? I would have never thought that it was one of your thing."
"I do it from time to time," he informed me before sending me a smirk, "It makes me look more like a Gothic drug dealer."
I rolled my eyes once again while he laughed. I still did not find this situation funny, there was nothing funny about it. Now let's just wait that my mom talked about Cloud with my dad. A big talk was awaiting me, I could feel it. Letting out a sigh, I returned my attention back to the window. Trees were still the only thing in sight.
"Where are you taking me?" I asked Cloud and he hummed, replying 'somewhere' under his breath. I was going to ask him for more specification about the place when he suddenly turned to the right, leaving the main road to go deep in the forest, "Cloud, we are off the road."
He did not reply anything and continued to make his way among the trees. The car moved up and down because of the rough surface and I started to wonder if it was really a good idea to come with him.
After some minutes, he finally stopped the car and turned off the engine, leaving us in the middle of the forest. Not a single sound was heard around...
"What are we doing here?" I asked Cloud, completely lost.
"Well, you wanted to talk," he replied with a shrug, "And you wanted me to take you on a date."
"I never said that," I protested, "You proposed it."
"And you were so glad about it," he replied back with a smirk, "Sorry, darling, dinner in a restaurant or watching movies at the cinema are not really my things."
He grabbed my chin and leaned forward to give me a kiss near my lips. Before I could react, he took his black leather jacket which was placed on the back seat and got out of the car, leaving me with my mouth wide open.
"Hey!" I exclaimed, getting out of the car to see mister Cloud sitting on the hood of his car, his jacket in his hand, "I'm not your darling and we did not need to go to the movies or in a fancy restaurant, a park or something would have been good, not a forest. I just wanted to get to know you better."
He rolled his eyes and motioned for me to come towards him. A frown on my face, I walked to him and stopped in front of him. He smirked at me before taking me by my shirt and pulling me closer.
"I don't like places with a lot of people. I thought I told you already," he said and I remembered that he told me that he liked having his privacy.
"Well, this forest looks scary," I admitted and he chuckled, "There might be a psychopath serial killer hiding behind a tree."
"Oh, darling, I am an ex psychopath serial killer," he reminded me and I gave him a blank stare, "Now turn around."
"Why?" I asked, confused.
"Just turn around," he repeated and I thought of it for one second before turning around. Two seconds later, I felt him passing his jacket through my arms, "Here, wear it. It's cold here sometimes."
I blinked. That was kind of sweet. Once the jacket on, I turned around once again to face him. His hands slowly went down my arms to grab my hands. I lowered my gaze and bit my bottom lip. He hummed softly.
"I want to kiss you," he told me out of the blue and I looked at him with surprise eyes, "Forget it, I want to do more than kiss you, I want to fuck you. Doing it in my car right now will be really great."
"You pervert," I exclaimed, pushing his hands away and stepping back. I glared at him, a red color raising to my cheeks due to embarrassment.
"What?" He asked me innocently, "This is supposed to be a date."
"This is maybe a date but it's not a reason to act like a pervert and I don't want you to touch me for the rest of the day," I ordered him with a firm expression.
"You are no fun, darling," he told me, getting off the hood of the car. "So what do you want to do?"
That was a good question.
"What did you plan?" I asked him, "You took me in the middle of a forest. You must surely have something in mind."
"Yeah," he agreed before saying, "Wild hot sex."
"I want to slap you," I admitted, staring at him in disbelief, "We are not going to have sex."
"For now," he added with a smirk and I folded my arms, feeling hopeless.
"You are unbelievable," I stated, looking around. For a forest, it was strangely silent, no birds chirping, no animals at all.
I felt Cloud touched my cheek suddenly and I jumped slightly, looking in front of me. I did not even realize that he got closer.
"Let's go for a walk," he said and I looked at him hesitantly before nodding. He took my hand and pulled me further in the forest.
"But your car?" I wondered.
"It will be safe here," he replied, "It's not the first time that I come here. I know the forest by heart."
That was good to know.
I looked at our hands intertwined and thought if I should release his hand or not but after some seconds of thinking, I decided to let things as they were.
"Cloud," I started, "Tell me something about you."
He looked at me with a raised eyebrow. He then asked, "Like what?"
"Anything," I replied.
"I am nearly 300 years old so being specific on what you want to know will be helpful," he said and I sighed. Okay, what to ask him...
I was obviously still curious about who he really was deep inside but now that the opportunity presented itself to ask him whatever I wanted, I did not know what to say. My mind seemed to be blocked, even though I knew that there were so many things to ask.
"How was your childhood?" I asked him at last with caution. I remembered that he said that he hated his mom and that he barely saw his dad so did that mean that his childhood was like hell? I was not sure and he surprised me when he let out a laugh.
"It was shit," was his reply, "Rain is older than me as you already know and when I was about four, he left the family house, leaving me alone with my mom. He hated living with us, he hated my mom specially."
"So you both hate your mom," I stated and he nodded. That news surprised me. I knew that not everyone had the perfect childhood with caring and loving parents. Sometimes the family life was hard, there were fights, arguments and not always everyone was happy but how much bad did their mom do to them for them to hate her?  "So Rain left you," I said and Cloud nodded once again.
"Oh, he did not care about me at that time," he informed me and I was shocked, "Before he left, he never came into my room, he never played with me and he rarely talked to me. He was basically never in the house so I was not really closed to him and when he left, it did not make any difference."
Somehow hearing that made me sad. I would have never thought that things were like this between Cloud and Rain. They seemed much closer now so I would have never guessed. I wondered what happened between them for them to be together now. And why did Rain not care for Cloud at all and left his little brother with their mom?
"Why did he leave you alone with her?" I voiced my thought out loud, "Why did Rain even leave in the first place?"
"Abusive mom," was Cloud's simple reply, "My mom used to lock him in a cage for days and when I say cage I mean a real cage, a small one. Rain got no food and no water and when she would finally take him out, she would beat the shit out of him. She broke him, she broke both of us in different ways."
"But why did not your father do something about it?" I asked in disbelief.
"I don't know," he replied before sighing, "The first time I saw my dad was when I was seven. My mom had chained me to a wall because apparently someone important was going to come. But after a few hours, a man came to me and he removed the chains. He sat down next to me and we talked. Strangely without even knowing who he was, I felt safe with him and when he went away, my mom told me about his true identity. So I waited for him to come back but I did not see him until decades after."
A silence settled after his words. The only sound that could be heard was the sound of our feet crashing the small branches and leaves on the ground. I did not know what to tell Cloud. He grew up alone with his mom, no dad, no brother and from what I already heard, living with his mom was not easy.
"What happened with your mom?" I asked him hesitantly.
"Oh, years passed and I started to hate her," he replied, "She treated me like a rat, a nuisance who she did not care about nor love. She insulted me whenever she wanted and hit me unexpectedly so I left, like Rain did before me. My mom did not really do anything to stop me. I went to new places and one year later, I saw Rain again."
"What happened then?" I asked him quickly, being extremely curious about what happened between those two. I had come closer to Cloud, our arms now touching and his hand still in mine. I was more interested into looking at his face than looking where I was walking.
"We kind of talked," Cloud replied and he seemed unsure of himself. He let out a soft chuckle, "Well, I did not expect to see him. I was in a new tavern and I saw my big brother standing in a dark corner kissing another man."
"Dear god," I let out and he laughed at me.
"Oh, don't be so shocked," he told me, pinching my cheek with his free hand and I groaned, "Of course, we were both already sexually active."
"I did not need to know that," I informed him, looking away from his gaze and trying to forget what he just told me. He was really impossible.
"In short, when Rain saw me, he immediately knew who I was despite the fact that I was a man and that the last time he saw me was when I was still a kid," Cloud continued his little story, "I tried to talk to him but he took his little one nightstand and got out of the tavern. I followed them outside and Rain snapped the neck of the other man in front of me."
"He killed him," I exclaimed and he nodded, "Just like that?"
"He did not really need a reason to kill someone at that time," he explained and then he paused, "As for me, before I saw Rain, I never killed anyone. I already knew about my reaper side though. My mom told me about it and she thought that I would use my powers to kill people. I wanted to prove her wrong so I did everything in my power to control myself but after my meeting with Rain, things got really hard. I continued to follow him around, he did not want me with him but the loneliness was unbearable for me."
My eyes softened. Cloud looked like the type of guy who did not care about being alone. He said so himself, he liked having his privacy so I thought that being alone was not a problem for him. He seemed so strong to me, so powerful. He looked like he was not afraid of anything. But I guessed that everyone has his own weakness, no matter who they were.
Letting out a sigh, I looked in front of me and I was surprised to see a lake, a big one. I did not even realize it. No one was around. There was still only us. Cloud and I stopped in our walk a few meters away from the lake and I let go of his hand to step forward.
"You took me to a lake," I stated and Cloud nodded in agreement. I felt him come stand behind me and I bit my lip at his close proximity.
"I thought that we could have a little swim," he murmured near my ear. I could feel his breath on me. He was too close for me, I needed to get away. I tried to move away from him but he passed his arms around me and brought me closer so that my back was pressed against his chest. "We'll swim naked," he added under his breath and my whole body heated up.
"I'm not going to swim naked in a lake with you," I said, finding it obvious, "I don't even want to get naked."
"Too bad," Cloud said and he bit me in the neck, making me let out a small yelp.
"Cloud," I started with a warning tone, "Now is not the time for this and I already told you not to touch me." He hummed and passed his right hand under my shirt, touching my chest up to one of my nipples. He started to leave kisses on my skin and my hand went at the back of his head to grab his hair.
I came with Cloud to talk but it seemed like he wanted to do something else. It did not surprise me anymore coming from him. I guessed that I got already use to his perverted behavior. But I wondered why he persisted on going after me. He could have any other boy he wanted. There was nothing special at all about me....except the fact that I had some kind of evil spirit trapped inside my body.
Cloud removed his hand from my shirt suddenly and stopped kissing me. My eyes, which had closed during his little attack on my neck, opened and I turned my head to the side to look at him. Why did he suddenly stop?
"You want to swim?" he asked me again and I shook my head immediately.
"No way," I told him and he rolled his eyes.
"I will let you keep your underwear on," he said but it was still a no for me.
"I'm not swimming in this lake, clothes on or not," I told him firmly and he let out a sigh. He turned me around so that I was now facing him and lifted my head up by my chin.
"You know, I could just rip all of your clothes off," he said, leaning forward until his lips were touching with mine, "And then I would drag you to the water, kiss you and possibly enjoy fucking you."
"Remove my clothes off and I swear to you that I will scream," I tried to frighten him but he only laughed.
"No one will hear you," he said, "People don't come here at all."
I slapped him hard on the chest and he rolled his eyes before slapping my butt. "Hey!" I exclaimed and he gave me a smirk "You little pervert-" He took the opportunity that my mouth was opened to kiss me. Pushing him away immediately came to me but feeling his lips against mine, I just could not. I kind of enjoyed kissing him, very much. But it was still so new for me.
His hands went up to my shoulders and he slowly removed his jacket on me and he let it fall down. He then moved his hands to the bottom of my shirt and I knew instantly what he was going to do.
"Cloud, no," I protested, pulling away from his lips as he started to lift my shirt and he gently told me to shut up. I was not even given any time to think properly about all of this that my shirt was removed . He scanned my chest quickly and then he returned back to kissing me, his hands now roaming on my naked back. I moaned.
"I want you," he whispered against my lips and he stepped back to remove his shirt. My eyes remained on him the whole time. He was already hot with a shirt on and now without a shirt, damn, he looked more than hot, incredibly hot. I nearly moaned at the view. Cloud noticed my eyes on him and he smirked, making me blush madly.
Not giving me time to move, he kissed me violently. Our chests touching each other made me feel weird, a good kind of weird but I could not stop myself from thinking if it was a good idea. What was I doing? Why wasn't I pushing him away? Damn it, we were in the middle of a forest. Anybody could come at any moment and see us. What would they think then?
I could not do this.
Cloud moved his hand down my chest to my jeans but I pushed him away. It took him by surprise and he stared at me with a questioning look. I avoided my gaze and decided to look at the lake. Things were going too fast for me to handle.
"Can you tell me what the hell you are doing?" I asked Cloud, "You are always doing this, you take every chance you have to play with me."
"I'm not messing with you," he protested, "Luffy, you should relax a little bit. You are overthinking too much, just go with the flow."
"I'm not going to let you touch me without knowing why you are doing all of this," I exclaimed and I looked back at him with a hard look, "I never did that before, I don't want you to play with me and I surely don't want to be another boy that you put in your bed."
"You are more than that," he assured me but it was hard for me to believe him.
"You barely know me," I reminded him and my voice raised a bit, "And I barely know you. All I know is that the moment I started talking to you, my life completely changed. Now an evil clan who I know nothing about is going after me because apparently inside of my body, there is another being hiding and I don't even know who he is or what he is planning to do with me. I got stuck in a dangerous world, I'm completely clueless of what to do and I'm so weak."
Cloud titled his head to the side and stared at me. The cold wind blew suddenly, making me shiver and I wrapped my arms around myself. I looked down at my shirt but I did not make any move to take it off the ground to put it on. I should though, I was feeling cold. Cloud, on the other hand, looked totally fine. The cold air did not seem to bother him.
He continued to look at me without saying anything and I asked myself what was going on in his head. After what seemed like hours, he finally made a move and said something.
"I never killed anyone before I saw Rain at that tavern," he told me once again and I was confused, "He noticed it. Each time, he would kill someone in front of me, I would look away and not say anything. I knew that he was getting curious about my behavior. Then one night, we arrived in a new village and he pushed me off my limits. He tempted me. He wanted me to lose control and he succeeded. I lost control of my powers and I destroyed half of the village, killing whoever got in my way."
I stared at him in shock as he stepped towards me. He pressed his hand to my cheek, "I was like in a trance and when I came back to my normal state, I was standing covered in blood, surrounded by the dead bodies of the people that I killed. Rain was there smiling a few meters away from me. He was not smiling because he was happy that I killed people, he was smiling because I finally showed him my true nature, the true extent of my powers. I hated him at that moment, I blamed him and I could no longer remain with him, knowing what he made me do."
Cloud paused and he knelt down to take my shirt off the ground. He handed it to me and hesitantly, I took the shirt from his hand and started putting it on.
"I ran away from Rain as far as possible," he continued on, "I thought that once away from him, I would not kill again but I could not get out of my mind the feeling that I got when I took the life of someone, that feeling of power, of strength, that feeling of being fearless. I liked it so much. I tried to contain myself but I wanted to feel it again so I killed. I did not care about anything nor anyone. I was free. I learnt to control my powers and in a matter of time, I was manipulating souls as I wish, nothing could stop me from killing. In the end, my mom was right. I was half reaper and half demon, I was born to be bad and to be a killer."
I stared at Cloud, speechless. I tried to talk but the words seemed to be stuck in my throat. I did not know what to tell him. What was there to say to that? His own mother predicted that he was going to kill, he tried to change his fate but his brother forced him to do something that he did not want in the first place. How could Rain do that to him? Why did he even want Cloud to kill? Wasn't he supposed to protect his little brother?
"I'm..I.." no good words came to me. Was there even anything good to say?
"Tell me," Cloud said, ignoring my failed attempt at speaking. He picked up his own shirt from the ground and put it on, "How was your childhood?"
His question took me by surprise and I took about one minute to answer.
"Normal," I replied, "My dad is a doctor and my mom is a housewife with a passion for cooking and painting. My childhood was simple and there was nothing out of the ordinary. I love my parents and they don't hesitate to show me. The only problems about my childhood were that I could not see clearly and it was hard for me to have friends at school, to integrate so I started to read books, it was my way to escape."
"Why did you move here with your parents?" he questioned then as he sat down on the ground. He spread his legs and motioned for me to come sit between them. I looked at him like if he was crazy but still, I came to sit between his legs and he wrapped his arms around me. Why the sudden change of behavior? He wanted to jump on me a few minutes ago.
"My parents wanted a change in scenery," I replied and I leaned my head against his shoulder. It was kind of good being in his arms, "We never planned on moving away. It happened just like that and when I asked my parents about the reason, they said that they wanted to discover somewhere new and Storm Hill was this somewhere new."
Now that I thought of it, what if I did not move here? Would I still be living a normal human life, unaware of what was truly around me and inside of me? I would still be ignorant of the truth. Would it have been better then? Would I have been more happy than I was now? Maybe....
"Have you visited the whole town yet?" Cloud questioned and I shook my head.
"No," I replied and I paused, thinking of something, "Can you take me around town another day?"
"Of course," he said and he kissed me on the top of my head. Why was he so sweet suddenly? Did what I told him affect him that much? I did not know. Feeling at ease in his arms, I closed my eyes.
I did not know how long we remained like this. No words were said and Cloud did not even try to touch me in inappropriate places. It was so quiet and calm that I swear I could hear his heartbeats. It was funny. He lived for so long and his heart was still here, still beating through his chest. That was kind of crazy. I nearly fell asleep in his arms when one question came to me.
"Tell me more about Eden," I asked him, opening my eyes. A frown came on his face and he remained silent. I instantly regretted asking me that question. I was going to tell him to forget about it but he replied.
"He was beautiful," he started, "The most beautiful being that I ever saw. Black hair with blue eyes, I could stare at them for hours. Eden was the son of a farmer and his fate was to do the same job as his dad but he wanted to travel, to see the world. Physically he was not strong, I could push him on the ground with one hand but his mind, his way of thinking always surprised me. He was so wise, so kind and so innocent. He saw the good in everyone, including me."
"I met him on a rainy day, covered in blood. For once it was not the blood of my victims but my blood. I got attacked by some demons, I killed them all but they hurt me pretty badly. Normal human weapons can't hurt me but some weapons were strong enough to. I was lost, walking on the road aimlessly. I was going to faint at any moment and it was then that I saw him. He was on his way back home after picking up some fruits from the forest. Because of the rain, he was running to get home quickly but he bumped into me in the process. Consequently, we both fell down."
Cloud smiled and he seemed to remember that very day when he met Eden.
"He did not stop apologizing to me then," he chuckled, "He kept on saying sorry and asking me if I was okay. I did not care about him and I just wanted to go away but standing up was so hard. He tried to help me but I pushed him away and he saw the blood on my clothes. He insisted on helping me, he wanted to bring me to his village so that he could heal my wounds. To be honest, I wanted to snap his neck when he tried to touch me."
Cloud let out a laugh and I questioned his well-being. He took my hand in his and placed a kiss on it, "But I did not kill him. I was too weak and I fainted in his arms. When I woke up, I was on a bed, his bed with my wounds already treated. Then Eden walked in the room and he tried to talk to me but I was just so rude to him. He gave me food and he begged me to stay when I tried to go away."
"Why?" I asked him timidly.
"He wanted to wait until I was fully heal to let me go," he replied, "I found his kindness ridiculous as hell but I have been travelling for weeks and I thought that staying a little bit at a fixed place wouldn't hurt me so I stayed. Of course, I was out of his house the next day and I went to stay in inn but I saw him around and dear god, he got stuck to my ass."
The way Cloud said his last phrase made me laugh. I did not plan on it but I could not stop myself and he smiled at me.
"What happened then?" I asked, really curious but at the same time a little bit jealous.
"Oh, one day, I visited the surrounding of the village and I came upon a lake," he said slowly and I frowned. Hold on a second, "And here Eden was, standing in the water completely naked. Turned out that he liked to come here to swim, it was one of his favorite places. I was fascinated by him at that exact moment. I was like hypnotized and when he turned around and saw me, he literally screamed and called me a pervert. And-"
"Wait, is it the same lake as this one?" I cut him off, pointing to the lake in front of us and Cloud seemed trouble. He opened his mouth to speak but no words came out, "Cloud, is it the same lake?"
"Yeah," he replied hesitantly and I could not believe him. I pushed his arms away and sat straight. The anger was building inside of me.
"You bring me to the place where your ex lover liked to come," I stated in disbelief and it was clear at the sound of my voice that I was not pleased. I realized something then, "So this is what I am to you. I'm not one of your fuck boy, I'm a replacement for Eden."
"What? No, absolutely not," he protested as I stood up, "Luffy, this is just a lake. Yeah, Eden liked to come here but it does not mean that you are some kind of replacement for him."
"So this lake has no signification for you?" I asked him out loud, "Nothing important happened here? Nothing at all?" He did not reply anything and he avoided my gaze. I looked down at him furiously, "Reply to me, damn you!"
"What do you want me to tell you?" he asked.
"The truth obviously," I replied and he let out a sigh.
"It's the first place that I kissed Eden," he admitted, without looking at me, "It's also the first place he told me he loved me and it is where I made love to him for the first time."
If I had enough willpower, I would slap Cloud right now. I already knew that his ex lover used to live here when he was still alive but I never thought that Cloud would use me as a replacement for him. How could he even bring me here? How could he kiss me and try to touch me in the exact same place he made love to the first love of his life?
It hurt.
"Take me home," I ordered him.
"Luffy-"
"Take me home!" I shouted and he just stared at me. He gave up after a few seconds and gave me a nod before standing up and picking up his jacket by the way.
I did not say a word as we walked away from the lake, I did not even look back once. Why did it have to hurt? It should not hurt that much. I felt used. He used me. I thought that I could trust him, give him his chance to show me the good side of him but it was stupid for me to believe that he would be true to me, that he would treat me differently.
We arrived at his car and I got in the passenger seat immediately. I did not say anything and it was the same for Cloud. He did not even look at me but I did not care. He started the engine and drove me back home.
***
After a long drive in complete silent, Cloud finally parked in front of my house. I opened the door, ready to go without telling him goodbye but he grabbed my arm to stop me.
"Wait, let me explain," he said and I let out a laugh. He did not want to explain himself during the whole drive and now when I was going to go, he suddenly wanted to talk.
"Explain what? How you tricked me and tried to make me the replacement of your dead lover?" I asked him.
"Luffy, it's not what it looks like," he said, "Eden is dead. I accepted his death a long time ago. I have no desire to find someone like him. I already moved on."
"So why did you take me to this freaking lake?!" I exclaimed, "Come on, it can't be the only place that exists in that town. And you could, you should have told me the truth about the place but no, you kept your mouth shut. Why didn't you tell me anything?"
"I did not think that it was going to be a problem for you," he replied and I gave him a look of disbelief.
"I'm not Eden and I will never be him, you hear me?" I spat at his face, "I won't end up making the same mistake that he did. There is nothing good in you and I will never love you. I don't want to end up dead."
I was harsh, maybe a bit too much but I did not care. He hurt me and I wanted to make him feel bad. He slowly let go of my arm and looked away. I did not waste another second and got out of the car, slamming the door shut. I ran to my house, opening the door and slamming it once again behind me.
I wanted to scream out loud. The tears wanted to fall down but I did not know why, I could not understand. I did not love him, I just felt an attraction towards him, nothing more so why did it hurt so much? How could you not love someone and at the same time want them to treat you like you were the most special thing in the world?
"Mom," I called out my mom, wanting to see her but I did not get any reply. "Mom," Still no reply. I slowly walked to the living room, the house being completely silent. Though, I stopped dead in my track when I entered the room and my heart literally skipped a beat. Here, in the middle of the living room was my mom tied to a chair, her eyes closed. "Mom!" I quickly ran to her and knelt down in front of her. All the anger in my body left me to be replaced by fear. "Mom, wake up!" I shook her by her shoulders but it did not do anything, her eyes still remained closed. I grabbed the ropes which were used to tie her to the chair and tried to remove them but they did not budge. They were too tight.
I needed to cut them. Standing up, I turned around to go to the kitchen but unexpectedly, I came face to face with a woman. I froze. What the hell? Who was she? And most importantly, what was she doing in my house? It was the first time that I saw that woman in my life and what captured my attention was the baseball bat in her hand. My eyes opened wide.
"Hello, pretty boy," she said with a smirk and before I could even react, she hit me hard across the face with the baseball bat and everything turned black around me.