Ah! It's been a loooong time ....Happy new year steemians I just hope you haven't forgotten me 
She finally came to. She opened her eyes but thick darkness surrounded her.
"What?" She asked herself inwardly. "Surely I must be having a bad dream." She closed her eyes and opened them again. It remained dark.
she had always been afraid of the dark even at age fourteen, she still slept with the lights on. She continued to tell herself she was having a bad dream. She closed and opened her eyes again, it was still dark, she couldn't even make out anything or shape In the room.
Her heart started beating rapidly against her chest, she wanted to stand up but she couldn't then she realized all of a sudden that she was tied down to a chair. She opened her mouth to stretch the muscles of her mouth which hurt but discovered her mouth was taped too.
She fought against her restraints but the person who tied her had down a really good job. Tears sprang to her eyes and it stung. Her body hurt every where especially her legs which dangled midway to the ground.
Her head was pounding and sweat broke out all over her body. The tears slid down her cheeks as she struggled vainly with the ropes securing her to the chair. Her back ached and her buttocks already lost nerve signals. She must have been sitting unconscious for long. She told her self to calm down and think back to what happened, she didn't care about the dark anymore now and if she eventually got out of this nightmare she was going to sleep everyday with her lights off.
Slowly, her heartbeat slowed down to it normal rhythm and she let out a long breath through her nose.
She began to recall bits and pieces. She had gone out to the beach with her mom and her younger brother Jim. Their dad was out of Lagos on a business trip to Abuja.
Fog started to cloud her memory and she struggled mentally to remember the remaining details of what had happened. She didn't even know what day it was as it is, she didn't know how long she had been here tied to a chair. It suddenly dawned on her that she has been kidnapped. She remembered everything now. Every bit of it.
She was on her way to get something for herself and her brother when a guy who looked harmless to her approached her for directions, he had pleaded for her to take him herself after he had pretended he didn't get the directions she was giving him. She thought she was being a nice person doing that and look where that landed her now.
She started sobbing loudly wanting somebody to hear her. She was all alone in the dark, bounded to a chair with no explanation of why she was kidnapped. Her mom and dad were good people or so she thought, they worked hard and earned their money. Dad's work even took him out on both national and international trip.
She suddenly felt pressed. She had been trying to ignore her bladder since she woke up but now she couldn't anymore. She could feel pain in the lower part of her abdomen and she let it go.
She hiccupped repeatedly as warm urine trickled down her legs and onto the floor. She recalled making fun of a classmate of hers back in her elementary school, the teacher didn't believe he wanted to ease himself and so did not let him out. The poor boy wet himself and the whole class laughed at him.
Now it was her turn, her abductors would laugh at her probably even beat her. Her eyes were beginning to hurt her and her head ached from crying too much. She felt like she had been like this for a year.
She knew her family would be so worried about her, they would have surely notified the police now and they'd be calling everyone they knew to ask if they had seen her no matter how ridiculous that sounded.
Her thoughts were interrupted by the opening of a door, she heard it close again. There was no ray of light and so she guessed it must be night. Maybe or maybe not, she just wanted to go home to her family.
''Hello, little girl'' a gruff voice said. It was a male and it didn't sound anything like the guy who had pretended to need her help. There must be more than one person she thought. She prayed silently in her heart that she wouldn't be raped, beating she could take but been raped by a band of men, she'd beg to check in to a psychiatric home if she ever survived.
She heard his footsteps as he walked towards her.....three...two....one and he was in front of her. She would have gagged if her mouth wasn't taped, the stench from his unwashed body was overwhelming. She felt him touch her face and she tried to avoid his touch which was unsuccessful as she couldn't even wiggle about in the chair she was in. He went around her and she heard him open a window, it was not night like she had guessed it was twilight and the light wasn't enough to see the whole room, the window must be a small one she thought as she couldn't even see more than a few feet in front of her.
Her captor came back around to stand in front of her. He was wearing a mask which left holes for his eyes and mouth and so she couldn't see his face.
"I see you have been crying" he remarked with a chuckle. She flinched when she heard the scrape of a metal across the floor.
"Easy, it's just a chair. I promise I'm not going to hurt you and neither will anyone." He looked at her as if to assure her but she wouldn't believe any assurance till she is home safely.
"You see little girl" he paused as if contemplating what to tell her. "Like I said nobody is going to hurt you, we only want to get your father's attention which we already have. You will be released as soon as he gives us what we demand."
"All this is for a ransom?" She asked herself . Oh God. She prayed it was not much money and her Dad and Mom were able to get it on time so she could get out of this hell hole. But why her? Okay, she didn't want any of this happening to her siblings but she couldn't help but wonder.
"Would you like to eat something? Reply me with just the movement of your head"
The girl shook her head in the negative. She was famished but she didn't want to admit it.
"Water then?" He persisted.
She quickly nodded her head, her throat was so parched she felt like fainting. He stood up and went back around her, when he came back to sit in the chair he had a bottle of water in his right or was it left hand? She couldn't say as her eyes were slowly dimming. He waved it in the air in front of her taunting her with it and she started sobbing again. She kicked the air with the part of her legs that was not tied and struggled with the ropes binding her , she knew it was a futile effort and he knew it too cause he laughed.
She hated him! With every fiber in her body. Throughout her existence of fourteen years she has never wished anyone bad but right now she wished this man and his accomplice every bad thing in the world.
"I know you need this desperately" he said dangling the water in front of her. "I am going to give you meaning I'll have to remove the tape on your mouth but you have to promise not to scream or else I will be angry with you. Do you promise?' He asked
She nodded her head vigorously. She would scream his ears out immediately he removed the tape on her mouth. Her captor reached over and removed the tape over her mouth in one fluid motion. She didn't hesitate a bit before letting out a ear-splitting scream, she thought she was being smart, what she didn't see coming was the blow to her head which sent her into oblivion.
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She was drifting in and out of consciousness, she was dreaming. She saw herself back home with her family and she didn't want to wake up but the door to the room In which she was held captive was suddenly flung opened with force, she was yet to wake fully when she felt hands wrap around her. She couldn't believe it, it was her mom and she was crying and murmuring soothing words. "I am so sorry baby, you are safe now. Oh thank God!" Her mom hugged her tightly.
Moments later two policemen walked in. One stood by the doorway and the other walked to where she and her mom was, he was holding a knife. She panicked for a second but then realized what he intended to do with it. Soon the ropes were on the floor and she flew into her mother arms.
Relief flooded her and fresh tears came to her eyes. She was safe now and she was going home to her family.
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