Wh-What...the....fuck...Wh-Why are you mentioning about my mom..?
*badum....badum...*
For some reason, Papi had a bad feeling about this. His intuition was screaming at him, telling him that there was something wrong the second he saw the note. As he stared blankly at the note, all the sound from surrounding started fading away till all he could hear was his heartbeat.
*badum...badum...*
Slowly, Papi stood up from where he was crouching and took a step back. It took quite an effort just for him to stand up from the crouching position as he felt that his legs had already gave out, all while still blankly looking at the note...
*badum...badum...*
Then in an instant, a piece of memory from a few days ago suddenly popped up in his head. It was from the day of the football game....
(Haha... is that really not enough?! Really~?! Then lets kick it up a notch! Three wishes if you win, and if I win... do you perhaps have a sibling? No? Then surely you must still have at least one of your parents alive, right? Then I'll just leave the rest to your imagination)
*badum.....*
Fuck...
With a dash, Papi started running while he was still wearing his school only shoe and the destination was of course, his house..
"Papi? Papi, what happened!..."
"Huh? My Lord, what is up with you today?! Hey, wait up!"
Without batting an eye, Papi just rushed pass Bella and Harry at an impossible speed. He was not particularly athletic, but now, even an olympic champion would only look cute compared to him.
*pant...pant...*
But without doubt, only after a minute or two of running, Papi was already out of breath. His legs were burning from running at such a speed for an extended amount of time. His legs were starting to cramp up, so painful that tears started to form from beneath his eyes...
Shit!! It hurts!! But...But i can't stop! I CAN'T! Losing father was enough, bu-but you can't leave yet!
Even though the note Papi found in his shoe did not specify anything and didn't mention about hurting his mom, but Papi knew that his mother was endangered. Anger emerged from within him but he knew that he couldn't do anything about it and what was more important now was his mother.
After a few more minutes of non-stop running, Papi had finally arrived. His house was a two storey single detached house and by the time he had reached it, the sun was already almost down, indicating that dusk was coming. There weren't anyone out on the street and the nearest house was not even that close to his as he had a pretty big lawn.
Papi climbed over the gate that was around his chest height as he did not want to waste time opening the lock. Upon reaching the porch, Papi could see that the door was a little opened and that made him felt a chill running down his spine.
So-Someone had broken in...Mo-Mom!
Rushing in without thinking of anything else, Papi slammed open the door, hoping that he had made it in time.
"MOM!!"
When Papi slammed opened the door, what greeted him was his living room. It was dark and he couldn't see clearly, so Papi slowly moved his hands to the switch to turn on the lights...
*tiak*
Fu-Fuck...There's no electricity!
Although from his point of view everything seemed fine, but Papi had an eerie feeling. It was awfully quiet, which was no different from how it used to be but there was a problem. By now, his mother should have been home already and should have been making dinner.
*small pant...*
Haah....
Papi was starting to feel lightheaded. It was as if someone was walking into a room where he knew that there would be something waiting for him but had no choice but to play along. Cold sweat started surfacing, mixing in with his sweat from all the running.
I-I...have to go...
Once again reminding himself that he had to go take a look, Papi muster up all his will and took a step.
*creek*
While only taking the fist step, Papi had already felt like he was on the verge of fainting. Honestly, he really wanted to run away. He really wanted to run far away from this place...but how can he do that when his mother was endangered.
He knew damn well about how dangerous all the students are in his school and he had learned it the hard way. Although he hadn't face any real threat to his life during his schooling time, but that was only because he was protected by someone else. First was Danny, and second was Amy...But now...he had no one else...and had no choice left...
*creek*
He took another step which was accompanied by the creaking of the old wooden floor.
*creek*
And another one. With each step, Papi could heard his heart beating loudly as he finally reached the door way the kitchen...Slowly..he took a peek around the corner of the doorway and into the kitchen... and there he saw it...
A thick rope that was scattered around the floor, leading up to a rocking chair that was a few feet away from him...and on top, sat a dark figure. Seeing that Papi instantly retracted his head and began to tremble and sweat profusely. If it was bright enough, then you could definitely see Papi turning as pale as a ghost as all blood had left his face.
He didn't knew who it was that was sitting on the rocking chair. Although he knew that there was a possibility of that being his mother, but he couldn't move at all. His body was trembling and even if he wanted to, he couldn't move at all...
But there was another question...what if, that figure wasn't his mother and was someone else. For all he knew, he had already fucked up the second he slammed open the door and yelled out to his mother. Should he not take the chance and run out now?
Just as Papi was about take another peek at the dark figure...
*bzzzt...bzzzt*
HOOOOOHH SHIITT!!
Papi's phone vibrated. Everything around him seemed to have stopped working and even Papi was frozen up as if time had stopped. There were now uncountable amount of question in his head...
First was...did that person heard it? Should he run now? The second was..who...who was it that had messaged him. Because Papi himself knew very well...that the only person who had his number was his mom.
Papi's eyes were wide open as his teeth started jittering. Slowly as he holds his breath, he quietly slide his hand into his left pocket and slowly pull out his phone...Then, he lifted up his phone to check the messaged and it was...
(Mom : Sorry honey. There had been a delay in the flight schedule, so I won't be home till tomorrow.)
Then a voice came from behind...
"Not going to make it huh..? What a shame~"
Again...time seemed to have stopped. With the slower flow of time, Papi turned his head around towards the source of the voice... and it was Harry...
"AAAHHH!!!!"
Papi yelped, stumbled and fall to the ground on his back the second he saw Harry. Although it was dark and there were shadow casted on Harry's face...He could see it... Harry had a wicked expression, with his mouth smiling to its widest and with his teeth showing like he was another version of Joker...his expression was screaming that he was the devil behind all of this...
"Uhhhh~~ Why are you so scared my Lord?~?"
"Ha-Ha-Harry...."
Papi wanted to ask if it was him who'd left the note, but he was trembling and jittering so much that he couldn't seem to get the words out.
"Hmm~ What is it my Lord~! Uhhh~ Only if! Only if you had me in your heart, I'm sure I can hear what you wanted to say in a heartbeat~!"
Harry started to speaking like how he usually did, as if he was acting a one-man drama while walking slowly towards Papi who was on the ground.
As Harry got closer, Papi too started moving away. He was so afraid that he started shrieking but as he was panting so hard, the shriek wasn't even coming out the way it should have. Papi who was on the ground tried as hard as he could to crawl backwards, doing his best to get away from Harry.
"Uhh~my fragile heart! Why is my Lord trying to crawl away from me~?!"
Harry kept on walking toward Papi as Papi kept on crawling away from him until he had reach the dead end. Seeing Papi so afraid like this, Harry was frustrated and finally had enough.
"Tzt, fuck it! I'm done with talking like this. Why do I even have to talk to you like that. Fucking imposter!"
When Harry spoke very loudly, it shock Papi so much that he jumped every time Harry raise his voice. Was this the Harry he knew? How did his ever-so high-pitched voice turn to this low voice that he never knew he had.
With a brittle and stuttering voice, Papi asked...
"Ha-Ha-Harry...are you the one-"
"YES I AM THE ONE WHO WROTE IT!!"
"Hiiikk!"
"Ahh for the love of Christ! What are you going to ask next? Huh?! Why did I do that?! C'mon, don't ask something so boring! I'm not here to do a Q&A so fuck off with it!"
Just like before, Papi couldn't speak at all. He would jump a little every time Harry raise his voice. Seeing that, Harry got even more frustrated.
"Mother fucker- Fine! You really want me to do all the talking for you eh?!"
With that, Harry then crouched down towards Papi and closing in on him. It was so close that would have heard Papi's heartbeat if he wasn't already panting so hard. Then with a whisper like voice, Harry said...
"I'll tell you what I'm here to do... I'm here to torture you"
Hearing that, Papi instantly wanted to scream for help. But before he could do so, he was knocked out with a bam.
*bam!*
When Papi came to himself, he found that he was not able to a single muscle on his body. But it didn't felt like he was drugged or something as he was very much awake and was still able to move his head.
Looking down, he saw that he was tied up tightly the rocking chair he saw earlier in the kitchen. Immediately after realising that he was tied up, he tried to scream for help... but to no avail as he was also gagged with a piece of cloth.
Knowing that he couldn't ask for help, Papi looked around and tried to find anything that could help him find a way out. But all he could see was was darkness with only the few feet around him lit up. It was as if he was in a room, being interogate or tortured to get info.... Shit.
"I see you're awake-"
"Mmph! Mmph!"
With that, let the torture commence.