I can hear my alarm ringing and here I am lying on the bed wondering whether I should go to hospital with the high-spiking fever I'm having. Having barely slept for an hour last night, I decide to inform my housemate that I could not attend. "Hey Pam. I can't make it to class today because of fever." She starts ransacking her drawer and pulls out her medication container. "Take this after having food and rest well. I'll come back by 6 p.m. so don't miss me. Bye" she says while winking. I smile thinking how lucky I am to have her as my friend. I sigh thinking about the next 12 hours I have to spend alone after locking the door. I went back to bed and set the alarm to ring 4 hours later.
My eyes pop open when the alarm rings. I clean myself before breakfast and walk out of my room with a bad feeling. Is someone watching me? I keep feeling as if there is someone else in the house. Maybe I'm stressed up from being a medical student and started hallucinating, I tell myself. My steps come to a halt. "There's somebody in the hall" I thought to myself. I walk towards the hall without being afraid thinking that I'm just being paranoid. My eyes widen and I drop the biscuit in my hand. Five well-built guys in complete black suits were looking at me with each of them holding a pistol. I start backing off thinking of escaping through the back door since that the front one is blocked by the guys. "Oh my God" I utter in disbelief when I see another four guys guarding the back door. Before I could think of any other escape routes, one of the guy sprayed something on my face and I just black out.
I open my eyes and realise that I'm in a car. My hands are tied up and two of those black suit guys are beside me. "Who are you? I don't even know you guys. Just to remind you, this is a crime. Let me go now and I will not tell anybody about what happened today." I say in a calm voice pretending to be brave. The man on my right take out his handphone and show me. There are photos of my family carrying out their daily activities and I notice the photos were taken on different days. "Try to escape or shouting for help and all of them will be dead." he said in a gruff voice. I swallow to clear the lump in my throat and tighten my lips.
What is this? Have they been following me for a long time? So this is not just a random kidnapping but a premeditated one. I've been targeted since a long time back? I'm not even very pretty or sexy in public's eyes so it doesn't make sense for them to even make me a prostitute. All these thoughts jumble up in my mind when someone spray on my face again.
I wake up staring at a fancy ceiling. I look around and realise that I'm in a luxurious room that is as big as a football field. There was a glass of water on the table with a note underneath asking me not to waste my time shouting for help because this room is soundproofed. I started panicking and my legs weaken when the doorknobs turn. A hot-looking guy holding a tray of food look at me after opening the door. Two black suit guys guarding outside my room bow to him. He enter the room and close the door behind him. "Are you feeling better now Anna? By the way, I'm Ethan or you can call me by my birth name Jungkook."