The late night came, surrounding a party sitting at the dinner table, enjoying company talking and getting to know each other, talking about future plans together and the possibility of creating a new production of wine specially crafted for Cree. On Ada's side, another auditing process for worker's environmental opportunities, workers rights, family protection, crops availability to preserve the original product characteristics, etc.
Also, important for Ada, to make sure all workers are respected and protected from any type of mistreatment from the owners.
-Conducting a brief survey and walking in the premises and reviewing records will be perfect!
Said Ada
-of course
Said Cree, looking far in the field.
The sun, already on its way up, announced the mid of the day….the warm breeze welcoming the new visitors, alerted the few birds that were enjoying a few grapes left in the ground by the harvesters at the time of picking the already ripened grape clusters for making a new wine batch.
The big baskets full of freshly harvested grapes made its way to the brewing building. An spectacle interesting to watch, a hole community gathered together to harvest the hole season production, to be taken to the brewing plant, to start the brewing of this delicious drink called wine.
Cree's curiosity was to know more about the production of a new wine they tasted last night at the dinner table.
It was a moment where Ada and Cree got separated.
Unaware, Cree took a different route, without Ada noticing it. He wondered off to a separate building, that for some reason called his attention.
-Dark, creepy looking building
Murmured Cree
For some reason he ended up going inside that building. The gig wooden old door closed behind him, and a black shadow hit him in the back of his head. Cree, unconscious, fell to the ground.
Ada, in the other side of the farming area, felt uncomfortable, something seemed to have upset her, but did not pay attention. For the rest of the day, that bothering kept annoying her…..
But Ada decided to keep conducting his auditing of the building and processes, and interviewing the field workers. She did not see Cree around, but did not mind.
Instead, she keep conducting her interviews and making notes of her findings during the audit.
Cree, heard a weird noise down the hallway that called his attention, walking towards the source of the noise. Turning around the corner, got to a room where a thick wooden door was. Semi opened, he heard two people kinda whispering to each other. He waited until they walked away, and got in.
The room was pitch dark. A faint Ray oh light crossed from top to the floor pointing at an empty dusty chair. On the seat, a velvety black box. A musical box. Cree walked to the chair to take the musical box still playing the music. The winding came to a stop. Cree opened the box and found a couple of handcuffs.
The next thing, Cree remembers, was a dark shadow passed by him, everything went black…..
The screeching sound of the ceiling fan woke Cree up…. Still confused and blinded by the sun bright shining sipping through the home in the shed dusty ceiling metal tiles, made Cree slowly come to his senses. Too bright for him to be aware of his surroundings, too dark to recognize the shadows he saw moving around him.
A tall dark shadow came to him, punching him in the stomach. Cree just crouched to the floor but the chains attached to his wrists caught him short to hit the floor.
Another hit forced him to fall on his knees, forcing the chain to loosen more.
Cree was not totally awake, so knowing and recognizing the people around him was a total waste of his efforts. The tall figure continue pushing him back until he got close to a beam, where he got chained against the white wide wooden post.
Immobilized, chained up, almost blinded by the blood running down his eyebrow, couldn't offer much resistance. A metal chained bed waited for him, where he laid chained by his ankles and wrists. A momentary break for him to relax…. But not for long.
Ada, unaware, conducting her auditing, did not noticed Cree's absence.
-perhaps he's tasting the new wines
She thought
And continue writing her findings
Meanwhile, in the dark room, the twins were getting ready to put Cree to a test. The twins quickly got to the side of the bed, one got on top of him while the other watch.
-okay sweetie, let's see what you have in mind about us…such a beautiful couple must have hidden feelings not being expressed, feelings that could easily be transformed into hate if twisted far enough from reality to make you change ur mind about us, right hun?
Cree's eyes wide opened trying to loosen up the chains that immobilized him. Shira quickly got on his stomach and forced his face and eyes to open wide. In one of those forced movements, Shira got to lock eyes with Cree, moment she took over his mind and thoughts.
-you can't force me to change my mind!
Angrily said Cree,
-well, it time for us to know what a handsome man like you think of his beautiful companion.. lovely thoughts?, sexual dirty thoughts?, alienated thoughts?
-we heard there's a true connection between the two of you no one can understand...
-yes, said Amira, devilish laughing…
And holding his head still, made contact with his thoughts, brained connected. Immobilizing him. His hands trying to break the chains, unsuccessfully, just tired him more.
The moment he gave in, Kira got into his brain, to totally acquire the beautiful thoughts he had, loving memories, shared moments Ada and him shared together.
-no! You can't do that!
Said Cree, yelling loud hoping someone could hear him.
In the distance, Ada thought she heard Cree's voice, but she continued doting her notes.
Every single image Cree had in his mind of the two together, Ada's and Cree, was replaced with Kira or Shira instead…..