Two ladies walk in the room, one of which Ella could identify, the other of which Ella isn't sure of her identity holds a long metal with her.
Miss Smith opens her eyes very wide in absolute shock. "Cassandra?" She calls in her lowest voice.
Cassandra moves close to Ellla and smiles. "Yes, how can help you?"
"You were supposed to be my brother's girlfriend-"
"Girlfriend my foot!" Cassandra retorts. "All that happened between me and Shamim happened because I was paid to. We being together was just a night mare that I hope and wish he would wake from." she stops and continues. "I am aware you never liked me." she scoffs. "Well, you have every rights and reasons to do that now."
"She doesn't even have the time to hate or dislike anyone." Emerens cuts in. "She has less than an hour left to live."
"Cassandra." Ella whispers. "Shamim loved you with his entire life."
"Tell that to the devil when you get to hell." Cassandra fires and faces Jessica. "It was nice doing business with you ma'am." she says with smiles. "Please let me know anytime you have jobs for me to do."
Jessica nods barely letting a smile out her dry and dark lips. "You can wait a bit more, won't you like to see how she is going to end?"
"Do not worry, I will send your corpse to your father afterwards." Emerens says with a kill for look on her face.
Ella gives no reply to any of them, instead, her mind travels far back to the dream she had some days ago. Her trying to save her brother, then she got ambushed by her lady who threatens her life, afterward, her brother showed up and started apologizing for being a bad brother. "I now understand the dream perfectly." she murmurs to herself. All this while, she had thought Asma was the spy because of her strange attitude but she is totally wrong, it is Cassandra, whom she had hated so much and warned her brother against is the one is aiding her secondary school enemies to kill her. "Is this how I will end my life? What if Shamim already told her everything about me?" She asks herself murmuring.
"Look at how tensed you look poor Ella." Jessica whispers with her alms folded. "There is another saying that says 'it's not the stab in the back kills but when we turn and see who is holding the knife' being spied on isn't disturbing you, who spied on you is what is giving you problems."
The confidence she had written all over her face before, falls immediately, her eyes now depict fear and confusion. In her mind, she starts regretting why she willingly walked to Jessica. She slowly takes a peep at the three other ladies that were in the room with her but she stopped when she locked eyes with the one she isn't really familiar with.
"I am sure you still remember me, don't you?" Emerens asks.
"Emerens?" Ella asks whispering.
"Of course."
Miss Smith's heart starts beating very fast, her breathing becomes very difficult that she starts breathing almost loudly. "God! What have I done to myself? These people are going to kill me for sure." she says in her mind and remember what really happened the night before.
After she had the conversation with her parents about the spy in her room, and they came to the conclusion of being extra careful of her friends and keep a close eye on them. Ella received a call from a private number, without a second thought, she concluded it was Jessica. "Hello, what do you want?" she asked immediately after answering the call.
"Thats a quite unfair and rude way to say hello, you know?"
"Look, I am tired of these silly games. Just tell me what you want and set me free."
"Really?" Jessica asked and clicked her tongue. "Naturally, I want to put an end to the lives of you and your miserable allies."
"Take the life of innocent people you say? Of what benefit would that be?" Ella asked loudly.
"But if you surrender, I will deal with you alone, leaving your family and friends out of it."
Miss Smith exhales deeply. "How do I get to you?"
"I will send you the address." Jessica says and ends the call.
As early as 5:00 am the next morning, Ella dressed up and left the house, using the garden gate and heading to her destination. She got to the abandoned mall a bit late because she was instructed by Jessica to walk and not ride in any vehicle. But was blindfolded by someone she didn't see and was taken to the dark room which she is currently in now.
Ella sighs heavily. "I guess this is the end of my life then." She murmurs to herself.
"So, earlier on. You were saying something about how your entire family died." Jessica whispers and walks close to Ella, lowering her height so that she could come face to face with her. "Continue, tell me more about it."
Ella looks at Jessica not uttering any word for a while then she murmurs. "Please save me."
"Say it again." Jessica whispers as if she feels some sort of pleasure when she heard it earlier.
"Please save me." Miss smith repeats herself with a lot of sincerity. Though, life might have been very tough and rigid for her, she doesn't wish death upon herself this early.
Jessica stands and smiles. "Say it for everyone else to hear." She says loudly and gets the attention of the two other ladies who were discussing about something.
"What is that?" Emerens asks and moves closer to them. "What happened?"
"Our dear Ella just said something to me, I want you all to hear it." She says with smiles and frowns at Ella. "Say it now!"
"Please save me." Miss Smith begs again.
Emerens charges forward and hits Ella's belly with the metal rod she was holding earlier. "You piece of shit!" She cursed at the top of her voice.