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Chapter 5 - why now?:chapter 5

As Gemma stayed curled up in her bed crying, she had drifted off to sleep with so much troubling her heart.

The next day, Gemma woke up feeling like all the strength in her body had just been drained.She was tired,sad and depressed she laid in bed the whole morning neither leaving to eat or bath but once it was time for her to go to work she quickly got out of bed knowing she had to face the reality of it.

She got out of bed reluctantly, took a shower, and left. As she got to work, everyone noticed that she had lost her usual sarcastic and hardworking demeanor.

"Hey Gemma, what's up? You don't seem like yourself." Gemma's boss said as he walked up to her. "Am ok." Gemma tried to reassure him as she tried preparing for the usual night rush," Are you sure, Gemma?" he looked at her, worried." I am sure I am ok." She gave a light smile." OK, but what about this? I let you get off early, and you still get paid. " He says that as he gave her a wink. As he said that, her mood lightened up a bit "thanks" she said more cheerfully. "It's ok," he replied as he walked away.

As she tried working as usual, but she kept on making more mistakes than she would normally , from breaking cups to handing out the wrong order to spilling drinks all over. She tried staying focused on her work but each time she tried her mind kept on drifting off, and each time she tried to wrap her head round the thought that he had decided to steal from her when she had given him a second chance, she tried brushing off the thought, but it kept coming,and it kept making her get sadder and sadder, but she knew she had to push those emotions and face reality because she had more things to focused on.

She finally clocked out a few hours before the end of her shift, but it still felt like years because of all was going through her mind. As she walked home, she felt more drained than she had ever felt.

When she got home, she didn't care to do anything she dropped her bags on the floor and walked straight to her room, and laid on her bed. Not too long after she laid in bed a heavy knock was heard from the living room, she didn't care to check instead she stayed in bed motionless but when the knock kept on getting louder and more persistent and with that she got angry and walked straight to the front door.

"What do you want ?!!" she yelled in an annoyed tone as she swung the door open. As she looked up annoyed, she was greeted by three enormous men who seemed even taller than her door frame, and at the sight of that, she lost her color. "Wh...wh...what are you doing here?" She tried making out words, though that was hard because of how intimidating the men were. " Are you that old man's daughter?" one of the men finally spoke. " Which old man?" she replied, scared. The man that spoke earlier brought out his phone and began searching for something on it. "OK, here it is, the old man named Jack," as he spoke, Gemma's body shook fiercely. "No... No, I think you've got the wrong house," she quickly shut the door and slumped to the ground.

"Jack, Jack," she muttered the name trying to remember where she had heard the name, and once it hit her, she lost her color. "That's my dad's name," she muttered, she was so used to calling him dad or old man she didn't realize it was him they spoke of, and before she could collect her thought she felt a massive hit on the door which pushed her forward. She stood up hurriedly, trying to push against the door,with the intention to stop them from getting in, but it was definitely futile.

As the men succeeded in pushing the door down, it lunched Gemma across the room, banging her head against a wall. "Ah!!" she exclaimed. " You lied to us!!" the man that spoke earlier shouted. "And now we are gonna have to do this the difficult way," the other man said as he cracked his fingers.

Gemma stood up immediately, running to the kitchen. "Just come with us and no one is gonna get hurt," one of the men said as they walked towards the kitchen,not minding what they were saying Gemma pulled a knife out of her knife rack and began pointing it at them "get away from me" at the sight of this one of the men brought out a gun and her heart sank.

The first man who spoke earlier shouted at the one with the gun, "Put that away, we need her alive." The other man reluctantly put his gun away. The men immediately started coming in on her but she didn't let her guard falter and kept on swinging and pointing her knife "get back" and before she knew it one of the men had pulled her, twisted her wrist and dragging the knife from her and pinned her down.

"Get the sack now!!" the man that had pinned her shouted and with that before Gemma even knew what was going on she saw a sack over her head and she suddenly started feeling woozy and ended up passing out because they seemed to have been something in the bag that knocked her unconscious.