Thunder...
Night time, but the world was under the spell of nature as dark clouds spat lashing raindrops with strong force, quenching the thirst of the earth after days of baking under sun heat.
"Is someone out there? I am tied up here!"
She shouted, her breathy voice blanketed with exhaustion after trying times without number, if only her voice could compete with the the rainfall.
"This isn't working Jazmin, think of something else" she muttered under her breath, looking around the room.
A single poor-scented candle lit the room to the sufficient level needed for the eyes to see what the cramped room contained.
Roar...
A roar of thunder echoed again from without and the very old walls of the room shook like another round of echo would collapse it to dust.
As cramped as the room was, it had no furniture whatsoever within, aside from the chair Jazmin was secured to, with a rope.
All attempts to free herself were futile for the rope was tied accurately and was causing more damage to her skin than help, whenever she tried to writhe free.
She needed to get out of there but the reality of the impossibility of that thought was extinguishing the little sparks of courage left in her, to not give up.
"What? Fear choking you now?"
The sight of a tall guy in swag outfit with a chain around the region of his neck welcomed her eyes the moment she looked at the side where the window was located.
The tall man was smoking cigarette while he gander the rainfall scene outside, through a tiny opening in the window.
"Dream on! Lowly thugs like yourselves will never make me afeared *cough*"
Her head lowered as she coughed. Fear was not choking her but the damn smoke of the cigarette was choking the life out of her.
"Not for long cocky girl, you will soon realize that this cocksure attitude of yours will get you to nowhere.
Be thankful to my patient temperament that I ain't showing you my thug side but I can't say that when it comes to the boss, so for your own sake, keep that pretty pie hole of yours shut" Said the tall guy.
He glanced at her with a smile that made her blood boil at the sight of it. He added
"If there is next time, think twice before you attempt to offer help out of kindness"
"Don't tell me what to do or not. Instead, focus on yourself because the moment I'm out of this place, I will make your lives a living hell, I will devastate your world until I relieve my anger"
"Oh I'm scared. A little ant wants to intimidate the lizard"
Jazmin tightened her lips in annoyance. She wasn't lying when she said those threats yet because of her current helpless situation, this man was scoffing like she was a joke.
Before finding herself in this helpless situation, she got punctured tyres enroute to home and the network signal was testing her patience.
In order to get a stable network, Jazmin ventured into the quiet neighbourhood with nothing but hope to get a stable connection, as though she was not afeared of walking alone in a place she had never been to.
Her eyes observant as hawk's, caught sight of a bulky man bullying a flower (a lady in other words). The assault was too violent to turn a blind eye but who could have thought, her kind intentions would plunge her into the current predicament she found herself in?
"Do you know who the woman you were trying to help is?"
"A victim of bully" she gave a short reply, not masking the fact that she hated and did not want to converse with him.
"How naive. She is our boss's Frau"
"You are joking right? But this is not funny at all"
"OK, let's await for a short time, I'm sure she will also come to see you"
A deep silence, almost as deep as an abyss took over after the tall thug's voice died.
The room was filled with cigarette smoke and smell and the pitter-patter sounds of rain from without.
Rain provides serenity to the mind but the rain tonight left Jazmin unsettled with each drop against the surface of the earth.
She hated the thought of the possibility that what the tall guy said as to the bullied flower being the bulky man's wife could be true. She had risked her life and limb by confronting a man ten times her size to help a vulnerable flower like herself and now this thug here was telling her the man and the flower were a couple?