Lottery 1
Fear gripped Shaniqua, she was nervous. She blurted out without thinking, “What’s going to happen to Lucy?”
Aston was calm. “You can’t save Lucy. You can only save yourself. So, do we have a deal?”
Shaniqua hated the only option she had was to agree. She wanted to help Lucy, she wanted to help Christine, but she could only help herself. The pain of failure mixed in with her fear. She had no choice. “We have a deal.” she responded in defeat.
Aston walked from the room, then returned with a small syringe in his hand.
Shaniqua’s heart felt as if it was going to beat out of her chest. She screamed in fear as Aston walked behind her. She felt the pinch of the needle and a strange fire seemed to rush through her veins. She screamed again, then the world slowly began to turn into a blur. The muscles in her throat relaxed, everything relaxed.
Shaniqua passed out.
Lucy was awakened by the first scream. She glanced up in terror and noticed her new surroundings. She was bound and gagged in a fully furnished bedroom. She noticed she was only a few feet away from the bed, and dressed in sexual clothing. Her heart began to pump wildly. She glanced down at the floor and saw a picture of herself with her natural hair color.
She heard her traveling companion scream a second time.
Lucy struggled against her restraints, but there was no escape. Then she noticed the phone on the bed. She glanced down at the chair she was in, it might be possible for her to hop it over to the bed and grab the phone. Maybe she could get a text to her brother.
There was a lot of commotion going on now outside the room she was in. Lots of thuds and the sound of cardboard boxes, maybe, falling over. It sounded like one person alone, moving quickly from one room to another. Then the sound of the front door, and nothing.
Lucy sat terrified in the silence for what seemed like an eternity.
Then she furiously began attempting to hop to the bedside.