chapter 21

Sin did his job on me at night and left

immediately.

Nobody else came to me all night.

The sounds of movements woke me up after a long sleep.

I had no idea what time it was but the sounds of birds told me it could be early in the morning.

I had didn't know what they were doing outside but I could hear things moving and things breaking.

Feeling like we could be moving, I hid my book and pen in my bra again so I could carry it with me.

After 30 minutes, Sin came in.

"Come!" That was all he said as he pulled me out of the room.

He kept his grip on my wrist as he took me out of the house.

I saw the computers Gizmo used smashed on the floor. Broken beyond repair.

They cleaned up too. The house smelled like detergents.

They were all out there. They were dressed in black and had bags with them. I guess each had each's money.

"Jennie, don't look sO sad. Its not like you liked it here." Sin said teasing me.

I really wanted to roll my eyes.

I was not sad we were leaving, I was sad that maybe where we were going no one would find me.

"See the two barrels of gasoline over there?" he pointed drawing my attention to them, they were placed close to the door.

"We have decided to abandon the hide out. But just in case we left any trail, we're burning the house down."

After he said that, Snake and Rocky took the barrels, each had one.

They poured it around the house. Then, they went inside the house pouring it everywhere.

Soon, they came back with the barrels empty.

Snake then took a lighter and set the wooden cabin on fire.

"I'll stay here until the entire house burns, thebrest of you should be on your way." Sin said as he held me by the waist and had me very close to him.

They shook his hand told their see you soon, good luck, and each of them took their bag of money leaving different directions.

T-bag and Snake went together but they were talking on separating when they got to some place.

It was very early, around 6:30 am.

Sin and I were left there alone. He held me

tightly as we watched the cabin fall.

I was not sad about the cabin, it was filled with bad memories.

I hope where he was taking me, at least I won't have to pee in a bucket then cover it

immediately so it doesn't stink up the room.

I was really stuck with Sin now and how he held me tightly, it felt like I wasn't going to get away from him.

After some time, the entire cabin fell. Most of it were now ashes.

Sin's bag, that he carried was bigger and looked heavier than the others'.

He took my hand and led me away.

Instead of going straight, we went around the cabin and then through a little path. It was a very small one, it could barely fit two people.

I had never seen this path before. But then, I never went around the house the two times I ran.

We walked a little distance until we found a big black Mercedes car parked on a dusty road.

I couldn't help but bit myself up.

If I had seen this path, I would have gotten out of here when I ran.

It seemed like each time, I just went deeper into the woods instead of out of it.

He put the bag in the boot of the car.

There was other bags there too.

He got me in the front passenger's seat and secured me with a seatbelt

He then went around and got in the driver seat.

I silently watched him start the car. The

windows were tinted black, I don't think anyone could see inside the car.

Sin then drove us away.

It was almost a hour before we got to a town.

We didn't say anything to each other the whole time.

I looked around at the shops, buildings,

billboards, but nothing told me which town this was.

But I knew this was not the city I lived in or was kidnapped from.

We then stopped at a motel. I guessed we were spending the day or even the night here.

"I don't have to tell you how to behave. Don't act like you were kidnapped." He said to me.

Then, he took a black jumper and gave it to me,"wear this."

I obeyed and put it on.

It was as big as my dress.

He then took two black scarfs and put it on on his lap.

He pushed all my hair back.

He took one scarf, it was lightweight and

square-shaped.

He then folded the top right corner to the

bottom left corner. The folded scarf was now shaped like a triangle.

He placed the scarf over my head. The widest part of the triangle fell at the top of my forehead, with the two corners draped over my shoulders.

The third corner of the triangle was at the back of my head.

He pinched the edges of the scarf under my chin.

It wasn't too tight and I knew my mouth could move. I could still talk.

Then he pinned the scarf under my chin.

I now realized he was dressing me in a hijab.

Using this to hide my face.

Then he crossed the corners of the scarf over my neck. Crossed the left side to the right, and the right side to the left. Draped the tails over my shoulders.

Then, he took the other scarf, folded it, and put it above my nose letting it fall covering my mouth. It was still long enough to reach my chest.

Only my eyes and eyebrows could be see now.He himself, was in a hoodie and a black mask.

He had the hoodie on from when we got in the car.

He took a backpack and left the rest of the bags locked in the car.

We got inside the motel with him holding my hand.

"For the night." He told the woman in the

reception.

The woman told him the cost and he paid in cash.

She gave him the key and then told us where the room was.

She wasn't even taking us there.

The woman was either blind, or disinterest, or only cared about money.

She couldn't even see any of our faces but she gave us a room?

She barely even looked at me.

We took the stairs and went to the furthest door on the right.

The key opened the door and we walked in.

The room had a bed, a counter, tv anda

bathroom.

He took off his shoes and jacket then laid on the bed and I sat at the end further from him.

I sat there quietly looking at the floor.

He took the remote and turned on the TV.

"You might want to watch this princess." He said as he turned up the volume.

I looked at the TV and it was on a news channel.

A female reporter was talking and the headlines was, "THE FAILED RESCUE OF JENNIE MONTGOMERY"

The reporter said, "The kidnappers who only one of them is known, Jackson Roberts, talked to the girl's father, the famous Elijah Montgomery and a ransom of an undisclosed amount was set. They did get the money, but then instead of giving back Elijah and Rachel's daughter, they gave the police, an imposter.

That's right, the woman who seems to be a drug addict and too high at that time to even remember who put her up to this, so she told the police, was in a very well done silicone mask of Jennie Montgomery. She looked exactly like her. She managed to fool the police who took her to 'her' parents who were waiting for her at

the police station. The parents however, after a few moments, soon realized this was not their daughter. The moment the mother told the police she was an imposter and they got the wrong girl, the clone then took off her mask and

said she was told to do this in exchange for drugs, which she got before she put on the mask. She was tested and she very much had drugs in her blood stream. She told the police she didn't know who sent her there, how she got there and how she met this people. She even did not know their faces. Or ever met the real not know their faces. Or ever met the real Jennie. She just thought it was an acting gig she

got. Questioning her further, she started

panicking. But not because she was guilty. She claimed she needed some meth before she went crazy. The girl was set free without any charges on her. Nothing to say if she was really lying or just did a task in exchange for meth."

I heard Sin chuckled silently.

Well that girl was obviously a liar. I don't know about if she was on drugs or addicted. She may be. But her lie was she didn't know the faces of the kidnappers. She was here when Snake wasmaking the mask and they showed their faces to

her.

And she did meet the real Jennie. She met me!

What did she mean she didn't?

Obviously she did what Sin and the others told her. I'm sure she paid very well for her

performance. Her acting was pretty good. So she was right about getting an acting gig.

I kept watehing as the police said they will do all they can to find me and are open to any leads they could find.

If anyone had anything, to call the police station number.

I kept watching as they talked about my case. I could tell they were not revealing too much..

They did show Sin's face. The faces of him they showed though, was the one of him without the scar and the grey eye and then the one of him with.

I looked at the old picture of him curiously.

He was a pretty good looking man.

He is still now. But when I look at him all I see is a scary man.

His eyes on the before picture was not as cold as now. They were still scary. Maybe they always were, or I just couldn't look at him different.

They talked about my case the entire time.

I just looked at the TV watching and he was on the bed, head and back on the headboard as he was browsing through some papers and his laptop.

It was around 1pm, he turned off the TV feeling I have seen enough of what he wanted me to see.

He took some ankle handcuffs and cuffed my right leg to the bed.

Then, he went to the bathroom to take a

shower.

I could escape now.

I tried to open the cuffs, but I needed a key.

I didn't have one. I don't even know where he put the one he had.

I tried pulling it from the bed instead but my efforts were in vain.

The door then knocked suddenly and my hopes leveled.

"Here is your lunch." I heard the woman at the reception say.

"Come in! Come in!" I said whispering a little so Sin won't here me.

The woman came with a tray with two plates of food one for each of us and two bottles of water.

She then walked inside and put the food on the counter.

I immediately took off the part of the hijab

covering my face.

"Excuse me madam, please help me I..."

"No no.. I don't want to hear it." She cut me off.

"But madam.."

"No no. Don't tell me. Whatever you need help with, I don't want to know. And I am not helping."

"I've been kidnapped madam please. I am

Jennie, Jennie Montgomery. I am all over the news. Please. Help me get away!"

"You're Jennie?" She said now looking at me.She actually looked interested in what I wanted to say.

"Yes I am. Please help me. Would you?"

"Mmmh.." She said thinking. "I will help

someone, myself."

I didn't understand. I thought maybe she meant she would ask for a reward from my parents for helping me.

I took off the entire hijab do she could clearly see I am Jennie.

"You really are Jennie. This is my lucky day." She said smirking.

Just then, Sin walked out of the bathroom with a towel on his waist.

He paused for a second seeing the two of us talking and me without a hijab.

"Mr kidnapper, I hear you got paid very well."

"Doris, I already paid you to keep my presence here quiet."

They knew each other? They didn't act like they did before.

"You did but I had no idea you were actually still with the real Jennie. How about me keeping quiet about her?"

"How much do you want?"

"Not much Sin. Not much. Maybe 500,00oo."

"I'll make it 800,00o." She smiled warmly.

"You must have had a huge ransom sent to you. Then again she is a Montgomery."

Sin walked to his bag it had a small percentage of the ransom money.

The took out eight bands and gave it to the woman.

"Each of the bands is 100,000."

"You are so generous Sin "

"Of course. You're family." That was the nicest thing I have ever heard that man say to anyone.

"I would be more careful with this one if I were you. (Pointing at me) She seems so desperate to run away. But I don't blame you for keeping her. She's hot and all pretty. Is she like your sex slave or something? I didn't think you had that

side of you. You don't even pick up women or date."

"Okay that's enough Doris. You can leave us now." He said disinterested in answering her question.

"Here is your food." She said pointing at the counter and then putting the money in her sweater as she wallked away smiling ear to ear.

"Here is your food." She said pointing at the counter and then putting the money in her sweater as she walked away smiling ear to ear. My shaking body turned around to look at sin who's angry eyes were on me. I started praying again.

Maybe this time God will listen and come.