Amber

I walk back to my house and shut the door after seeing him off. I settle on the recliner thinking about what I did to him, wondering if it was enough torture and punishment, just then my phone beeps. I take it from the table and steal a glance at it.

"Dinner, 6 o'clock today, Carel's place." It's a text from him.

"No." I text back.

"Please."

I lean back on the recliner smiling to myself, he hardly says sorry and please, I made him say those.

"Okay fine." I text back and turn off my phone.

I walk into my room holding a glass of wine, I'm so excited right now.

I take out two hangers containing a purple dress and a white dress respectively from my wardrobe and sprawl them on the bed, I sip my wine while contemplating on the one to choose.

"Urrggh!" I sigh in frustration after 30 minutes of unproductive contemplation.

I put the dresses back in the wardrobe and take out another hanger containing a bright shimmery metallic silver gown, it's a one handed dress, it's a fitted mini gown, has this white lace fastened with a beautiful silver colored star pin on both sides of the dress as the excesses flow down. It's a really classy and fanciful dress and I hardly wear it out. Now I've decided on what to wear, I shift my focus to my footwears. I've a lot of footwears. I pick out a metallic black stilettos glass heel from the shelf and stare at it, I take out another stiletto...a silver one covered in diamonds and has transparent straps and I stare at both shoes. I finally settle for the stilettos with transparent straps. I walk over to my wig compartment, I didn't have the energy to style my hair and so I thought it better to either wear a wig or add hair extensions to increase the volume and length of my hair. I take a long bone straight brunette wig from the wig stand and toss it on the bed.

I walk over to my make up section and select a black lip gloss, foundation, mascara, concealer, eye liner, eye lash and my eye shadow. I put them aside from the other make up kits. I pull open a drawer next to my bed and I select a transparent nails that has this butterfly on it, the wings of the butterfly flaps easily but the butterfly isn't live, I settle for a silver and black striped purse.

I plunge myself on the bed staring at the ceiling and stealing a glance at my phone every 2 seconds that passed. I couldn't wait for it to be 6pm. I ring Amber's number and she answers the phone. Amber's my little sister.

"Hey Amy, whatsup?"

"I'm fine." She says.

"What's wrong?" She sounds like she's sobbing.

"Marvlyn..." She says sobbing and that was when I realized she's been whispering.

"Come get me please."

"Where are you?"

"The place you got me."

"What exactly is wrong?"

"Devan. It's Devan, he escaped prison, he's been raping me and now he wants to kill me. I'm hiding in the wardrobe. Please sis...please-"

"Found ya little princess." I hear Devan's voice over the phone accompanied by her loud scream before the call ends.

Devan's bitten more than he can chew. It's high time I show him his place.

"Hey babe, I'm sorry, I might be late for dinner, I might not even turn up. My sister's in danger, somehow the devil escaped prison and wants to kill her." I say over the phone.

"I'll join you shortly." He says.

"No! It's dangerous." I say, he insists and I give him the address before ending the call.

I arrive at the place 1 hour later, the house is dead still and quiet like no one lived in it. I grasp my dagger and hold on to it. I climb the stairs noiselessly....I walk up to the first bedroom, my whole body on alert. My eyes dart across the room. I open the wardrobe but there's no one there.

"Amber." I whisper.

I walk away from the wardrobe. I step out of the room and then I see foot marks in blood and I follow it. It leads to the basement. The basement has always been my fear as I always saw it held one evil or the other in horror movies so I never attempted going there. But Amber really needs my help now and I have to overcome my fear to save her or she'll be dead in minutes and I won't be able to live with it. I shut my eyes and take in deep breaths, I push the door open and walk in. I turn on the lights and descend the stairs.

There she sat, blood dripping from in between her legs as she sat there, tied to the chair, her mouth also tied as well. Her brows furrow like she's sad to see me, she whimpers as though warning me not to come any closer.

"I knew you'd come." Devan says and I turn around but I don't see him.

"How'd you escape the prison? Let my sister go Devan! I'll kill you if you don't!"

"None of us is getting our of here alive. Either way, we're all gonna die, whether you kill me or not." He says. "We're surrounded by ticking bombs and in less than 30 minutes, we'd all be dead." He adds.

"What do you want?"

"Revenge!"

"Revenge?" I ask still holding my dagger tight.

"Yes, your father raped my daughter to death."

"Ex father! Who's your daughter and what has that got to do with us? It's between you and my dad not us, so why don't you settle your differences with him and not drag us into this?!"

"It's got everything to do with y'all! I'm here to avenge Saraphyna's death! I must kill you two!" He says and plunges towards me with a knife. He sways it in the air and I dodge it.

"You lie Devan, we'll be the death of you!" I say tearing his arm with the dagger.

He plunges towards me and drives the knife in my shoulder. I scream in excruciating pain and then a frown forms on my face.

"That's all you've got?"

I could hear Amber whimpering as she cried.

"Bring it on baby." He says.

I step back and take the knife out of my shoulder and blood ooze out and I scream in pain.

I plunge toward him with my dagger and he shifts causing me to fall. He comes on me, trying to make his way into my pants...I stab him with the dagger and he gets off me.

"Surrender now! The cops are gonna be here any sooner." I say and he laughs.

"And you think they'll be able to find us? Doors locked." He says.

I smile at him and rush towards him with the knife and stab it in his laps. I take it out and stab him continuously.

"I'm gonna leave the dirty work to the cops." I walk over to Amber to untie her and then the dagger dives into my bag, he threw a fucking dagger at me. I stop in my tracks, blood oozing out from my mouth. I rush to him and stab him continuously in his legs as he screams in pain, he presses the dagger, making it go deeper as I scream in pain. I lay on the floor fatigued. He struggles to get up and then he takes the dagger out of my back and tries stabbing me again, but before that, he rolls me over and he's ontop me now. I dodge the knife and stab him in the belly and take it out, blood oozes out and he holds his belly, he drives his fist into my face, I kick him hard in the groin with my knee and he screams in pain, still holding his stomach, he rolls over and I get ontop of him and stab him the syringe continuously. The syringe contained this element that paralyzes/makes someone weak for a while. I rush towards Amber and untie her.

"Quick! The door! I'll hold him down. Go! Get help!" I say.

Devan rolls over me, fighting with the tiniest bit of energy he had left.

"Don't look back! Go, I'll be fine!"

"It's ticking! 5 minutes left sis. I love you." She says with tears in her eyes.

"You fucking mess with my sis, I'll kill you!"

I struggle to get away from him, it was ticking, the bomb had 3 minutes left to explode.

I bite him hard in the arm and drive my hand into the knife cut in his belly, he screams in pain but doesn't let go.

"Let go, you motherfucker!" I say hitting him hard in the groin with my elbow. He lets go and I race up the stairs, I leave the basement immediately...

"Amber! Run!" I screamed at her whilst running. She seemed very weak, so I held her tight and ran with the littlest bit of energy I had left. Jason already left to get the cops, but it isn't needed.

The building explodes the moment I step out of it with Amber.

I hear people screaming and I see people taking videos, the police van arrives just before I black out.