Framed

All I could see was smoke, hovering like a shadow on Narnia city. The whole city is restless as everyone is running, and trying to save themselves from the Blackhood's family. 

The last thing I heard mum tell me before she ran, was "try to hide my child". 

I stayed inside a small factory, under one of the cars of the elites and kept praying fervently that mum will be safe and nothing will happen to me.

The more I prayed, the more I shivered by the cold gunshots from the men dressed in complete black hoodies. They were masked too, and didn't care less to destroy anyone in their path.

Unfortunately, I'm the target, and I'm sure no one will spare me the moment I'm found, which scares my nerves to hell.

It was rumored that I had killed the former heir to the Blackstone Group. I don't know how I got entangled in this mess, but the first time we met, he came to see my friend, Marmia, who was involved in a sexual relationship with him. 

That night, I came over to use Marmia's phone to do my project since mine was faulty, so I slept on the balcony while she and Nato slept in her bedroom. To my surprise, I woke up early in the morning to see both of them dead. I wasn't even allowed to comprehend the entire situation before some men came over, cuffed me, and threw me into the boot of their Honda jeep. Luckily for me, mummy who was known as the leader of the Biggest dark community in Narnia, came with some men who hijacked the car, and rescued me. But, I'm still scared something might happen to mum. She's all I have.

"Mummy, I'm scared", I sobbed quietly.

"Damn that family, I swear I'm gon' kill all of 'em. Shit!" I hear some voices approaching the car, in which I stayed under".

Quietly, I creeped my way out to see who they were, and saw they were with AK-47 guns. They were sure to kill.

"Have you asked about that filthy Mama Gunna?"

"I heard she's the leader of the biggest touts here".

They were talking about my mom. What are these people going to do with my mom? 

I kept sobbing the more, and praying mum will be fine.

"Here's a map of her hideout", I heard one of them say, as they came closer to devise a plan to nip mum.

They planned that if mum doesn't surrender me within twenty four hours, they'll declare her wanted, and collaborate with the President and other high up officials to award whosoever kills her at the spot.

After they were done with the plan, they made a few calls, and hurried out.

I wish I had a good phone, I would have called mom. Now, I don't even know where she is, and how she is.

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I opened my eyes lazily and drifted to rest my back on the tyre of the car. The night seems long, and scary, and the creaking sounds today seem Sorrowful and deep. My stomach wasn't even showing me mercy, as it kept grumbling, but there was nothing I could do at the moment because bomb sounds were heard coming from the main City. I'm not even safe here, but this is the best place I can stay for now.

Why don't I turn myself in? 

At least from what I've heard, the moment I turn myself in, mum will be free. If I don't submit myself like a lamb to the slaughter, the whole city will suffer because of me. A lot of people have already lost their lives, and more is bound to happen if I don't act quickly. Why am I so miserable?

I wasn't even given a chance to mourn my Best friend. Who will make me smile with her silly jokes now? Who will always sing hopeful teary songs with me?

Fate cheated us both. At least I have a mum, Marmia grew without knowing who her parents were. She had to suffer, to earn. Probably, that's the reason she hung out with Nato to help her pay the bills. I don't know who murdered the both of them, but I swear, I'm going to find that person, and show no mercy.

"Sssssss…."

Where's that sound coming from?

Suddenly, the factory light shone brightly, and I saw three rattlesnakes approaching me.

"Help! Help me!" I ran out swiftly, and just before I could get to a safe place, one of the snakes bit me.

"Momma!" I screamed out loudly just to roll off a hard place onto the unforgiving floor. "Ouch!"

Who cuffed me? And how did I get here?

All along, I've been dreaming a very horrible dream. But, right now I'm so confused that I don't know if it was a reality that Marmia had died. I just hope it was a dream as well.

I looked at my clothes, and saw they were changed as well into some rag clothes that gave me off as a prisoner.

Immediately, I swung my head to be sure nothing was done to my hair. Female prisoners of our time were completely shaved, and my heart almost ripped into halves at the thought of anything happening to my hair. That's because mum has always done everything she could to groom my brown curly kinky hair. Sometimes she got fed up with the care treatment, but she never relented, as she always told me that one day my hair would attract my prince charming.

Luckily, my hair was tied into a bun, but I saw a tattoo on my neck. Definitely, it was a sign from one of the Dangerous dark societies in the outskirts of Narnia city. It can only mean one thing -that I'm wanted in every city, to be shot dead at the slightest escape.

"Sssshhh…Mar..mari..mari…! I heard my name coming from behind a blue car. Apparently, it was mom, because she fondly calls me Mari. 

Mom had come alone, but she was with a gun. She signaled me to run towards her swiftly as some men kept laughing and mocking their drunken state.

This was the right time to escape in such a fierce afternoon. The day was still pregnant with a lot since the sun barely rose up for the day. I crawled silently towards mom, until I was out of danger.

Mum led the way, and so when she noticed some men coming, she signaled for an immediate cover in an uncompleted building.

Just immediately I stood up, I bumped into a big chest, and got faced head on with a gun placed on my forehead.

The masked man before me looked fierce, and merciless, with his blue eyes piercing deep into my veins and racking my nerves. His silky frontal hair covered his face, with a skeleton logo on the handkerchief tied around his wrist.

"You are my brother's killer", his bass voice rumbled into my ears.

"I…I swear I didn't…"

"Shut it!" He immediately raised my jaw with his right hand, while his left hand still held a gun on my forehead. 

This scary man then allowed his hand to move carelessly on my body, scaring my nerves to hell, until he stopped on my neck, and caressed it. "What's my brother's chain doing on your neck?"

I didn't even know what to say anymore. Marmia had given me this chain as a birthday gift. How would I have known it belonged to Nato?

While my body was still shaking, he cut the necklace, brutally, not caring that I got hurt and had gotten a slight cut in the process.

Then, he carelessly traced his hand to my mouth, and in a swift motion, he raised my jaw again. He then placed the gun on my neck, and moved closer to me until I could feel his hot breath on me.

At that moment, I couldn't understand what was going on in my mind. Strange unhelpful feelings frustrated me the more he talked. With his close range with mine, my body submitted to his torture, and fear almost sent me to hell.

"Young, pretty, but cruel. That's what you were bred to be, huh?"

As I tried to speak up, he shot his scary words to my ear "Don't talk when I'm talking".

I was already crying, because I've never been in such a position in my life.

After all his words fired at me, I struggled to shout at him out of fear. "Even if you're dumb, you should know I'm not one to hurt a fly". 

After screaming my lungs to his face, it then dawned on me I acted out of emotion to fasten my death.

With a hysterical laugh, he pressed his hand on the rifle, and fired.