The Start
"FLASHBACK: TO SOME MOMENTS BEFORE"
John: Hey Janet, do you see anything unusual about the car behind us? (He said with a serious face and tone.)
Janet: No? Nothing unusual? (Janet was curious.)
John: Okay. So what I'm about to tell you is important—so don't you dare panic on me. You got that? (He had a stern look, staring her right in the eyes.)
Janet: Okay, sure, I will. (Said with an unsure tone and a bit scared.)
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It was like John, at that instant, became an Alpha male in an instant. He had changed. Janet couldn't quite get a fix on it, but he was not his usual self.
It was like he was a hunter and his prey had just landed in his strike zone—and he was ready to kill. His look made him seem cool, chill, relaxed. It felt like a cat-and-mouse game where he was now directing the prey to a cliff—without them knowing—and then forcing them to jump.
John: (Staring at Janet) Do you trust me?
Janet: (Looking back at John) No… not fully.
John: Then for the first time, he said,
"Well, today I don't care. If you want to survive, just do as I say." (Crosses inaudible talking)
"So just drive down the subway in the second stop for downtown—and take the empty road!"
As the two were entering the quiet streetI of downtown, they were driving freely, with no worries in their minds—just thinking of how they will reach home safely, with no distractions.
Until they were suddenly blocked by a car they could not avoid.
Janet quietly tried to evade the car, but to no avail—it wasn't just one car. They were blocked on three sides where they could not escape.
The mysterious men, who looked physically well-built, came out of the car with hoods and big coats, which they could use against them—so that they wouldn't be identified by the thugs.
Then they were ambushed. The men had guns in their hands—ones which looked similar to the kind used by the authorities.
They were pulled out of the car. Janet was dragged out by her hair while John was pulled out from the car. They were then pulled to the side of the road, where it was bushy so they wouldn't be seen by anybody.
After being directed to the site where they would most probably be killed, they were stripped of all their equipment. Where they couldn't then be taken deeper into the bushes.
Luckily, the thing about John was that he was cheeky and unpredictable as the heavens.
He started asking some questions like,
"Where are you taking us?"
"What are you gonna do to us once you're done?"
While saying those, the guys got distracted.
Janet didn't do anything. It's like she had rehearsed this from the beginning.
(John said this with a grim face.)
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Janet obliged and took the route given to her, now following the instructions exactly.
The man held Janet and then said,
"We were told to destroy your pride and kill that ass of a man there."
The men were like fools—they had divulged crucial information so easily.
"They are obviously nincompoops," because they had said everything he wanted.
And John then said—
(After the man shut up, being told by one of his colleagues to do so.)
John:
"Me? You gotta be having the wrong guy. I don't be fools. I've done nothing. Please spare me." (With a firm look and a low, glaring voice.)
He added,
"Please, as a dying man who is about to be slaughtered, please grant me this dying wish—and let me know why I'm about to die at such a young age with no plans for a better tomorrow."
One of the men, who was their leader, chuckled behind the mask and said:
"I feel pity for you. So I'ma tell you why you are about to die as a parting gift from this world to the next.
It's because you took the boss's woman, you stupid little freak.
That's why you're about to die."
John was shocked with disbelief, and his calm face disappeared.
He said:
"What the—"