Chapter 10
Meifa woke up in a room that felt like a moving freezer along with Milly and Octavia. Luckily, her arms were zip-tied in front of her and the tracking device was safely inside of her bellybutton. She reached down and turned it on, just as the other girls woke up. "Where am I?" Octavia asked. "I think we're in a truck," Milly said, then they realized, "Oh shit! Don't tell me this means what I think it means!" All of them had their feet tied, and Meifa rolled and wriggled to the other girls, "Yeah, we've been kidnapped. This is Barb's doing." Octavia asked, "How do you know that?" Meifa took a deep breath and answered, "Ford, his real name is Jet Black. He's a bounty hunter I know. He was after Barb when he showed up. We were going to try to find out where she stashed the girls she took." Meifa swallowed, "I didn't think I'd find out this way."
"What are we gonna do?" Milly whispered as she and Octavia got closer to Meifa, following the light of her tracker. "Nothing," Octavia nearly screamed, "We're dead! They're never gonna find us! They'll do whatever the fuck they want and then chuck us into space!" Meifa yelled back, "No! We'll be fine, this thing in my bellybutton is a tracker for Jet! He will find us!" Octavia looked at her, "How do you know? How do you trust a bounty hunter so much?" Meifa said, "He used to be a cop-" but didn't get any further before the truck they were in stopped, and the back door opened up.
Three large men were in front of them, all masked. "Damn it, Frank, you didn't gag them?" one on the left said. "They don't need a gag for what we're doing with them," the one in the middle, Frank, said, "Plus, we always got this." Frank pulled out a large knife from his belt and entered the truck. The girls all tried to wriggle and crawl away from him, but he grabbed Milly and held the knife to her big toe. "If any of you starts acting up, I'm starting with your toes," he said, and moved the knife between Milly's big toe and the one next to it. Milly screamed, "NO! NO! DON'T!" She screamed higher as he cut the skin between her toes.
"LEAVE HER ALONE!" Octavia and Meifa yelled at the sadistic trafficker. Frank wiped the bloodied knife on his pants and put it away, "Try anything, and you'll all lose toes. You won't need them for what you're gonna be doing." Meifa gulped but didn't struggle as The Man on the Right lifted her up from her middle while Frank took Octavia, and The Man on the Left took Milly. The three girls went through what looked like a meat packing factory before being taken to the back and tossed into a room with a lot of cushions and at least twelve other girls.
The girls in the room all looked and smelled like they hadn't bathed in weeks, and just looked at the new arrivals with empty eyes. Needle marks were apparent in their arms along with burns on some of their necks, and Octavia said, "Looks like they're on something." Meifa looked and saw that there was no sign of waste at least, meaning they at least took them outside to do their business. Frank came over with his knife and pulled Milly over. Milly kicked and screamed the whole time and Meifa tried to get close to stop him, only for Frank to yell, "Knock it off! I'm releasing your feet stupid bitch!"
Milly stopped kicking, and Frank cut off her foot restraints, while the other two men looked on, pulling out tasers and turning them on to let the girls know what would happen if they tried to run. Octavia and Meifa laid back and showed their feet to let Frank cut their bonds. When he reached Octavia, he slid the knife up until the knife was nearly between her legs. "Hey! Knock it off before you ruin the merchandise!" one of the other Men yelled, and Frank pulled the knife away. Octavia sighed in relief before Frank said, "I'll be seeing you later, sweetheart."
The men slammed the door shut and Meifa heard them lock it from outside. She looked around and saw that Franks' threats weren't empty, three of the drugged-up girls in the room were missing toes. Milly limped over to Meifa, her foot was still bleeding as she tensely asked, "When is your boyfriend gonna get here?" "Soon," Meifa assured her. Octavia looked around the room and swallowed quietly as she made her way to her friends. They were all there with the other girls, who were oblivious to everything it seemed.
Octavia swallowed as she finally spoke up after what felt like hours, "If I don't make it…don't forget me." She broke down then, and Milly and Meifa started crying with her. "I promise, I promise we'll get through this," Meifa tried to say, while Milly just broke down from fear. They heard the lock of the door unlock, and Frank came in with his knife. He took off his mask, he was bald and had bright green eyes; they would have been beautiful if they had any mercy or kindness in them. He went right for Octavia and grabbed her by her neck. Meifa immediately remembered the handsome customer in the club, and something inside her, snapped!
"LEAVE HER ALONE!" she screamed as she kicked Frank hard in his side. The man didn't see her coming and was knocked to the ground. Meifa seized her chance and ran after him, then stomped down on his knife hand as hard as she could. Frank yelled as he let the knife go, and Milly and Octavia joined her, kicking and stomping on the man as hard and fast as they could. It was only ten seconds when other men ran in and grabbed them off of the knife wielding maniac. Frank groaned in pain, one of them had gotten some good kicks to his head and his nose was smashed, teeth were on the ground.
Meifa, Octavia and Milly fought their hardest, desperate to not share the other girls' fates. Meifa got her feet under her and pushed back hard until the man holding her hit a wall, letting her go. Meifa ran to the one holding Milly and remembered the self-defense lessons with Jet and kicked the back of his knee, hard enough for him to stumble and let her go. Meifa kicked his leg again to make him fall, and she kicked his head too. A shot tore through the air then, and Meifa saw a tall man with a black beard and long hair pointing a shotgun right at her.
Time slowed down for her.
She saw his finger pull the trigger.
She heard the explosion of gunpowder.
Her knees gave way as she fell down in shock.
That was when she heard the sound of sirens going off, and a loud voice yell, "THIS IS THE POLICE! COME OUT WITH YOUR HANDS IN THE AIR AND SURRENDER PEACEFULLY!"
"FUCK!" the bearded man with the shotgun yelled as he ran to grab Meifa. Miraculously, she had fallen in time for his shot to miss her completely. "You're coming with me, you're my ticket out of here!" he yelled. Meifa kicked at him and he struggled to grab her. "FUCK IT!" he said and pointed the shotgun at her again. She couldn't avoid it this time. That was when the front door exploded out, as an armored vehicle tore through it like paper. "MEIFA!" Jet screamed as he ran after the vehicle. The Bearded Man pointed his shotgun at Jet, but Jet was faster and fired off three shots dead center into his chest. It was chaos for an entire minute as the traffickers and Police, along with Jet and Faye, traded gunfire.
After that minute, the ones that weren't shot all surrendered, the rest were dead or wounded. Jet walked over to Meifa and helped her up. He took out a knife and cut her bonds loose. Once here hands were free, Meifa wrapped Jet in a hug and said, "I knew you would come. I knew you would." She couldn't stop the tears of relief and happiness from falling, and Jet just returned her hug as the Police did their job, while Faye rolled her eyes at them.