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I jumped out of my chair, and yelled at Ken, "I can't just sit here like a duck and wait for you and some detectives to come back after fighting fifty or so guys! Are you crazy? I need to go to Serena and the others, like they have always come to me when I needed them!" I spun around facing the detective. His face was dead calm. "There is NO WAY that I am NOT going to go with you to Diamond's house," I said in a finalized dead whisper. The detective only nodded. With that, I collapsed back into my chair.
"Let's go then," the detective said, getting out of his chair. I looked up at him and nodded.
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I stood up and I felt renewed strength in myself. I thought about Mina and Mr. Aieko, and noticed the similarities between them. They had the same colored eyes, but his hair was a few shades darker than Mina's. I wondered about Mina and her dad, and vaguely recalled her telling me a bit of her past.
Flashback
"Mina... why do you live on your own?" Serena asked. Mina looked shocked, and then her expression quickly turned embarrassed. She looked at the floor, and clammed up.
"Serena, that was pretty rude, you shouldn't have asked Mina that," Ami said. "Didn't we agree not to talk about our past?"
"Its ok, Ami," Mina said softly, still staring at the floor. "My family life wasn't the best. I ran away," she finished curtly. I looked at her, and I saw tears in her eyes. Mina stood up and ran to the bathroom, and the four of us stayed silent, letting the awkward silence start to settle.
End Flashback
We walked out of Mr. Aieko's office, and we left the police department. Ken asked, "Shouldn't we, like, get more cops to come? I mean, there are a lot of guys following Diamond's orders, so..."
Mr. Aieko interrupted saying, "We'll call them when we need them." Ken and I exchanged looks of confusion, and we both shrugged it off. As Ken led the walk to Diamond's house, I thought sadly about Mina. Glancing to my right, I noticed that Mr. Aieko was looking at me, so I stared right back. He looked away as if he hadn't been staring at me. A shiver went down my spine, but I shrugged it off. 'He's a police officer,' I told myself. 'Just a normal police officer. Stop being so paranoid.' Just the same, I went up to Ken and walked by him. None of us said anything to one another, but when we finally reached Diamond's house, half of me was rejoicing, and half of me was scared pointless. We got up to his door, and I was shaking like mad.
"D-don't you think w-we should like, c-call for more c-cops?" I stammered out, frozen in my steps.
Mr. Aieko frowned, and said, "What, don't you trust me?" Ken and I turned to face him and stepped back in shock. He was holding us at gunpoint. We started to turn when Mr. Aieko laughed. "Sorry, I don't mean to be pointing my gun at you guys." He faced the door of the house and knocked on it four times with the tip of his gun. No one answered. He turned the handle of the door, and he stepped in. "Looks like no one is here," he said after taking a couple steps in. Ken and I stepped in past the doorway, and the door slammed behind us. We spun around to face it when a hand flew over my mouth and around my chest, immediately locking my arms to my sides. A quick side-glance at Ken showed me that a few men were restraining him, but I couldn't see Mr. Aieko. I started to fight my restrainer by kicking him in the shin and squirming around. Eventually his arms loosened a bit, and I got free for a split second, before a horrendous- smelling cloth was placed in front of my face and everything went black.-
----------------------------Later----------------------------
I woke up, trying to collect my thoughts, and to remember what had happened. I opened my eyes very slowly, and I saw Mina, Raye, Ami and Serena sitting nearby. Picking myself off the floor and sitting in an upright position, I noticed that my wrists were firmly tied behind my back, and that I was back in Diamond's basement. The four of them watched me, and Serena said timidly, "Hi."
I yawned and leaned back against a wall, and stretched out my legs, which, no surprise, were tied. I glanced over at the four of them, and asked, "What happened?" They looked away from me, not wanting to say a thing. My anger picked up at their silence and I yelled, "What happened?!?!"
Raye said, ever so softly, "We heard you come in. We heard the scuffle. You were taken down here, and we jumped the two guys who were carrying you. We tried to fight him, but without the use of our hands..." She stopped for a second to regain her composure, "And as we were fighting him... there was a gunshot. The four of us stopped fighting temporarily, and the two got us. We don't know what happened from there."
My breath caught in my throat, and I said, with my voice only a whisper, "Ken... no... Mr. Aieko..."
Mina said loudly in shock, "Did you just say." She gulped loudly, "Mister... Aieko?" I nodded. She said, "You shouldn't trust him. He is no good." I looked at her with shock, and Serena, Raye and Ami all gasped, followed by looks of confusion. Mina looked down and said, "I think its time I cleared up my past."
Flashback in Mina's POV back when she was five
I watched my mom slam the door with her things in a suitcase, and my dad ran up to his room. I followed him and went into his room, where the lights were off. "Daddy, why are you sitting in the dark?" I looked around his room, and saw my dad get up out of his chair and approach me. He picked me up, and put me on the bed.
"Honey," he said, "We're going to play a new game. It's a lot of fun, and we'll play it every now and then, so it's a treat to you."
End flashback, back to Lita's POV
Mina said softly, "That's when it all started. About once a month for about eight years he would... he would..." Her voice choked up, and she stopped talking. We watched her and waited for her to continue. She mumbled, "He would rape me." With that, she dissolved into tears, and she pulled her legs up against herself, hiding her face. We started to say sympathy words, but she shook her head. Continuing, she said, "After all that time, I just packed up and left. For so long, I thought that my friends also played that 'game'."
Ami said, "And you didn't report him because you didn't want to go into foster care, right?" Mina nodded, and Ami asked, "Was he always a detective?" Mina shook her head no. "So then I'm betting that he became a detective so as to find you... because he can legally take you back because you are not yet eighteen," Ami concluded.
"That's what I figure," Mina said solemnly, she looked at me and said, "Lita." I looked away from her, not willing to meet her gaze. "He didn't harm you, did he?" I shook my head no. I couldn't tell her that I caught him staring at me, or of my prior suspicions that he could be a crooked cop. Silence engulfed the five of us, and the only thing that broke it was Mina's occasional hiccuping sob. I sat there, feeling helpless, and thinking about Ken and if he was hurt. My heart reached out for him, and a tear trickled down my face. I wanted so bad to be able to do something for him, yet the five of us were all tied up. 'If only we had some kind of tool to cut these stupid strings,' I thought to myself. I made fists with my hands from my anger. Then another thought struck me. 'There are five of us... why don't we try to untie the strings ourselves? There is nothing preventing us from that.' I quickly told the girls of my plans, and we shifted ourselves into a circle. As if we were knitting behind our backs, one girl would use her fingers to untie the other girl's feet. Then that girl would tie another girl's feet, and so on and so forth.
Raye was working avidly on my feet when she gave out a sharp yell. Everyone spun to look at her, and she blushed deeply. "Sorry," she said apologetically, "my nail just broke. It cut into my finger."
We continued at our work, and Serena was the first to finish untying Ami's feet. Ami sighed in content, and said, "Wow, I can feel the circulation in my feet again." Once we all got the strings untied and the circulation back, we partnered up to work on each other's wrists. Mina was stuck waiting as everyone else worked diligently.
We kept at our work when Raye wondered aloud, "I wonder why no one has kept watch over us. It seems really weird."
Serena said quickly, "Ssh! Don't jinx it!" But it was too late. We heard footsteps coming from above. Working as fast as we could, our intensity for getting untied deepened. My bonds slipped off just as the basement door opened, and I turned to find...
Hee hee hee. I left a cliffhanger... AGAIN. Sorry, for the really long delay in chapter posting
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I jumped out of my chair, and yelled at Ken, "I can't just sit here like a duck and wait for you and some detectives to come back after fighting fifty or so guys! Are you crazy? I need to go to Serena and the others, like they have always come to me when I needed them!" I spun around facing the detective. His face was dead calm. "There is NO WAY that I am NOT going to go with you to Diamond's house," I said in a finalized dead whisper. The detective only nodded. With that, I collapsed back into my chair.
"Let's go then," the detective said, getting out of his chair. I looked up at him and nodded.
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I stood up and I felt renewed strength in myself. I thought about Mina and Mr. Aieko, and noticed the similarities between them. They had the same colored eyes, but his hair was a few shades darker than Mina's. I wondered about Mina and her dad, and vaguely recalled her telling me a bit of her past.
Flashback
"Mina... why do you live on your own?" Serena asked. Mina looked shocked, and then her expression quickly turned embarrassed. She looked at the floor, and clammed up.
"Serena, that was pretty rude, you shouldn't have asked Mina that," Ami said. "Didn't we agree not to talk about our past?"
"Its ok, Ami," Mina said softly, still staring at the floor. "My family life wasn't the best. I ran away," she finished curtly. I looked at her, and I saw tears in her eyes. Mina stood up and ran to the bathroom, and the four of us stayed silent, letting the awkward silence start to settle.
End Flashback
We walked out of Mr. Aieko's office, and we left the police department. Ken asked, "Shouldn't we, like, get more cops to come? I mean, there are a lot of guys following Diamond's orders, so..."
Mr. Aieko interrupted saying, "We'll call them when we need them." Ken and I exchanged looks of confusion, and we both shrugged it off. As Ken led the walk to Diamond's house, I thought sadly about Mina. Glancing to my right, I noticed that Mr. Aieko was looking at me, so I stared right back. He looked away as if he hadn't been staring at me. A shiver went down my spine, but I shrugged it off. 'He's a police officer,' I told myself. 'Just a normal police officer. Stop being so paranoid.' Just the same, I went up to Ken and walked by him. None of us said anything to one another, but when we finally reached Diamond's house, half of me was rejoicing, and half of me was scared pointless. We got up to his door, and I was shaking like mad.
"D-don't you think w-we should like, c-call for more c-cops?" I stammered out, frozen in my steps.
Mr. Aieko frowned, and said, "What, don't you trust me?" Ken and I turned to face him and stepped back in shock. He was holding us at gunpoint. We started to turn when Mr. Aieko laughed. "Sorry, I don't mean to be pointing my gun at you guys." He faced the door of the house and knocked on it four times with the tip of his gun. No one answered. He turned the handle of the door, and he stepped in. "Looks like no one is here," he said after taking a couple steps in. Ken and I stepped in past the doorway, and the door slammed behind us. We spun around to face it when a hand flew over my mouth and around my chest, immediately locking my arms to my sides. A quick side-glance at Ken showed me that a few men were restraining him, but I couldn't see Mr. Aieko. I started to fight my restrainer by kicking him in the shin and squirming around. Eventually his arms loosened a bit, and I got free for a split second, before a horrendous- smelling cloth was placed in front of my face and everything went black.-
----------------------------Later----------------------------
I woke up, trying to collect my thoughts, and to remember what had happened. I opened my eyes very slowly, and I saw Mina, Raye, Ami and Serena sitting nearby. Picking myself off the floor and sitting in an upright position, I noticed that my wrists were firmly tied behind my back, and that I was back in Diamond's basement. The four of them watched me, and Serena said timidly, "Hi."
I yawned and leaned back against a wall, and stretched out my legs, which, no surprise, were tied. I glanced over at the four of them, and asked, "What happened?" They looked away from me, not wanting to say a thing. My anger picked up at their silence and I yelled, "What happened?!?!"
Raye said, ever so softly, "We heard you come in. We heard the scuffle. You were taken down here, and we jumped the two guys who were carrying you. We tried to fight him, but without the use of our hands..." She stopped for a second to regain her composure, "And as we were fighting him... there was a gunshot. The four of us stopped fighting temporarily, and the two got us. We don't know what happened from there."
My breath caught in my throat, and I said, with my voice only a whisper, "Ken... no... Mr. Aieko..."
Mina said loudly in shock, "Did you just say." She gulped loudly, "Mister... Aieko?" I nodded. She said, "You shouldn't trust him. He is no good." I looked at her with shock, and Serena, Raye and Ami all gasped, followed by looks of confusion. Mina looked down and said, "I think its time I cleared up my past."
Flashback in Mina's POV back when she was five
I watched my mom slam the door with her things in a suitcase, and my dad ran up to his room. I followed him and went into his room, where the lights were off. "Daddy, why are you sitting in the dark?" I looked around his room, and saw my dad get up out of his chair and approach me. He picked me up, and put me on the bed.
"Honey," he said, "We're going to play a new game. It's a lot of fun, and we'll play it every now and then, so it's a treat to you."
End flashback, back to Lita's POV
Mina said softly, "That's when it all started. About once a month for about eight years he would... he would..." Her voice choked up, and she stopped talking. We watched her and waited for her to continue. She mumbled, "He would rape me." With that, she dissolved into tears, and she pulled her legs up against herself, hiding her face. We started to say sympathy words, but she shook her head. Continuing, she said, "After all that time, I just packed up and left. For so long, I thought that my friends also played that 'game'."
Ami said, "And you didn't report him because you didn't want to go into foster care, right?" Mina nodded, and Ami asked, "Was he always a detective?" Mina shook her head no. "So then I'm betting that he became a detective so as to find you... because he can legally take you back because you are not yet eighteen," Ami concluded.
"That's what I figure," Mina said solemnly, she looked at me and said, "Lita." I looked away from her, not willing to meet her gaze. "He didn't harm you, did he?" I shook my head no. I couldn't tell her that I caught him staring at me, or of my prior suspicions that he could be a crooked cop. Silence engulfed the five of us, and the only thing that broke it was Mina's occasional hiccuping sob. I sat there, feeling helpless, and thinking about Ken and if he was hurt. My heart reached out for him, and a tear trickled down my face. I wanted so bad to be able to do something for him, yet the five of us were all tied up. 'If only we had some kind of tool to cut these stupid strings,' I thought to myself. I made fists with my hands from my anger. Then another thought struck me. 'There are five of us... why don't we try to untie the strings ourselves? There is nothing preventing us from that.' I quickly told the girls of my plans, and we shifted ourselves into a circle. As if we were knitting behind our backs, one girl would use her fingers to untie the other girl's feet. Then that girl would tie another girl's feet, and so on and so forth.
Raye was working avidly on my feet when she gave out a sharp yell. Everyone spun to look at her, and she blushed deeply. "Sorry," she said apologetically, "my nail just broke. It cut into my finger."
We continued at our work, and Serena was the first to finish untying Ami's feet. Ami sighed in content, and said, "Wow, I can feel the circulation in my feet again." Once we all got the strings untied and the circulation back, we partnered up to work on each other's wrists. Mina was stuck waiting as everyone else worked diligently.
We kept at our work when Raye wondered aloud, "I wonder why no one has kept watch over us. It seems really weird."
Serena said quickly, "Ssh! Don't jinx it!" But it was too late. We heard footsteps coming from above. Working as fast as we could, our intensity for getting untied deepened. My bonds slipped off just as the basement door opened, and I turned to find...
Hee hee hee. I left a cliffhanger... AGAIN. Sorry, for the really long delay in chapter posting