CHAPTER 10

My head hurts like hell.

I looked around, trying to regain my memory again on how I had ended up in a corner of the now dubbed Disgusting House by myself with a major headache.

Oh yeah, now I remember.

Someone had hit me and Rob-

I looked beside me. Sure enough, there was Rob, ankle and hands tied up, which made me realize that I was tied up too. He apparently was still in a state of unconsciousness.

Just great.

'Hey," I said to him, shaking his body with my own, since I am being tied up too. He didn't move an inch and so I tried again. On my third attempt, he stirred a bit and groggily said, "Mastriani? God, my head hurts."

"Yeah, mine does too," I replied, "but both of us are being tied up, if you notice and we have to find a way too free ourselves. Do you still carry that set of Swiss knife with you?"

"What? Oh yeah, that. Yeah, it's in my back pocket," he turned so that his back was facing me instead, "try and reach for it."

I turned and scooted nearer to him, so that now my back was leaning against his since my hands were tied up behind me.

After much fumbling, I'd finally gotten hold of it and five minutes later, we were free.

"God, my head really hurts," Rob complained.

"Would you stop whining? Mine does too but I have to figure out what just happened while we were unconscious." I retorted back at him.

"Fine."

I scanned the room, the light of the moon helping me to be able to see better through the dark. So they left us in the living room, to this one far end corner.

And then it hit me, while my eyes were scanning the kitchen from where I was standing.

The saw.

How could I have forgotten the saw!

"Damn. Hey Rob, " I called out to him, who was standing behind me, "they took the saw. Then it must've been them who wanted me dead."

"I guess so. I hate to break it to you Mastriani, but it's almost 12 midnight and do you still remember telling your mum just two hours ago that you'll be back by 11.30pm? She will really kil-"

"Damn." I cursed again.

"Let's go. We'll be back tomorrow." I said to him as I headed towards the front door.

"We? Which part of we are you talking about? I have work, you know. And you have school." He replied me as he tailed behind me, closing the door once we were outside.

I didn't reply him immediately. Both of us hurriedly put on our helmets and climbed up the bike to get going

"After school."

"No way am I going back here," he said as we rode away into the darkness, "and no way are you too going back here."

I rolled my eyes. . Talk about over-protective boyfriends- not that it's a bad thing or that I'm complaining.

"Yes I will. I have to search for something; anything so that at least I have some sort of lead on in this case. And the way I see it, I have pretty high chance of finding it there."

We'd reached my house, and I knew my mum will so kill me.

"So, I'd better get inside. But pick me up tomorrow after school at the usual hour alright?" I gave him a quick kiss and without waiting for him to reply, walked as fast as I could to the front door.

The moment I got in, slowly and quietly shutting the front door, about to run for my escape, I heard footsteps walking to where I was from the kitchen.

Darn! And I thought I'd escaped her.

"Now where do you think you're going, Jessica? No, you stand there and don't you move until you tell me why you were out for so long? Do you know what time it is now? It's almost 12.30am and it's a school night -"

Oh god, it's gonna be a longggg night.