It was rainy evening; the sky above Victoria Street was dark, while wet atmosphere and cold weather shrouding over the neighborhood. There a young girl in her early twenties was inside the house number twenty-five, expecting her boyfriend to take her out for a party. She was wearing pale jade dress and light makes up over her face, which never cover her natural beauty. Now and then she looked out the window to check on him, in her anxiousness, as that was her first time to go out with the guy, who she knew couple of months before. The doorbell rang and she jumped out to the door, as like she was expecting, there was a well-groomed and tall young man about her age was standing by the front door. “Hi Nick, how are you? Come in, maybe we can sit down for a while before we go” “I’m pretty good and wow! Look at you Amanda, this dress fitted you well” “Thanks, Nick! C’mon in!” Amanda pulled Nick’s hands and led him to burgundy couch in the living room, where they could view very big size plasma TV. After sometime they had chatted, then they got ready out to the party. “Sorry Amanda, I don’t drive tonight. I think we should go by taxi, because maybe we’ll get drunk over the party” Suggested Nick jokingly. “Mmm… that’s a good idea, lets go!” Then, both of them walk trough the alley toward the main road and hailed a taxi. After twenty minutes on the road, Nick and Amanda grew their uneasiness because they seemed lost and didn’t know where they were, while they knew it wouldn’t take too much time to get to the party’s venue. “Excuse me Sir, I think you are driving to the wrong way” Nick spoke to the driver. “Don’t worry Lad, I know where you want to go, party at Elizabeth Avenue right? We’ll be there soon!” answered the driver in his rigid voice. Nick and Amanda exchanged glance to each other but didn’t know what they needed to do. They were trying their patient but then they didn’t see any sight that the driver took them to the right place. “Get us out off here Sir, I doubt you’ll drive us all night without getting to the place that we wanted” Nick spoke with high tone voice. Suddenly the driver, who was in his forties with typical Mediterranean face, hurled his taxi off the road and went off to different direction toward a small dark alley. “Stop, where are you going bastard?” Nick yelled at the driver. Nick and Amanda began to scream, while they were trying to stop the driver and hitting the taxi window, asking for help. The driver didn’t say anything but gave them a vicious smile and drove off toward a deserted building at the end of the alley. Apparently, the taxi reached the building and there were two men sitting on the big motorbike, while they smoking and bottle of whiskey on their hand, as they walked to the taxi and pulled Nick out. Amanda was desperately screaming and ran out to help Nick, but the driver jumped after her and yanked her hairs, then pushed her to the corner of the building, as he gagged her with a black cloth and tied her hands against a rusty chair, while Nick was out off her sight. She straggled to get off and moved her legs violently until her silk dress torn out by a concrete floor but her straggled to no avail. “Calm down young lady, let me do what I have to be done” the driver was approaching her with grimacing face, as he pulled his belt off his jean. Amanda stared at him, as her body was cold and shivering. There was nothing she could do but surrender to her doom. The man started to pet her hairs and stuffing her vulnerable body, which scratched and bruised, started to show. Without mercy, the man put his manhood in her cavity and moved forcefully against his battered prey. Poor Amanda was motionlessly lying on the floor and he took the gag off her mouth, while he whistled, seemed he gave a sign to his friends. Out from the dark, there were two men and Nick walked toward him. “Look like you’ve done a good job, Jack?” Nick amiably smiled to the driver. “As you wished Boss!” the driver nodded. Amanda slowly regained her consciousness; as she opened her eyes and helplessly looked at Nick. “Nick” She whispered as her tears was shredding offer her face but came to her surprise; the man who used to say that he loved her was uttering his malicious words. “Amanda, now you should know who I am. I’ve been so long wanted to see this thing happen. Perhaps you forget the day when you won your victory over my sister on modeling competition at your campus two years ago” “Nick, you are a lunatic!” “Isn’t that nice? Sometime a retard like you, need to learn your lesson instead of blackmailing people with your parent’s money. Now! It’s your choice, would take this incident seriously or take it all easy. Think wisely before you pay more price for what you do” Nick gave her fierce smile as he walked through the darkness with his friends and the driver, left Amanda sat forlornly in the dark deserted building, where the cold night fiercely pierced her battered skin.
