Silent Plea: The Day My Mother Ignored My Final CryChapter 1: Kidnapped
When I opened my eyes, I looked around my surroundings. The lights were off, and it was a familiar place. There is a simple single bed, with brown blanket, a table and chairs at the corner of the table, a single mahogany bedside table with a modern round table lap. On the other side of the room, there is a wooden white cabinet and beside it there is a full length mirror.
I stand in the mirror but I didn't see any reflection, it frightened me that I fell down on my knees. But I felt nothing. Not even a sound came out. I look at my hands and they are transparent like water.
"What is wrong with me?" I whispered. As A stood up, a memory flashed before my eyes.
I was outside the university, standing and staring blankly at the floor. It was my birthday today. My friends, Courtney and Jonas already greeted me and gave me their blessings, but the person I want to hear the blessings for seems to have forgotten what today is. My mother. I called her and asked where she was. She said that she was going to my cousin's Angeline's 18th birthday.
I almost blurted out to her that it was also my birthday but I think she doesn't even care at all. I bitterly chuckled. Is she really my mother? Forgetting her own child's birthday. This is not the first time it happened. It is always the same every year. Why do I still wait for her when it's highly unlikely that it will change.
I sighed deeply and decided to walk home instead of coming to Angeline's birthday. But before I even took one step, a black van without plate numbers stopped in front of the university and pulled me inside. There are four men inside. My heart began to beat fast.
"W-Who are you?" I stuttered. They have this black cloth covering their face other than the eyes and nose to let them breath and see. Who are they? "I-I don't have any money with me, please let me go..." I pleaded to make them spare me.
"I don't think that it will work, young miss. You should not go home at this time of night without anyone with you. It's bound to happen," one of the men said. My body trembled. What are they going to do with me?
"I'm not rich, my mother doesn't have anything to give you," I reasoned out. I tried my luck but they just laughed at me.