Hours later
My eyes flutter open, my head feels heavy I look around and try to register what happened.
We're in a very small room, it's dark but a small window letting some light in. My back touches the wall.
I suddenly feel my left hand handcuffed I instantly look at my side, Ace is still unconscious. His wrist is handcuffed with mine between a pole.
What did they do to him?
I slowly try to move towards him but the handcuffs making it hard for me to move.
"Ace?" I say, almost a whisper.
I look around to find something. There's nothing. I reach to his shoulder with my foot and nudge him. "Ace?"
"Hm?" He turns his head to me, his eyes slightly closed. He looks around and gets up grabbing his head. "Fuck!"
He sits straight and rests his head on the wall as closes his eyes. "It took you a while to get up."
"…Me?"
"Yeah, I tried to wake you up but you didn't." He said slightly wincing while grabbing his bicep. "It's been a whole day since you were peacefully sleeping."
"A whole day!?" I turn towards him.
"Uhan. They left you some food there." He signals with his head.
I turn to where he's looking, there's a paper bag on the floor. "That?" I point.
He nods.
"You already ate?"
"No. I'm not hungry."
I look at the small window. "Is it nighttime?"
"Yes."
It's the moonlight that's shining through the window.
Ace suddenly reaches to grab something from his side almost yanking my arm. "Ow-"
He looks at me and then at our wrists that are handcuffed together. "Oh. Can you move closer."
I move closer as much as the the slim pole in between us allows me.
He grabs a knife from underneath the leaves, gets back to where he was and starts to 'cut' the pole.
Looks like he's been doing this for a while, there's already a little dent there.
"What if they come?" I ask.
"They won't for the next 30 min. When you were asleep they would check every half an hour- and there's two men on guard in front of the door."
Silence
"Why did they ki-"
"I'll explain once we're out from here. Don't ask any questions right now." He continues with his movements.
I look at him. "What's your plan? Once you cut this thing how are we gonna get out from here?"
"From that window."
"Huh? but it's too small."
"Girls and their complaints of sizes." He murmurs, although I hear him perfectly. "It looks small but when you'll go near it it'll be enough for us to go through."
"…Are you sure you can fit in there?"
He looks at me as if I am joking.
"I'm serious. It-"
"Then you can stay here. I'll go."
"When did I say I didn't want to go? I just said-"
Clack
The pole starts to break from the wall. He pulls it out in one motion. "Finally."
I'm surprised that he actually managed to break this.
We take our hands out, he quickly gets up making me get up too. He walks towards the small window it's the same height as his. He looks at me then at the window. "I can get out from here without any help but you need help—cus you're short."
"I didn't need to know the reason—wait…our hands are tied together how-"
"I already know that now hurry up." He suddenly grabs me from my waist and lifts me up.
"Hey! I have a few questions-"
"We don't have time for that get in, hurry."
I try to get in and I pause as I see three men sitting outside smoking. I silently gasp and shake my legs.
"Hey- you're gonna hit my face." He whispers.
I grab his hands and slightly wiggle my body. "Get me down!" I whisper.
He slightly lowers me down but still holding me in air. "Don't tell me you saw a cockroach or something."
"They're three men sitting outside right in front of it."
He pauses and looks around and sighs.
I look at him, waiting for him to put me down.
…
…
I blink twice. "Can you put me down…?"
He rolls his eyes and drops me and with me he also falls—on top of me.
"Ow—idiot!" I wince. My butt hurts.
He looks at our hands that are tied together and makes a frustrated face.
"What do you think you're doing? You want to crack my head open? And did you forget your hand is tied with mine-"
"You see I am not used to my hand being tied with someone and you're not the only one who fell, I did too."
"Because of who? You're always acting- no being an idiot, do you even have a brain in there?" I knock on his head.
He grabs my wrists with his hand and pins it down on the floor.
"I doubt anyone uses their brain when they're with you—probably because you don't give them much reason to."
Clack
Our heads turn towards the door.
A man enters. "What's the commotion for-"
He pauses, so do we.
He looks at us as if he's scanning and trying to figure out what we're doing.
"Man…even in this situation you two are getting all romantic." He shakes his head. "Look, hold it in for a while, we'll be going to a hotel soon—you two can continue this there."
I realize what he's saying and push Ace off of me.
"Couples these days." He sighs.
"Hotel…?" Ace asks.
"Yeah, we need to finish some work there and we got orders to get you…" He points at Ace. "a good room and of course your girlfriend too."
Ace thinks something and looks at me confused.
Why is he looking at me as if I planned this?
door closes
"They won't be taking us to a hotel." Ace says, a serious expression on his face.
"How are you saying that with such confidence?"
"I know because I use my brain." He gets up and my arm dangles up in the air.
He looks down at me. "Can you get up?"
I get up. "Then? What are you planning?"
"We have to get out of here some way or another." He looks around.
An hour later
We are out in the woods. Don't ask how we managed to get out of there.
"That was easy." He says huffing.
"Easy?!" I look at him breathing heavy. "It was the opposite of easy. My legs almost stopped working."
"Those guards took their time leaving from there if they didn't we would definitely get stuck."
They changed position because they went to eat food. Thank god.
"Now? Where are we gonna go?" I ask.
"Home, obviously."
"Is your home in the woods? How do you know where we are, they're only trees and…nothing here." I say looking around.
"We'll find our way out." He starts walking.
I also get dragged, I hunch and sigh. "I'm tired, I can't walk anymore, I never ran so much in my entire life than today."
"You really have a low stamina, that's why you should workout everyday." He walks slowly looking around.
I sigh again.
And again.
Again but louder.
Agai-
He turns around looking at me. "If you sigh one more time i'm gonna start running."
"Are you threatening me?"
"Yes, take it how you will."
"Meanie." I mumble to myself.
A few moments later
"Where are we heading to?" I ask.
"Somewhere to spend the night."
"Do you think you'll find a hotel here?" I say sarcastically.
He turns around. "Of course, that's what i'm looking for, a hotel, in the middle of the woods." He sarcastically replies back.
"Aceee, i'm tired." I whine, sitting on a big rock.
He pauses.
I look at him. "I'm hungry and sleepy."
"I'm trying am I not? Just hang on for a bit longer."
"For how long am I gonna hang on, I should just literally hang myself-"
He gets on his knees his back towards me. "Get on."
"Huh?"
"I'll carry you." He says.
"You don't hav-"
"Get on. I don't want you to faint, i'll have to carry you around, you know how fat you ar-"
I get on his back wrapping my arms around his neck my legs dangling on his sides.
"Don't move around too much, if you fall, i'll fall."
"Ok." I say.
He starts to walk hooking his hands under my knees.
"Can you put your hand down, just a bit."
I look at my hand that's handcuffed. I lower it a bit.
"Like this?"
"Yeah."
He's almost carrying me with just one hand.
…
I guess he's not that bad of a person.