C11 Chapter Eleven

Mellisa woke up with a heavy head and a completely weak body, she knew she'd definitely have a hard time walking after all the alcohol from last night. She had never been the drinking kind but she found herself getting drunk alone in her room almost every single night, it's the only thing that helped her forget about how her life turned upside down and never seemed to get back on track. "Oh shit!" she staggered and quickly held onto the table close to the bed to avoid falling. "What the hell is going on? Ah... The world is so bright, too bright." Just about to take a step further and she noticed her laptop was carelessly left on the floor, "man I'm bad at this alcohol shit." She bent down to pick and then a beep came from her phone on the bed. She stood up, picked the phone and opened the message which came from a stranger, "Oh my God! Oh my... Shit!" In no time, tears started falling down her eyes as she saw 3 videos of herself humping Jeremy, they were leaked sex tapes, and they came with a message "Hey girl, surprise... Don't worry I'm not gonna leak these tapes to anyone unless you want me to. If I don't get $10,000 from you ASAP, that means you want me to."

This had just added to one of her problems and she didn't know what to do. For some reason, the alcohol in her head completely cleared after reading that text. She could reason normally but was sweating with a fast beating heart.

"I need to call my parents, I need to speak to my mum." She hurriedly went through her contacts as her hands shivered uncontrollably. She'd been on the run all this while, she'd lost her job and had never contacted her parents since then, she blocked their lines and they couldn't reach her either despite all their efforts. She called her mum's number but there was no answer, she kept trying repeatedly and then she heard a voice, her mom.

It was a long call after Paula finally picked up, the worried woman was happy to hear her daughter's voice for the first time in a long while, they did a little catch up and Melissa was told about her twin sister, but the mood changed when she finally revealed that she needed $10,000!

"Ten Thousand Dollars? For what honey?" Paula was shocked.

"I'm being blackmailed mom, someone's got my sex tapes, if I don't pay, he's gonna leak 'em!"

*****

"Wait a minute, you want to leave the city because of that dumb punk?" You can't be serious, Mc!" Michael's voice was so loud that the neighbours could hear. He was disappointed to hear his best friend saying he wants to run away to another city just because John Ethan wanted to end him to claim his father's treasures.

"Listen to me Michael, it's better to be alive and be poor than for me to be rich for five seconds then get killed by some M-fucker who can't think of anything else but ending my life." He stood up from the chair he was sitting on, looked around the room and just sat back on it. He was frustrated.

"Mc I have no problem with you staying here with me, your house is no longer safe but they don't know you're here man. Just stay for as long as it takes." His voice was calm and friendly just as the normal Michael would sound.

"How long before they finally know I'm staying here? And then you get in trouble too. Look Michael I can't get you in trouble for being the son of a rich man with a crazy adopted son."

"Well I wanna get in trouble for you. OK that's it, it's settled. Now I'm gonna go make us some food bro."

On his way to the kitchen, Michael heard the sound of a car that just arrived outside, "wait a minute you hear that?" he quickly asked Mc who's eyes were already fixed on his phone playing a game. "Nah bro I didn't hear anything." He was reluctant.

"I heard a sound, it's a car outside."

"What's wrong man?" He dropped his phone on the chair and stood up as they both walked stealthily to the front window.

"Michael, my neighbours don't have cars, it's only me. And I guess we ain't expecting a visitor."

"Are you thinking what I'm thinking?"

"Definitely! I think it's them!"

They got to the window and opened a small amount of the curtains to see who was out there and it was exactly as they suspected. They saw the same black SUV that chased them the other day, it was Alberto and his partner in crime, both sent by John Ethan.

"Dammit it's them, they've found us, they're right there." Mc said, rushing to pick up his phone.

"Let's leave through the back door, hurry."

"We need a plan!"

"Yeah listen, we're gonna leave through that back door then sneak through the side yard and wait for them. Once they go inside the house to look for us, we quickly go into our car and vanish."

"Good idea Michael, nice one."

Quickly, they made it to the back exit and stealthily walked to the side yard of the house waiting for Alberto and his man to go in searching for them and yes, the plan worked exactly as they hoped. Two men in complete black clothes and black masks walked out the SUV, easily opened the front door to Michael's house and went right in. "They're in the house, let's go right now." Mc tapped his friend's shoulder and they rushed into their car, but immediately they started the engine, Alberto heard the sound and rushed outside to see them zooming off. "Fuck! Hey man get over here they're out again, they just keep getting away."

Right into their SUV they went and they chased after Mc.

It was a chase like no other, Mc didn't want to be caught, Alberto and his man never wanted to fail again. They had been running around town for over 20 minutes and Mc noticed something disturbing, "Michael we're gonna be out of gas soon." he said with his eyes still on the road.

"Bloody hell! That's bad!"

"I know but I got a plan, we're gonna end this today."

"What are you thinking? Please don't do anything crazy."

Mc got to an area with an abandoned construction site by the right and he made a turn to that direction. "You're both going down today bitches!" Alberto's hands held the steer so firmly as he drifted to the right just after Mc.

The car stopped and Mc rushed out with his friend to enter one of the many uncompleted buildings, it was a big site with big buildings and forklifts, no one had been there for over a month at least and it was almost like a maze as each building had a way of linking to the other.

"We're gonna finish you!" Alberto shouted as he ran after them so fast, Mc climbed up some stairs then took the right path while Michael took the left. "Follow the friend, I'll go after Mc!" Alberto instructed his partner and they both went after someone.

With any little sign of Mc in sight, Alberto fired shots and that was exactly Mc's plan, he wanted them to waste all their bullets and then they'll face each other like men should do. He kept running from room to room and taking cover in whatever he could. Thaw! thaw! Shots were fired at Mc as he quickly walked up the long stairs, Alberto paused to reload his gun and that gave Mc time to walk up successfully but he didn't go anywhere after reaching the top. He saw a full rubber of fresh pain at the corner and he got an idea. He leaned against the wall then peeped to see Alberto running up the stairs, "nice... Very nice." Mc waited till his hunter got closer and then he took the paint and poured it on the stairs! "Oh fuck no!" Alberto's eyes and mouth opened wide as he slipped on the fresh paint and started rolling all the way back. His head hit the stairs repeatedly and he let go of his gun since he couldn't feel himself anymore. By the time he finally reached the floor, there was blood from his mouth, his nose and ears. And he couldn't move. "Is he dead?" Mc asked himself before he heard another gunshot in the other room and then heard his friend screaming. He was shocked and scared at the same time, he could only wish that his friend didn't scream because he was hit by a bullet. "Wait a minute, did he just shoot Michael? Oh my God Michael! No please Michael No" he shouted then ran in that direction.