C11 Chapter 11.

"Stop all this!" Miss Lucy yelled as the voice chuckled louder.

"Save your child and stop ordering" the voice echoed.

"Who are you!"

"You still don't get it! Shut up and listen to the rule, or you would find your child dead. Miss Lucy inhaled deeply, wiped the tears off her face, and motioned in the air for the being to continue while she listened.

"Look below you, there's a map and gun beneath where you kneel…" It paused while miss Lucy searched with her eyes and found a hole that had a map and gun.

"What next?" She beckoned, trying to be bold.

"Someone is heading your way…shot it" the being ordered and miss Lucy scoffed.

"You expect me to kill…is this a joke!what would you gain from this?"

"Fame! Because this is a reality show now"

"Why… you're risking lives in this dirty game of yours!" She retorts, throwing the gun on the ground and panting for air.

"You started the dirty game all along, remember! Stop acting innocent, your hands are stained with blood" the voice blasted and laughed hard.

"Mother, please help!… someone, anyone help me, I'm scared" Julie pleaded as her voice echoed throughout the space.

"Don't worry Julie mother's coming" she assured cleaning the tears that gushed out as memories began to flood her eyes.

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The entertainment industry was growing, and more people were getting interested in becoming a star. A group of boys and girls sat down as an audition was going on. A young girl walked in looking naive and scared. She sat at an isolated seat alone as scorching eyes glared at her. The girl folded her lips together, nervous and curious, contemplating if she would make it this time after many trials. She was just a farm girl who ran away from home to fulfill her dreams but unknowingly to her, the bigger world was more terrifying as it looks. Life in the city was tough for her as she had no qualifications and had to work as a cleaner in a fashion home before she learned of the audition and decided to give it a try.

"Linda Henshaw?" A woman called from the manager's office.

"Yes!yes I'm up!" The girl replied, jerking up like someone who was woken up from a bad nightmare.

"Stop acting awkward" the woman teased from her window and Linda paced towards her. Linda paused looking tensed, she was in front of the camera and had properly forgotten her lines.

"Out!" The director yelled.

"Please sir give me a chance" she begged with a sober tone.

"Can't you hear me! Out!" He ordered, which provoked Linda.

"Do you have to be so strict on us? You just gave us 30 minutes to memorize two chapters of the script" she defended and the director laughed.

"Do you want to teach me my job?" He roared, which made her startled.

"No, I was just saying…"

"Hahaha!! The production team mocked.

"I see why you would never get a role…" The director barked at her face.

"Stop trying to claim right because the boss is right" one of the crew advised, chasing her out as she frowned. Linda was definitely going to go back home since her dreams which her father calls a mere fantasy wasn't coming true, it was best to be a farmer supplying food, or she should just try not forgetting lines or correcting any producer and just follow orders.

"Are you in?". These words brought miss Lucy back to reality, and she nodded quickly.

"Whose coming?"

"That's for you to know" the voice muffled and everywhere went dark.

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Oliver and keva stood at an empty space which dark inside but thanks to the torchlight with them.

"Why do I have a bad feeling about this?" Oliver muttered as he stooped low to find any trace of evidence on the ground.

"You always have bad feeling on any mission" keva mocked mimicking him as she also stoops low close to him

"What exactly are we doing here?" He yelled, and she gestured to him to lower his voice while she tries to Concentrate.

"You were the one who told me you got a call from here" keva reminded and Oliver shook his head.

"Yeah and now another call is coming, miss Lucy's child is missing" he pointed out, flashing the torchlight on her face.

"I don't believe that, how can all these tragedies happen the same…" She paused and groaned at him. He was actually recording them live and even taking selfies, how did he ever become her superior?

"Say cheeses" he stressed as she raised two of her fingers like a v sign.

"At least smile, we're on a mission…"

"Seriously, I have dinner tonight with my boyfriend and here you are trying to slow me down!" she yelled while Oliver blinked his eyes several times, this lady was shouting on her superior, does she know who he is or should he remind her, better still just die the matter down because this woman was fire for fire. He often wonders if keva and miss Lucy had genetic ties and if they stayed together, oh the house would definitely be on fire too, and he would come to the rescue.

"What a stupid yet fantastic thought" he soliloquized laughing mischievously

"Did you hear that sound?" Keva beckoned, diverting his attention.

"Yeah more like footsteps" he added as they switched off their lights and hide behind a rock that stood behind the space, more like an open air theater.

"Hello anyone here?" Someone called trying to switch on a light.

"Isn't that miss Lucy?" Oliver whispered and keva winced. He was staring at miss Lucy from their hide-out and yet asking if it was still her.

"What's she doing here" he pressed on and immediately, miss Lucy's phone which she used as light fell down, and its ray faced her right hand that held a gun. Oliver gasped and glanced at keva who was reporting the issue in a low tone.

"She's armed, keva"

"Were you ever experience when you got this job?". He nodded and shook his head.

"You're forgetting miss that I just make announcement and not carry out investigations… because it's scary". They both glanced at themselves and then at where Lucy stood earlier.

"We lost her!"