GRENADE

“Hold your fire!” a man shouted.

“Nobody moves,” a woman said.

“One wrong move and I won’t hesitate to pull the trigger...” the man spoke again.

The two armed men raised their hands. The woman approached to take all the weapons they were wearing and carrying.

“Are you terrorists?” the man asked the two men in front of them.

“We’re not!” one of them answered firmly.

“Then what are you doing here?” the woman asked.

“We are just roaming,” one of the men replied.

“Then why so many weapons?” the woman asked again.

“There are terrorists all over the place. We need them to protect ourselves,” he responded to her.

The man and woman looked at each other and both nodded to one another. The woman set down everything the two men had been carrying, then motioned for them to take their things while their guns were still aimed at them. The two men slowly gathered their things and looked at the couple in front of them. The man gestured to them, telling them to leave. The two men left without looking back and kept walking away.

“Are you alright?” the man asked the woman.

“Of course I am,” she replied to him with a smile.

The two of them walked through the middle of the forest, observing every corner they passed.

“Do you remember when we first met here?” the man asked while smiling.

“You were in pretty bad shape that day,” the woman answered, looking at the man.

“It’s been decades since we’ve had each other’s backs,” the man said, taking a deep breath.

“Yeah! Sure it is,” the woman replied as she kept walking.

“Hey, Laura!” the man called out to the woman.

The woman turned around. Noticing that the man was silent and just staring at her, she thought of just continuing to walk. But before she could take a step, the man suddenly grabbed her hand and pulled her forward, kissing her on the lips. The woman’s eyes widened; she couldn’t speak or move from sheer shock at what was happening.

The man pulled his lips away from hers and stared at her for a few seconds before lunging in for another kiss. The woman kissed back and they exchanged a passionate kiss that lasted for a few minutes, until they suddenly heard gunshots.

They both became alert instantly and stood back-to-back, their guns ready to fire in case anyone attacked them. They walked slowly until they clashed with the suspected terrorists. They exchanged gunfire until the woman was grazed on her right arm, causing her to drop her gun.

“Laura!”

The man immediately threw tear gas and a smoke grenade toward where the terrorists were, and then he rained bullets on them. He ran fast toward Laura and quickly carried her away from the site of the encounter.

When he was sure they were far from danger, the man entered an abandoned building while carrying Laura. They took a spot where no one would see or think they were there. He laid Laura down and then looked for anything he could use to treat her wound.

“Are you okay?” Intense worry was obvious in his voice.

The woman nodded at him. Moments later, he found gauze and alcohol in a cabinet. He quickly took them and approached the woman to treat her wound.

“Ugh...” Laura bit her lip while the man treated the wound she sustained.

When he finished treating her, the man paused, staring at her. He looked down, which the woman immediately noticed.

“I’m not dead yet...” the woman said softly to him.

He looked up at her, and tears could be seen in the man’s eyes. The woman smirked, then adjusted herself into a proper sitting position. She held the man’s face to give him peace and assurance that she’s okay.

Suddenly, they heard footsteps. The man immediately gathered everything he used to treat the woman and wiped away the blood, making sure no trace whatsoever would be left, and then they slowly moved to a corner. They were both catching their breath and holding it while hiding.

Moments later, one of the armed terrorists arrived. For a few minutes, he observed and looked at the entire surroundings before finally leaving. When they were both sure the enemy was gone, only then did they breathe a sigh of relief and slowly come out from the corner where they hid.

They leaned against the wall together, panting, when suddenly their eyes met. He slowly pressed his lips against the woman’s. They exchanged kisses while the man’s hand crawled over different parts of the woman’s body. He grabbed her by the hips and made her sit on him. He stopped kissing the woman’s lips and observed her face. He slowly removed her clothes until her chest was revealed to his eyes. He held both of the woman’s breasts, then licked and sucked them. The woman’s every breath and groan could be heard.

He unzipped his pants and lowered what the woman was wearing. He touched the lower part of the woman and felt that it was already soaking wet, so he slowly inserted his long and very angry member into her. The woman jolted and hugged him tightly. Every movement got faster and faster, and every sound grew louder and louder, like music filling the entire space until they reached the most pleasurable peak together.

The next day, the man woke up to a loud thud. As he opened his eyes, a powerful impact hit his face, making him dizzy. As he was being dragged by two people whose faces he couldn’t make out, he repeatedly uttered only one word in a weak tone due to the severe dizziness.

“Laura...”

“Laura...”

“Lau-...”

They shoved him inside a vehicle, then blindfolded him and covered his entire face with a medium-sized sack. He felt the vehicle drive for a few minutes. Moments later, the two people took him down from the vehicle again and brought him to a place he had no idea where. He tried to struggle, but the strength he had wasn’t enough yet.

“Who are you?!” he shouted at them.

“Where is Laura?” he asked sharply.

“I will kill you the moment you do something bad to her!” he screamed at them.

He heard them laughing and the noise around him. Moments later, the two holding him made him kneel, then removed the covering on his face.

“Where is Laura?!” he shouted.

He heard groans...

“You animals!” he screamed.

“Laura???” he called out loudly, his voice breaking.

One of his captors removed the blindfold from his eyes, and there he saw armed men, and several men and women exchanging the heat of their bodies.

“Where is Laura?” he asked sharply of a man sitting in the middle of a luxurious sofa.

He looked around the entire abandoned warehouse when he heard footsteps from behind him. He looked there, and there he saw a familiar face.

“Laura?”

She approached him. He slowly stood up from kneeling.

“Are you okay?” he asked her as his tears fell.

Laura held his face and stared at it. He lunged in to kiss Laura and they exchanged a passionate kiss for a few minutes while his tears continuously fell. Moments later, Laura slightly pushed him back while staring at him.

“Did they do anything bad to you?” he asked her.

Laura smiled at him, and then she walked toward the man sitting on the sofa.

“They didn’t,” Laura answered him as she kept walking, while his eyes followed her.

“Because they won’t,” Laura said to him again, turning around and smiling. Then, she rode the man on the sofa, and they exchanged passionate kisses.

“Wha-...”

“What are you doing?”

“Lau-...”

Two men suddenly grabbed him when he attempted to approach where Laura and the man were. He couldn’t believe what he was seeing, and his whole world practically collapsed. He forced himself to struggle, but they rained blows, punches, and kicks on him until he was forced face down.

He could do nothing else but scream along with the tears streaming down his eyes as he watched the woman he loved thoroughly enjoying giving pleasure to the man on the sofa—as if they had been doing this for a long time. Every groan was like a slash to his entire being. He slammed his face against the floor over and over, wanting the suffering and pain he was feeling to end, but he only grew weaker.

He saw Laura arching her back as she was being rapidly pounded by the man on the sofa. She was staring at him while groaning, and she slowly smiled at him.