Chapter 1
Chapter 1: I Wanna Be Friends.
“Do you know what the most primitive emotion people have is? It’s a fear.”
M. POV:
I am so dizzy. I try to get up, but I feel a strong pain inside of my head. It hurts so much that I can’t even think clearly. I think that someone hit me from the back. I touch the back of my head slowly, trying to understand what happened to me.
Where am I?
I try to open my eyes, but I can’t. My head hurts more and more, and I feel like I am going to faint again. I don’t know what is happening to me, but I know that something is wrong.
I try to move my hands around me. Maybe I can find something to help me get up.
But I can’t find anything.
I just started to touch the air like a blind person, searching for something to catch and help myself get up. My hands are shaking, and I start to feel scared.
“What is this?”
I say with a shaking voice.
I touch something cold and hard. I move my hands a little more and find another one. I try to understand what I am touching, but I can’t.
I try again to open my eyes. I wish that I am wrong.
Slowly, I open my eyes. At first, everything is blurry, and I can’t see anything clearly. I blink several times, waiting for my eyes to get used to the darkness.
But when I can finally see, I wish that I never opened them.
I am inside a cage.
“HELP! Someone helps me to get off here!”
I start screaming and yelling. I grab the bars with my hands and try to shake them, but they don’t move. I look around, trying to find a door or anything that can help me get out.
Nothing.
I don’t know where I am. It’s dark, and I can’t see what is outside the cage. My heart starts beating so fast, and I feel like I can’t breathe properly.
I keep screaming, hoping that someone will hear me.
“PLEASE! SOMEONE HELP ME!”
My voice echoes in the darkness, but nobody answers me. I keep looking around, trying to see if there is someone here, but I can’t see anyone.
I am really locked inside a cage.
I can’t believe it. How did I end up here? Who brought me here? Why am I inside this cage?
I keep screaming and yelling for a while until I just realize that there is no one who will hear me or come to save me from this mysterious and dark place.
I slowly let go of the bars. My hands hurt from holding them so tightly, but I don’t even care anymore.
I just give up on yelling and start crying and praying at the same time.
“Please lord help me! Please!”
I say while holding my hands together.
I don’t know what else to do. I am scared, confused, and I just want to go home. I want to see my family. I want to wake up and find out that this is just a nightmare.
But it doesn’t feel like a nightmare.
I keep crying, trying to calm myself down, but I can’t. Every time I look at the cage, I start crying even more. I don’t know how long I have been here, and I don’t know what will happen to me.
Then I hear something.
At first, I think that I imagine it, so I stop crying and listen carefully.
Someone is laughing.
I look around in the darkness, trying to find where the sound is coming from. My heart starts beating faster again.
“Hey help me please!”
I say while looking around.
He keeps laughing. I can hear it getting closer and closer, and I start to feel more scared. I don’t know who he is or what he wants from me.
I try to move away from the sound, but there is nowhere to go.
Then I see someone coming out of the darkness.
It is a man.
He is looking at me and laughing. I look at him in surprise. He is handsome, but I don’t understand why he is laughing at me. I thought that he was here to help me.
Why is he laughing? Isn’t he here to help me or what?
Many questions keep rolling inside my head.
“Why are you laughing? Won’t you here to help me?”
I ask him, hoping that he will answer me.
He keeps laughing for a few seconds, then suddenly stops.
He looks directly into my eyes.
His eyes look normal a second ago, but now they are completely different. His expression changes, and I don’t know why. He looks at me like he is angry, and there is something in his eyes that makes me want to run away from him.
He scares me. You can say ’til death.
I just step back, trying not to look at his eyes anymore. I don’t know what I did to make him look at me that way, but I don’t want to find out.
I look away.
But suddenly, I feel a hand grabbing me so hard that I hit my head on the front of the cage.
“Ah!”
I cry out in pain.
I look to see who grabbed me, and it is him. He is holding me and forcing me to face him again. I try to move away, but his grip is too strong.
I have to look into his eyes.
His scary eyes.
“Rule N°01 when I talk look directly into my eyes. Did you get it my Gardenia?”
He asks me with a cold voice, as if he owns me.
I don’t understand what he means by Gardenia. Why is he calling me that? I have never met this man before, at least not that I can remember. I don’t know why he brought me here, and now he is talking to me as if we know each other.
He looks at me again.
“Why you didn’t know what is the meaning of the flower? I thought that you know it. You are flowers.”
He looks at me with a smile on his face.
I try to understand what he is talking about. A flower? What does he mean? I don’t know what he wants from me, and I am too scared to ask him too many questions.
“No, I know what does it mean. But I am confused. I am not your secret love?”
I ask him, hoping that maybe he will explain everything to me.
He starts to laugh again, then stops. His scary look comes back, and I feel my heart beating faster.
I am scared of him. Every second I spend looking at him makes my fear grow more and more. I don’t know what he is thinking, and I don’t know what he will do next.
“You didn’t get it right?”
He looks at me.
I keep looking at him without answering. I don’t know what to say. I just want him to let me go.
I can feel his hand grabbing me more and more tightly.
“It hurts stop it!”
I say, yelling at him.
“Oh sorry, I didn’t mean it. But Rule N°02 when I ask a question you answer me. Okay?”
He asks me.
I look at him, confused by the way he acts. He hurts me, then apologizes as if nothing happened. I don’t understand him at all.
“Okay.”
I just say.
Then he lets go of me, and I quickly move away from him.
“If you are asking how did you end up here I will tell you my flower don’t worry. I was following you for 6 months. I found you interesting to add you to my collection. So I know everything about you may be more than you know about yourself. What you like, what you hate, when you sleep, your favourite food and drinks, your family, your friends... I know everything about you. so, don’t think that you will run from here that easily. I hit you last night on your head because you were hard to get drugged. Or just lucky. Anyway, welcome to your new garden.”
He says to me while smiling that creepy smile.
I just stare at him.
Six months?
He has been following me for six months?
I can’t believe what I am hearing. He knows everything about me? My family, my friends, the things I like and hate?
I feel cold all over my body. I start thinking about all the times I went out alone, all the places I visited, and all the moments when I thought that nobody was watching me.
Was he there? Was he watching me all that time?
I don’t want to believe it, but he sounds so sure of himself.
And then I remember what he said about hitting me and trying to drug me.
He kidnapped me.
He brought me here against my will, locked me inside a cage, and now he is telling me that I belong to his collection.
I can’t stop being afraid of him.
He just stands up and disappears into the darkness. I watch him leave, wondering where he is going and if he will come back.
Then suddenly, the room lights up.
I look around, and my eyes widen.
It is a real garden, but inside a room. There are many kinds of flowers everywhere, and the place looks strange. Some flowers are placed in pots, while others are arranged carefully around the room. Their colours look beautiful under the light, but somehow, I can’t enjoy the view.
Because there are other cages.
They are smaller than mine, and I can see things inside them. I look closer, trying to understand what I am seeing.
There is a ring box in one cage and a flower in another. They are different, and I don’t know why he keeps them there.
What is this place?
Why does he have these cages?
And what does he mean by his collection?
I look around again, trying to find something that might help me understand him, but everything only makes me more confused.
I hear his voice whispering in my ears.
“Don’t worry you are going to be my only special flower I will take care of you very well.”
I immediately turn around, startled. I didn’t even hear him coming back. I don’t know how he manages to move so quietly, but now he is beside me again.
I feel chills all over my body.
He becomes scarier to me with every second that passes. His words may sound kind, but I know that I can’t trust him. How can someone say that he will take care of me after doing all these things to me?
I look at him, but I don’t know what to say.
He just smiles at me before leaving the room, letting me go crazy with lots of unanswered questions.
I stay inside the cage, looking at the flowers around me. They are beautiful, but all I can think about is how I ended up in this place.
I don’t know what he wants from me. I don’t know why he chose me, and I don’t know what will happen if I refuse to follow his rules.
But there is one thing I know.
I have to find a way out of this hell.
And I have to do it before it’s too late.
