Arabella Novel – She’s just three. Her world is confined to the little cell where she lives with her mother. But now, she’s on her own. Her mother is dead. “Hi baby, I’m Ethan and I can help you. Can you come with me? I can take to a nice place, somewhere warm, comfortable.” Ethan questioned her gently. When Ethan found the poor little girl, she couldn’t leave the little girl alone with her mom’s body. She would take her away.
She sat crying on her mother’s dead body. She wasn’t aware yet that the life was already sucked out of her mama’s body, she just knew her mama’s not replying to her meant she was hurt and she was probably sleeping and resting. “mommy, okay?” the three year old asked her dead mama after realizing her body was so so cold. But mama didn’t reply. “She sleeping.” the young girl whispered to herself trying to wind down herself. But it wasn’t normal for her mom to sleep for so long. She pressed her head against her mama’s soft chest and signed. She then took her mama’s heavy hand and put it on her hair. “Mama, please play with my hair?” But she still got no reply or movement. She signed again and closed her eyes trying to sleep and hoping to see her mum already awaken when she wakes up.
After an hour she woke up from her nap still laying on her mum’s body and her mum’s limp hand felt heavy, still over her head where she rested it before. The girl knew something was not right. “Mama please wake up, I’m cold” she spoke lowly knowing very well she can’t speak in a normal voice, in this dark cell or the bad men will come to hurt her and her mama again. The little girl sat on the concrete floor right next to her mama’s dead body and started playing with her mum’s hair. “You hurt, mama?” the girl felt tears in the back of her eyes. Her mama was still. So still.
“I don’t think this is a good idea.” Andrew mumbles beside me. “Stop being a coward, Drew.” We’re driving towards the Russian territory to participate in the street racing. “Ethan is gonna kill us if he finds out.” Well Andrew is the clearly not the most rebellious one of us. “The most he’s gonna do is lecture us and ground us.” I tell him so he can be less worried and stop eating my head. “For like a month. You’re gonna survive without electronics for a month?” He is right I’ll die without my phone. “Yeah that only if he found out and that is impossible.” I emphasize on the ‘if’ “Okay, then I’m gonna blame it on you if they find out.”
He threatens me. “Okay, sure.” I agree with him. We finally reached the race grounds and I go to register my name as a participant in the race. I come back and sit in my audi where Andrew is already sitting on the passenger’s seat. “Take a chill pill bro.” The race is about to start in ten minutes and I have to compete with with Sniper, who is one one the best racer here. I am not scared I defeated him once and am sure I can do it again. “The next we have Sniper and Red to race against each other.” The instructor says on the mic and the crowd breaks into an applause. Well my racer name is Red as of course red is my favorite color and the it’s so cool.
Drew exits from my car and goes to sit in the audience. I drive my car to the starting point and Sniper’s car was already parked there. I roll down my window and see Sniper do the same. “Ready to loose, jerk?” I hear his voice. “Talking to yourself, huh?” I reply the idiot. He was going to reply but he was cut off by the instructor’s voice. “We’re the starting the race soon so, everyone’s ready?” We both waved our hands to signal everyone that we are. “The race is about to start in- 3 2 1 and go.” I started my car immediately after it. We had to take the round of the city and come back here as soon as possible. I was ahead of sniper but that jerk collided his car against mine which caused me to loose my balance and he took advantage of it and went ahead.
“My god!” I whispered to myself frustratedly. I gained the balance of my car and looked ahead only to notice a sharp turn. I quickly turned my car but I heard some loud noise from my car. I didn’t even realise from where it came from. I just knew my car going into the tree. And then everything went black. Working for six hours is really exhausting I was about to take a break when I hear my phone ringing. It’s Andrew. He doesn’t call me unless it’s really important. I frown and pick up the call. “Hello.” I hear deep breathings of Drew and suddenly gets tensed. “Brother, it’s Alex.” “What happened to him?” I reply already getting my car keys knowing they messed up big time again. “He met with an accident and I could not find him.”
Drew’s voice breaks, he clearly wants to cry. “What do you mean you can’t fine him?” I ask him immediately. “We were in the Russian territory and he was racing when he met with an accident, his car is here but he is missing.” Drew replies in a state of pinic. I mumble to myself clearly knowing what it meant. “Do you think the Russians kidnapped him?” Drew asks me. “It’s the highest possibilty, kid.” I say that rather to myself. “Send me your live location and I’ll call Felix and come with him, don’t worry. He’ll be fine.” I try to console Drew. “Okay.” He replies and I get a notification of his live location. Once I cut the call with Drew, I dial Felix’s number, he picks up after three rings. “Felix, I am sending you a location, come there immediately. I think the Russians kidnapped Alex.” He was going to say something but I cut him off. “Don’t ask any questions now.” And I cut the call. I went straight to my car and put on the location on my GPS. It was fifteen minutes away. I need to drive fast.
After ten minutes I reach the location and spot Drew sitting near the car. I run to him and when he sees me, he comes and immediately hugs me. I hug him back. “I’m sorry, I tried to stop him, please save him.” he mumbles into the hug. “I know, Drew. We’ll save him, trust me.” I release him from the hug and pat his back. I hear another car and turn to see Felix is here. “Check the car, maybe something’s there.” I tell Felix. “Okay.” He immediately starts searching the car. I go on to examine the area hoping to find something. “I think I found something” Felix basically shouts. Me and Drew both go towards him and see him holding a folded paper. He unfolded the paper and it read we have your alexander kid with us and if you want him, you need to give us the new dope you found which is for 115 million dollars. -Ivan Petrov We all three stare at each other. “Fu-ck!” Felix grunts. We need a plan to save Alex. We made a plan. We have to attack the Russians and save Alex. He is most probably in the dungeons and we need to get him from there. They wanted the drugs in return of Alex. I would sacrifice everything for my brothers when I have to but I knew I could save him without the drugs involved. We were more powerful and Ivan was an idiot to even think he can outdo us. I had my men ready to attack the Russians and I was going to take the lead.
Felix would come with me and and Drew would stay behind at home. And today was the day we save Alex. I got seated in my car, my men and Felix were already on their way to the Russians base. “I’ll save you Alex.” I whispered to myself as I started my car. When the reached the base of the enemies. I ordered my men to take the places we discussed before. Felix and me were armed as we got directly into the dungeon, killing the two guards before they even had the time to react. Dumbasses There were many cells filled with men which looked half dead and the place didn’t smell better than it looked. Well, our dungeon was even worse so what can I say. Felix was walking beside me and we were looking at even cell to find Alex and finally after almost ten cells were passed. I spotted Alex dumped in the corner of the cell. Badly injured. I’m gonna kill every man who touched him. “Look, he’s there.” I pointed it to Felix, he noticed him too and he shot the lock of the cell with his gun. It opened and we got closer to Alex. He was fine, well as fine as one could be after being locked for two days.
Felix being the doctor he is, started checking Alex for injuries there. I was looking at them when I heard a soft sob. Too soft. Almost of girl. They keep women here? But Felix and Alex didn’t notice it as they were already talking to each other and seemed busy. I made my was outside the cell to look for the sound. After passing three cells. I saw someone lying down on the ground of the cell with some small thing on their top. I moved closer to the cell and saw it moved. It was rather someone. A child? I shot the lock open and moved closer the person. I saw long hair proving it was a woman with a child on her top sobbing. The child didn’t notice me yet nor the woman. I bent down near the woman. She looked dead. The child had their face buried inside the woman’s chest. I gently touched the child shoulder “Hey.” I gently whispered trying not to scare them.
But my plan did not work. The child flinched violently and ran towards the corner of the room and sat down with thrir legs of the chest. It was a small girl. Toddler. She was wearing a worn out dress. I looked at the woman near me didn’t move at all. I checked her pulse and she was indeed dead. Probably the mother of the little girl. I could not leave her with a dead mother. The girl was not looking at me. She had the face buried again into her knees. I moved closer to her and bent down again. I didn’t touch her this time. “Hey, I’m not here to hurt you. I promise.” I spoke in the most gentle way I could. She unburied her face and looked at me. “Hi baby, I’m Ethan and I can help you” I speak again, knowing she was listening to me.
She looked at me carefully. Observing me. After some moments she pointed at the woman “Mama, help.” She spoke in a low voice, that I could barely hear her. She knew her mama needed help. But she couldn’t be helped, she was gone. But her daughter didn’t realize it yet, probably wasn’t aware what even death was. “Can you come with me? I can take to a nice place, somewhere warm, comfortable.” I questioned her gently. “No, mama.” She sobbed again, she wasn’t listening. We didn’t have much time, my men planned to destroy the place. I wouldn’t let her stay, I would take her. Even forcefully, if she didn’t want to leave.