CHAPTER NINETY-HREE
My heart was palpitating and fear enveloped my body as the realization of what was happening, or wasn't happening.
The entire gas station was silent and empty. The crazy thought that came to my mind was how no one would even see him or hear our screams.
“What did you just do?” He whispered, shock etched clearly on his face. I'd just done something he never expected and I could tell he was more surprised at my ability to actually go ahead with it. I didn't like that he'd underestimated me but that feeling was trumped by something else
My mind was filled with fear and confusion. I didn't even know what to do from here.
My thoughts turned sporadic, so many things flowing through it as we stared at each other uncomfortably. His breathing was uneven and I could imagine he was thinking so many things as well. ‘But for sure, it'll all end with him snapping my neck,’ I thought to myself
‘Didn't Corbin take into account his true strength? What if he intentionally did this? What on earth was going to happen now?’
Xavier looked more hurt than angry and a surge of guilt enveloped me. Maybe I should have spoken to him first or something.
“I.. I'm sorry,” I stammered, terrified to my bones. Maybe living with him in the alien planet wouldn't have been such a bad idea but now he was definitely going to kill me.
He opened his mouth to respond but no words came out.
“Xavier?” I reached out to him but his eyes weren't focusing on my face anymore.
Slowly, his face began drooping and soon enough, he slumped back on the car seat with his mouth wide open and his eyes closed. He was fast asleep.
Shocked, I looked back and my sister and best friend mirrored my shock as well.
“Is he..?” Roe asked, her voice very low.
I nodded but still placed my ear on his chest to make sure he was breathing fine. He was so I turned to the next problem, I'd worry about my feelings later because my attention was called to something worse.
“Guys,who are those?” Anna asked, her voice filled with panic and I looked outside of the window and saw some ky’rhans with masks that covered their faces.
“Shit! Wait, let me call Corbin. Maybe he sent them,” I said, holding onto a hope I knew sounded crazy.
“Why would he sent masked men to come rescue us? I'm not comfortable with all of this. Maybe we should wake him up, better to be alive in space than to be dead here,” Roe vented, fear and trepidation spewing out along with her words.
“I don't think that was a sleeping potion that can be undone with true love’s kiss, Roe. He's knocked out and who knows when he's going to get out of it?” I snapped at my best friend.
I dialed Corbin's number and waited for him to pick up. The phone rang for an uncomfortable three times before he picked up.
“Where are you? There are masked men at the gas station where we are,”
I sounded quite terrified and I guess he heard that in my voice because he cursed out loud. I heard shuffling sounds at the background before he paid attention to me again.
“Wait, which has station are you at? Is it blue or green?”
“Wait, you're not here yet? It's red!” I screamed into the phone, finally feeling what Roe was feeling as she shifted around at the back.
“Red, red, red,” he whispered to himself as though deep in thought. “Give me five minutes, okay? I miscalculated a little bit,” he said and cut the call immediately without hearing the panicked “wait!” I screamed into the tiny device.
Meanwhile, the masked men had sighted us and the one thing I was thankful for was that the car windows were tinted and they couldn't see us.
But I could bet on my left tit that these men knew this car belonged to someone pretty important and if they were petty thieves before, they were about to become kidnappers if they opened the car and figured out who was in it.
I felt terrible, like a failure and my trust in Corbin seemed foolish now.
As the five masked men approached us from the other end of the gas station, I began to shake Xavier.
The entire place was lonely, only the four fueling points and an abandoned supermarket. Maybe it wasn't abandoned and these ky’rhans had just finished robbing them. Their tails were shorter than normal but they still looked pretty scary.
“Is there a way to make sure this car is locked?” Anna asked me, the only levelheaded one out of us all.
“Roe, try opening the door from your side,” I said, looking at the other side that faced the road. No sign of Corbin yet.
“Why me? Why can't you open it?” She protested and I was getting irritated and angry at the same time.
“Because they won't see you! I and Anna are on this side,”
“Oh, sorry. That's true,” she replied and immediately tried opening her side of the car. It didn't budge.
“Well that's a relief. Wait, how were we gonna get out earlier? We don't know how to unlock the car or anything,” Anna asked, her mind running in circles. “If Corbin comes to rescue us, how are we gonna get out?”
“Let's get rescued first and then we can worry about that. Shit, they're here,” said Roe in a panicked voice.
I turned to my side and saw the men.
“Wait, is that a crowbar?” I gasped.
“Shit, they're gonna forcefully open the car,” Roe shrieked and we all shared her fear.
Our only savior in such a crazy situation was snoring right beside me and I didn't know what to do to wake him up. Was the drug that strong? I guess it must have been for it to knock him out.
Then an idea sprung to my mind.
“Wait, what if I spray the rest of the drug in their faces if they manage to open it?” I suggested wildly.
“Will you be able to get it across all of them at once? Besides, it took a good minute before it worked on your husband,” Roe said worriedly and her use of that word husband turned my stomach more than it should have.
I'd admitted to myself that I was in love with him but maybe I didn't take unto account how much. Even though he was going to kidnap me for his selfish interests, yet here I was feeling guilty for trying to rescue myself and my family.
And besides, what good did that do? We were about to get kidnapped by a different type of ky’rhans and they weren't in love with either of us so the experience won't be quite as nice.
“Here, give me some of that powder stuff, if they succeed in opening your car, I'll wind down the window and pour it on them as well. Besides, they're XYZs from the way their skin looks so it should knock them off quickly,” Anna suggested and I nodded.
It was a brilliant idea and as they began doing something to the car, we waited for them, the tension in the car palpable and strong.
“What if they're violent?” Roe whispered and I knew she was more than frightened at this point.
“We'll protect you Roe, don't worry so much okay?” My sister assured her and I sent a smile in her direction as well even though I felt like shit inside.
It took them about two minutes of pushing and pulling, cursing and arguing before the door finally opened.
Then I took a deep breath.
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