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{The Mafia’s little princess}
By Precious Pinky
Chapter 175&176
••••
( THE FIRST DEAL WITH THE DEVIL )
Julius was wearing a black raincoat that was dripping with water. The hood of the coat hovered over his head.
He looked like a predator stalking after his prey.
The two girls’ feet felt numb and they were barely able to register what was happening.
Why was the man who picked them up from the amusement park looking so different?
Why does it look like he was going to kill them and eat their souls?
Was he one of those people who eat children?
Lottie fearfully went to stand behind Diamond, trembling.
“Hello, children.” Julius smirked, going towards a table centered below a window too high for the kids to reach.
“Long time no see,” He added.
“What is going on?” Diamond was brave enough to ask, balling her fist.
“What does it look like, angel?” He asked, taking out a syringe from his pocket.
“What… What is that?” Lottie stammered.
“You both ask a lot of questions, you know that, right?” He grinned psychotically.
“Why did you lock us up in here for two weeks? I don’t get it. What you promised us is different from this.” Diamond said.
He laughed.
“Really? And what did I promise you?”
“A better life.” Lottie chirped in, still hiding behind her new friend and sister. “You promised to treat us better, unlike our family. What you are doing now is quite the opposite. In fact, I don’t want to be here again. I want to go home. Take me back to my parents or the amusement park. I hate this place.” She cried.
“Hey, stop crying.” Diamond said to her quietly.
“Aww.” Julius chuckled as he walked towards the girls. “Am I your father?”
“N… No.” They answered, wondering where he was getting at.
“Am I a part of your family?” He questioned again.
“Uhm, no.”
“Good. So why should I treat you two better?”
“Huh?”
He stood in front of them, folding his hands behind his back.
“I ask again, why should I treat you girls better? If your families don’t love you. Why should I?”
“Be… Because…”
Lottie stepped out from Diamond’s back, looking bolder than earlier.
“That was your promise to us. To me. You a-ssured me that you were going to take me to a place much better. You told me that I was going to love my stay with you. Was it all a trick? Are you one of those people who eat children? Do you want to kill me and then eat my soul? Tell me!”
“Sa-ssy. I like it.” He smiled with the side of his li-p as he knelt down in front of the girls. “But listen, baby girl. Be careful of what you say. Because it could lead you to your doom.”
“What?”
“Are you threatening her?” Diamond queried as she hold Lottie’s hand.
“Nah. Of course not.” He laughed and went back to the table. “Anyway, I brou-ght something special for the both of you.”
“I don’t want anything from you. Just get me out of here.” Lottie cried. “What do you want from me? Why are you doing all this?”
“Oh, child. You talk as if I forced you here. Don’t forget you followed me here out of your own will.”
“Well, now I am telling you that I want to go back.” She pulled her hand from Diamond’s grasp and stepped close to the man. “I don’t want to remain here. I hate this place.”
“Shut up.” Julius roared angrily.
“Ah,” Lottie screamed in fear and fell to the floor as she tried to back away from him. She started shivering, tears rolling down her face.
Diamond ran to her and wrapped her arms around her.
“Lottie, are you okay?”
“No. No, I’m not okay. Tell him to let me go. Please.” She said in tears. “You might like it here because you eat enough but I don’t want to be here. I eat more than enough at home.”
“You have to calm down. We are no match for him and no one will come to our rescue no matter how much we scream for help.”
“Leave me alone.” Lottie pushed Diamond away, glaring ha-rd at her. “You should be helping me out. Why are you saying all this? Do you think your words will make me feel any better? I said I want to leave here. Why are you asking me to shut up and not do anything?”
“I didn’t say you should shut up. I only ask you to calm down and that screaming won’t help you in any way. We could just plead with him to let us go, that’s all.”
“What are you waiting for? Plead with him then. Ask him to let me go. What are you waiting for? Go on.” Lottie urged.
Diamond stayed mute.
“You can’t do it? Really?”
“I–”
“I thought you were better than my sister but no, you are no different from her. You act like you are nice people. Well, guess what, I hate nice people. I hate people to be precise. I thought you were just like me. I thought we could be together and conquer the world. Stop acting like the brainy among us, you hear me? Stop talking to me like you are my elder. By the way, how old are you?”
Diamond hesitated.
“Seven,”
“I am seven too. So stop talking to me like I’m a child because guess what, we are both kids.” She gro-aned.
“Lottie,”
“Don’t call my name. I just want to leave here. I want to go home.” She sobbed once again.
“Ugh.” Julius gro-aned as he approached the girls on the floor. “What is wrong with the both of you?”
“Let us go,” Diamond said. “Please.”
“Do you think pleading with me will make me let you girls go?” He started laughing evilly. “Don’t be fools. I am trying to help you two. You should be grateful instead of acting like bit-ch es.”
“How? How are you helping us? You locked us up as if we are prisoners. Is this what you call helping?”
“Don’t be an Ingrate, angel. I hate bit-ch es who are like that.” He snarled.
“We are grateful, okay? We just want to go home.” Diamond stated.
“Home? I thought this is your home now.” He raised a brow.
“Never.” Lottie vigorously shook her head. “This can never be my home. Can’t you hear? I said I hate this place!”
Julius furiously released a harsh slap in the face of Lottie.
“Ow.” Lottie started crying in pain as she hold her reddened face
“Are you deaf? I said I hate ingrates.”
Lottie kept crying while Diamond tried to comfort her.
“I was trying to be nice with you girls but since you want to be a bit-ch … I’m going to treat you like one then.” He took out an injection he has been hiding behind his back and stuck it in the left arm of Lottie.
“Argh!” Lottie screamed in pain and lost consciousness.
“What… What did you do to her?” Diamond asked. “Did you kill he_” She was cut off as well when Julius likewise injected her and made her lose consciousness.
“This is the beginning of your hell.”
•••••
«THREE WEEKS LATER»
“I hate this place,” Lottie said tiredly, fighting ha-rd to keep her eyes open.
“Me too.” Diamond agreed.
“I should never have followed him here. Technically, this is not a kidnap case because we followed him on our accord. He didn’t force us.”
“Yeah… But this is still a kidnap case.”
“Is it?”
“Hmm. He tricked us into coming here and he is holding us captive.”
“I want to go home,” Lottie whined, crying.
“Stop crying. He will hurt us more if you don’t stop.”
“Has he not done enough already? He beats us every day even though we didn’t do anything wrong. He gives us raw liver with blood to eat. He gave us his urine to drink. He injects us with only God knows what which always makes us drowsy and drugs. He has done enough. What else can he possibly do that will be worse than what he has already done? Tell me. I hate this place, okay? I want to leave here.” Lottie cried harder.
“You will be fine. We will be.” Diamond said.
“Stop being optimistic. It doesn’t work. Let’s just say things the way they are.”
“My eyes are heavy. I want to sleep.” Diamond muttered as she leaned her head against the cold wall behind her and slowly, she fell asleep.
Lottie continued crying, biting her lower li-p.
“I don’t deserve this. I…” Her voice trailed off when an idea struck her head. She knitted her brows. “I don’t deserve this.” She repeated.
The door opened and Julius walked in, holding dead bush meat.
“Food is here.” He smirked deviously.
He always gave them raw meat with blood to eat. All of those things Lottie listed were the things he has been doing to them for the past month.
Lottie abruptly stood up and approached him. She was tired but she made effort to walk to him.
“Oh, baby girl.” He laughed and dropped the bush meat on the ground. “How are you?”
“I’m not fine.” She answered.
“Hm. Your eyes tell me that you have something to say to me. Shoot. I’m all ears.” He urged.
“I don’t deserve to be here. However, there is one person who does. I hate that girl so much and it will make so much sense if I can get rid of her like this.”
“What are you saying?”
Lottie hesitated. “Let’s strike a deal.”
He tilted his head to the side. “How old are you again?”
“Why does my age matter, huh? Let’s just strike this deal. Please.”
“I will strike this deal if it makes any sense, baby girl. Speak.”
“Let me go and I will bring someone else to you. Let’s see it as an exchange. Myself for someone else. What do you say?”
“Wow. Vicious. You keep making me like you, baby girl. You are just like me. But no. I’m not a fool. Why should I trust you, huh?”
“Because I hate this girl. I hate it so much. I don’t deserve what you are doing to me right now but she does. She even deserves worse. Please trust me. If I dare to do anything stupid.” She paused. “Kill me.”
Julius gave out a sly smile.
“Who is this person?” He asked.
“My sister.”
“Why do you hate your sister this much?”
“Does it matter? She is the reason why I ended up in this place. Our parents love her more. I’m sure they don’t care about what is happening to me right now. Anyway, let’s strike this deal and get it over with.” She stretched out her tiny hand. “So, deal?”
Julius studied her for a while to see if she really meant what she has just said.
He saw the sincerity in her eyes.
It’s surprising how one can hate their blood this much but what does he care? He is no better.
“Deal.” He shook hands with her and she smiled.
“You are not going to regret this. I promise you.”
••••
«A FEW DAYS LATER»
“Do you think your parents are looking for you?” Diamond asked in a whisper.
Lottie shrugged. “Maybe. I don’t know. What about you?”
“No.”
“No?”
“My mother doesn’t care about what happens to me.” She answered, closing her eyes. “She hates me.”
“Do you have a sibling? A brother or sister?”
“No. I am an only child.”
“Oh. Why does your mother hate you?”
“I don’t know. Maybe because she got me out of ra-pe.”
“What?”
Diamond opened her eyes and stared at Lottie.
“Don’t give me that look. I get it all the time.” She mumbled. “I hate this place but at home is not any better.”
“So you want to keep staying here, is that what you are saying?”
“The torture is too much. My mother might have been mean to me. She lock me up in the basement for weeks without giving me food or water but she never gave me raw intestines of animals to eat or her urine to drink.”
“Did she hit you?”
“Yeah… Sometimes.”
“Do you want to leave this place?” Lottie questioned.
“Yes. But I don’t think I want to go home either. Lottie,”
“Yes?”
“I can help you leave this place.”
“You can? How?”
Julius walked in, humming to a song.
“Hello, children.” He smiled.
“Julius,” Diamond called out as she rose to her feet.
“Yes, angel.” He answered, staring at her.
She let out a de-ep breath, preparing herself for her next words.
“Hold only me hostage and let Lottie go.” She said.
“Are you trying to make a deal with me?”
“Yes.”
“Wow. Such a selfless deal you just made, angel. You are not Jesus Christ, honey. Why do you want to save someone else instead of yourself?”
“Does that matter? Just let her go and keep me instead.”
“You know…” He paused. “I love your deal and honestly, I would have accepted it but sorry, she already made a deal.” He nodded his head towards Lottie. “And I love hers better.”
Diamond frowned. “She made a deal with you?” She turned to look at Lottie. “What deal did you make with him? Why didn’t you tell me?”
“I will leave the both of you to discuss. Baby girl, get ready. We are leaving tomorrow.” He winked and left the room.
Lottie stayed quiet.
“Are you not going to say anything?”
“It is none of your business.”
“Are you serious right now? I thought we are friends.”
“So? Does that mean I have to tell you everything?”
It was silent.
“What deal did you make with him?” Diamond asked.
“Why do you care? Huh? It is my deal. My business. Stay off!”
“I hope you haven’t done anything stupid, Lottie. I hope you_”
“I don’t want to be your friend again.” Lottie cut her off.
Diamond’s eyes went wide.
“What?”
“You heard me. If being friends with you means I have to tell you everything… The let’s stop being friends. You are just like my sister. And I hate anyone who is like her.”
“Are you trying to say you hate me?”
“You are not so dumb. Good for you.” She stood up and dusted off her dress. “I hate this place and I will do anything to get off here. Yes. I made a deal with Julius. Wanna know what it is? Fine. I will tell you. It’s not like you are going to leave this place anytime soon anyway.” She paused. “I am going to make an exchange. For me to be released, I will have to replace myself with someone else. So I choose my sister. She can stay here instead of me.”
“What? How can you do that?”
“How can I not? It is my business, Diamond. Ugh. How did I become friends with someone like you? You and my sister suit each other so it will make so much sense if you both stay together.” She smiled.
“You are so mean, Lottie. How can you plan to do something as wicked as this to your own sister?”
“Why did your mother do something like that to you, Diamond? Why does she hate you? Oh. Because you are the product of ra-pe. Or maybe because people like you make the world seem like a better place when it is not! I hate my sister. People don’t value me because of her. Each time they ask me to be more like her. Why should I be like her? We are two different people! They don’t care about me. All they care about is her. I only have one friend, Aria. She is the only one who chose me for me out of the rest of the kids in our school. But you know, if Diamond, my sister not you, of course. If she never existed, maybe no one would have always compared me with her. I would have been happy with my family. You are lucky you are an only child. But too bad, your father was a rapist and your mother hates you.”
“Lottie_”
“We are not friends anymore. Mind your business for the rest of the night while I mind my business as well. By tomorrow,” She smirked. “you will have another accompany that will match your optimistic and nice personality while I will be with my parents. Isn’t that perfect?” She laughed as she goes to sit by the corner of the dark room, far away from Diamond.
“How did she do this?” Diamond asked herself as she sat down on the floor. “I can’t believe I tried to give myself up to help someone like that.”
•••••
«MORNING»
“Alright, baby girl. Let’s go.” Julius said from the door.
“Time to go.” Lottie stood up and headed for the door without sparing Diamond a glance. “I’m ready.”
“I can see that.”
Lottie stepped out while Julius closed the door and they both went away, leaving Diamond behind.
••••
«AMUSEMENT PARK»
“What is the plan?” Julius asked the little girl.
They were both wearing a coat with hoodies so that Lottie will not be recognizable.
“Can you give me your phone?” She asked.
“Why?”
“I want to call my sister.” She responded.
“Your sister has a phone?”
“Mm-hmm. I do too but I left it at home when I ran away. Hand me your phone. Fast.”
Julius took out his phone and gave it to the girl.
“Here. Be careful not to do anything stupid.”
“I won’t. I swear with my life.”
She dialed Diamond’s number.
The line was ringing but there was no answer.
“She is not picking up,” Lottie whined.
“Keep trying.”
She tried the number over and over again until it was answered.
“Hello?” She heard her sister’s phone from the other line and a devious smirk appeared on her face. “Hello, who is this?”
“Diamond?”
“Lottie! Lottie, is that you? Oh, my God. Mom. Mom.”
“Diamond, stop calling mother.” Lottie gro-aned.
“Huh?”
“Don’t call mother. I need to tell you something but first, you will have to come over.”
“Okay. Sure. Tell me where you are first. I will tell mom and dad and we are all going to come for you. Do you know how long we have been looking everywhere for_”
“Now is not the time.” Lottie snarled. “And I don’t want you to tell mom and dad anything. I want you to come alone.”
“What? Why?”
“Because I need to tell you something urgently. Please, my sister. Don’t tell our parents anything. Just come.”
Diamond hesitated from the other line.
“Uh… Sure. Okay. No problem. Where are you?”
“First, you will have to promise me that you are not going to tell our parents. Promise me, sister.”
Lottie has never talked so nice to her sister before until now and that did the trick.
“Okay. I promise to come alone.”
“Thank you. Meet me at the amusement park. I will be waiting for you.”
“Okay. I am on my way.”
TBC.