Chapter 31: That hurt
Meera

Darkness. Meera was surrounded by utter darkness. No, no. She was dreaming. This was all a dream, she willed herself into believing. A really bad, terrible, weird but adventurous dream.

Wake up Mia, throw some water on your face! This was a way too long dream.

But she would be way out of her mind to ever think that this was all real. Seriously, how could Dino- Meera jumped up with a loud yell. This was not a dream and this was not her house...or her bed!

She shot up from the-was she on a chair?-only to be pulled back to her previous spot. What? Since there were no lights, it was impossible to see where she was but it was quite obvious that her hands were handcuffed together and her legs were tied to the damn chair. She could not go too far.

She heard a noise, like the squeaky sound of a door opening yet she could not tell if it was from the room she was tied in. Next, a light came on. Yeah, they were here for her.

"Argh!" She shut her eyes tight, trying to block away the brightness with her handcuffed hands. Who was dumb enough to place her directly under the only light bulb in this stupid dark room?

"What happened?" She heard someone enter and call from the door. His voice held anger. Slowly opening her eyelids until they fully adjusted to the brightness change, she examined the well-built figure ahead of her.

"Where am I?" she shouted back, "And who the hell are you?"

The figure grew closer. Wait a second...Meera knew this guy. She had seen him before but where? He looked about the same age as... "Where is Dino? Yeah, don't think that I don't know that he is also a part of this! How dare you kidnap me and bring me to this...dump! Whatever this place is!

"I'm not scared of you! Or Dino and those people that attacked us last night! You ruthless piece of shit! Open these damn handcuffs before I make you open them!"

A second figure appeared at the doorway but this time, Meera didn't need to see a face to know who that was. "Whoa princess, slow down! Throwing a lot of accusations there!"

"As if! Open these damn handcuffs and let me go now!" "See, that hardly seems like a favor Meera. Ask nicely and maybe I'll oblige."

Argh! The nerve! She could punch him in the face right now or even break a brick into his skull. Deep breaths Mia. "Dino, I'm warning you..."

"Nah princess, you don't get to be in control here. I'm not the one handcuffed to a chair and you not the one with the key around your neck." "So consider this your warning," the other guy took over, "Don't try to do anything stupid please. Besides the fact that you're outnumbered, you'll just end up hurting yourself...oh and not to mention, you are kidnapped so this place is on a lockdown."

Did he just say kidnapped?

"Yeah love we can-" A phone interrupted and Dino showed the 'please be quiet' sign to the other guy before leaving and shutting the room door behind him. Yeah like she could physically go anywhere. She was practically in a prison room. And was been starved to death.

Meera sat back on the chair, realizing she had no way out of here. Tears filled her eyes. How could she be so stupid? Dino was the villain from the beginning. He had Randal arrested, was responsible for giving her dad that story and he called attackers to their house yesterday.

Oh-my-God! Dino wanted them dead! On second thoughts, no. If he wanted her dead, she would have been a long time ago. He was using her as bait to get what he wants and it was working.

Things had gone haywire at the party last night. Firstly, let's not forget that she spent half the night with a flippen murderer, believing his ruthless lies until her sister was nearly killed. Then, Dino still pretended to be the hero by saving...