The Shock

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1st Prompt: WE WERE BACK IN HER KITCHEN HAVING LUNCH AS AHE HAD SUGGESTED,
I watched her silently while trying not to get annoyed at the offensive sound made by her knife as she tried to cut the chicken on her plate. Now I regret accepting the ride from her, it didn’t occur to me that she would insist we stop over at her place and even suggest lunch. I had planned to just rush home and grab a few of my things before heading over to the station where I would be assigned to a police officer for protection, after the several attempts on my life, the inspector of police had decided that the best thing was to keep me under protection and surveillance.
I was to go with the officer immediately but I had stubbornly insisted on going home to pick up a few of my things, I mean if I was going to be locked up and away from the world , I would like to atleast be comfortable and my personal stuff would help me feel better.

But hold on, what’s Vanessa doing here? I mean isn’t she supposed to be recovering from the accident? Dad had been in an accident on a business trip and Vanessa had been with him because she’s his personal assistant so why can’t I see any scratches or bruises on her body? Wait? Why is Vanessa home and why does she look so.. so, different? Unlike the always smiling Vanessa we all know. She looked up from her plate and stared at me....

2nd Prompt: HE DID NOT COME FROM ATHENS , HE CONTINUED BUT HIS BROTHER LIVES THERE.
Okay wait, wait, slow down, what?????
He wasn’t from Athens like he and Vanessa made us believe? We had bought the whole story because he seemed to have had a lot of knowledge on Athens but I guess it’s because his brother lives there and his brother obviously gave him all the information he needed.
When Vanessa looked up from her plate and I thought she was staring at me, she was actually looking past me, to Mr Adrian who had just come in from the door behind me.

Dad had employed Mr Adrain as the driver following Vanessa’s recommendation, she had said he was her cousin from Athens. But after dad’s last trip where he had the accident,Mr Adrian had not been seen since then. And now he’s here, gun pointed to my head and with a an evil grin on his face, he was telling me how we had been so gullible and easy to deceive.His name isn’t even Adrian, can’t believe I thought he was cute..arghh
So wait? Does that mean Vanessa is in on this too? On this plan to kill my father and take over his Multi-million dollar company, I looked at Vanessa and she couldn’t look back.

3rd Prompt: RAIN STARTED FALLING
But Vanessa and I kept running, we would rather die of cold out here in the rain, than stay inside and be killed by Mr Adrian or whatever his name is.
Vanessa had refused to look back at me because she was thinking and trying to decide what to do, deliver me to the evil guy( Adrian or whatever his name is) or risk it all and try to save me. He had threatened to kill her if she hadn’t done everything he asked from the beginning, she had been so afraid that he would kill her so she had done everything he asked but seeing him pointing a gun to my head made her snap out of everything, she threw the knife she had been using to cut her chicken at him and she yelled “run”!! She didn’t need to tell me twice, I turned and started running, she ran after me and together we ran into the thick forest behind her house. We had been running for 5 minutes when I heard a gun shots and I saw Vanessa stop moving, wide eyed she fell, she had been hit.

I was so shocked, but I quickly recovered and kept running, with my predator chasing me and trying to catch up. I made it out to a road where i flagged down a vehicle and immediately entered, I thought I had recovered from the shock but I haven’t, I couldn’t have, it all seemed so unreal and then everything went blank (she fainted)...... THE END