Fast and Furious: Future (editing and adding to)

Chapter 7: A World Away

Thehard, calculating look he gave me wasn't enough to scare me morethan I was right now. 'Some financial issue.'

Idid wonder what he could mean but I wasn't given the chance to sayanother word. My knees were pushed from under me and I dropped to theground; both hitting the hard tarmac and sending a jolt up my spine.I wasn't certain I could have been more scared but now I reallywas. My breaths were very short and were more like gasps than actualbreaths. I didn't know what they would do but I was sure I wouldfind out.

'Weknow he spends a lot of time with you. You must be close.' He gaveanother hidden hand signal and the armed man walked up to me. Mythroat seemed to clamp almost shut as my eyes focused on the gun.They too clamped shut and I dropped my head. The cold metal of thebarrel pressed to my left temple. I waited for the bang of the hammerand waited and waited. It never came.

THWAK.The knock forced me forward onto my hands and then I slumped sidewaysas my head began to spin. Soon things began to blur, the tarmac, themen in the distance, the shoes of another. That was when the worldseemed to fall away into darkness.

*****

Theheadache was unbearable. I grumbled into the pillow. Wait... Pillow?Forgetting my headache, I pushed myself up and looked down at awhite, down-stuffed pillow beneath my head. 'What?'

'Ohgood. You're awake.'

'Huh?'I bolted around onto my butt.

'Breakfast?'

Iscowled. 'You! What the hell are you doing? And how did I gethere?'

'You'rewelcome would have sufficed. Nonetheless, I got you some fancy foodbrought up.'

Justthen my headache made an unnecessary bang inside my skull. 'Ow!'And I turned back over and buried my head under the soft pillow. Howdid Jack find me and why had he brought me to a hotel? An expensivehotel at that. Whilst I scowled at him, I swiftly took into accountthe queen sized bed, the golden metal framed mirror, the hardwooddoors, the shag pile rug, the crystal droplet chandelier and otherstuff besides.

Iknew I had fallen asleep, for how long, I didn't know. All I feltwas something heavy drop onto the bed. 'Wake up, lazy.' It wasJack.

Myheadache had suppressed. 'Go away,' I mumbled from under thepillow.

'I'mnot moving until you get up.'

'Fineby me.' A pressure started on my shoulders, a rounding pressure.Round and round my shoulder blades and between them; then up and downmy spine. I was glad for the massage and then not so when he wasinches away from my lower back. 'Get off!' I shouted and pushedhis hands off as I rolled onto my side and so turning my back awayfrom him.

'Butyou were enjoying that. I could tell.'

Isquinted my eyes. 'So what? You have a lot of explaining to me andmore for making up for what happened to me.'

'I'm...'

'No.I was pulled from my car and forced onto my knees for refusing to getyou shot and knocked unconscious in the middle of the road. I'm notafter sorry.' Feeling how empty my stomach was, I shuffled alongthe bed (a bit too big for my liking) and went over to the silvermetal breakfast cart. On top of it were shiny platters of strangeEuropean type pastries as well as toast and jam and fruit. Thinkingthe carbs would fill me up best, I piled a loud of fancy pastriesonto a plate and took a seat in a lavish armchair. 'Aren't youeating?' I asked, pulling apart a croissant.

'Iate whilst you were sleeping.' He joined me by taking the otherchair with a slice of toast in hand. 'You never let me apologise,'he began again whilst I was too busy munching on a croissant. 'As Iwas about to say, I'm sorry for what they did to you. Although, Iam curious who it was that assaulted you.'