Short Story

New Beginning

"Get it done Alec. If it's not in my desk by four, consider yourself fired!" I yelled at my secretary and dismissed him. Well, as a director of the company at the young age of thirty, I have so many responsibilities to shoulder and this lazy secretary of mine is not making it any easier but it doesn't mean he is any less competent.

I wrapped up for the day and left the building walking towards my car while I got a call from one of the clients. This job never lets you rest, you know.

I found my car while on line with my client and hopped into it. I have a personal driver as that saves me the time on driving and also I could get some work done on that period.

"Home" is all I said to Jay without sparing him a glance. He had been working for me for the past three years and he is very good at his job. He knows when to keep quiet and when to have small talks to keep me from feeling lonely.

After about thirty minutes of trying to convince my hell of a client on a product, I finally got off the phone and looked around, which is when I noticed we were not around familiar grounds.

I looked around the car and found that the colour of the leather seats were not that of mine and the driver was too. Panic started to rise inside me, I am not in my car and the man behind the wheels is so not my driver. But something about him did not create fear in me. I was afraid of course, who knows, I may be kidnapped now. I didn't know what to do and the wheels started turning in my head.

"Excuse me?" I started carefully.

"Finally you realized, didn't you?", he chuckled which made my nerves to calm down a little.

"Sorry! May I ask who are you? And where are you driving me?" I asked confused. I didn't know where he was driving me and the most important question is why. He is not my driver and he could have easily told me to get out when I hopped in, but he didn't. And I just said 'Home' as soon as I got in and noticing the way the car is going, it is definitely not my home.

He refrained from answering and pulled the car over to the side of the road. He was a neatly dressed man in his thirties who looked like someone who does a desk job and he is definitely well loaded considering the fact that he is owning a high end model car.

"Well, I am driving you home and you didn't definitely mention whose." he said not turning to show me his face.

"What? Why would you do that? You could have told me to get out of your car! I am sorry I caused you inconvenience and I can find my way home from here. Thanks." I half yelled and got out of the car only to notice that we were far away from the city and I definitely don't have any idea where I am but that is not going to stop me from getting away from this crazy guy. Seriously what kind of a person just drives a stranger to his home. Definitely not on his right mind.

I walked a little away from the car and dialed Jay so that he could pick me up from here. He did not answer which was a little strange because this has not happened before. So I tried calling Alec and that went to the voicemail too. I left a message for both of them so that they can reach me when they see it. Now thinking about that,it is definitely very strange, not in a million years would they both not answer my calls that too conveniently at the same time. And I also noticed that the strange man had not driven away after I came out.

So I did the next most rational thing anyone would do at that situation, confront him. He was wearing a hat pulled down so as to keep me from seeing his face.

"Who are you?" I tried again.

"Does it matter? Hop on, I ll take you home"

"No! I am not getting back in there unless you give me answers"