A thick drop, balancing itself on the ceiling slipped, splashing onto a sweaty forehead. Anika winced. Her heavy lids lifted, groaning she reached up to touch a sore spot behind her head. Her fingers brushed something wet.

Where the fuc- she didn't have to finish the thought before everything came flooding back.

" Prinku" She breathed, fear stabbing her heart. She got up lunging towards a closed door. She could take only a few steps forward when she was suddenly recoiled back, crashing onto the floor.A metal chain cuffing her left wrist to the wall behind her rattled.

They had chained her.

Dread gripped her lungs, ceasing the flow of the air. She looked around frantically. A steel door, with only a small slot at the bottom stared back at her, along with windowless, fungus gripped walls.

The chain let her walk wander a few steps, around a small metal bench, that was supposed to be her bed and a broken toilet bowl that would've looked white if it weren't for the rotten debris and other wordless matter settled over it.

A door banged shut, right behind her wall, her head whipped in that direction. A set of heavy footsteps echoed, before, metal scraped the floor. Anika scrambled up pressing her ear to the wall, holding her breath.
Everything paused in silence for a moment when a loud scream pierced through the wall.

Anika gasped "Prinku!!!" slamming her fists into the wall "let her GO you bastards!" she bellowed, her fists thundering against the concert wall "I'll fucking kill you all"

The screaming suddenly stopped and the footsteps now seemed to hurry towards her. Anika yanked on her cuff with all her might, hissing as the metal crushed her joint.

There was no point in yanking on it, this fucking thing was gonna break her arm.

Her eyes raced around, and she grabbed up a metal bowl, that might supposedly be her dinner plate. She gripped it with all her strength, facing the door, ready to go down, but with a hell of a fight.

Her door clicked open, and a huge man grunted his way in, murder written all across his ugly scowl. Her throat went dry as he loomed over her.

" I want silence " He grounded. Anika breathed out shakily " Let us go" She whispered.

His lips pulled up in a sneer.  " Please " She whispered vulnerability flooding her eyes" I'll give you anything you want, money, lots of money..just let us go"

" I don't want money "

" Then anything you ask for" she bargained.

His sneer darkened and he cast a look over his shoulder.

" I don't like people giving me things" He took a maniacing step " I take what I want "

Anika swallowed, her mind slowly calculating the odds of her survival, they didn't look that good. She stood her ground, gritting her teeth. If she died now, Prinku's chance of escape would die as well.

His hands flashed up suddenly pushing her back, hard. The plate flew from her hand, as her back rammed into the wall with a bone breaking force.

He was on her before she could catch her breath. His filthy hands gripped her breasts, tearing into her shirts fabric.
She screamed, her hands clawing at him to stop. "let me go! "

He only grunted in response, crushing her with his weight. Tears streamed down her face as she struggled.

" You are going to be my fucking bitch" He growled in her ear before his tounge flicked out, sliding it along the side of her face. His other hand snaked between her legs, that was when she jerked her knee up, hard, ramming him in his balls.

" You son of a bitch! " He slapped her across her face before limping away gripping onto his scrotum.

Anika leaned against the wall, gasps coming out in ragged breaths. The corner of her lips stung with blood cheek bruised with his hand mark, yet she eyed him with pride flickering in her eyes.

If she could hurt him, once, she could definitely hurt him the next, once at least before he killed her.

Gritting her teeth, she stood an inch taller, waiting for him to charge at her again.

" Am going to teach you a lesson you fucking piece of a shit" He grunted, recovering a bit from his sore balls.

But the door opened and another gaurd rushed in looking alarmed.

" Watha fuck is all this!? " The new arrival exclaimed, his face masked in a black cloth.

" Am gonna eat her alive" The rapist growled.

" The fuck you will! Get out of here before someone reports you! " The new arrival shoved the rapist away from Anika.

" You know we aren't allowed to touch them! " He whispered hurriedly " Now get out! "

" She was asking for it" The rapist spit, snarling like an animal.

" So were you" Anika retorted casting a sorry look at his scrotum. He snarled and the arrival shoved him away sensing another fight about to break out " Enough!! Just go!!! "

" And you" He turned angrily at Anika, his eyes glinting dangerously " One word about this and I will personally lock you with this man in a place where no one can hear you scream, you are lucky I did this time.

Anika didn't relax her stance, until she heard the doors locked click loudly. Her knees gave out then and she dropped on the ground, trembling.

She wrapped her arms around herself, holding onto herself. Her eyes felt dry. That felt strange, cause her   insides were screaming with pain.

Minutes must've turned into hours, but she just lay there, hugging herself. Her arms seemed to be the only thing shielding her from the warth of this place.

Get her out get her out a cold voice whispered in her head.  Anika nodded at the light above her, she had to get Prinku out of here. She had to.

Foot steps echoed, and her body jumped, fingers gripping her plate like it were the key, out of this plate.
Her door creeked open and man stepped in.

Anika's lungs ached with the fear that weighed in her chest.

" Get out" She snarled, her teeth clenched. " Get out or I will kill you"

The man turned around slowly. It was the same man that threatened to lock her up with her rapist.

Anika wiped away the blood with the back of her hand. Tense and ready.
His eyes glistened in the light and he raised his arms slowly " Am not going to hurt you" He whispered hoarsely.
Anika glared.

He slowly pulled away the cloth from his face " It's me Anika"

Her eyes widened and the plate clattered onto the floor.

"Arjun? "