
You Can't Escape
The hotel room door slammed hard enough that Dita and April were shocked instantly. Seeing Nadine's panicked face walking towards them while wiping the sweat on her forehead and nose. Nadine's breath was like someone who had just entered a marathon race.
“What's Nadine? Everything okay?” april asked as she looked at Nadine's expression like a frightened person, let alone looking from Nadine's eyes who had just cried.
April and Dita immediately approached her friend with worry. In their minds they began to ask, what had just happened to his friend that he was so scared?
“You know the man who was on the balcony that night.”
“Yes, we remember. Why?” They still remember very well, because it happened last night.
“Dia-- ” Tok! Geck! Geck!
The three women looked directly at the door at the same time. A light knock from someone out there. None of them booked any special services at the hotel. Nadine's heart began to race back, if the man killed her too because he had seen the terrible scene in the hallway. Or the... What if the murderous man thought of Nadine as the bald man's plot?
“Let me just.” April went to the door, while Dita invited Nadine to sit back and she stood up.
When April opens the door. How amazed he was when the guest who came was a handsome man and cool, cold and charismatic like the CEO in the novels he had read. But that's not what April is headed for.
“Sorry your master--- ” sound April cut off when the man just barged in without permission. Heedless of the call and reprimand from a room tenant, and April follows him from behind, occasionally reprimanding the strange man.
Until the long steps of the figure of the man was not invited earlier, stopped when he began to find his prey in plain sight. Nadine was shocked to death, she could freeze to death there that very second.
the same man, the same gaze and all the same. It's Maxi Ed Tommaso!
Nadine immediately stood up and stared fixedly like a statue that could not move, like seeing the figure of a life-revoking angel. Maxi continued to step closer and closer, while Dita and April looked confused. -‘How did the man know I was here?’ Nadine's mind felt cornered.
Sweat dripped back on Nadine's face, her chest rising and falling like it was at the pump. Maxi was near and the man started whispering something in Nadine's ear while inhaling the woman's distinctive scent.
“Welcome!” Nadine's eyes immediately rounded perfectly. The man smiled devil. Stepping back and then walking away after successfully making someone's heart almost dislodged.
Nadine was still silent, her body was shaking violently, it felt so tight that she even started to duck as if her body was tired. Seeing the incredible fear that Nadine had experienced for the first time, of course April and Dita were quite curious.
“Nadine! You okay?” April tries to calm her friend down, rubbing Nadine's cold hot arm.
“We have to go.” Enough decisions made Dita and April more confused when Nadine said the sudden thing. They had just one day in Chicago and now the friend was asking to go back to their native Nagara. Just be right.
“What's Nadine? Why sudden?” April tried to calm her friend down again, but this time her voice was a little high. But there was no answer from Nadine, but only in the form of breath that was heard hunting and blank stares ahead.
“We've just had a day here. Why do we have to go home? And who's that guy?” Being followed by panic so he was a little upset by Nadine's sudden decision. Maxi's aura was truly terrifying even as the man walked past him.
The beautiful woman who was silent stiff earlier, slipped her long hair behind her ears and moved quickly without answering both questions from her friend.
Nadine put her clothes in a suitcase. Dita and April looked at each other staring at Nadine with confused faces. Furious when he saw the behavior of his friend, the brown curly woman began to call Nadine's name repeatedly, following Nadine from behind hoping that her friend could calm down.
“Nadine! Nadine!” still no response.
“NADINE!” april's screams which now forced Nadine's body, holding both shoulders. “Quiet. And tell me what happened?” For April it does not matter if they have to go home, but at least Nadine said the reason is so that she and Dita are not provoked by wondering themselves in their respective minds.
Nadine slams both hands April.
“HE'S A MURDERER AND NOW HE'S AFTER ME HIKSS.” Instantly April and Dita were shocked to hear the confession.
Nadine began to walk back and forth while holding her head that felt dizzy. “I just saw him kill someone hikss- ” his body limp when saying about the murder, let alone the position of Nadine when it was an eyewitness.
“A-what?!” said simultaneously Dita and April who were equally surprised.
“He's a criminal. He has men, and hikss-and they kill someone. His blood even spattered... ” Powerless to explain. April and Dita try to quell Nadine's fear, though it can't just go away.
“Then we have to be fast, before he returns.” Finally Dita spoke up. The three of them agreed and began to hurry to clean up their belongings and clothes, there was no time to relax, they could do it in Indonesia.
After everything was ready, the three of them started sneaking out of the hotel room walking towards the elevator but did not walk straight as the two large-bodied black-clothed foreign men started to look at them and chase. “Sial!” decak April's. Nadine pulls Dita's hand and Dita pulls April's. They had no other choice but to pass through the steps at the emergency exit.
“My body weight will drop if it is like this.” Said Dita on the sidelines running.
From the 15th floor they went down the stairs quickly and in panic, his legs felt numb and wanted to be dislodged. Arriving at the 2nd floor the third step stopped when two men in the same shirt but their faces were different, was blocking his way.
“Ohh! Alright. Let's exercise for a moment!” exclaim Dita trying to regulate the breath. April threw her briefcase straight at the guard, Nadine and Dita start hitting as much as possible the other man until they manage to leave there with a satisfied laugh when they get through a very stressful challenge.
What a crazy day at night.
...***...
Chicago Airport, 05:10 am.
Seen in a waiting chair at one of Chicago's airports. Nadine and her two friends fell asleep clinging to each other as if they did not care about the gaze of the people there. Nadine thought, overnight at the airport before the plane ticket to her country arrived, it was better, at least there are guards there who monitor 24 hours.
When you fall asleep. The ringing of Dita's phone shocked those who were busy sleeping.
“You love calling.” Lirih April tried to open her eyes that still did not want to open.
Dita began to pick up the phone, but she did not realize that the number listed was not from the lover, but from an unknown number. Before Dita presses the receive call button, Nadine immediately memahut her phone.
“Hey, it's from my lover.”
“I don't think so. Look!” Nadine showed an unknown number listed there. A foreign number, not +62. April awakens and the three stare at the cell phone in Nadine's hand. Of course they did not dare to lift it and just looked at each other.
A few minutes to let the ring die. Before long the unknown number called back three times. Finally Nadine ventured to pick up the phone and press speaker mode so that Dita and April could listen together.
[“Halo!”] Nadine opened her voice first.
[“Good morning! ”]
The hoarse and heavy voice that Nadine was very familiar with, even April and Dita had already guessed the figure of the man behind the phone at this time.
[“I know you're at the airport. Was my shot right? ”] How is it possible?Nadine, April and Dita try to look around. There was no suspicious person there, how did the man know.
[“What do you want? I promised I wouldn't tell anyone.”]
[“Do not think you can run away. I've targeted you! ”]
Nadine started to get scared, but she tried to calm down and take a deep breath.
[“Please. I will return to my country, and I will not tell anyone everything, I promise, I will forget everything.”] Nadine tried her best to escape the stranger.
[“Comeout. There's a black car and three of my men, I'm waiting for you. ”]
[“WHY DON'T YOU UNDERSTANDIIII! I WON'T WANT TO, AND PLEASE LET ME AND MY FRIENDS GO.”] Nadine's voice was slightly raised in a frustrated tone. While April and Dita are also speechless because of Nadine's own wishes. They know Nadine is very kind and always wants to protect the people she loves.
[“If you don't want to, then prepare to go home with the two bodies of your friend.”] The deg!
Nadine felt weak to hear such a threat. April and Dita are equally frightened when they hear clearly that they are a threat to Nadine.
[“I'll be waiting for you. I hope you understand and are not selfish.”] Suddenly the call was cut off. For Maxi, tracking someone's whereabouts is very easy and like a small game.
This time Nadine's dilemma, she doesn't know what else to do? Holidays that should be fun are now a life threat.