Watching From The Corner

"I can't believe it is morning already! It's just as if I never slept a wink." Emma groaned as she woke up to the noise the guards usually used to inform them it was time to get up for the day activities. 

"Oh, my whole body aches badly!" Emma winced as she tried to get out of her bed. 

"Thank you Tigress for making me feel sore." She stated sarcastically.

"And I have to go back there! God, how do I survive in that den?" She sighed deeply. 

"Well, let me set my priorities right, before worrying about my survival. I should put something in my stomach first so my mind can function well and I will be able to think straight. I should definitely be able to come up with a plan for my survival after eating." Emma concluded and managed to get out of bed. 

"Oh, he is up early today!" She stated as she noticed that her roommate had woken up and gone out of the room. 

"I am glad I don't have to wake up to see his ugly face when I am already in a bad mood." She stated, gratefully as she got into the bathroom to take a quick bath. 

Afterwards, she went to the dinning hall for breakfast but a guard ordered her to join the cooks working in the kitchen. 

"It is not even my turn to work in the kitchen today! Why am I always unlucky? I came here early to eat but now I am being dragged to the kitchen?" 

"Can my day get any darker?" Emma huffed in annoyance and walked to the kitchen. 

"Girl, there is nothing impossible. I just have to believe and hope for the best. I can't give up on my life like this." She started to motivate herself as she worked in the kitchen. 

"I am going to pull through!" She affirmed. She was lost in her own thoughts and had started humming a song that she didn't notice she had an unwanted company until somebody tapped her on her shoulder. 

"What the heck?" Emma flinched. She turned back and groaned when she saw them. 

"It is the bull horns gang again!" She muttered, and rolled her eyes with disinterest. 

"Hey babygirl!" Red Bull called her and flashed her his cigarette stained teeth. 

"Point of correction, my name is Emma, not babygirl!" Emma correctly firmly. 

"It doesn't matter. I can call you whatever I want." Red Bull insisted. His followers chuckled. 

"What is amusing?" Emma gritted, inwardly. 

"Babygirl, we couldn't finalize our discussion last time because of a nosy somebody. So we thought to come and reach an agreement today." Red bull informed her. 

"There is nothing to talk about! I believe I have made my stance known to you all, that day. I am not someone you can be ordering around and be having at your call for sexual satisfaction. I am not a call girl!" Emma informed him, sternly. 

"Oh, wow! Our girl is feisty!" Gore pointed out and chuckled. 

"I like them feisty! I am already picturing how I will handle her when it is my turn. Aha!" Steven stated with an exaggerated excitement that Emma found very disgusting. She clenched and unclenched her fists, in fumes. 

"Really, babygirl? Have you forgotten what I said would happen to you should you refuse to dance to my tune?" Red Bull asked, and smirked. 

"I really wish I can wipe that cocky smirk off his face." Emma thought and glared at him. 

"Or you count that as a mere threat because you were lucky we went easy on you that day because we were in a good mood?" Red Bull inquired, further. 

"She might be thinking her roommate got her back just because he came to her rescue that day." Gore stated much to Steven but Emma heard him. 

"She better not be cheeky because of that. That insane roommate of hers will be put in his place if he tries to pass his boundary." Steven replied Gore, angrily. 

"I knew it! I knew I saw that clearly. He actually came to fight for me but why is he denying it?" Emma quickly thought of Daniel. 

"I will take your silence as a positive response. I know you are a smart girl and won't want to take the hard, impossible path." Red Bull said with a satisfied smirk. 

"Hello oo? Since when does silence means positivity? I kept quiet..." Emma wanted to protest but was cut short by the excited man. 

"Shhh! Don't sweat it. I know you want it to be a discreet affair, I understand perfectly. From today, you are going to enjoy maximum protection and you will get whatever you want by just snapping your fingers." Red Bull told her and the others laughed. 

"We have joy, soldiers! We own the girl now!" Gore informed the other five guys behind them and they jubilated wildly. 

"I know she was going to accept us. I could see it in her eyes... Such a cunning seductress!" Steven chuckled and that was the last straw for Emma. She lost her calm and snapped at them. 

"Listen, you ugly, godforsaken beasts from the deepest hole of hell! You have sadness not joy. I would rather die than have anything to do with you, sons of a gun! You think you can make me cower by making empty threats? I will make you cower by my tongue! You sons of bitches do not know I have a bad temper, right? Hey, come at me and I will finish you off. I don't even need to depend on anybody before I deal with you, dumbasses! Hey, motherfuckers, let this be the last time you'd mess me!" Emma yelled at them, furiously. 

The outburst shocked the men and they were all rendered speechless. 

"She handled that well!" Daniel who had been in the kitchen's storeroom, listening, chuckled satisfyingly at Emma's attitude.