The Wedding I Never Reached

The Wedding I Never Reached

By, Rabbia Arshad

I was running blindly in the forest. The only thought on my mind was to get as far away as possible. I had to lose my chasers, I knew if I got caught I would be in a lot of trouble. Mentally and physically.

If only I hadn’t took the shortcut, the shortcut I thought would save my time but turned out it to be in the middle of nowhere. I was never a fan of trying new things but this was my sister’s wedding and when I had left the work this morning I thought I would make it on time. But the dress shop didn’t had my dress ready till then and I had to wait an hour before I was finally on my way. She lived in the next town and it was my baby sister I had to be there before everyone arrived.

Since I was already late an hour I decided to take the shortcut I had heard of. I had taken a left turn from the highway a few of miles back. The shortcut road was thin and a little bit uneven. Half of the road was under construction but it seemed that day the workers had taken an early leave. I was almost six miles away from the highway when my car broke down. I got out and tried to look for the problem but I never had been interested in the mechanics of a car so obviously I couldn't figure out the problem. I looked at the screen of my phone which indicated ‘no signals’. It must have been that broken mirror this morning that have brought bad luck to me today, I thought to myself. Sighing I looked for any other passing car, unfortunately it was only me on whole road, as far as I could see.

As I had never been on this road before I dismissed the idea of going ahead, I locked my car and left to walk towards the highway, I had taken my dress for the wedding and starting jogging towards the highway, thanking my regular jogging routine. I must have crossed a couple of mile when I saw a car coming from highway side, thanking heavens I came to stand on the side of the road, I hurriedly starting waving my hands, my dress to catch the attention of the passengers of the car. It was one of the happiest moment of my life when I saw the flicking its headlights to signal me that they had seen me. It was almost a half mile away I saw the passengers of car. They were men. Big, tattooed, pierced skin men. The happiness of mine was gone, overcame by the fear. When I saw them laughing meanly, I felt a chill down my spine. I spun around and started sprinting, I considered sprinting along the road a bad idea, I turned right and I there were woods, I started running in them. I had no idea where I was, I didn't know where I was going. I could hear the mean ugly men shouting, talking to each other, laughing. There were four of them I think. I started running in zig zag, I had read it was best way to loose people who were following you. I had taken karv manga classes but in front of those men I was nothing.

Along the way I left my dress somewhere I had no idea. It must have been torn to shreds and those men might have found it too. Their voices seemed to be at distance now. The only thought on my mind was to lose them. I just ran and ran , I was completely lost.