Victoria ran as fast as she could until she reached the end of the path. Hurriedly she took a few steps back and rushed into the only door she could find, the one leading to the women’s washroom. She went inside and hid herself behind the cubicle the end of the line. Just in time enough to take one deep breath she heard the door of the washroom open and the voices of the people who had been following her. A heavy and husky voice said “Search all the stalls, leave none of them”.  Another voice a little out of breath said “But this is a girl’s washroom, I cant…”  “I said leave none of them , is that clear.” Interrupted the first voice again. Almost immediately she heard the doors being slammed open one by one amd the women occupant inside them shrieking at the to of their voices. For a moment her she just sat there ,her heart beat extremely fast. Just at any other moment and her door shall open too.

She looked up and saw a small window ,gathering up all her courage she got up put her right leg on the door knob praying that it doesn’t make a sound or breaks. After her hands reaching for the window pane she put her other leg on the side tap and with all the force pushed herself upwards. After two unsuccessful tries her knees at last reached the window sill and she started climbing out. When she was just out before landing on the ground with a thud, she heard the door of their cubicle open and then another noise following it.

Victoria got up from the ground and ran towards a car parked there in the corner of the side walk just a few steps away from the window was, hoping no one would notice her. Though for a moment she thought someone had seen her running towards the car, but when she looked back no one was at the window.She then took a sigh of relief.A couple of minutes later a few a men gathered there, she couldn't hear them ,but she could see the exasperation on their faces. 

Victoria then saw two men running in the opposite direction and realised they were actually searching for her.Also two other men came towards the window from that direction. As the men came closer she noticed that they were not very old , atleast not old enough as the others. One of them was a boy seemingly in his early twenties, tall and smart  the other one a little older than him just with sharper and stronger features. The older one looked seemingly angry while the other bewildered. 

The men stood there for sometime , looking around from momentarily. Then one by one all of them left the last one being the young man who had come later . As he began to walk for a moment he pause and looked back straight behind the car. Victoria thought the guy had seen her but to her surprise he turned around and continued walking.

Victoria had been out to a lounge for her friend Rhea's birthday. It was late in the evening and she and all her friends were enjoying their time when they heard the noise of a quarrel going on behind the bar counter. They all turned to see what it was but then ignored it as the voices soon fade away into the sound of the music that was being played there. A little after the friends began to leave and gradually in an hour all of them had left except for Victoria , Rhea who's birthday it was and Rhea's boyfriend .Soon they too decided to leave. 

Rhea left with her boyfriend and Victoria went to her car and was about to drive out when she remembered she had left her phone inside the lounge. She went back in but couldn't find her phone at the table so she asked a waiter who told her that she should ask for it at the manager's office which was on the other side of the reception area.She did as she was told and retrieved her phone.

When Victoria opened the manager's office door she could not believe what she saw in front of her. At the other end of the reception area a middle aged man dressed in suit had stabbed another man with a broken wine glass. The man fell to the ground dead and body lay there with blood oozing out of the wound and colouring the white marble floor stark red.

Victoria gasped and very quietly from behind came to the main lounge area walking towards the exit where she saw a dozen of men gathered ,a few of them she remembered from those who had been making noise when she was with her friends.She paused for a breif moment trying to decide what to do.She then looked at the other visitors in the lounge enjoying their evening unaware of the murder that took place there.She wanted to scream out and tell all of them what she had just witnessed when she felt a tap on her shoulders.

Victoria turned around to see who tapped her back and saw the Manager of the lounge she had just visited.His face was visibly pale and with a withered voice he   "You should leave immediately, there is an exit at the back" he said pointing in the direction of a corridor and then continued,"You have witnessed the murder so you should not waste a single moment and leave this place as soon as possible, they’ll be after you”. Victoria stood there measuring the managers words when he tucked her hand and said,” What are you waiting for? Go,Run”. Victoria started pacing toward the back corridor , then toward the back exit when the door opened and a man came inside.He glanced at her and shouted at top of his voice “There is she. Don't let her escape”. Almost immediately she saw a few men running toward her from the dining area. Victoria ran towards the corridor escaping the man at the exit who was also chasing her.

Victoria was successful in escaping the goons that day, first by locking up herself  in the women’s washroom then climbing through a window and hiding behind a car.Through a week has passed since the encounter Victoria doesnt feel very safe neither in college nor at home.She didn't dare telling about the incident to anyone, not her parent, not her friends,no one at all. Even right at the moment as she lay on her bed watching the ceiling fan move in its hypnotizing circular motion, the danger that she had faced that night is evoking in her mind.The endless possibility of what would have happened that night if she couldn't have escaped is haunting her. With a little effort she brought herself to sleep hoping that the feeling of intrusion that she had felt all throughout the week would pass away, the following morning.

The next morning Victoria got up and went along her usual schedule throughout the day.At around evening she was returning after attending her lectures, she got of the bus at the seventh crossing and took the usual path to her home.She took the turn to the fifteenth block, just a couple of blocks away from her home now, when a speeding car stopped beside her and without her realising what happened next she was abducted.

Victoria gained back her consciousness with a severe headache.She couldn't remember anything just a few flashback episodes of her trying to break free from her kidnapper ,then being carried from the car to someplace  and the last one of a person trying to wake her up. Other than that she couldn't remember anything , no place, no face, not even of the person who was trying to wake her up.She sat up on the coverless and torn mattress she was lying on, trying to figure out where she was. The room she was in was rather dark, small and empty.She trident searching for windows but there was only a ventilation vent and no windows.She figured out that she was in the basement of a building.