Spiderweb - 145 You Didn't Know?

Violet seemed to be pinned on her at every second. Every time she looked down, it was there looking down on her head, when she looked up, it was staring directly into her eyes and even when she shut her eyes tightly, she could see it there, shining in the shadows, it’s bright light calling to her like a beacon.

She was petrified, her lips trembling from fear of what might happen to her if she even dared to say words that weren’t what Mrs. Cloud wanted to know.

It was hard before. Getting the confidence to even decide that you would leave this place, it was even harder to stalk someone of higher power just to find out the day that you would be able to escape this hell.

It was hard before to escape from her jail cell at the right time and to get down the hallways quickly without any worker noticing her presence. It was even harder to confront the person that you’re trying to beat with an attitude for victory. But, none of that really mattered anymore. She hadn’t thought it out thoroughly. She hadn’t thought about what the person would be doing on their way out or the expertise of the person that she wanted to beat.

The hardest part of it all is when you start to lose motivation when you realize that whatever you praised yourself for was not worth being praised for in the end. That whatever skill she thought she could use to defeat them, wasn’t even worth a scratch on their feet. That the confidence that she had worked on for 3 months is unusable in the face of their power. Whatever skill you made to defeat them, whatever mind trick she had prepared was useless and certainly, her own prowess was useless.

‘I can’t even look into her eyes,’ Juan thought to herself as she slowly began to accept the situation that she was in. ‘If I can’t even look into her eyes, what made me think that I’ll even be able to get out of here? Unless she decided to help me like she’s doing right now, I would have just been stuck in here for as long as they wanted me to be.’ Juan let out a weak chuckle, her heart clenching. ‘You can’t even use your skills to get away and have to be helped by the enemy herself to get out of here… how useless you are Juan. You should have just stayed back if this was now it was going to be.’

Mrs. Cloud continued to look down at Juan, awaiting her answer.

Juan said nothing in reply. Her lips were tightly shut.

Mrs. Cloud’s eyes widened and shut tightly, then her lips opened wide and she started to chuckle, laughing loud and clear. Her voice echoing into the sky as she guffawed. She stood there for a minute, hysterically laughing until she didn’t. Her voice slowly crumbled into a growl.

“Ha… are you fucking kidding me?” Mrs. Cloud muttered, her hand running through her hair. “ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME RIGHT NOW?!”

Juan flinched, her body trembling immediately. She was terrified, oh so terrified of her situation at hand.

“You HAVE TO BE FUCKING WITH ME RIGHT NOW!” Mrs. Cloud chuckled, her voice rising in anger. “You mean to tell me that I stood here entertaining your pathetic ass when in the end, that pretty little mouth of yours wouldn’t be able to say anything in protest?”

Juan gave no answer.

“You make me want to keep you in this hell for longer,” Mrs. Cloud smiled. “Crazy motherffers who waste my time on themselves just to be weak in the end? If you come in strong, leave strong. If you come in weak, leave strong. There is no circumstance in which you should come in strong and leave weak. That just makes you pathetic. That’s what you fucking get dumbass. Now you’re in here by yourself with no family members. I hope the three walls and the iron wall of your jail cell treat you well.”

Mrs. Cloud stood up and turned to her assistant. “We’re taking her back to her cell.”

“NO!” Juan snapped, her voice rising up at Mrs. Cloud.

Mrs. Cloud’s head snapped and turned to Juan, her eyes widening. “What did you say?”

“I said NO DAMMIT!” Juan yelled, her eyes slamming shut as she yelled at Mrs. Cloud.

Mrs. Cloud looked at her, her eyes wide open and her lips spread into a smile. She walked towards Juan and stopped right in front of her, her hand lifting Juan’s face up to face hers. “So you do know how to speak. Answer my fucking questions then.”

“I get it, I’m pathetic, you don’t care about me and quite frankly I don’t care about you or this place that housed me against my will for 10 years. I’m not fucking kidding you, I have no reason to be messing with you at this point, my life is the one that is on the line after all.”

Mrs. Cloud smiled, sitting down on the ground at a slight distance from Juan. She looked up at her and awaited the continuation of Juan’s explanation.

” I was willing to go by your will when I first got here. I would stay behind bars, I would repent. I prayed every day for 5 years but those 5 doubled to 10. Abiding by rules? I was meant to stay in prison for 5 years,” Juan snapped, tears forming at the sides of her eyes. “Yet, I was kept in here for double that amount and counting. You cannot dare to tell me that you’re keeping me until my allotted time is over. It was over a while ago.”

“You lied to me and said it would be over soon, said that I was just messing up the time in my head, that I was hallucinating, that no one would want me back if I didn’t think right, so I stopped questioning the time. But I see the time every time the TV gets turned on. The days pass by, the years pass by and I’m rotting away in that cell,” Juan muttered, her eyes gleaming in anger. “How dare you? How dare you use me all this time for something I was supposed to be freed of.”

Mrs. Cloud stared at her blankly, no reaction seemingly on her face. “I don’t seem to understand why you’re complaining.”

Juan cocked her head to the side in confusion. “Excuse me? What is that supposed to mean?”

Mrs. Cloud let out a deep sigh and looked up at Juan, her hand was still above her head like she had instructed, yet she still tried to talk down Mrs. Cloud and the company.

“What’s the purpose of a jail, Juan?” Mrs. Cloud asked.

“To keep prisoners in a place where they get to pay for their crimes,” Juan replied reluctantly.

��Then why do you think you’re here?” Mrs. Cloud asked, “It’s obviously because you committed a crime right?”

Juan nodded her head in reply.

“Then stop with the bull-shiting and open your eyes for a moment,” Mrs. Cloud sighed, “we didn’t ask you to kill your husband, you did it yourself. We didn’t ask you to get caught in your act since you’re too incompetent to complete a crime and not have a backup plan for escaping. That’s the reason why you even came here in the first place.”

Juan gnashed her teeth. “If you knew what that bastard did… to me and his own daughter, you would know why I killed him.”

“He assaulted right?” Mrs. Cloud asked, her head tilting to the left. “Wasn’t it the case of a father who laid hands on his wife, subjecting her to beatings every day and then tried to assault his young 5year-old daughter?”

Juan flinched. She hated the way she knew about what was going on in her family, she hated the way she said it. Mrs. Cloud’s mouth made it sound like it was something unimportant, like she didn’t care about her situation. It was expected, she didn’t care for it after all.

‘It’s frustrating…” Juan thought to herself. ‘Why does she make everything that isn’t about her sound so trivial, like it’s a common occurrence in the world.’ She let out a deep sigh and looked at the sand near Mrs. Cloud’s feet. There was a little ant crawling near it.

Mrs. Cloud’s eyes followed Juan’s and she looked down at the ant, her feet rising over it and slamming into the ant, grinding its fragile body into the sharp rocks on the ground and killing it.

“H-How did you know?” Juan asked.

“There’s not a single person in that building that I do not know of their past. From the moment you stepped into this building, everything about you has been at my expense. I could have easily ruined your entirety and made sure you were actually unable to leave this place forever, but I didn’t do that now did I?” Mrs. Cloud smiled.

Juan looked at Mrs. Cloud, locking yes with the violet in her eyes. It was much calmer now, the storm that was brewing in her eyes had subsided.

“However, I wish I could say the same with your husband’s family,” Mrs. Cloud chuckled, “It seemed like they really hated your guts to do that to you.”

Juan’s eyes widened, “Erick’s family? What happened to them? Are they ok? Mother-in-law is fine right? She was crying non-stop when I was being taken to the police station and I heard she fainted too…” Juan looked in Mrs. Cloud’s eyes again. “Please tell me that she’s ok.”

Mrs. Cloud cocked her head back to a straight position. “It seems like you didn’t hear correctly.”

Juan’s eyes faltered and slowly looked at the ground, biting down on her lips. “I know. It’s expected that they didn’t try to bring me out. I did kill their son after all.”

Mrs. Cloud’s head tilted to the side and a smile crawled onto her blank face. Her lips twitched as they curled up into a chilling smile. “It seems like you really don’t know,” Mrs. Cloud chuckled.

Juan looked up at her and shivered. The smile was so chilling, like she had found a whole new way to kill her prey.

Which she had.

“K-know what?” Juan asked.

Mrs. Cloud grinned. “How they are the reason you haven’t seen the light of the sun for this long.”