‘Be quiet. Be quiet. Be quiet. Quiet….’
Noah looked up because of a constant voice coming from above
his head. It wasn’t like he was able to see it because he was squatting in a
big luggage case with his mouth blocked and his wrists and ankles tied.
Noah held his breath and killed his sound. He didn't even talk and held his breath, but ‘Be quiet. Be quiet,’ sound kept coming in.
A small gap that only a needle size light comes in came in with the woman’s
voice.
Be quiet. Be quiet. If you make a sound, I’m gonna throw
this bag to the road and kill you. Be quiet. Be quiet. She knew Noah can hear
her voice.
Crazy bitch… Noah thought she was a crazy bitch. He
wasn’t cursing. She was actually out of her mind. If she was sane, she wouldn’t
tell Noah who’s already quiet to be quiet like playing a broken CD. –Of course,
before that she wouldn’t kidnap a boy and put him in a bag.
The ground was pretty bumpy, so the wheels of the bag was
rocking a lot. If he wasn’t empty stomach for the whole day, he thought he was
going to throw up. He couldn’t even move a finger because of motion sickness and
dehydration. Even if she didn’t tie his wrist, he was sure that he can’t do
anything.
Only thing he can do was just quietly wishing for someone
to find him before that crazy bitch kills him.
Chances were very low. New York was the neighborhood
where people think minding other people’s business are embarrassing thing, and
no one will be that creative enough to think a young woman with a traveling luggage
has a child in it. Perhaps even if someone thinks it’s weird, that person won’t ask a
passing by person to open up her luggage.
Still maybe somebody will rescue me. People are probably
looking for me. Maybe somebody will think of this crazy woman suspicious and
grab the bag and ‘tada’ rescue me. Even
right now. Even later…
Ah, no one will rescue me… He thought about this after
some time has passed. In this dark. From that woman. He thought no one will
rescue him from the fear of dying. –Forever.
“…carlton. Mr. Raycarlton? Are you alright?”
Noah who was sleeping back seat of the car opened his eyes
because of Phil's voice. His heavy and blurry eyes got slowly clearer. A dark
world that looked like a hallucination disappeared and a cold air was touching
his cheek.
Phil was frowning outside of the car door. Noah lightly
blinked his eye and smiled like it was nothing.
“Ah. Aaah… …What was our next schedule?”
Phil sighed and answered Noah’s slow question.
“……Nothing. Go home and rest.”
Noah felt his cold sweated forehead and smiled saying
“Tomorrow will be busy.” The schedules that got pushed to tomorrow will make
tomorrow very busy that he can’t even use one minute, one second mindlessly.
Tomorrow 13 minutes of his meal time won’t be a joke, but there is nothing he
can do. Just like Phil thought, Noah wasn’t in condition where he can work.
“Don’t you have to go to the hospital? Or, should I call
Robert?”
Phil said he’ll call for the doctor, and Noah shook his
head.
“Aaah, don’t. Even if it’s Robert, well, will there be a
special way? He will probably give me a stronger medication. –It’s nothing.
Don’t worry.”
All the modern day people have it right? –Noah lightheartedly
waved his hand, and, “But Mr. Raycarlton, right now….,” smiled brightly at Phil
who was trying to say something more.
“You are being presumptuous, Phil.”
Underneath his bright smile, Noah’s green eyes were cold.
Phil swallowed his dried throat and bowed.
“….I’m sorry.”
Noah waved his hand at bowing Phil and said, “Go home.”
Phil looked at the company building where piles of work are still unfinished,
but instead of telling him he can’t leave because of work, he said bye.
“Then, I’ll see you tomorrow.”
He politely closed the car door, and Noah smiled and
waved hand cheerfully like he never stared at him coldly. Phil bowed his head, and
Noah’s car headed to his house.
“…..”
Noah leaned on the back again and closed his eyes. He
moved his finger to loosen up his tie, but he felt his fingers were trembling. He
smirked. It’s already 20 years ago, but his body is still reacting to it.
What’s so big deal about that? Noah chuckled and sighed. –It
was actually made into a movie, but the story wasn’t that dramatic. Just one woman
turned crazy because of jealously towards his Mother, Rebecca Kelly, and
kidnapped young Noah. She took Noah everywhere to escape, but coincidentally Noah
got rescued. Usually child abduction ends up with child’s death, but he was
unusually lucky and was able to go home safely.
The movie was a happy ending, and the actual story was
similar to the movie. The things happened after were small things that public didn’t have to know.
Noah put his hand inside his jacket pocket and took out a
medicine bottle. Xanax. He’s been taking these since long time ago, so the
effect was very minor. He’s taking Xanax because he didn’t want to change the
medicine, but his doctor Robert was constantly offering other tranquilizer.
Even Noah himself thought he should stop being stubborn and take other medicine,
but today he had no choice. Maybe because of the placebo effect, it was better
than not taking anything.
When he tried to open the bottle, he saw a small mud
stain and stopped.
“…..”
Instead of taking these medicine, he just stared at that
stain. It was the stain that he got when he dropped the bottle a while ago.
When he went inside the set, everyone was quiet. There
was one man at the end of everyone’s sight. Noah thought the man that was
shivering under the rain was somebody else not Haley. A man who cannot be at
that place.
When everyone was shocked, Noah was breathing heavily and
blinking his eyes.
How can I think of that man from him. There was nothing
similar between Haley and that man. Haley is the most frivolous person among
the people Noah knows, and that man is….
Noah remembered vaguely about that man’s face and closed
his eyes to remember him more clearly. In that moment.
Trrrrrrr-
Noah’s phone rang loudly. It was a call from Phil. Noah
thought about it for a second and answered the phone. If Phil calls him even
though he knows Noah’s state, it must be an emergency.
Noah sighed and even before Noah was able to ask him what’s
going on, Phil answered it first.
[A new report about Mason Taylor just came in…. It says
he is currently missing during the mission. –I’ll send the details through your
fax at home.]
What should I do? Do you want to track him? Phil asked
with a careful voice, and instead of answering, Noah moved his eyes and looked at
Xanax bottle. This is certainly the point where a stronger
tranquilizer is needed.
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