Comet was waiting in the line while Jeremiah was seated at one of the tables at the cafeteria. She turned to look at his direction and found that his face still had a grim look. She took the two cups of coffee that she had ordered and went in the direction of the table and placed the Styrofoam cup before him.
“You look angry!”
“Oh! Really! Thank the heavens that you realised it!” Jeremiah muttered and Comet smiled and said,” Sarcasm is a defense of the weak, Jeremiah. Are you weak?”
“Is that so? Do I look weak to you?” he asked as he stared back at her hard.
“Weaknesses not something that you can see. Weaknesses something that has to be endured. I know that weakness is something to do with how confident you are in the face of danger. And right now I can see a week man in front of me I’m not a strong one only because you think that everything is before you and you know that nothing else can be true.”
“Is that why you called me here? To have me drink coffee and then you can criticise me all you want?”
“Of course not! which girl would want a handsome man having coffee with them in order to just criticises them. Of course I didn’t think so, I cannot even think of what you just said. But it is true that there are a lot of things which you are not aware of and it would probably be better if you keep an open mind right now.”
“It is becoming very difficult to keep an open mind because my stepmother has been admitted to the hospital with multiple stab wounds and I am the one who has reported it.” Jeremiah placed his face in his hands and sighed. Comet nodded. She needed to proceed extremely carefully and said,” I know that you don’t think too nicely of my step-father or my Uncle as well but the truth is that they are the only people right now apart from me who has the barest idea or knowledge and acumen required to get your sister back.”
“Why?” asked Jeremiah because he was genuinely confused as to why she was saying that.
“Because they are the ones who saved my life when I was kidnapped and sold into being a s*x slave for a man,” replied Comet. Her voice trembled a little while she recalled what had happened to her while she had been worked on by that mad scientist and she had been forced to endure something which no woman would want to survive.
“What do you mean?” Jeremiah asked and Comet smiled at him.
“That is not something that every girl would like to repeat after saying once. I would love for you to listen to the horrors of my life but I doubt that you would be interested in listening to any of them. So please try and understand that I might have suffered and survived that torture for three months but your sister might not. And your stepmom is currently the only link that we have in order to find her whereabouts. Because the first thing that they do after torturing her physically is try to mentally break her by cutting off the sensory organs. They will do everything to shift her away from here as soon as possible and as much as I would love to tell you that we have time to find her, we don’t.”
“Who are you?” asked Jeremiah as he held the cup in his hand and stared at Comet while she smiled and said,” I am someone who was kidnapped rom her bedroom in the middle of the night and as if that was not enough. Your step mother was trying to hypnotise me into getting sold off like cattle once again.”
“How can she do that? I mean is it practically possible? Why haven’t you contacted the authorities about this? I am sure that there will be others like you…” said Jeremiah and as Comet scoffed at his words his sentence trailed off.
“The women who survive more than the time period that they have the fancy of their owners, not women, teenagers, I mean, they are sold off again for serving as prostitutes and escorts and if they survive a few years of that as well then they are cut up and their organs are sold on black market.”
Jeremiah was silent at the words just spoken by this young beautiful blonde sitting before him. He had never heard of something so atrocious in his life.
“Look you can be silent all you wish to be but that doesn’t change the fact that this has happened and something is already probably happening to her. So do you want to help us? In saving her? Jenny? Right, her name is?”
“Yes…Jenny. When I last saw her, she was still in pigtails and she was wearing all kinds of cute dresses and asking me to take her to the rides and amusement parks and…I never thought that I would have to hear something like this. Please tell me…please tell me that she is alive…” said Jeremiah as he pleaded with Comet and her heart broke at the pain in his voice and eyes. He was a genuinely caring man and she said,” She is alive. After all she is worth more alive and virgin and not dead. So rest assured that she is alive.”
“That does not sound like a good thing at all,” he growled.
“No it doesn’t. But it is the only guarantee that you have right now.”
Lester and Larry entered the cafeteria and found them sitting on opposite sides of each other and sighed in relief. Lester looked at Comet and said,” She seems very oddly at ease with someone who is close to her age. Was it wrong for me to think that she would never do that?”
“I guess taking her for granted was wrong. We came so close to losing her and even after that we did not realise that we would lose her to some one else.”
Comet did not even look at them and Larry growled,” She is too sexy for her own good. I think we should have taken up on her offer of wearing a burqa that day we played with her!”
“Please don’t remind me! I get hard every time I think of that evening,” said Lester as they both walked towards the younger couple.
“Comet!” Lester called and she turned in his direction and said,” Did you get anything from her?”
“No…I didn’t. I wish I could because the faster that I would have then the faster we could have taken any action. How is He-Man holding up here?”
“Is that supposed to be me? I am He-Man?” asked Jeremiah as he looking at Lester with his mouth gaping open.
“I thought that with you looking as you look like, you should feel that to be a compliment!” Larry said and Comet laughed out outright and said,” guys cut it out!”
“What is there to cut out? He is the one who is calling me names…just on the basis of how I look,” Jeremiah burst out and then said,” That is also a form of body shaming…I have to say that it is extremely sexist behaviour!”
“What the f**k is wrong with him?” Larry muttered and Comet looked at Jeremiah and said,” are you gay?”
“No. I am not gay. I am bisexual. You have a problem with that?” asked Jeremiah as he raised his brows and Comet laughed out loud and said,” As long as you find women attractive, why am I going to have a problem?”
“Dear lord!” Lester groaned out loud at his admission.