Maribel did not know if his intention was to throw her into the rapidly engulfing flames. With uncommon strength derived from sheer desperation, she was able to cut through the thin aluminum chain and flee outside the house now half way engulfed in flames.
She circumvented the menacing form of her captor, yet was not able to get away too far due to the long chain trail which followed her as a shadow. He caught up to her and stepped on the chain, making her halt and causing her fall.
He wielded a sharp knife, and she a hot pipe wrench. They struggled for supremacy and survival with a primal animalistic instinct driving each to administer as much harm as possible.
He bit her ear sadistically, clenching to it like a rabid dog would to a piece of meat, while attempting to slash her clothes off her. Maribel howled in pain and seeing how puny her attempts to stop him with the wrench were in deterring him, she maneuvered to roll over on top. With renewed strength Maribel interred the wrench into his right eye. This caused his eyeball to become dislodged and precariously hang out by a ligament.
-“An eye for an eye you miserable dog!” Maribel said this with a vengeance.
Maribel did not waste her advantage point, when he was down and screaming like a banshee, she gathered her chain about her and ran away from him. The moon lit night lighting her passage still.
Maribel ran as fast as her legs could carry her; she ran for dear life. After a while, when the flames of the small house seemed a speck on the horizon, Maribel searched the inside pocket of her jacket. She had left her cell phone on vibrate during working hours. She flipped it open, only to be dismayed that she had forgotten to charge the battery this morning. She had a fraction of the battery time at her disposal. She quickly dialed the operator for the police number.
-“Informacion de Juarez.” The operator responded.
-“Hello…Hello..Miss? I have been kidnapped! I… I don’t know where I am. I am in the middle of the desert! Can you help me please? Please send the police here. There is a also a fire, surely you can locate the small burning house? PLEASE!” Maribel made the heartfelt plead to the operator.
The call dropped. Maribel was so very, very tired by now, as well as freezing cold. The currents of desert wind seemed to give her a slight push, the ominous howling of the wind, seeming to urge her to keep on going. This time she dialed her home.
-“ Mami? Mamita!…it’s me Maribel! I have been kidnapped! I don’t know where I am. I am in the desert somewhere, and there is a small house burning right now. Can you call the police please? I don’t have much battery time. I just want to tell you ….that I love you. I love you all...very much.” Maribel sank down to her knees and cried disconsolately. "I'm so scared!"
-“Mijita! This can’t be happening, not to you! You are such a good daughter. Let me get your father on the line...wait...let him call the police right now…wait mijita. I love you too!” Her mother answered desperately.
The line dropped again, this time the battery life was exhausted. Before she turned around to see the car coming behind her, she heard the motor approaching.
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to be continued...
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Open Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGcMFFieNe4
