“Whoever is holding us back knows it in their heart.”
As soon as I finished speaking, the ground began to shake violently under my feet. The staircase from the tenth to the eighth floor had completely broken. When I looked down it was terrifyingly dark.
We stood on the eleventh floor and stared at each other in silence. As the shaking disappeared, our group was completely trapped upstairs. Everyone’s faces were filled with panic, but no one spoke for a moment.
I was the first to break the despairing silence, “Well, we might as well just die here.”
A few timid girls huddled in the corner and started crying. Lorenzo was so angry. He grabbed Damien's collar tightly and punched him.
“You bastard! You want to die and drag us down with you!”
“And you, Jessica! You bitch! You take a shower and put on makeup, right? Are you waiting to have your funeral makeup done?”
Jessica was so upset she started crying. She sobbed as she helped Damien, who was lying on the ground, get up.
“I... I don't know if it was real either.”
Damien covered his face, which had a handprint on it. He then scolded me, “Eugenia, don't curse people. We're all responsible for this!”
I let out a soft laugh and replied, “I didn't curse anyone. The facts are right in front of us.”
Lorenzo saw that I was being sarcastic and pointed at me. He said angrily, “Your husband is about to be seduced by that vixen Jessica. And you're still acting like it doesn't matter to you.”
When life and death were on the line, the bad nature of human nature was exposed. There was no room for previous friendships anymore.
On the other side, Damien was beaten so badly by his friends that he couldn't stand up straight. Meanwhile, Jessica's carefully combed hair was also messed up.
Seeing Jessica's eyes turn into red eyes, my husband was completely enraged. He pulled out an electric baton from his pocket and threatened, “If you touch Jessica again, I won't hold back.”
He was the leader of our neighborhood. It made him often carry an electric baton during safety patrols.
I didn’t expect it turned out to be just what he needed. Seeing him press the current switch with red eyes, the group of people quieted down again.
Jessica threw herself into Damien's arms. Her high heels were stomped on the ground.
“Damien, they messed up my hairstyle!”