Consequences in Being a Spie

This was my exam for Creative Writing

“You can’t do this to me, David!” I cried as I was pushed into a dark, cold room. I stumbled against the wall, feeling weakened. My knees began to buckle underneath me, but I fought my hardest to stay standing.

The poison they just injected me with whirled through my veins. My whole body was burning up. I never felt so weak and helpless in my whole life. Behind me, David chuckled in amusement. I spun around, glaring at him.

“I should have known something about you was off,” he told me. “Who else could have been so dang desperate about having me as a boyfriend? I knew her was nothing different about you. You were just a SPY after all….” He narrowed his eyes and chuckled coldly. “And you just so happened to mess with the wrong cult.”

He slowly pulled out a blindfold from is pocket and handed it to the ten year old girl next to him.

“Go ahead, Maddie,” he said, keeping his eyes glued on me. “You know what to do.”

Maddie stared at the blindfold with wide eyes, afraid of what to do. Annoyed at her hesitation, David shoved the blindfold at her again.

“Take it, Maddie!” he insisted. Maddie quickly took the blindfold, clearly terrified of her big brother. I looked at David in disgust.

“Don’t make her do this,” I pleaded. “She’s just a kid. She doesn’t need to grow up so quickly-”

“She’s my SISTER!” David snapped, pulling out a gun and loading it with bullets. “She WANTS to do as I say… She looks up to me, May. And yet, you wouldn’t know how that would feel, with your younger brother DEAD and all.” He held out the gun to Maddie, who hesitantly took it from him.

I watched as the ten year old girl held a gun for the first time. I felt sorry for her. She didn’t want any of this. Neither did I. It’s true, I knew about David’s violent tendencies before I took the job to be his “girlfriend” but I never actually planned to be in this horrible position. And when I first joined this agency, it’s not like I was given a choice, either. I was forced to grow up just as fast as she was.

Remembering how bad it was when I had to shoot my first victim, I held out my hand towards her. She looked up at me with wide eyes, her face pale. I smiled gently down at her and gestured towards the blindfold in her hand.

“I’ll put on the mask for you if you want,” I tried telling her in a calming voice. “That way, you’ll know that I was willing to die before you killed me, okay?” Maddie nodded slowly before hesitantly handing over the blindfold.

“You’re a very sick man, David,” I murdered as I took the mask and began putting it on. I pulled the mask over my face and whispered, “I’m ready.”

I took a deep breath and waited for something to happen. But nothing did.

‘This isn’t right,’ I thought. ‘David would be furious by now.’ I waited another second before ripping the blindfold off of my face and spinning around.

“David, what are you waiting for-“ I cut myself off and stared around the room in disbelief and horror. Everyone in the room was scattered on the ground around me, blood gushing out of their lifeless bodies. Just then, I noticed a tall figure hiding in a dark corner of the room and my blood froze.

I held my breath as I watched him slowly make his way over to me, stepping over the dead bodies. As he got closer, I could see that he was carrying a long, sharp blade with him; his clothes were soaking with blood.

The man stood in front of me, just staring down at me with lifeless eyes, his grip on the blade tightened. My heart began to race. Whoever this man was, I realized, wasn’t here to save me… He’s here to kill me himself.