Half life

Your Lunch Is Served

"You are so lucky the Boss intervened you swine" A voice scoffed and started plodding away

"Dad are alright? Did they hurt you?" I asked

"Yes dear I'm fine" Dad replied in a wimpy voice

"Ok Dad" I replied

" But Amanda you shouldn't have said that to them. I'm hungry so you are we should have been grateful to have seen lunch and eat instead" Dad said in weary voice

" Well you can go ahead and eat but as for me I'm not interested Dad" I replied harshly

"Amanda you are getting it all wrong this time" Dad said and sighed

" I don't care if I get it wrong or right. All I want is to go home nothing else" I added

" You think going home is that easy huh. Now tell me what makes you think you can go home with the way your are behaving? " Dad asked

" I just don't care about all of that Dad" I replied

"Oh very well then... go suit yourself" Dad sighed and said

then fell back into silence.

With this outburst, I knew for sure that he was irked at me and may not speak with me again.

I will have to do something about it right now.

So I exhaled deeply then tried calling him out but he wouldn't reply.

Tired from calling him out, I leaned my head against the chair in awkward manner then shortly I began to hear footsteps walking towards the room.

"I guess they were all back again maybe this time around to snatch the life out of us" I muttered

" Listen up you all. The Boss said you all must eat whatever he provides whether you love it or not because the big Boss will be here in a few days time and he wouldn't want to see any of you looking so malnourished. He strongly says anyone he refuses to comply will be dealt with mercilessly... I hope this is clear enough" The voice said in an authoritative tone.

"Now here is your lunch do whatever you want with it" He added and started walking towards my direction

"But how do we eat this with our hands tied and our eyes blindfolded?" I stuttered

" You may have to ask the Boss himself little girl" He bellowed and placed something like a hot liquid on my leg

"Hey go and ask the Boss if we should untie them so that they can have their lunch" He added still standing close to me

"Alright Boss" Another voice added and gaited out of the room

And reemerging after a few minutes have passed, he announced

"Yes Boss he says you can untie them"

"Alright go shut the door and then untie that man"He commanded

"Now listen up you all. I'm only giving you the liberty to eat and just in case you have it in mind that you can escape then I'm laughing at you because you all are currently on the 8th floor of this building so for your own good save yourself the stress of having to run around like a headless chicken because you won't be spared when you get caught trying to escape. I hope I have made myself clear" He said stealthily and began to untie my legs then he moved onto my hands seeing that both hands were free now, I tilted my head sideways and gave him a knock out punch on the shoulder.

"Have you lost your senses or something?" He asked wincing in pain as he stood up

"No I haven't yet but you have" I scoffed and flung the blindfold from my eyes

"You need special care. I can see you have gone bananas" He said subtly and I stared at him in the face then took my gaze to corners of the room.

The room was all blanketed in darkness and hardly could I make out whose faces were there in the room but with the help of the chair facing the wall, I soon recognized the man sitting on it to be Dad.

He sat wearily, conjoined to the chair all pale and masked with an expressionless face. Seeing him that way filled me with so much rage and hate for all the men as I felt like standing up to challenge them to a fight and crushing them into granules but then just as Dad had said we were once again powerless and only at the mercy of their hands.

"Hey common eat your food and stop staring you don't have all day for this" The man infront of me yelled and I jerked back to reality

"Huh what did you say?" I asked

"What did you hear me say?" He retorted

"Sir I didn't..." I stuttered

"Then do whatever you heard me say period" He said cutting me off then walked away

Shrugging my shoulders, I turned towards direction to see what was going on with him.

He seemed to be oblivious of the things happening in his environment as he kept staring blankly into space and muttering incoherent words to himself while a sealed bowl and a glass jar were lying on the floor beside his chair.

"I do not really have a problem if you all are going to do nothing but just sit and stare but note very well that you have 10 minutes to eat your respective meals. I mean just 10 damn minutes and the good news is that you all have succeeded in spending five minutes out of it in staring but be rest assured that once the 10 minutes is over, whether you are done eating or not I will just consider you all to have finished eating. Now happy staring" The man I had punched earlier on said sternly.

So I took my gaze off Dad's direction and looked down at the floor in my front only to see a bottle of what looked like dry gin and a pack of cigarettes

"What?" I yelled sighting the pack of cigarettes and drew the attention of the men in the room

"What is it little girl?" The other man asked and started towards direction

"Take a look at this. What is this?" I asked pointing at the things on the floor

"And what is wrong with those things on the floor?" The man asked when he got closer

"Aren't you seeing a pack of cigarettes and the gin?" I asked

"I do and what am I supposed to do with what you just showed me?" He asked

" What do I need them for?" I retorted

" I don't know but I think its your lunch so go ahead and enjoy your meal" He added and walked away

" A pack of cigarettes and gin for lunch? How am I supposed to take this?" I soliloquized and shook my head in disgust