They exchange people. Ekin proceeds to direct Annie to her father. Simon starts pushing Ada towards Ekin. Right when they get close, SImon roughly shoves Ada at Ekin! Ekin pushes Annie too and she grabs a tight hold onto an unexpecting Joey! Stephen and Nic jolted trying to get a hold of Joey but Annie's abduction of Joey was too quick and sudden with no warnings.
"Annie!" Frankie yells when he noticed. "Why are you doing this?" Frankie questions losing his hope in Annie.
"Because he's my dad!" She replies with tears in her eyes as she looks at the man she loves. He looked like he lost all care and concern for her. She ressited looking at him and turned to Joey. "I'm sorry." She whispers to Joey.
"I understand." Joey tells her. Since they were not real enemies and once friends she knew Annie had a close relationship with Simon. "But I don't approve."
"Thank you." Annie says holding a gun to Joey's head.
Simon and Annie make their getaway with Joey as a hostage. Ching-Yau calls for Simon to save her also. Simon aims his gun at her and kills her. Annie is astonished. She never realized her father didn't love or care about Ching-Yau or Shu-Qi.
Ekin didn't want to let another of Nnadia's sister get hurt. He had made promises to her. Right now without her he didn't have a will to live so he decided to chance it and leaps forward punching Simon. Simon shoves Ekin off him. Ekin comes right back with a jab and then an uppercut. Simon gets hit and loses his gun. The two men fight vigorously.
With a tight hold on Joey, Annie rushes to grab Simon's gun. "Let go!" Annie hollers "Or... or I'll kill her." She threatens holding the gun at Joey's head.
Frankie tries to rescue Joey but Annie is determined and prepares the gun ready to pull the trigger. Ekin triumphs over Simon and throws the guy at Louis. Louis holds a gun to Simon's head. "Let her go or else!" he orders Annie.
Annie becomes very nervous. She can't decide what to do. She looks at Simon hoping he can help her but he's being held hostage himself.
MEANWHILE... Kristy has helped free Ada from the ropes that tied her up. "How's Nnadia?" was her first question.
Kristy shook her head. "She didn't make it." she responds softly.
Ada stares at Simon with hatred in her eyes. She runs up to Louis takes his gun. Simon immediately makes a getaway and runs. Ada shots him in the leg. He fell and got back up limping. She shots him again. But misses.
Annie screams, "Stop it!" she yells. She didn't shot Joey yet. Ada is so furious about Nnadia's death that she refuses to stop and once again was about to shoot Simon but Annie's gun went off faster. She had closed her eyes and shots Joey's leg. Joey falls to the floor on one knee.
Annie grabs Joey by the hair pointing the gun at her head. She's very nervous because she has never done this before. "One more shot at my dad and I'll kill her!" she threatens.
Ada stops shooting. Simon rushes to his daughter, takes her gun pulls Joey up. "Let's go!" he tells Annie. Annie is scared. She's too shaken up to move. "I didn't mean it." She cries. "I'm sorry."
Simon shakes Annie. "Let's go honey everything will be okay." He tells her. Annie finally starts moving holding onto Simon who is practically limping out towards their car. Everyone follows as Simon and Annie make their getaway. Annie is driving while Simon holds Joey hostage.
"Let's just drop Joey off at the next exit." Annie says nervously.
"If we let her go now the Wongs will never let us go!" Simon yells.
"But daddy. I never...never killed anyone before. I feel... I'm confused." She tells him.
"Just drive dear, you'll be okay." He tells her as he kisses her forehead. "I won't let anythign happen to you."
Joey is in crucial pain. The wound on her leg was rapidlybleeding and swiftly drenching the rug of the car. Looking at the wound it was terrible, like a fried egg where the yoke was leaking out except this was blood. Joey's turning pale now. She suddenly started feeling very faint. She didn't know why, it was only a wound on her leg.
Annie looks into the rearview mirror noticing all this. "I think we should take her to the hospital." She says.
Simon notices everyone has caught up to them. Louis is driving while Stephen and Nic are shooting rapidly his car but they were aimed at him. Frankie who is in Ekin's car screams, "Watch out for Annie bastards!"
"Fuck this!" Stephen shoouted. "Joey's in that car! You think I want to mess with this!" he yells.
Nicholas didn't want to see Joey hurt either but they had to stop Simon and save Joey. Kristy and Ada were both in Ekin's car. They are nervous wondering if their little sister is okay. Annie struggles to drive while Simon ducks and get up to shoot randomly.
Louis drives close enough to Simon's car that Nic and Stephen can try to climb onto Simon's car to get Joey. Joey is too weak and faint to get up and run. Driving this close to another car at this speed is making Annie nervous and she twisted her ankle which really hurts. Simon tries to fight them off and Annie tries to drive but the pain in her ankle consumes her and she takes a look at it.
Finally Annie looks up to see her heading into the mountainside. "Daddy!" she screams. Simon notices and leaps forward into the front seat. He covers Annie with his body. Even though he's evil, he loves his daughter very much. Annie hits her father's body and is thrown to the side of the car hitting her head against the passenger's side window.
Joey is thrown against the front windshield and slams into the mountain side then falls back on the car hood. Louis stops the car. Ekin stops a little after them. Nic and Stephen gasp in hysteria when they saw Joey's bloody body laying on top of the hood of the car.
Frankie immediately rushed over to check on Annie. He opens the door quickly to pull her out. She's somewhat cornered in the car. He struggles to help her. Nobody else seems to help. Nic and Stephen have pulled lifted Joey off the car. Kristy and Ada wanted to help but they were afriad to touch her and break some bones. Their poor fragile sister. Kristy and Ada then notice Annie's condition and rushes over to help Frankie. They remembered how nice Annie was to them when they first met Annie when they were kids.
They successfully get Annie out too and run towards Ekin and Louis's car. Before they can get Simon the car explodes. Everyone takes cover. Quickly they rush Annie and Joey to the hospital. Simon is definitely dead.
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Weeks later....There is a funeral for Nnadia. Annie and Joey are still in the hospital. Both of them unconcious, had some broken bones, severe injuries, and severe burns. Frankie and Stephen are accompanying them.
Ekin touches Nnadia's face one last time before they close the casket. He notices they didn't tuck her in fully and pulls the blanket over her shoulders tucking her in. He gasped as he notices the scar on her right shoulder that he saw weeks ago was not there. He vividly remembered that scar. It seemed like a burn from a cigarette.
He stops the funeral home from closing the casket and flips Nnadia's body around. He looks for the scar that makes up a word on her back. He doesn't see it either. Could this not be Nnadia's body?
Ada and Kristy notice the confusion and get up from kneeling. "Is everything alright?" Ada asked.
"Doesn't your sister have a scar on her back that makes up a word?" Ekin asked puzzled.
Ada quickly replies, "No." she responds with a lie.
Kristy looks at Ada strangely because they all had a scar on their backs which spelled out their real last name which was YANG. They went by the surname of LAI because Nnadia chose it as their permanent alias when Simon ordered them to choose a last name for him to register them under.
"I swear I saw it!" Ekin says suspiciously. "She even had a scar on her right shoulder, like a cigarette burn." He added.
Louis and Nick get up now to see what's going on.
"Impossible. Nnadia doesn't smoke." Kristy adds not lying at all.
"Maybe you're thinking of Ah-Suo too much." Louis says thinking his brother has gone crazy.
"Maybe." Ekin says not fully convince. He knows what he saw. He knew this was not Nnadia's body. He was afriad SImon had stolen it and wondering if Ada and Kristy were lying to him. Nic and Louis lead him to sit down.
Ada and Kristy rearrange Nnadia's body and both observe the back of the corpse. Kristy gasped but Ada holds her hand telling her not to say anything. Kristy understands and doesn't say anything.
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A woman was looking out her balcony. She had a cigarette in her hand as she leaned over to see how far she was from the ground. The cars looked like little tiny matchbox cars. She leaned a little more trying to see if she would fall out of the balcony. She suddenly recalled a painful memory.
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There were four sisters walking along a dirt road in China. Sui-Fun (Ada) was the oldest of the four. She was 10 years old at the time. Chung-Ling (Nadia) was 9. Kung-Ru (Kristy) was 8 and Cho-Yee (Joey) was 6. They were walking home from school in China on the usual dirt road they took home. They were skipping and singing an old country song, laughing and playing.
A dark shadow moved along the bushes close to the road. Sui-Fun noticed and freaked. She quickly pushed her sisters to get them out of the way. Chung-Ling noticed the shadow too and grabbed Kung-Ru and Cho-Yee's hand to run. She didn't realize that Sui-Fun was not with her. When they were safe Chung-Ling looked around and didn't see Sui-Fun. She became alarmed.
Chung- Ling looked at her younger sisters and said, "Kung Ru, take Sui Yee home to mommy and daddy. Me and Fun Jei Jei will be home later."
"No Ling Jei Jei" Kristy yelled. "I don't want you to be alone."
"No! You have to go now or it'll be too late." Nnadia said pushing them away.
Reluctantly they ran back home without Nnadia and Ada. Joey cried all the way as they ran home. Nnadia ran back to look for Ada. She didn't see anyone around and before she knew it, she was knocked unconscious. When she awoke later she was laying on Ada's knees. "Fun Jie Jie, where are we?" She asked looking around. It looked like a smelly old boat. There were many other little girls and boys on the boat.
Ada shook her head, "I don?t know." She said traumatized. Nnadia sat up and noticed her hands were tied. Her feet were tied and so was Ada. Then she saw something even more frightening. It was Kristy and Joey! They were tied up and seemed dead! "Sui-Yee! Kung-Ru!" She yelled trying to wake them up.
She looked at Ada who was still in shock. "Fun Jie Jie are you okay?" Nnadia asked as she started to panic. "What happened to you?" she asked crying.
Ada started shivering and crying. "A man... A man... he... he... just... he just...just ra...ra... rap...raped me." Ada stuttered.
Nnadia's jaws dropped. Her heart froze. She wanted to comfort her sister but she wasn't able to. Her hands were tied behind her back. She looked at the other kids who seemed tied up also. She started to panic. They were all only kids!
Another man came in and looked around. He noticed Nnadia was awake and walked over to her. Ada knew his intentions. She immediately tried to stop the man by biting him. He slapped her and she fell unconscious. Nnadia tried to help Ada but she couldn't even help herself. He took her from the confinement.
Nnadia screamed and cried but it was no use. Nobody would help her. Nnadia watched in horror as the man violated her. After he was done with her he threw her back into the confinement. Ada was still unconscious. She came close to Ada and noticed her head was bleeding. She screamed for help but nobody came to help her. Even the other kids on the boat were too afraid to do anything.
She tried to wipe away the blood with her shirt sleeves. It was too much for her. She was afraid Ada would die. She slid herself to the door and positioned herself on the ground to kick the door laying on her side. Another man came to open it. He was Edward Wong.
"My sister is bleeding!" Nnadia screamed. "Please help her, please help her." She cried.
The man walked in and took a look at Ada. He got some dirty cloth and tied it around Ada's head and left. Nnadia didn't think the cloth was sanitary and might infect her sister's wound but the cloth was better than nothing so she didn't stop him.
She looked over at Joey and Kristy who were still unconscious. She slide over to them and started pushing them towards the dark corner. She then attempted to roll Ada over to the corner also. She was only 9 years old and there was really nothing she could do to save her sisters but she thought if she hid them in the corner the men wouldn't find them among all the kids to violate.
For the next few weeks different men came in and out to grab different girls to ravish. Some even pulled out little boys to ravish. Each time they came they never got Joey, or Kristy. Nnadia had made them stay in the dark corner. They ignored Ada because she was injured and carried a rotten smell. Nnadia was taken out three times after the first incident. Each time Nnadia knew what would happen and the only thing she hoped was to keep her sisters safe. Each time the men took Nnadia out she observed the men and their names. There was a Daniel Ngo, David Ng, Ben Luu, Albert Hong, Alan Fong, Edward Wong, and Jason Yeung.
After what seemed like years but was really less than a month they arrived to the destination. For the first time in weeks the sisters saw light again. They looked to see a gigantic red bridge. They didn't know at the time but they were in San Francisco, California. They were taken off the boat and taken to a musty apartment building where they were cleaned up.They noticed the other kids onthe boat were sold and siblings were separated. Afrraid of losing each other, they cut the word YANGon their back in hopes to reunite again if that ever happened.
They were each probably sold about 5 to 7 times to many different people their first 3 years in America until Simon bought Nnadia. After that she made a quest to look for her sisters and pleaded with Simon to buy them too. They all finally reunited under Simon about 12 years ago. Ever since Simon bought them, they had a much better life but he still treated them like the slaves he bought them for. He trained them to be the best conartistes mony could buy. The did many immoral things, each time because they didn't know any better and feared for their lives, at least what was left of it.
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A man grabbed the mysterious woman from behind. "What the hell are you doing that far out on the ledge of the balcony?" he yelled pulling her in. She laughed mockinly and struggled with him, trying to free herself from his grasp. He let her go and looked sternly at her. "Are you trying to scare me to death?" he asked her
"Do you really care if I died?" she asked him.
"Of course I would!" he declared.
She snickered and took another puff of her cigarette. "Lies! All Lies!" she yelled throwing the cigarette at him. He didn't dodge and it hit his shirt. She then threw the cup of wine she was drinking at him. He didn't dodge that either and it stained his shirt. Unsatisfied that he wasn't reacting she picked up more random things to throw at him; a phone ont the table she was standing next to, the lamp on the table, the notepad, the pillow on the bed, the blankets.....
Right whenshe picked up the blankets, he grabbed her and kissed her. She pushed him off her but he forced his kiss on her as he pressed her body against him and the bed. He rolled his tongue in her mouth pulling off her clothes as he kissed her full of passion and rage. Finally she was powerless against him as she kissed him back.
He kissed her as he unbuttoned her blouse and removed her undergarments. He rolled his hands across her right shoulders over a cigarette burn. He laid her down gently as he kissed her from her lips to her face and moved down her body, tickling her nipples, erecting them to a sensation. Moing down her body ksising her tummy then belly button, he sent ripples of pleasure through her body.
She arched her back to give him room as he slid himself between her legs. The warmthness of him being there sent waves of sensation throughout her whole body. Kissing her womahood lightly and stroking it a few times he got up and kissed her lips. She kissed him back taking in all the juicy kisses her offered. Slowly he entered his meanhood into her. She moaned in delight and pleasure as they gently made love. He wanted to please her and that's what he did.
Afterwards he kissed her tenderly on the shoulder as he embraced her tightly in his arms. "Nnadia, did you make love to Ekin?" he asked.
Nnadia bit her lips thinking about her reply. "No Leon, it was just horrid sex." she answered.
"Do you have any feelings for him?" Leon asked with concern.
"Of course not." She replied. "He was just part of my plot for revenge." She said trying to convince herself.
"Good, I don't want the Wong brothers alive." Leon said firmly.
Nnadia almost flinched. "It's enough." She said firmly. "Right now Ada, Kristy, and Joey are with the Wong brothers. I don't want...."
He cut her off. "Don't worry, I won't let another thing happen to your sisters."
She cuts him off. ?"You can't guarantee it. Last time you said the same thing but Joey ended up in the hospital!" she yelled pushing him away from her.
"Calm down!" He yelled trying to hold her down.
She pushed him and yelled at him as she beats him. Leon let her hit him. He hoped she would just beat all her angry and frustration on him. When she finally became tired she fell against his chest weeping and sobbing.
He wrapped his arms around her. "It'll be ok. I'm here for you." Leon whispered.
"I hate the Wongs I want them dead." She said.
"One minute you want them dead one minute you want them alive. Do you want them dead or not?" Leon asked.
Nnadia shook her head, "Not yet we need them to destroy Francis and Alex." She said.
Leon nodded to agree with her but he was suspicious of why she was so protective of them one minute and hated them the next. Was she trying to protect Ekin? Did she develop a love/hate relationship with her enemy?
Of all the sisters, Nnadia had the most ambition for revenge. The rest of them only wanted normal lives. But Nnadia felt she could never have a normal life until she had her revenge. She had already personally with her own bear hands killed Daniel Ngo, Ben Luu, Albert Hong, and Jason Yeung. She caused David Ng and Alan Fong's deaths but wasn't satisfied. She still wanted to kill their sons who were Francis Ng and Alex Fong. Edward Wong died before she was able to get revenge on him. His sons were her target but now she wasn't sure if she could kill them.
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Note to readers:
The father's names were all made up.
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