Warmness on the soul

*Joana’s P.O.V.*

What was I supposed to do? Should I answer the phone in hope Aidan would be at the other end?! There wasn’t anything that I could do right now. I stuck in this fucking traffic and couldn’t neither move forward or backwards. I was literally trapped in this whole thing. I got really nervous after I was reading Brian’s text message and already expected the worst. The conditions of this game were pretty simple, so it would be just a matter of time when he would give up. If he would be giving up before he killed his target called Brian.
I don’t think that the other boys were really interesting for him. They were just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Aidan was mentally ill and needed help, if anything would work on him. He knew that he couldn’t get me back, so he accepted his faith to spend the rest of his life in jail. I could answer the phone, trying with all my power to make him stop the madness before someone would seriously get hurt or just run away from the situation hiding somewhere and waiting until everything was over. I felt my heart beating inside faster every minute, struggling a little bit about what to do. So I choose to answer the phone.

“Aidan, if that is you just stop with this crap. You can avoid so much trouble if you just let them go now please” I said with a faint voice.

Silence. The person at the other end didn’t say anything until I heard a female voice speaking.

“What are you talking about?” Nathalie clearly said now.

It wasn’t him then. He was choosing for his game someone else. Now I could just hope that he or she was giving the right answer.

“You don’t listen to the radio right? Aidan is some sick asshole. He kidnapped my boyfriend’s band. True to the motto because he can’t have me, no one can.”

“I never would have guessed that and you know Gwen always liked him more than Brian. She might change her mind now though.”

“Right now I don’t give a fuck of anyone’s opinion. That guy is playing Russian Roulette with them” I snarled into the speaker.

She was the least person that could need my bitchy mode. I was just in rage because of Aidan’s desperate tries to make my life miserable.

“Sorry hun” I apologized and was taking a deep breath “I just don’t know what to do. I even got a kind of goodbye message from Brian already. Finally I was feeling happy and secure again but then Aidan comes and decides to change everything. He is having his fucking girlfriend. Why does he want to destroy other relationships?”

“I’m sad that I can’t answer you to this. I thought of him better as well but then I saw you with Brian and saw you smiling again. He is giving you what you need.”

“I never should have left him” I put my head back and blamed myself for the stupid action three years ago.

Along the way I was listening to the Aidan’s personal radio show.

“The answer to the song you are looking for is ‘Beyond the Realms of Death’ by Judas Priest” a male person said and I was so relieved by his answer.

It was the right song and now he had to give in. The horror would soon be over.

“That was a test and you failed” Aidan said before he switched back to the music.

Test?! Failed? That man was giving the right answer and what does he mean that it was just a ‘test’?! I just wanted to scream right away to get this off from my chest. No one except Brian could tell me what was going on right now.

“Sweet? Are you still here?” I heard Nathalie again.

“Sorry. I will call you later. Right now I just can’t focus on anything else than this kidnapping. Patricia is well, just to calm you a little. See you” I hung up and called Brian’s number.

No sign. He probably had turned his mobile off after his last text message. The situation got really complex. I was sitting in my car, Brian had turned his phone off and I just could send my little prayers to God that he protects them from this monster.
First I had to get home anyway. While I was talking to my lawyer a good friend of mine was babysitting Patricia. It wasn’t a nice way but I couldn’t drag her with me. She would be crying anyway and that’s why I was choosing a good company for some hours. Now I had to worry even for Brian and I guess that I underestimated Aidan. He was more than just a simple nice guy that could be a real gentleman sometimes. At least that was the Aidan I knew until now where I faced his other side.

Finally I could move a bit forward as my mobile phone started to ring again. Now I recognized the number and my hands started to shiver again.

“Aidan, you fucking asshole” I yelled into the microphone. “What do you think you are reaching with this?”

“Oh babe” he chuckled amused “You can count that on your hands why. By the way the reason why I am calling is that you really shouldn’t have done this.”

“Done what?”

What was he talking about now?! But who knows what was going on in his sick mind anyway?!

“The thing right now. Don’t you think I haven’t noticed that you faked this?!”

“Fake what?”

“I’m not stupid. So I had tested something and called my own mobile. Since I had turned it off I shouldn’t get someone on the other line. Can you follow me?”

“I might can do that, but not why you were kidnapping them. You don’t reach anything but trouble. Do you want to end up in jail when you have actually a girlfriend waiting for you in Canada? First you betray me with her in our house and then you try everything to get me back. Aidan, learn it on the hard way, I don’t want you back. I had been visiting my lawyer a few minutes ago and you will get the papers in some days. It is over, so let them go before anyone get hurt.”

“Do you think that’s easy?”

“Yes. But what do you want to do now?”

“The test failed and that means someone will be killed.”

“You’re so fucking cold. You don’t fucking care about other one’s feelings. The only thing that is important is that you are happy. People need to follow your rules, otherwise you turn into a freak like now. But one thing. Why have you been telling the press such things about Brian? Why? What has he done to you?”

“That wasn’t me.”

“You are so ridiculous right now, do you know that?”

“Why? I’m completely honest to you, so why should I lie about this?”

Then he hung up. Another try of getting him back on the phone was ineffective. He really turned it off now and I noticed that the music on the radio faded and his voice was coming back. It was unbelievable what show he was doing and used the listeners as his audience for his sick games.
I couldn’t explain what happened when he dialed the first number, maybe it was even just a sick try to kill someone so badly, just because the person was giving the right answer. I feared badly about the outcome.

“Ladies and Gentleman, it’s me again, your bloody radio host from KROQ. Welcome to my very personal American Horror Show or my own way to play Russian roulette. For the listeners that just turned on their radio let me explain that I started the first game round with the boys from Avenged Sevenfold. Yes you’ve heard it right. They are here and the kind of prize of my game. If the person wins the game one of them can leave the studio alive, if not well you still can visit him at their grave. And since my test failed someone needs to give his life for it and you are my audience. Welcome to the show.”

Pang!

Then the music was turned on again. Right now I was sitting stunned in my driver’s seat, staring at the radio in hope to get an answer which was ridiculous I know that. As soon as I would get that bastard in my hand I knock him out and beat the shit out of this asshole. My hands clenched around the wheel and by breathing slowly I tried to calm my soul. No I couldn’t just sit here and do nothing. If I couldn’t move here I had to take another possibility to reach the studio.

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