Upon opening the creaky door, there was a worn-down couch calling for their tired bodies to lie on. While Mark and Jade took over the couch, the unlucky Louise became one with the floor. He was now the newest furnishing in the house; a nice carpet from Pakistan.
After cracking his back, he sat up and looked at Jade, and so the interview began. Apparently like a rebellious teenager, Jade ran away from her typical strict Asian parents after not being able to find where 'x' was. When asked about her house, she said it's in the far east neighbourhood. Where rich people stay, 'so unrealistically high standard mama and papa' Mark thought. "Must be nice to have breathing parents…" Louise said with envy.
Jade gave a puzzled look, "There're parents that don't breathe?"
"Yes, dead people" Mark gave her a dead-ass look. She shrugged, "Well…it would be better if they were dead, would cost me nothing and I would be the one to gain something out of it."
"Ohooo seems like mommy has some inheritance ready for you", a very big smile appeared on Mark's face. Jade gave him a sideway glance, "you mean trauma?"
While listening to their mindless chatter, Louise remembered something important: 'the USB'. He rubbed his pocket and pulled out a small red case, and took the cap off, revealing a shiny USB head. Mark and Jade both turned synchronised to look at it. Louise grabbed Mark’s laptop and plugged in the USB,
"Ding!”
Upon clicking on an unnamed file, a scene of a young girl with black hair getting raped by 6 guys played. The video continued rolling with obscene things happening to the poor girl and it ended with a guy giving a big slap to the girl's face. Jade ran to the sink and made several gagging noises after the video had ended, Mark’s posture expressed disbelief, and the remote control in Louise's hand now had a massive crack. Jade gulped some water and wiped her mouth, "Was that…your sister?"
Louise gave a curt nod and she exhaled the breath she had been holding, “fucking hell…” Louise rewound the video to search for clues on the whereabouts of the place in the video, but something else caught Mark's attention "...ain't no way we just watched all that on full volume"
"So…what'd you want my help with, give them a lap dance with a knife up my ass to castrate them for good? I'm sorry man, not a party girl," Jade shrugged. "Even just being a girl is a big help, these guys have the hormone of an 18-year-old in the body of a boulder", Louise said nonchalantly.
"Wait, so you're saying that I should bait myself?"
Louise looked at Jade, examining her entire figure, and made eye contact with her "Are you saying you're unable to defend yourself? I've seen enough to know you're capable of it".
'How heartless he is towards women', Jade thought and then she looked at Mark 'maybe he's gay'. Louise suspiciously looked at Jade giggling her ass off, Mark catches their attention and pointed at the screen;
"I feel like I've seen that sign-", a blurry neon sign was shown in the video, he took a picture of it and went to take a call "I'll ask some people who might know"
The next day...
The three of them are eating cup noodles while watching the news about the mental hospital incident that has been going on for five days now. Mark sighs loudly "I'm bored~" He looked at Louise but he ignored him. Pouting, he looked at Jade and she replied with a shrug.
With no one to entertain him, he shall entertain himself "Wanna play card games?" After cleaning up, they each sit around the coffee table.
Mark opens a black box and shuffles the cards, "What are we playing?" curious Jade asks. Mark smiles, "We're playing UNO". Three dots appear on top of her head, "What's that?" Louise silently looks at the both of them and muttered "fuck…"
A few minutes later...
"Uno!"
Mark laughs uncontrollably at the thought of being one step closer to victory. Louise looked at Jade, and he gave her a look 'don't let him win'. Everything is up to her, a rookie who doesn't know how to play UNO has piles of cards in her hands 'fuck…help me god', she looks at the sky praying for a way. Either way, she had to make a move, so she added a yellow card. "...tsked", Louise kept taking cards from the deck until he got a yellow card. Just one second after Louise put down his card, Mark claimed his victory. "I WIN!" he jumps with joy. Jade feels unsatisfied and wants to play another round but Mark continues to ignore her. She slammed her cards and threw a tantrums.
Louise gave Jade a death stare "Why did you put yellow"
"I don't know it just came to me!"
Louise's disappointed sigh immediately made her quit acting out, she grumbled when being told to clean up the mess she made. Mark's party got interrupted by his ringtone. He slips his hand inside the pocket and answers "So what did you find?" While Mark was busy talking with someone, Louise found Mark's ringtone embarrassing "Who put 'Sexy Back' as their ringtone"
"An obnoxious guy?" Jade said while slurping on leftover noodles. Mark hung up and looked at them, "They found it!".
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