Payback

He circled the table where the teacher was tied to, hands and feet to the table legs. She was lying on her back but her feet were dangling. He made sure the sound of his boot reverberated well enough in the room, empty if not for the presence of the two. The whole school was deserted, the last day of school just ended earlier. He smoked his cigarette slowly, savoring its rich flavor, a cherry on the top of his recent achievement. The huge black man issued no words, not even a threat. He just circled the table smoking his cigarette on one hand, a gleaming knife in the other. From time to time he would scrape he knife on the board on purpose heightening the fear already brimming inside Teri. Like a rat trapped in flypaper, she perspired generously, the sweat that trickled all over her body eventually collected on the table. It was expanding. He blew smoke into her face, she coughed. She would scream if she could but the gag in her mouth.....