Perfect Pitch

Renee's life became a living hell. As expected, detectives came around to question Aisha while Renee remained hidden in the bedroom closet. Even Deanne spoke to Aisha. Renee went stir-crazy. Escape was impossible. Aisha made sure she didn't go anywhere by handcuffing her to the bed all day. It was terrifying and humiliating since Aisha would make her put on an adult diaper before she left to go to work. “We wouldn’t want you peeing all over the bed, now would we?” She thought of screaming and insisting Aisha had stolen the money, but it was unlikely she would be heard through the soundproof walls. Besides, Aisha still had the implicating video. “Go ahead and yell and scream all you want,” Aisha taunted her. “It ain't going to do you a damn bit of good, girl. Bet you're no longer amused to be just a wall away from the good doctor, are you?” She was forced to cook, clean, and submit to Aisha’s every desire. Aisha, who would always threaten her with the damning video whenever she demanded to leave. Eventually, she realized that if she stood the slightest chance of escaping, she would have to comply with the psycho. Most days, Aisha let her sit out on the balcony after she threatened her with bodily harm, as well as being fed to the wolves if she tried to shout down to anyone, which would also be unlikely to be noticed because she was so high up. But then an idea came to her one day. The tricky part would be putting it together without her captor knowing. She was eventually able to scribble a note saying that she was being held hostage and in what apartment number. Then she dropped it from the balcony when Aisha wasn’t looking. When a couple of days passed without help coming, Renee began to feel hopeless. Her only way out at that point might be to either throw herself over the balcony railing or make a run for the door, but she doubted she would succeed with either one. Aisha was much stronger, so she wouldn't be able to get by her and out the door. She also couldn't jump over the railing fast enough before Aisha would grab her. She had just about given up hope on anyone finding her message. Maybe it landed in a bush or maybe it had fallen down a storm drain. Or maybe someone really did find it and assumed it to be a joke. But then the cops came to the door and insisted on looking around, even though Aisha tried to insist that everything was fine and claimed that she was alone. The police soon found Renee tied to the bed and Renee was both relieved and terrified. She was relieved to be free of the madwoman holding her hostage, but then she was afraid of the consequences of stealing from Deanne…until an idea came to her on the spur of the moment. The police demanded that Aisha unlock the handcuffs that secured her wrists to the bedposts, and she did. Renee and Aisha then blamed each other for stealing the doctor’s money, but because Renee was the one being held hostage, it was she who was believed. Aisha was arrested, and the doctor, who had come out into the hall after the police knocked on her door, quickly escorted Renee to her apartment. Renee insisted that Aisha had forced her way in, somehow cracked the code to open the safe, and then dragged her and the money over to her place. Renee and Deanne watched a screaming Aisha be led away. Aisha stared hatefully and viciously at Renee. “I’ve still got you on camera coming to my place with the bag of money, you lying bitch! You just wait till the cops see that!” But Renee would do anything but wait. First chance she got, she would be long gone.