Amnesia

6. The Meeting

After breakfast the next morning I made rounds through the house so I would know my way around and continued doing that until supper. By then I could probably walk through it blindfolded. And the next day Melly told me what I was supposed to be doing in the house. I was to help with keeping it clean and to cook meals. That was pretty much it besides if they wanted to bring me along to one of their meetings.

I could live with that except for the meeting part. I joined the girls with helping around the house and got to know them pretty well. I asked how they each got here and for all of them it was where one of the boys had taken an interest in them and brought them here and along to one of the meetings and heard some information, so once they heard that, they were a threat if they left, so they had to stay here. None of them were still with any of the boys.

“But I haven’t been to any meetings and I don’t know any information,” I said. “Why do they still keep me here?”

“Because Devan is still set on you working for Meselva,” Melly answered.

“Haven’t they already decided that Meselva would never have a girl working for him?”

“You’re thinking about the fighting part. Devan is thinking about you going to his meetings.”

“Meselva is a grown man and I’m only 19.”

“So? Meselva is known to be rather disgusting.”

“I sure hope I didn’t go with him. That’s gross.”

“So have you remembered anything?”

“Not much.”

I now went to a room I had found yesterday that was on the second level. It was a rather small room that was in the center of the house on the back side and it got sun all day, when there was sun. It had a window seat and I just loved to sit there and take a moment to relax. I didn’t realize that I had dozed off until I was woken up by Devan and the sun was setting.

“I thought you had run off,” He said as I rubbed my eyes and sat up.

“I did in my dreams,” I mumbled.

“You know, you’re kinda cute when you’re tired.”

“Only kinda?”

“Oh, hey look,” Devan sat next to me, looking out at the sunset. “I love the color or the sun right when it is about to disappear.”

Devan stared out the window until the sun had gone away behind the trees.

“You missed supper,” He told me. “But if you’re hungry, you can go make something.”

I nodded and went down to the kitchen. Devan followed me and silently watched as I heated up some leftovers from their supper.