Something or someone was holding my hand that was the first thing I felt when I woke up. I left my eyes closed; I wanted to see if I could hear anything about where I was. I kept doing this for at least another 15 minutes. I was going to open my eyes and see when I heard footsteps.
I heard a big door open and then closed, then came more footsteps. Someone was coming towards me. It sounded like a man; a woman couldn’t make so much noise when walking.
‘How is she?’ unquestionably a man’s voice. I knew that voice, it was my dad’s.
‘Sleeping’ was the answer. The pressure on my hand decreased. It was josh’s voice.
Without noticing I pulled my hand out of that hold. I was disgusted; the same hand that killed my aunt was now holding mine.
‘Mary? Mary! Mary?’ Said my dad’s voice.
Lucky for me I was good at acting. I groaned and then yawned opening my eyes very slowly. They bought it.
In less than an instant they were hovering over me asking if I was all right. I didn’t pay attention to them; I was looking at the room I was in.
In the room I was in my boarding room could have fitted at least four times. To one side there was a big balcony, to the other side a looking cathedral door. In front there were closet door and at the back a normal size door.
‘Where am I?’ was all I could say. I already knew but I had to confirm it.
‘You are home’ was all my dad said. I groaned out loud, that was the answer I was afraid of.
‘You ok?’ it was Josh this time. He had a concerned look.
I was going to say I was fine but then I remember who I had in front of me.
‘No, I’m not ok’ my voice going cold ‘not since you killed my aunt’
He winced when I said that. He threw a worried glace at my dad. Dad looked lost.
‘This is a joke. Right son?’ was all he said.
WTF? Son? That was a joke, right?
‘She’s doesn’t understand some stuff, dad’ was his answer.
‘How about you explain then, bro’ I suggested.
He looked both surprised and embarrassed. His face started to grow hot as the minutes went. When he was a tomato colour he spoke again.
‘You see’ he paused looking around ‘I wasn’t the only person in that little room’ He shoot a doubt look at my dad. I cleared my throat in a continue sign ‘I was just trying to make her crack up, you know, to make her tell me where you were’ he let his head drop ‘There was someone else with me’ he looked at my dad again and stopped.
I wasn’t known for my patience.
‘Who was it?’ They just shook their head. That spoke volumes to me, they didn’t want me to know. ‘Why?’
‘You will kill that person’ was all dad said ‘and we don’t want him dead’ he explained.
‘I will find out soon enough’ why did they have to make this so difficult? All I wanted was to kill my aunts’ killer.
‘Till then, could you please change into woman clothes?’ said my dad pointing to my black shirt.
I realized that I had gone up in a sitting position. My black turtle neck black shirt and part of the short skirt I was wearing were visible.
‘Woman clothes?’ I was wearing a skirt, what else did they want? ‘I’ve got a skirt, and that is enough for me’
They looked like if my skirt wasn’t enough for them.
‘You need to put a dress’
I nearly chocked out my guts. A dress? Did they think I was Princess Elizabeth?
‘I’m not princess Elizabeth’ I said ‘I won’t be staying long here so I don’t think I need to own a reputation’
‘You have to stay’ Dad almost sounded angry ‘please’ he added in a softer voice.
‘Why?’ I wanted a good reason, if I didn’t get one all I would do was ask for a way to get back to normal world.
‘You are home’ was josh answer.
That was a good answer. I was finally in my place not in a temporary place or someone else’s. But I had a feeling, like if I knew something was going to go wrong.
‘I will stay here’ their faces lit up with hope. Weird ‘but if something goes wrong you must promise you will do as I say, Got it?’
They both nodded. Now what? Did they have a plan or something? Unluckily I didn’t know the play rules in that zone so I was just going to go with their plan.
‘So, what is your plan?’ the look that crossed their faces made me uncomfortable.
‘We were hoping you could help us in that part’ Dad said. Josh just kept silence.
Now I was regretting all the history classes I had skipped.
‘Do you have a sort of court or something?’ Let’s start for the place of my apparition. They nodded with a confused expression. ‘Am I allowed to go in?’ they kept nodding ‘if a guest comes the first places that person goes is that court room or whatever it’s called?’ they nodded.
I already had a plan and it only took me a few minutes.
‘It’s ok. I know what to do’ and the scheme started.
