"Go see the other girls. See if they have anything they need from the store. When you're done wait by the door." Shadows had spoken to her and she nodded then grabbed the note book and went to question the rest of the girls on if they needed anything in particular. While her stay here had been anything but pleasant she did had to say that the ladies in the house were more than taken care of, and she could complain as far as needs went; except for one. She was incredibly lonely – she had no one to talk to, or confide in, no one to hold her when she sobbed herself to sleep at night, remembering her parents dead bodies as she was dragged away to be his servant. None of it really made sense to her, why spare her? At the moment she had had a few reasons why Shadows would keep her alive, but she didn’t like to entertain the ideas much too often, actually if she could completely ignore the thought that tried to raid her head completely that would be great.
“Is there anything you need, Candice?” she asked Johnny’s one plaything, another job title she was happy not to have, doing anything remotely intimate with anyone in this house sent her into a panic attack; how could these girls just do it so willingly.
“Yeah, I need some new hair ties and bobby pins – I’m all out, and deodorant,” she said then began to rattle off the brand and scent she liked the most, it was an easy life anything you need you would get so long as it didn’t connect you to the outside world. No cellphones, laptops, or internet of any kind. There was the occasional moment when she’d catch Shadow’s watching television so she’d wait a little longer before she announced herself, she missed TV. She was sure her favorite shows had done many seasons by now, or ended or over all fell off the face of the earth. Many of the girls needed much of the same thing with a few differing items, she walked down stairs and went to wait by the door just as he had told her. Lilia had only ever once pissed Shadows off, and she vowed never to do it again, she didn’t like tempting fate because the ball was most definitely not in her court. All favor was for the opposing team and trying to switch that would easily get her killed.
“Ready?” She heard his voice sound as he began walking to her.
She gave a small nod as a reply then walked out the door first, when his hand touched her she felt instantly nervous; most girls would run given the chance but she wasn’t stupid. She had nothing to go back to, no money, no friends, no family – nothing. Why the hell would she try to leave to be on the run for the rest of her life, with no kind of comfort for the rest of her life? It seemed idiotic to her to even think of doing something like that. She climbed into the car and he shut her door then walked around to the other side.
"Put something on if you'd like Lilia." Lilia slowly reached for the radio knobs and turned it to one of her old stations then buckled her seat belt on and looked out the window. She felt nostalgic looking at the scenery as he drove by, all these people completely unaware that she was his hostage and she was grocery shopping with him. There was no way these people could ever imagine the kind of fear that had been stomped into her, to keep her from running, to keep her folding things correctly and cooking food just right. The kind of fear that seeps from your pores after a bad dream was something Lilia counted on to survive, it was a form of common sense.
“May I speak?” she asked as she looked at him, and he looked surprised.
“Go ahead,” he said nodding.
“Can we buy cupcakes?” she asked gently, she hadn’t had any in such a long time she was just craving them something wild.
He looked at her for a moment waiting for her to take the bottles of water and bars from him, he really didn’t want to spend too much time with her. He didn’t know the outcome of her life so getting to know her or even talking to her at this rate was too dangerous, considering Zacky was one of the more understanding of the guys he had to be careful. He knew he could be easily read by these girls who wanted sympathies but he just couldn’t let them see. He stayed seated in the chair, he was always this way; what if something happened and she got away? Shadows would probably beat him to a pulp.
"So... I guess my father got in over her head. It's funny, you think you know someone." He could hear her talking but all he really wanted was to get her taken care of so he could go back to bed. It was nothing against her really, he just enjoyed his quiet time or time when he could sleep till he just couldn’t anymore. "Sorry for shouting earlier I... I guess I just don't know the uh, procedures around here. Or the time."
What was he supposed to say to this girl? There was nothing he could say that would settle the fear in her heart, nothing to keep her from freaking out one minute to the next because of something she sees or hears so he was going to do the one thing he could; he quiet, he’d let her panic later once he was gone preferably but he didn’t know how he could handle a young woman who was out of her mind upset. "Shower's up next, right?" He hadn’t even realized she’d been talking but he nodded to her then stood up. He gripped her forearm and began walking her down the hallway to the bathroom – where he would stand outside, keeping her in and anyone else out.
"So, if you're supposed to be babysitting me; what am I supposed to call you?"
“Zack, you can call me Zack ,” he told her, after he was promptly kicked out of the bathroom which he expected her stood just outside the door waiting to hear the water stop running, but he didn’t know how long that could take. He would just settle for locking her in there then leaving but if Brian found out he’d done that again he’d kick his ass.
January 26th, 2016 at 07:46pm