The Frills of Sanity

Training...At Peace!

It was a deep, dark forest and Hope was running expeditiously. She was running deep in to the woods, where there seemed no light. Her heart was beating heavily, her lungs praying for more oxygen.

As she stumbles a little on a small rock, she glances back. She finds a pair of red eyes narrowing and pacing towards her. She stands up and starts running but the road seemes endless and the distance was shortening with each of her breath. As the eyes approach and settle an inch away she hears a big loud roar. Her heart stops and she collapses the very instant. She makes an attempt to open her eyes but fails miserably. She tries to scream for her life but nothing comes out except some muffled sighes. She feels somebody looking at her with content. She hears the roar at the end of a victory laughter and then everything goes dark.

Hope woke up with a scream and sweat all over her face and in her hairs.

It was a dream......!

It was 5:10 AM already, and the clock buzzed with its weird noise, for the third time. Hope was wide awake as she gasped at the bad dream. Hope waggled her head in negation and shook off the dream. She took the clock in her hand and turned it off. She rubbed her eyes, tied her hairs with a rubber lying on the table and walked to the bathroom. She washed her face with the cold water, brushed her teeth and took a quick hot shower. She wore her robe, approached the wardrobe and ran her fingers through the clothes to decide what to wear.

After a long trial of clothes, she decided to wear her sheath dress of beige colour for her first training day. It had small black transparent sleeves and had a lace work near the neck. It had a lacy black strap on waist. She paired it with the beige pumps, applied a little gloss and tucked her hairs in a waterfall braid. She prepared her Black Tote bag with a notepad, her diary, few pens and her cell phone. She took the file in other hand, wore her black trench coat and walked downstairs.

It was almost 5:40 AM and she thought nobody was up. The house was deadly silent. She kept her bag and file on the dining and prepared some coffee and bread-butter for everybody. She put it all on the dining and sipped a mouthfull of her coffee. As she checked her wrist watch again, she decided to wake all up.

She walked up the stairs and knocked on everybody's door. The first to come out, was Soltz. He wore a navy shirt, black trousers and black Polo overcoat. He had a similar file in his hand.

"Good morning Agent Soltz."

"Morning Hope. C'mn, everybody, out, now. We have training to attend." He almost shouted and banged every door.

Layla was the next. The moment she opened the door, she whined, "Calm down, Soltz. Nobody is sleeping. Don't ruin the morning." She wore her beautiful peach-coloured frilled sleeveless top, with black knee length pencil skirt. She had her curly hairs set in a small pin. She carried a black Hobo bag in one hand and her file in another. She waited for Alexis to come down.

Alexis looked beautiful in her blue jeans and white scoop-neck satin blouse with frills around the buttons and the pussy bow on the neckline. She had tied her hairs in half n half style. 'Just like her mother.', thought Hope. Alexis carried her blue Doctor purse and file; all in one hand. The last to leave the room was AD. He wore his beige casual trousers and maroon shirt with the beige Pale coat.

The moment they gathered downstairs, they glanced at the dining, and cheered.

"Good Lord, Hope. Did you make this all for us?" Asked Layla and grabbed her cup and poured in, the coffee. Everybody sat on the dining chairs and praised Hope for the breakfast.

"Yeah, I found only these in the fridge. So...!", said Hope, waving her hands in air.

It was 5:50 AM and everybody had to leave. They had their trainings starting at 6:00 AM, sharp; as per their files. As they hurried towards the door, they found John waiting for them, with the black SUV, to take them to the base. They all jumped in, Soltz locked the door and seated in the SUV.