Swan's Secrets

Two

"Lera!" I stop looking over to see Fabian behind me "aren't you going to breakfast?"

"And risk Patricia or one of her posey members trying to pull something like she did yesterday?" I ask "Or think I had something to do with the bathroom?" Last night Patricia thought that there were some words on the bathroom mirror. There wasn't, I didn't see anything but steam so I wiped it off and she came in accusing me of more shit.

"Patricia" Fabian says "she's not normally like this, she's just worried about Joy"

"She has every right to be worried about her friend" I agree with him "but to accuse someone who doesn't know who this Joy is? And the shit she pulled? Not a great way in trying to prove that she's a nice person"

"Probably didn't help when you accused her of being a whore" he says, I'm silent "I'm sorry, it's just"

"Your worried, your all worried" I say "I get it, I'm the outsider and you all need someone to blame. Just leave me alone" opening the door, I leave the house wiping some tears. Why did I expect that I'd have a chance of making some friends here? I had friends in Arizona, friends who encouraged me to do this. Now here I am regretting coming here.

As I leave an elderly woman with short white hair and sand wrinkly flabby skin in a long floral nightgown is on a bench. When she sees me she stands up smiling to me "That's my house" she motions to Anubis House.

"Your house?" I ask

Nodding her head smiling "Yes! Mine!"

"Here" I give her my jacket as I have us sit down, I use to volunteer sometimes in elderly homes.

"It's you, isn't it?" She asks me "I knew you'd come"

"There's right, it's me" I confirm, sometimes with people with Alzheimer's or some mental illness having someone who reminds them of a happy memory helps them.

"Sarah" she tells me "Sarah, my name is Sarah"

"Okay Sarah" nodding my head "why don't we go inside"

"No" shaking her head putting her hands on my shoulders "I can't go in there, you mustn't be in there. He's waiting, he's always waiting"

"Okay" mouthing "can you wait right here?" I get up and quickly go inside, going to find Trudy I see she's in the kitchen.

She smiles seeing me "Hi Lera dear, I have breakfast laid out in the dining room"

"Thanks but...are there any elderly homes nearby?" I ask

She is silent "I think, why?"

"I think one of their patients escaped" she and I go outside to Sarah who is smiling at us.

"Oh my" Trudy gasps

"Trudy" she looks at me "she refuses to go inside"

"I'll phone someone right away" she runs back inside as I stay with Sarah. I soon go with someone to an elderly home.

Once here we head inside and a woman with black hair in a perm, brown skin and dark eyes with glasses says "It's not like you to go wandering Emily" closing the door, Sarah motions to being quiet. She sits down as the lady says "Shea rather confused, as you've probably realized"

Nodding my head "Yes, I hope she's okay if I leave. She didn't seem to want me to leave"

Waving her hand "Perfectly fine"