The Beautiful and the Psychotic

Chapter Twenty-One

Maya's P.O.V.

I fell back asleep on the ride to the man's house. Lexi said I'd have to live there now, but I didn't  fully understand why. I hoped he was nice, and that his good friends would be nice to me too. Maybe they would help me stay away from his evil friends.

I woke up, still half asleep, to the sound of Lexi and David talking to somebody I didn't know.

"....careful. I'll try and keep her safe too, as much as I can," said the new person.

"Thank you, I knew you would, Tash," Lexi said

"If you don't call me Tash."

"Okay. Fine."

David joined in the talk. "We just have to make sure she keeps to the rules. Because otherwise, it's to B500 with her. If she gets hurt, it will break her."

I opened my eyes and saw someone I didn't recognize- I think she was the girl who didn't want to be called Tash- take a sip from a mug and then almost spit it out. "But what about the virgin rule?"

David and Lexi both started saying words my mum says I'm not allowed to say because they're very rude. 

What was a virgin anyway? I think it was a type of phone. Why were they swearing over a type of phone?

Then David saw that I was awake and stopped saying bad words. "She's awake!" he told the two girls in a quiet voice. "Hey there princess. Are you feeling better?"

I sat up on the bed. "Kind of."

The girl with the mug put it down on a table behind her. "Hey Maya, I'm Natasha. Now, if you give us three just one second, we can tell you where you're going to live in this place."

"Okay," I said, but I was listening in to what they were saying.

"We have to keep her a secret, or she'll be scarred, having to lose her virginity at age 10," David said.

I don't know what a virginity is. I've never been really good in English class.

"But how can we keep her existence quiet? There are cameras everywhere!" Lexi said loudly.

"Not here. And not in the manager's rooms," said David.

"If we keep the door to B371 locked at all times, we could keep her there, with us," Lexi thought out loud.

"It's a short term solution, but until one of us get into the observations room again, it'll have to do," Lexi said.

"But what about Mason? And the pilot? They know she's here," David chipped in.

"I think we can talk to Mason. The pilot wouldn't care." Lexi said.

They walked back over to me. Lexi took my hand in hers after I sat up. "Okay princess, here's what we're going to do. You get to stay with me and David in our room! But you have to go there a special way, and you have to stay there."

"Why?" I asked. 

"Because.... it's dangerous not to, you might get hurt."

"Okay then. How do I have to get there?"

"You... um... have to take a ride," she said, going to a door and pulling out a cart with scissors, combs and a lot of bottles on it. "on this. Natasha, can you clear some space while I go get a cloth to cover it with?"

Natasha took out a giant tub with a lot of plastic bottles in it and put it on the floor. "Can you fit there Maya?" she asked me.

I climbed in, and if I curled up really tight I found that I could.

Lexi came back with a large black cloth thingy from a different door. "I found an XXL maxi dress. It'll have to do." She draped it over the cart so I couldn't see anything. "Okay Maya, we're going to take you to the room now."

They pushed the car to a large room with two single beds, a TV and a desk in it. They let me out of the cart, and I stretched my arms and legs because they were really cramped.

They told me they'd be back in a minute and went out the door. I found the remote and turned on the TV, and I was surprised when I saw myself on the screen.