Conbellia

Chapter 5

"Let's start with the third floor. This is where our bedrooms are located. There are also a couple of guest room as well as yours. All the rooms on this floor have their own office. I'm sure you've seen yours already."
Jeremiah and I round a corner. "And this" he says pointing to a glass door "is the entrance to the roof." The door is made of this special kind of glass that you can't see through. He holds the door open for me. Behind it is a small staircase.
"This way Miss Alison please." I shake my head in mock disgust at him. What does he think? We've known each other for less than an hour and he behaves like we are best friends for years. Maybe that's what we'll be one day. One day I'll be some poor old woman remembering the days when she lived with Jeremiah Damer in his house. Just because she was a Conbellia.
As I step onto the roof I can't help a small gasp. In front of me is a big garden with trees, bushes, flowers and park benches.
A little pavilion is in the far end. "Wow" I breathe.
"Do you like it?" he asks me.
"It's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen" I admit, still stunned. "By the way, where are your parents?"
"Oh my dad is at some official's and mom's at work. They'll be home in about 2 hours. But let's go to the other floors now. There are way more things I want to show you." He smiles. And I smile back.
We skip the third floor on the ad down and enter the second.
"This is the wellness floor." Jeremiah shows me a sauna, a room with massage chairs and a room with special comfort beds.
"The medical Departement is here as well." We walk over to some white doors. As he opens one I can see a room with a bunk, a computer and medical accessories.
"The second floor us by far the most boring, let's go down. First the cellar and then the first floor."
"Why?"
"You'll see."
"Get that smirk of your face."
"Nope."
"Ugh."
"This is the fitness center." Jeremiah opens a huge door. Behind is a giant hall with treadmills, boxing bags, weights and lots of other stuff. I swear I haven't seen some of it before. Jeremiah moves on to the next door. "This is the shooting area and the next door is the hand combat area and the third door from here is the knife throwing and arrow shooting area. The last door in this corridor leads to a giant room that's built like a forest. There's a control center where you can make birds fly and things like that. That's where your final hunting and fighting tests will take place."
He starts to climb the stairs back up again.
"The first floor is the kitchen, the dining, the living and the party room."
"Party room? What the?" I look at him with disbelieve in my eyes. He laughs. "We have little parties sometimes. Birthdays, Christmas, sometimes just an event." He leads me into the living room. One wall of it is completely covered with glass. He approaches it and opens one part of it. The view from the room is a big garden with a swimming pool and trees, bushes and flowers and even a small sand beach around the pool. There are sun beds on a part of it and a place for playing volleyball is stationed not far away either. Jeremiah steps out into the blinding sun.
The 1st July usually is a hot day in Conbellia. I follow him. Even though I'm only wearing a yellow top and black shorts I feel the sweat forming on my skin. I use my armband to tie my hair up. It still falls down in a sick ponytail almost Umrechnung my waist but at least it's not on my skin anymore so I don't feel warmer because of it. I kick off my black high heels (I love highs) as Jeremiah kicks off his flats. I step over to the pool and put my feet into the water. Just then he shoves me. With a slight scream I fall into the pool. I come up gasping for air and just get to see how my host throws off his shirt and jumps on top of me. He pushes me to the bottom of the pool and holds me there until I can't breathe. Then he let's me go and just gives me enough time to breathe in something until he pushes me down again. I try to struggle but it's hopeless. Why am I even trying? He's by far the stronger person in this country. Except for his dad maybe. But that's it. After a while we both swim to the edge of the pool, still laughing. He sits down and helps me up. Our legs are still in the warm pool water as the sun slowly starts sinking towards the horizon.