Wild and Free

Chapter Thirty Seven

Erika's POV:

The entire week I spent most of my free time and meal times studying for French and Sex Education. On Wednesday we had a quiz in Sex Ed on all the stuff we had learned, which I ended up getting a B on. I was over the moon with joy once my French teacher read off my grade for the test in her class. A+. Eve helped me study sometimes, but she mostly just stayed in the room with me so I wouldn't be lonely. Right now it was currently Saturday and I was in Dinner, flipping through Health things in a last attempt to study for the test today. Eve was munching on some carrots and forcing me to eat some too.

"You're gonna do fine Erika. You've been studying practically all week, aced your French test on Wednesday, got a B on the Sex Ed one that same day, and now you've got one test left for Health. Then tomorrow we'll be done with the second week!" Eve said, pressing a carrot against my lip until I caved and bit it. I suddenly felt very hungry.

Damn, All the studying was making me forget that I actually had to eat.

Eve was always with me any chance she got, and loved to always be touching me. It didn't matter how it could be her lying with me on my bed, her putting her hand on my thigh, me holding her hand while I studied. She didn't care. And whenever I didn't she would put on the cutest pouty face and cross her arms. Now she's making it her job to feed me.

I suddenly saw my binder be snatched away from me and a tray of food replace it. I went to protest but she cut me off, putting the binder beside her.

"You better eat you adorable redhead. I'll force feed you if I have to. Can't have my baby starving!"She semi-threatened. I held my hands up in defeat and grabbed my fork to eat the pasta we had for Dinner. I got like a quarter of the way through it and reached over the table to take back what was mine. But Eve was fast. And her brilliant plan was to sit on it. I easily walked over, picked her up, set her down on the floor, then picked up my binder and sat back down. She scowled and stood up, dusting off her catsuit.

"Curse you being able to lift twice your body weight" She hissed. I burst out laughing.

"E you are NOT twice my body weight. More like half" I playfully taunted, tapping her nose with my finger. Her face got bright red and she socked me in the arm.

"Fudge you!"

(Time Skip)

"Erika? Yours is a 98/100. Good Girl. Seems like you've been studying hard nowadays" Mr McCloud said from his desk, nodding to me. I smiled. The final grades for the week would come out tomorrow morning and I made a mental note to check before Samantha did. We just worked on a worksheet in class until the bell rang to signal the start of Bedtime. I raced out of the room and made a beeline for my room, getting there before Eve. Without anything to do I took to organizing Eve's mess of a closet and my own. She just happened to walk in as soon as I finished with hers.

"Hey Erika how did you do?" She asked as she jumped up onto my bed. I was used to her doing that so I didn't comment on it. Instead I began folding my clothes and hanging the catsuits. Any clothes we put in the hamper were washed the next day, except Saturdays. Since Sunday was a free day for the entire day we were allowed to wear other clothes around the buildings and the laundry staff wasn't scheduled to work that day. So Sunday night they would come back and get our laundry for Monday morning.

"I got a 98/100 on the test. Got the wrong answer for the last fill in the blank question and it was worth 2 points." I told her. I finished folding clothes and changed into some red socks and red nightgown before joining her on my bed. She smiled and cuddled up with me, wrapping the blanket around ourselves. Technically sleeping in the same bed wasn't against the rules since they had no rules about it.

I discovered the other day that when my collar got very low (10%), it would automatically search for a wireless charging device and connect to it. If the device had the confirmation setting on it would ask me first if I wanted to connect. Eve told me that every room and classroom had a device. Probably due to the fact that someone ended up not charging their collar and got the police called here.

"Hey Erika?"

"Yeah"

"Where are you from?". I frowned and sat up a bit.

"Arkansas. You?"

"Virginia. Is it nice there?" Eve sounded sad. I myself felt upset thinking about my home state.

"It's pretty nice" I replied, rubbing her back. "What about Virginia?". She wiggled closer to me.

"Pretty nice too. I had 4 siblings, all boys" She explained. My eyes widened.

"4 brothers? I could never. I didn't have any siblings. My Mom couldn't afford anymore" I said. She gave me a sad smile.

"Yeah. Neither could mine. I got a scholarship for my state college, full ride. So she wouldn't have to pay thousands to send me anywhere else. I got kidnapped the day before. I got sent somewhere called basic training. I had to learn my new name. Eve. I hate it".I briefly saw a tear slide down her cheek and pulled her even closer.

"Hey don't cry. It's okay." I reassured her. Her blue eyes flashed with anger.

"No it's not OKAY. We're trapped on an island with collars around our neck and are forced to become these sick-minded millionaires' pets. My family probably just gave up on trying to look for me. My parents don't have all this money to send people after me." She sobbed in my arms. I felt my own eyes whelm up with tears.

"I'm sorry, Lizza" I whispered.

(Time Skip)

Sky's POV:

"Why the hell are you still talking to me? Get it done!" Maya slammed her phone down and sighed, rubbing her forehead. She was stressing out about something.

"What's wrong?" I asked, getting up from my chair in the corner and walking over to her. She picked up a piece of paper, read it over, then set it back down on the table.

"Come here. I'll have them send the live feed to me" She said in response. I frowned and positioned myself beside her chair. A screen popped up on her laptop after a few seconds. She opened her and pulled out a white folder. On screen it showed a room with a small mattress in two of the corners and two brown haired girls standing against the back wall. From the cameras position I could see their eyes. Both had brown eyes.

"What am I looking at? It's just two girls. Are they in solitary confinement or something?" I questioned. Maya held up a finger.

"Those two girls. Are our hope. You see. We all die. From being murdered to dying of natural causes like diseases. So, we came up with a solution. Moving your brain from one body to the next to keep living on, forever. Basically brain transplants into another body. But this body is different." She began. I raised an eyebrow.

"So you made a way to keep living forever?"

"In a way. These bodies are fully capable of fighting off virtually any disease. It can self heal in a matter of minutes. You become smarter, faster, stronger. You can change your appearance if you don't like your skin color or eye color or hair." She continued. I glanced back at the screen. An array of doctors were telling the girls to lie down while they ran tests on them.

"But won't that kill the girl who's body you're basically taking?" I asked. She shook her head.

"Nope. We give your old body to them. It would be inhumane to kill them. Once they do the old switcharo we'll essentially wipe their memory and send them back to the United States. So it's a one way trip" She replied. Damn.

"What are you calling it?"

"Project Afterlife"