Chapter #6

The Next Day

I open my eyes to a room that does not belong to me. Sitting up, I looked around at my surroundings; there was one huge window, across from me, a four-poster bed, in which I was asleep and a seating area in the corner that was contemporary in style and non-threatening. In this kind of situation, most would think waking up in a strange place is something to be worried about, but I feel that I have crossed every limit of fear. I’m more confused by how I got here in the first place. The only light in the room seems to be both natural and artificial. I couldn’t tell if it was morning or afternoon but the light was a mixture of the sun and the outside. The light wasn’t the thing that woke me though; it was a deep foreign voice calling an ancient hymn. I place my legs off the bed and on the cold tiled floor.

All of a sudden, a realization hits me like a bullet when I see my bandaged knee and I remember the fragment from last night.

" Last night, I went to Valentina's house to