Sleep

Barrinn and I sat across from the nuisance named Jaqy. In seconds he fell asleep, I glared at the woman. “ How old are you anyway?” I asked. “ What’s it to you, little brat.” She snarled. “ ok, first of all I’m not little, I’m 14, so stop calling me that and second of all I know you're not here from my father.” “ Actually I am here at his request and I’m 17.” My eyebrows rose in surprise. 17, it seemed young for a girl of her occupation. She began to move around a bit. “Stop moving, you’re going to wake up Barrinn.” I hissed. She smirked. “ So you’ve taken a liking to this street boy, does he know you like those types.” “ Hey,” I snipped “ shut up, there is nothing wrong with liking him.” “Oh, so you admit it!” I buried my head in my hands in frustration. I decided to try and get some time to think but fell asleep instead. I dreamt. I dreamt of a thing I wish I never had.

My eyes followed the wood bedpost to the ripples in my sheets to my hands sitting under them. My father walked in, his face strewn with disgust. “ look what you’ve done!” He belched in a deep overpowering voice, the thick tone of his anger surprised me. I cowered. He was always frightening but never seemed this angry. “ Now I have to deal with those annoying pirates, they took my money anyway. ”I calmed down a bit, he was just planning on stealing me back and not paying them. My father made sure everyone knew I was not his weakness, this has happened before and you’ll always hear him say that he doesn’t need me, it won’t break him if he loses me. But I deal with it, it doesn’t bother me that much. Once he found out that I possessed a liking for men he despised me even more. “Oh and that boy you brought with, I sold him to some east Arabians.” I looked at him in disgust and anger. “ How could you I-” just then a black bubbly liquid seeped out of his mouth. “Father?,” “Father!” I cowered. His eyes melted into his skull and were replaced with glossy black bulbs. His jaw widened and his teeth grew into black shards matching the same hue as his dead, cold eyes. A hand that grew long, dark, slender tendrils reached forward and began to choke me. “ Oh, you’re such a disappointment, it’s a pity I’m going to have to kill you. I started to take a liking to you.” He said this in a sarcastic tone, making fun of my fondness for the boy. My face was red. My eyes were bulging. I clawed at his hands. And fell into a black abyss.

I lurched forward and felt Barrinn’s warm breath on my forearm. I had fallen asleep next to him. Jaqy looked at me. “You had a nightmare, but looked like you were in such pain so I decided to let you sleep.” she smiled. I dismissed her and set my head back down next to Barrinns, he looked so innocent and precious. He couldn’t be as old as me, his height looked about the same but he looked a little skinny. It made sense considering he didn't even have anywhere to live. I wondered what my father would do with him, maybe I could sneak him in. But there was a chance that Jaqy would tell, amber I could bribe her. If I told my father the truth then there is a chance that I could sway him into letting Barrinn become a servant or even get an education. I could tell him that he would be of some use as a public advocate. I thought of all the things I could do to make my father except him while looking at his face. He seemed so confused yet brave when the pirate had threatened us. His false heroism impressed me. My mind wandered as lay there. U soon heard Jaqys breath calm as she began to drift off into a light nap, still seeming to maintain a sense of vigalence.

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