We get inside the house. She helps me walk towards the couch. I sit and lean my head backward to the couch. Someone rings the bell.
"I'll answer that". She walks away.
I hear Charlie's voice. Oh! we haven't contacted them. They must have been worried.
"What happened? you guys just disappeared from there. We searched everywhere-"
Before Charlie could finish Patricia speaks up, "And what about your phones? We called. It was unreachable."
I'm just staring at them. All these questions just went over my head. I get up and head to my room. I hear Elora explaining to them.
I march to the bathroom and take the hottest shower I could tolerate to try and take off the tiredness off me. I shut off the shower and squeeze water out my hair, then wrap myself in the thick towel. I dig out crumpled clothing from a trunk at the bottom of one wardrobe.
A warm shower soothed aching muscles.
