Two years and a month after the kidnapping.
I can already move, but my body seems to be someone else's. Lying in my "cell-room", I can dazzle a piece of mirror stuck to the wall in the distance, I haven't seen myself in a long time, I used to be dazzled in front of one. I get up from the mattress and go to the small mirror, when I see myself, I don't recognize myself. I am really someone else, my arrogant eyes have been replaced by blue sadness. Even if one day I come home I will never be the same, and I also don't want to go back to being the person I was.
I keep thinking about Masako, remembering our last moment together, I think about it so I can get out of this world of pain a little and live something good, I enter the world of memories, constantly to be able to escape and go back to the time where I never imagined that such pains existed, when I'm with Masako, I feel almost normal, that's why I like her so much.
I've been so hot lately, I don't know what they did to me, but those injections looked like lava from a volcano and it's hard to erase. Nádia enters the room to see me, she comes every day, that's what makes me curious about her.
- They kidnapped you too, right? - I ask as soon as she closes the door.
She turns to me and our eyes meet.
- Yes, I was 13, I lived in New York. - she says, sitting next to the mattress.
I realize that she brought food and water and stopped them in front of me.
- I'm not hungry.
- You need to eat, you need to stay strong.
- What is your real name? I ask.
- Riley Bennet. - She says.
Nice name, I think.
- Aren't you going to eat?
- I don't feel hungry, I don't know what they did to me, but besides not tasting anything, I don't feel hungry as before.
She makes a strange face for me, when I think she will say something to me, she is quiet, and seems to think for a few moments and says:
- Can I ask you a favor? I took care of you this month and don't ask for anything, just one.
A curious eye.
Which one? - I ask, expecting something bad (like helping her kill someone).
- A pact, not those of witchcraft. she says, laughing.
- Okay. - I say, amused by your comment.
- If I survive here and you do, tell my family what happened to me, my rich family and owner of a construction company, the construction company Bennett company. - she says seriously.
She stays and is silent for a few moments and continues to speak:
- I was walking back with a boy when I was 13, when I got in the car I saw that it wasn't my chauffeur James but someone else, it was Mason, he said James was sick, I didn't understand anything, today I understand what his illness was. - she says ironically the last sentence. - When I realized he threw a tranquilizer dart and came here. - She briefly tells her story without emotion looking at the wall.
- You do not die, I still hope that we will get out of here, but if you die and I get out of here and vice versa, one will tell your family about the other, what is a promise on my part.
- I say the same. - says she has an agreement then. -She says. - We have an agreement then. she says, offering her hand for a squeeze.
- Of course. - I mean.
I match your handshake by sealing an agreement when our eyes clash and I see sincerity in your look.
After swallowing a tasteless and pasty food, Nádia takes care of me while we talk and laugh at her attempts to make a joke I feel a little normal again. I feel like I ended up making a great friendship, Nádia is awesome she finds the light in the darkness and reminds me what it was like to have a sister.