LAYLA'S POV
SUNDAY THE 15th June.
"Ptts" I heard a sound as someone touched my foot.
"Jasmine?" I asked as I sat down on my bed as I began to yawn due to the lack of sleep, everywhere was pitch black so why was I getting up by this time?
"Shhhs" she whispered in a low tone "don't make any noise" she said as she proceeded to sleep sit on my bed.
"What's going on?" I whispered back at her, I don't understand why she is acting strange all of a sudden, what's going on? This has never happened before for the month I have been here.
"She's up guys" jasmine whispered in a higher pitch.
"Good" a familiar voice said, I could not tell if it was Aisha's or zainab's but oh well.
"Hey guys, I know this was unplanned and I just had to do it today, I tried to get information and no one in the town seems to know anything and even the ones that knew something were adamant to talk to us, I don't know why but I don't think it is a coincidence" Zainab said, i have never heard her like this, she sounds so serious nothing like the fun boobly girl i knew, is it all an act?
"Nooo" a girl said as she began to cry softly and I could here another girl trying to comfort her.
"But thanks to Maryam who now has a cellphone, we can Google somethings and also here the news every day, we can keep track of the girls and maybe get to the bottom of this" Zainab continued, what's going on? I am lost? What are they plotting?
"Well I don't really think the phone has any use, what if it's being monitored? Besides they would find a way to get it from her" jasmine said as she tapped my head.
"What's going on?" I whispered in her ears "I am confused, is there something I am missing?" I asked gently.
"Well it's a really long story and I don't know how to fill you up, but the orphanage is not as good as we would like to believe, also something suspicious is happening and we can't figure out why and how?" She said.
"Maryam" Aisha called my name, this was the first time she was directly speaking to me.
"Yes" I answered.
"Well truth be told, none of this is your fault I know we gave you the cold solder when you came in but it was only because we taught you were one of them" she added.
"One of them?" This is news to me, one of who?
"Do you remember anything while you were held captive?" She asked.
"No"
"Well Rania does, and according to her does people are connected to this place and it's all a scheme the memory loss, the temporary disability allowance of it it's just a scheme girl after girl after girl"
Zainab continued from where Aisha stoped "And when you came with no disability we thought maybe they set you up to this, maybe they suspected we were plotting and they wanted an inside on it, but yesterday we were...."
"Tap, tap, tap" we could here the sound of someone walking towards the room gently.
"Hmm" I was scared and jasmine covered my mouth as she layed me back on my bed covering us both with my blanket.
"Click" the key holder turned the first time.
"Click" it turned the second time.
"Click" it was now the door knob slowly turning, I could feel my heart pounding my blood rushing to different parts of my body, what's going on? This is not a safe space?
"Nothing they are all asleep" a masculine figure said as she shines his touch on our faces "Jasmine is not on her bed as usual, always clinging to the newbie" he said as he walked out of the room, i did not know how i kept a straight face or a pretend face while he was checking me because i was scared as hell, what if he catches me? What would happen if they find out what these girls know? But how do they know I am not a mole? What made them trust me? My heart kept pounding and I could not sleep.
"Click" the last sound of them locking the door was made and I could relax all my tensed muscles now, God please save me! I did not dare to open my eyes again but I could not sleep either, does this man come here every night? Or just on nights like today? For someone who was kidnapped I am still not aware of my surroundings and that's really bad.
"Go to sleep everyone, let's not risk it" a tiny whisper that spread around the room, it was in a very low tone but you could still here what the girl was trying to say.
She is right, I should get some rest I need it, I have a billion questions and they need answers to them.
(5 hours later, breakfast)
"Hi" I said as I dropped my tray on the table, the same deserted table I and jasmine always sit on.
"What's going on? You looked stressed out" she said with a smile on her face.
"Yeah, just tried" I responded, how could she fake a smile like this? It looks so genuine, what's going on? Or was I hallucinating the whole event that happened this night? But it felt so real.
She grabbed my thigh and pressed it deep as she mumbled under her breath "Smile".
"Haha" I laughed "as always, funny as always jasmine" I said in a low tone.
"Hi, Maryam please after breakfast can I borrow your phone I want to take a selfie" Zainab said as she came to me jovially, she was back to her normal persona.
"Sure, you can take it now" I said as I brought it out of my pocket and handed it to her.
She clinched my wrist as she said "smile" and walked away with my phone.
What was that about?
"what's going on?" I whispered to Jasmine in her ears.
"Yesterday they found a book in the basement, all our pictures were there but as teenagers, I case you were wondering what Aisha was about to say, now smile, wat your food and pretend as if nothing happened" jasmine whispered to my ear.
So I was right, it wasn't a dream it really did happen, but that's not something to be excited about what does that mean? Was this whole thing planned? And if it was by who?