My neck was stiff. I rolled over, shifting the pillow in an attempt to get comfortable. Ugh, why do they even make pillows so thin? I suddenly paused; I always had two fluffy pillows on my bed. My eyes shot open. Before me was a sliver-grey wall. I rolled on my back and saw the gray ceiling. Dread filled me. I rolled to my other side and saw that I was in a small sterile grey room. The thin mattress on which I lay was on a bed in the corner. The thin white sheet that had covered me slid off as I abruptly sat up.
What the..? I glanced around, trembling slightly, my heart beating fast. Fisting my shirt over my heart, I remembered what little I knew about how I got to my current predicament.
After much goading from my friends, I had given up and decided to go on a date with a cutie I had met through an online. It was my first date after Tristen had broken my heart. It was fine, it was time to try again my friends kept saying. It wasn't that I didn't agree and it wasn't that I wasn't over Tristen; it was that I found dating to be a bother. I hated the dance- the nervousness, the wondering, the waiting to see if there was chemistry and if he felt it too.
My date was even more handsome than his online profile. He had beautiful warm brown eyes and perfectly combed hair, and dimples that showed whenever he laughed. He had taken me to an adorable Italian restaurant lit by candles where they had spent the evening drinking wine and chatting away. He knew the owners.
We got along so well. He told me about his family history and I told him about my job. We laughed about current politics. He got my sense of humor. I had worked up the bravo to lightly touch his arm from across the table. He had smiled.
I licked my lips and looked down to see that I was wearing a long sleeved plain white top with matching white pants. A small blue bracelet was wrapped around my wrist. On it the number 352 and a small key hole. I tried tugging on the bracelet but it wouldn't budge. I frowned. I had been wearing a red dress. I didn't remember how the date ended. Bastard...
Drowsily, I woke up to men's voices. I sat up. I was inside a dirty cell, cold. The stale air a mix of sweat and mold. Next to me a woman whimpered and cowered into the wall of the cell. Hiding my face behind my hair I glanced up at the voices. Behind the bars stood four men including my date. The only source of light was from a barred window coming from the side of the room.
"You will like this one" My date's voice was no longer gentile, his dimples long gone and warm smile replaced with a smirk.
Clicking noises filled the room as a shirt stocky redhead turned keys into a lock.
Women around me scampered back from the bars, deeper into the cell. Even with my mind hazy, I knew to cower. I drew closer to the floor, wrapping my arms around my knees making myself smaller, bowing my head down. Why was my mind so foggy? I tried to concentrate, squinting my eyes at a large piece of dirt on the floor.
A large squeak filled the air as the barred door swung inwards. I didn't dare look up as loud footsteps approached. I tried to cower further into the floor. My heart beat so loudly I thought the approaching man must hear it.
Large rough hands grabbed my upper arms and jerked me to a standing position. I winced from the painful grab and glanced up through my hair to see my date before me. He hauled my out of the cell and pushed me to stand before two tall men.
Terrified I had no voice, so ability to resist, nothing. I was too scared to look up. I gipped the bottom of my dirtied red dress. I had always looked so elegant in it. Now it had small tears and smudges along the hem line. I tugged it down with my hands, feeling exposed in front of the men.
Long fingers gripped my chin and yanked my head up. My eyes met the inspecting blue eyes in front of me. He nodded.
A sharp pain pinched the side of my neck.
"What..?" I moaned as I tried to turn my head.
I reached up to touch my neck. Though was sore, but there was nothing there. I glanced around. Oh god this is going to be a sex thing. I trembled slightly. On the wall across from the bed was a grey screen with black lettering saying "Touch here." I wasn't sure I wanted to know what happened if I was to touch it.
I looked around the room again. It was plain. To the right of the bed was a grey door. I stood up and scratchy grey carpeting met my feet. At the end of the bed was a small grey closet with two doors and grey handles. On the wall next to it a black screen showing the occasional small white lights streaking and fading into the distance. I touched the screen gently and it felt cold, but nothing happened.
Slowly, I opened the closet doors. Inside hung several more white shirts and pants. I pursed my lips. Too clean. Perhaps not a sex thing, maybe medical experimentation? I swallowed a lump in my throat.
I hugged myself in a poor attempt at self-comfort, rubbing my hands up and down my arms. My right hand felt something odd. Pushing the white sleeve up, I see a small bandage across the inside of my elbow. I ripped it off without hesitating. Small bloodied marks dotted my skin from a needle of some sort. God knows what they did to me.
I moved back to the bed and sat down, staring at the screen. "Touch me". If only it were so simple. Touching it could bring them in and who knows what they will do to me. Of course, if I didn't touch it they might punish me. They were going to come either way, better to not get hurt.
Quickly, I jumped up at touched the screen before I lost the will. Sitting back down I watched the screen come to life. A smiling middle aged woman appeared on the screen, behind her a garden flooded with sunlight.
"Hello, my name is Gertrude. I know you are scared but I am here to tell you that I have been where you are and everything will be okay"
Doubt it.
The woman on the screen continued. "You have been rescued from a life in a sex trafficking ring by the Pinns. The Pinns are an alien race. In return for saving you, you are returning with them to their world."
I looked over to the screen with the occasional fading white dotted lights with wide eyes. Was it passing stars? Shit. I shook my head. Maybe it was some sort of prank? Or maybe scientific test to see if they could make her believe anything?
"Due to a genetic abnormality, the details of which I will not go into here, the Pinns have not been able to produce female offspring leaving the race without natural born wives and mothers."
Oh god it is a sex thing. Shuttering, I panicked imaging green alien tentacles touching me.
"You will fill that role. However, do not be afraid, due to centuries of breeding with humans, the Pinns look very much like human men"
Images of what looked like male models flashed across the screen. Some dressed in different uniforms, others without shirts. All in ridiculous poses smiling at the camera.
"And you will get to choose your male. Females are treasured and worshiped on Pinn. You will be treated well. It takes 8 days to reach Pinn and during that time you will be taking classes with other chosen to help you transition into Pinn society.
For now, please open your door and follow the signs to the cafeteria where food will be waiting for you. Once there you can talk to other chosen"
I gulped and slowly stood before slowly turning the handle on the door.
YOU ARE READING
The Structural Silence *COMPLETE* (Book 1 of The Transition of Pinn)
Science Fiction"Not all women are successful in adapting to Pinn" The handsome man narrowed his eyes at the woman in the back "It saddens me to think of what happens to those who don't" I gasped silently at the threat. So far none of the Pinns had said anything bu...
