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“That’s over two years!” I said. “I can’t wait that long!”
“What other choice do you have?”
Escape! That’s a choice I have!
And for the next three days, I searched every room, nook, and cranny for how I could get out of there.
There was only one way out.
A door that led to the main client waiting area at the front of the business.
The door none of the girls were allowed through.
Raucous laughter jolted me from my daydream. I found a group of alien girls staring at me over their shoulders and laughing. One held a towel around herself and performed an impression of a girl running naked and in a state of panic.
Me.
She was making fun of me.
I ground my teeth, dropped my cleaning rag, and marched over to confront her.
“Whoa, hold up there, partner,” Okhet said, blocking me from carrying out my attack. “I don’t think you want to be doing that.”
“You just watch me,” I said.
I attempted to move around her but she blocked me.
Won’t let me go around you? Then I’ll go through you!
Okhet raised her hands.
“Wait,” she said. “Hear me out. If you attack them, it’ll make Shrisa mad. Those girls are rare species. Even if Shrisa didn’t buy them, she still had to pay to have them brought here. If you damage the merchandise, she’s not going to be happy.”
I tore my eyes from the giggling girls and focused on Okhet’s half-cocked smile. My shoulders unfurled and I thought about what she was saying.
I didn’t like people laughing at me. Especially when I’d done nothing to deserve it.
“I heard what happened to you,” Okhet said. “Being abducted like that… it’s not right. But those girls don’t care about you. They want to see you get thrown out. And when you’re outside, no one’s going to take care of you. Then what? Don’t make your situation worse than it already is. And don’t worry about them. They’re just snotty because they think they’re more developed and smarter than the rest of us.”
“Are they more developed and smarter than the rest of us?” I said.
“Yes. But they’re still in here with us, aren’t they?”
She laughed. It sounded like glass brushed gently by a breeze. I joined her. I couldn’t help but shoot a look over her shoulder at the girls making fun of me. The ringleader lowered the towel and scowled.
See, bitch? It doesn’t feel so hot to be laughed at, does it?
“I remembered where you’re from, by the way,” Okhet said. “We always wondered what level of development you guys have over there. Sometimes we vote to see if we should come and say hi.”
“You’re aware of us?”
“Sure. We have to gauge anyone who might be a threat. That’s why we never reached out to your species before. You guys still have wars, right?”
“Yes. Quite a few.”
“Then you’re a warrior race. That makes you dangerous. But hey, we’ll probably have another vote in a century or two. At least you guys don’t have super-powerful weapons yet.”
“We have nuclear bombs and we started developing space weapons.”
