It was about four in the afternoon when we saw the edge of the forest and there waited a car white, yellow and blue with the word police printed all over it, stuffing his hand in his pocket and pulling out a set of keys the dark haired one went and unlocked the car.
“Finally I thought we would never make it here that forests is too big for its own liking” I giggled at what the ginger spoke her was always cracking jokes well trying to anyway throughout the whole of the walk I think he was trying too hard most of the time just to get me comfortable with them four.
“So” I started to speak getting everyone’s attention “where are we actually going?” they all burst out laughing... I didn’t know what they were laughing about; I was dead serious how was I supposed to know? So I just looked at them blankly waiting for them to calm down.
“To the station silly” Blondie spoke nudging me with his elbow, still looking at them blankly I wanted a further explanation, I didn’t know what a station was call me stupid but I haven’t really been into the world yet so “You know the police station where our ‘head quarters’ are” the blond one continued.
I just shrugged it off I would know soon enough. We all climbed into the car darky driving, with blondy in shotgun, then me on the right ginge next in the middle and mouse at the left, we sat in silence the whole journey with the radio quietly in the background.
After about twenty minutes we arrived at the station all clambering out of our seats we walked through the open glass door to be greeted by a white haired women sitting behind a desk in the centre of the room.
“Welcome back guy’s, did you get done what wa ... oh who do we have here?” she asked directed towards me.
“Claire we found this little girl in the forest when we were on patrol, she won’t tell us anything about her so I that’s all I tell you” Ginger spoke walking over and leaning on the desk.
“Oh well that’s nice of you boys to bring her here, so would you like to come with me and we can get you cleaned up and some clothes” the woman I now know as Claire said and with that she got out from behind her desk coming over to me and offered her hand, I took it, she seemed a nice enough woman.
Leaving the men we walked down a long corridor as they walked in the opposite direction, going through a door I was met with a room with four bunk beds and on the right of each stood some draws and a lamp sitting on top, walking through the room Claire opened a door just to the right of the back wall which held a bathroom.
“Now you get yourself unchanged I will be back in a second with some clothes and to put the shower on for you okay?” I just nodded, and she walked out of the room closing the door behind her. First taking of Darky’s jacket I put it on the flat surface by the sink. Untying each piece of vine the leaves started to fall away landing at the floor with little to no sound.
Just as I untied the last vine and the last leaf dropped down Clair slowly opened the door knocking at the same time, walking into the room she placed the clothes she held down on the pile of towels sitting in the corner of the room then turning around she walked over to the bath and shower then turning some knobs to get the water running she asked me if it was the correct temperature so I walked over to the shower spraying water towards the gravitational pull and placed my hand under the droplets, it was hot so I just nodded and started to step into the now filling bath.
Sitting down in the steaming water Claire got the shampoo and conditioner from the side and put them on the floor next to her feet but before applying the shampoo she got the shower head and rinsed my hair with water then she went on applying the shampoo, after washing this out and putting conditioner onto by dark blond nearly brown hair she grabbed a sponge and soap and started to wash my body being gentle over my scars some still read with scabs.
Once I was all clean with everything washed away I pulled the plug on the bath and the knobs of the shower head were turned off, when I stepped out of the bath I was engulfed with a large duck egg blue towel which I used to dry my now shinning skin.
Once changed into an overly large white t-shirt with the word police printer in black on the top left also some shorts which were more like trousers saying how small I was to men’s clothes I turned around and walked to Claire who was sitting on a bed patiently waiting for me to finish she just had this look on her face like I was someone who had just lost the most precious person to me in all of time.
“Why are you looking at me like that?” sorry I like to get strait to the point.
“I’m sorry dear I was just thinking about something’s... but, if you don’t mind me asking, how did you get those scars some of them look resent?”
I took a deep breath and then just looked at her and I told her what had happened to me over the years I don’t know why I just felt like I needed to, to get over what has happened to me in my past. Throughout me telling her everything she just sat on one of the beds and I sat on an opposite bunk with a blank expression not saying a word.
When I finally finished I just sat there so did she, after several times opening and closing her mouth to say something she just stood up and came over to me and hugged me lightly careful of my cuts, we stayed hugging for what seemed like forever.
I stayed with Claire and all of the police they looked after me and took me in as one of their own not caring about my past (I told Claire to tell them when I went to sleep that night) they didn’t give me a name most of them just called me ‘Midget’ but I didn’t mind it was the truth.
I spent ten years with them until I was twenty one and most of the squad had left and new people introduced I didn’t fit very well with these new people so I decided it was my time to move on and as I started to work for the squad I saved up my money over the years, I bought a plot of land only small but big enough for me to start to build my own house in a forest and that is what I did and that is still my house today, a little bigger and a bit more modern and maybe a few acres of lands but yes I’m still there in the middle of a forest and I don’t think I will move.
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