Figment of Dreams
Chapter nine: Woke up like this

I woke up feeling nauseous and weak. I had no clue where I was or even who I was, that’s how groggy I felt. I was in a wide canopy bed underneath crisp white sheets and the sounds of cheerfully chippering birds drifted toward me.

The room was circular, with all white and light wooden panels. In front of me were giant floor-to-ceiling glass terrace doors with white linen curtains blowing in a soft breeze. Behind it, I could see a luscious park surrounded by thousands of colorful flowers and large trees.

I groaned and stirred as I tried to sit myself up in this strange bed but my body felt unnaturally heavy. I had a tough time recalling what the last thing I remembered was. Suddenly fearful I had ended up in another Tequila-induced coma, about the only substance on earth which could make me feel this way.

My head was also pounding up a storm.

‘Do you need anything miss?’ a sweet female voice drifted towards me from my left side. A voice I had never heard before. It had a slight accent I couldn’t place. I glanced sideways toward the voice and screamed.

There stood a woman with green skin and a black and white apron on. She had some very strange-looking elf ears too.

I scooted to the other side of the bed, miscalculated, and dropped to the hard wooden floor with a bone-crunching slap.

I moaned as I felt my elbow jutting down at a weird angle. The fall did make me realize a few things though. As if it had slapped a sense of recollection in me. I had not touched a Tequila shot at all last night, but I had been injected with something. Whatever Kai and Jax had drugged me with was still clouding my movements.

Apparently, it was also making me see things.

I see green people now. With elf ears.

I heard a commotion from the other side of the room, which really showed how large this room actually was. There were actual sides to a room that sounded far away to one’s ears.

‘Is she awake?’

‘Where is she?’ it was both Kai and Jax speaking simultaneously.

The two traitors had joined forces. Must have been having some really nice ‘Lux is canceled’ parties on my account.

Footsteps hurried over to where I was laying on the floor, hunched over in pain because of my elbow. It was the only thing keeping me focused right now, the pain was the only thing keeping me together.

‘Babe, are you okay?’ Kai crouched down and tried to touch my arm. I winced at the contact and his proximity.

‘Auch asshole! Don’t touch me!’ I quickly slid back, and held my arm close to my body, only to slam my head against the side table behind me.

Fucking drugs.

Jax had enough of this entire display, his ears turning bright red. Which was always the first sign of trouble when it came to him.

He grabbed me, not too gently I might add. I tried to struggle and was shrieking like a banshee but between the drugs, my elbow and head now hurting even more I couldn’t do much. I cursed them both out like there was no tomorrow though, that I could do. And boy I could curse like a sailor on a good day, but this was a great day for my French.

Jax was walking away from the bedroom towards the room next door, me dangling next to his arms like dead weight because I wasn’t budging one bit. If he wanted me to go somewhere he would have to work for it. Unfortunately for me, that didn’t say much, considering his Rainer strength was impressive.

The green woman was still following us and talking in a hushed voice to Kai. It sounded like they were talking in Mons again. I really was regretting not taking the additional Mons class at school now.

I couldn’t hear what they were saying anyway because Jax was breathing so loudly from being angry that it all drawled out against that fun backdrop.

What was he angry for anyway, he was the one that kidnapped me!

He dragged me to a gigantic bathroom. One I have never seen before. It was all white marble, with pink seems. Whitewood and pink and purple flowers everywhere. On each countertop, a beautiful orchid was filling out the room.

In the middle of the bath chamber was an enormous squared hot tub, it was carved into the marble floor and bubbling away with lotus flowers drifting on top of the smoking hot water. Behind it was a waterfall, which came with a scented, rosy smell.

A freaking waterfall?

On both sides of the hot tub were walk-in showers, for if you want to have a crazy shower party with twenty people or something. This was the shit.

In what type of palace was I?

There was another marble door, which led to a golden toilet I assumed.

Jax walked us straight into the hot tub, clothes and all. I was wearing a little white sleep camisole and just panties – which someone had dressed me in by the way - but he was fully dressed in dark jeans and a dark Henley. He also still had his shoes on.

What a crime to be walking into a bath like this dressed like that.

Or dressed at all!

Somebody call the hot tub police.

He plunked me in without much ado. ‘This has healing properties.’ He said it like it was just a normal thing to say.

It better has healing properties because I was about to kill him dead, drugged or not.

I came up very elegantly looking like a drowned rat, spluttering out the strange bath water that tasted like mint. But my headache and all the other aches were slowly fading.

I cursed some more as I stared up at Jax who was still halfway in my tub fully clothed and Kai and the green lady standing right next to him eyeing me with some form of pity in their eyes.

’Bathe Freckles and Avital over here will replace you some clothes to wear. We’ll be right outside.’ Jax turned around and strutted out of the tub like he wasn’t soaking wet but on a runway somewhere cool and jazzy. Kai just gave me a sad look and turned around as well. The green lady was staying.

‘Uhm… can somebody please tell me what’s going on here? Where am I?’ I breathlessly added.

Avital just smiled at me and was holding a fluffy white towel. ‘The sirs will explain everything as soon as you’re done here, my lady…’

The sirs? Am I trapped in some Jane Austen novel?

Nobody would tell me anything and I’m god knows where, still tripping on drugs, in the best tub I have ever seen in my life. I might as well enjoy this bout of madness as long as it lasts. So I did what every other drugged-out, hurt, kidnapped girl would do.

I went under again and searched for the soap.