There was a large building across from the speaker. The building looked like a hotel and I guess that by the name “Relaxation Station.” I always laughed at the names of these places. Everyone seemed really blunt in their speech and of course the titles of businesses. I walked in the building and immediately saw a sign reading “5 Coin a night.” I didn’t really want to look around for a place to stay; especially since I had no idea where I was. So I went to the front desk and asked for a five Coin night.
“Enjoy your night of fun,” He said as he gave me my room key. I wonder what he meant by fun. I was just planning to sleep unless there was a bunch of free games to play in my room. My room number was “333” which I was glad because it was easy to remember. I decided to take the elevator since it was closer to the front desk. Only men were inside. Each one had a sort of guilty look on his face. I shrugged it off not knowing the characters each one had. I didn’t feel like I had the right to judge them. I got off the elevator on the third floor and went to my room. Once I entered a robotical voice came from a panel on my door.
“Thank you for choosing relaxation station, please enjoy your night!” I had no understanding why everything here seemed to be about enjoyment. I had a funny feeling from it though; being in a new place in general could have been the cause of it though. Before I decided to sleep I went into the bathroom to shower. The water was nice and warm and as I stood there I began to think. What lies ahead of me? How am I supposed to go about life here? I didn’t know anything about myself. Then I thought on a smaller scale. I didn’t even have anything clean to wear. That’s always a bad feeling. I got out of the shower and after drying myself off I wrapped up in a towel instead of putting back on my dirty clothes. I walked outside of the bathroom and was immediately shocked. A woman was lying on my bed almost completely undressed.
“Hey, big boy, you ready to have some fun tonight?” she said in a seductive tone.
“Who are you? And why are you in my room?” I announced as I kind of backed up towards the main door. “How did you get in here?”
“Didn’t you know what this place is?” she said, “I’m your prostitute. When you check into ‘Relaxation Station’ it’s assumed.”
“U-u-um, well I didn’t know that.”
“That’s fine,” she said, “is that going to stop us from having some fun tonight?” She was looking at me with such a seductive face. I was beginning to be tempted in going through with it, but something deep inside me kept telling me that’s not who I was.
“Yes, I’m afraid it does. Will you please leave?” I said in a weak but intentional tone.
“But it’s my job to be here all night. If I leave I will get fired. You don’t want that do you? Come on, just a little fun?” she mentioned yet again seductively. Then she started walking over to me and tried to place her body against mine.
“Quit that,” I said as she started to do it more. She then started rubbing her fingers on my shoulders. I twitched backwards then she spoke again.
“Quit struggling, it will be more pleasurable.”
“I don’t want it to be,” I pleaded. Then she grabbed the edge of my towel, “I can’t take this.”
“Oh yes,” she squealed as she ripped my towel off and started to bring her body closer.
“No for the last time!” I yelled completely sternly. I pushed her back slightly and I ran into the hall and down the steps. I got out of the building and let out a sigh of relief. Then I noticed I had no clothes on. Two or three women walked by and whistled. I covered myself all I could with my hands and ran into an empty alley. Or I thought it was empty. I was pulled inside a doorway by someone within seconds.
“What are you doing like that?” an older man asked. I was pretty much speechless. When all of that happened, it was so fast my brain could have exploded. I just stared at him with a confusing look hoping that he would talk again. I didn’t want to speak until my thoughts were together. “Well let’s get some clothes on ya at least,” he said as he started walking out of the room. He left for just a couple seconds and then walked back in with a plain white T-shirt and some overalls. He also had a plastic bag he handed me full of underwear. “Now put these on son, and we will have a little chit chat afterwards.” He said as he handed me everything. I could still only say thank you as I took the clothes and tried them on. They were a little big but at least I wasn’t naked anymore. “I’m guessing you’re new here?”
“Yeah, I got here this morning.” Words were finally starting to come back to me.
“Ah, that explains it,” the old man laughed. “I’ve been here for thirty years. My name is Arthur, what is yours?”
“I don’t know,” I said, “I didn’t really feel like making one up.”
“Ah, so you didn’t even get yourself a job? Well maybe this city isn’t for you.”
“There are other cities?”
“Oh yeah, there are seven total: Luxuria-Fornicatio, Gula, Acedia, Ira-Invidia, Socordia, Avaritia, and Superbia. All of them form a circle on this Island, with Superbia being in the middle of the island.” I didn’t even know this was an island; yet alone more cities. I remember not having much of a choice. But then I remembered, I had followed the large group into the city right after the bigger man mentioned going.
“What’s outside of the cities? I asked.
“Not sure, a lot of rumors say it’s dangerous. It’s like living on your own. There are no jobs or houses.”
“Can we ever leave the island?”
“Boy, you ask so many questions. Sit down, we’ve been standing here for quite some time,” he said as he showed me into the living area. We both sat in our own recliner. “Now what was your question? Oh yeah, leaving the island. Well, as you can see, I’m old and still here. But I just haven’t chosen to leave. I like it here. Don’t see what could be better.” He said as he leaned back in his recliner and smiled.
“So you can choose to leave?”
“Yeah in a way, right where you came outside, you can go back in. But they make you do a lot of tests.
“What kind of tests?”
“Boy, I don’t know, I haven’t tried to leave. If ya fail the test they send ya back out with amnesia again.”
“Oh so everyone had amnesia? And who are these people anyway?”
“Correct son. And no one knows anything about them. They are so forceful it makes me wonder if the rest of their world has just as much rules.”
“There are only two rules though.” I laughed.
“One too many if ya ask me boy. Well it’s time for me to get some sleep. I’ll show you to the guest room.” He said as he stood up. Then he led me down a small hall into his guest room. The place was huge for just a guest room. I have work in the morning, what are your plans?”
“Well I was thinking about visiting the other cities.”
“Oh you don’t want to do that just yet. There are so many things you haven’t got to do yet. Go to a club and meet some ladies. If you are a rule keeper and all you can go multiply or something.” He chuckled, “It’s pretty easy here. Everyone is open for fun.”
“Well I’m not sure if that’s what I want to do. I feel like I was married or loyal to something before I had amnesia. I don’t want to be disloyal if so.”
“Ah, the past is past kid. Just live up life!”
“Well thank you for everything sir but I think I will leave tomorrow.” I insisted.
“Ok, sure sure, well here is some money for your travels.” He said as he handed me another bag of Coin.
“Thank you. Goodnight.” I said taking the bag.
“Good luck kid.” He said. He left the room and went on down the hall. It had already been a long night so I got in the bed which was the most comfortable bed I’ve ever felt. Then I fell asleep not long after.
Next post will be a couple weeks from this date. prob 2/19 or something
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