Chapter three

Minnie´s pov

I managed to sleep calmly- without any nightmares for the rest of the night, when I woke up, I sat up with my back against the wall, and my arms around my knees. I sat like that for a while until someone came and knocked on my door. It opened; I putted my hands against the wall and looked for somewhere to hide. When I could see it was just Jim, then I remembered where I was and I relaxed.

"Hungry?" he asked.

"Not really." I almost whispered.

"You haven´t eaten something since you came here. Come downstairs and try to eat something anyway."

I stood up, putted a big hoodie on, over my pyjamas and followed Jim to the kitchen. Where I just stopped in the door, and leaned against the doorframe.

"Come and sit down," Melinda said. "You want some breakfast?"

I shrugged, but in just that moment my stomach began to coop, Jim and Melinda smiled at me.

"I think you do." Jim said. "Come on, I´ll make you a sandwich." Slowly I began to walk towards the table, I pulled out a chair and sat down, and then Jim reached me a sandwich. I took as big bites as possible, and chewed and swallowed as fast as I could.

"Hey," Melinda laughed. "You don´t need to eat so fast, no one will take that sandwich from you."

When I had eaten that sandwich… and THREE other ones, Melinda said.

"You are going to follow me to work today, is that ok?"

I nodded, took my plate and was about to put it in the dishes. But I stumbled, fumbled and dropped the plate which cracked into several pieces. I fell, and landed next to all the plate-pieces.

"You´re Ok," Jim bent down and looked me in the face. I sat up and started to move backward.

"Please don´t hurt me." I whispered.

"No, no it´s Ok, it was just a plate." Jim helped me to stand up, and I squatted down to pick up the pieces. My hands were shaking.

"You´re Ok Minnie?"

"I…I´m fine." I stuttered…

"And…off we go," Melinda turned the car-key around and started to drive out of the driveway.

"Hi Delia," Melinda said to her colleague, when we came to the shop. "This is Minnie. Minnie meet Delia."

"Hi Minnie, nice to meet you." Delia said. Her eyes were very kind- looking. But still, I couldn´t really trust her. I had been to damaged to trust almost everyone.

We can go to the room behind the shop and check out the inventory. I believe you can help out a little bit, by packing up things. I followed Melinda to the room, and she showed me some boxes I was supposed to unpack and sort. I stood there and sorted for a few hours, It was kind of fun until…