Chapter 9 miner's day
She couldn't move. She was in pain but couldn't do anything but laying still. She couldn't even scream in pain. She heard voices. Voices that wanted to do terrible things to her. But suddenly there was another voice. A worried and familiar voice. She knew that this voice only brought good things with it. that this voice would never hurt her in any way. She only focused on that voice and suddenly she could understand what that voice said. ''Marina wake up,'' the voice said. But that wasn't right her name wasn't Marina. Her name was.
Suddenly Marina woke up. She needed a couple of minutes to realize where she was. Brenn was sitting on the edge of her bed. ''shhhh calm down. It was only a dream. Just a nightmare.'' A dream? Marina had the feeling that there was something important to that dream but she couldn't remember what. The only thing she could remember of her dream was the feeling that she couldn't move. That same feeling she had while being locked up in the hospital.
''Your stuff has arrived so we can decorate your room. But first there's breakfast. Are you coming downstairs?''
Marina nodded. Brenn helped her down the stairs. Caroline was busy baking pancakes in the kitchen. ''I hope you're hungry because I'm making a big pile. And Marina now your documents have arrived we should resister for school. So you can go to classes as soon as doctor Goofy says its okay. Shall I make a appointment with principal Nereus right away,''
Marina nodded.
''Good I will call him right away.''
After breakfast Caroline said they could go to the principal the same afternoon after the appointment with doctor Goofy.
''Well, looking at this it looks like you're going to be an asset to this school,'' the principal said. It was a friendly man. ''I understand that this is a big step for you, so you can always knock on my door. We´ll also make sure that you have a couple of classes with Brendon. And know that little problem of not talking. Do you have a laptop?''
Marina nodded there was a laptop in her stuff.
''Alright then we can put a program on it that talks for you. Now it seems like everything's settled, until Monday then.''
''You're going to school again on Monday?'' Brenn asked a little while later, ''now then you will have to enjoy your last bit of freedom even more. So shall we go to the miner's day festival on Sunday?''
What's that?
''Oh an old tradition stemming from the nuns making candles for the miners. it's a really fun festival. So are you coming?''
Marina nodded.
''Brenn remember the following day is a school day so don't stay to long,'' Caroline said.
''How can I ever forget that. Oh this will be so much fun. You are going to love it.''
Later that week Brenn brought Marina's laptop to school so the program could be installed. When he came home he explained her how it worked. ''Look you click on this icon and then you have to wait a little while he's starting up the program. Then you type what you want to say like this. And then you press enter.''
''Hello Marina,'' a metal voice coming from the computer said.
''That voice doesn't suit you let's see if we can find a better one.''
And Brenn tried several different voices till he found a beautiful woman's voice. ''This one sounds okay, do you agree?''
Marina did know so she nodded to please Brenn.
''Good, and on the screen you can see what you said before. Do you understand?''
Marina nodded.
That Sunday Brenn took her to the miner's day festival. Marina loved it and enjoyed every instant of it. She loved doing things like this with Brenn. Brenn enjoyed it to he loved to see her glowing of happiness. He started to realize that he maybe felt more for her than just friendship. But he was convinced she was just grateful to him. They came to the booth where Mary Margaret Blanchard and Leroy where selling the candles that the nuns made. Mary Margaret looked desperate. Marina pitied her and decided to buy a candle. She raised a finger to signal that she wanted a candle.
''Do you want to buy a candle?'' Mary Margaret asked hopeful. Marina nodded.
Brenn who saw how desperate Mary Margaret was said; ''make that two candles.''
''Oh thank you so much, here you go two candles, that will be five dollars.''
Brenn gave her the money. ''Thank you for your purchase and have a nice day.''
A couple of hours later they were eating pancakes at Granny's. ''That was very sweet of you, Mary Margaret was really desperate, I think that no one would buy a candle from her because of the rumors about her and David Nolan.'' Marina was very happy, he thought she was sweet.
When they finished eating they went back to the festival but after an hour all lights suddenly turned off. ''I think it's best if we return home now before mom gets worried of us walking back home in the dark.'' On their way back hay saw that it was really busy with the booth of Mary Margaret and Leroy. ''That's probably because of the power outage,'' Brenn said. Marina was glad for them, she was also glad to go home her first day of school would be busy.
