25
Tony dropped me off in a guest room as he called it. It was as large as half my house. After looking around in wonder I made myself to the bathroom and turned on the water. I stripped down and got in turning the heat of the water up until I could barely stay in it. After the day or so it was the greatest feeling ever to feel the water run over me. I scrubbed myself as clean as I could paying close attention to my arm and foot which looked like a water melon now that it was out of my shoes. It hurt to touch it.
After I got out I grabbed a towel and rapped it around myself and then another for my head. I limped my way into the other room and looked at the bed. The dog was laying on it sound a sleep. "What the fuck?" I said as I hobbled up to the bed. I didn't remember bringing him here.
"I brought him up at the request of you wife." Tony said as he came into the room his arms full of bandages and bottles. "Please sit on the bed so I can take a look at you."
I sat down on the edge and let him start to probe my arm. As he went through his examination I asked questions and he answered them as he went about his business of bandaging me up. He had been a ranch hand on the ranch for the last ten years. Alex hired him after he got fired at his last job for having a mental break down in the office. Something to do with the war in nam he said. He said he was happy here and that he couldn't ask to work for a better person then Alex. His family was living here as well as half the employees. I was getting the feeling that they had a loyalty to him that went beyond the standard employee employer loyalty. He talked of him in a almost reverent way. It made me a little uncomfortable.
After he was done with checking me over he gave me some ibuprofen and told me to get some sleep before dinner. He then got up and left without saying a word. As far as I could tell everyone that worked here was a little off. I didn't really care as I laid back on the bed and its softness enveloped me and I fell asleep. The last thing I remember is the dog cozying up to me and starting to snore.
Sometime later I was woken up by Helen who after helping with all the aches and pains as she called it came up and showered. After witch she woke me up with a kiss on my neck. I smiled and held her to me and we just laid there not saying a word to each other. Just happy to be alive and in what seemed to be a safe place.
After a while she sat up and said "We need to get dressed." she got off the bed "dinners going to be served in about a half an hour."
As I sat up I noticed that a pile of neatly folded cloths by my side. I didn't remember any one coming in the room. The dog was gone, and Helen had disappeared into the bathroom to get dressed. I shrugged and started to get dressed as well. The clothes they brought fit a little tight but not to bad. The boots I found on the ground by the bed were not a match set in terms of size. One was my foot size the other was four times my foot size. Someone had though about my swollen foot when getting me some boots.
Even with the larger boot it still hurt to get it over my foot. After I was done Helen came out of the bathroom dressed in a sun dress of light pink and yellow flowers and gave me a peck on the check. "Lets go! Will be late." she said as she took my hand and dragged me out of the room.