CHAPTER 10
After her little incident Tara had been told to stay in bed for the next few days, and for once in her life she listened. The only movement that she had made in the past 48 hours was the short journey between Lex's room and the one she shared with Bray. She was suppose to be sleeping, but most of the time she just laid there thinking about Martin. So many questions were running through her head.
"What would he do if we saw each other? What would I do? Is Bray lying to me? Would Martin really hurt me? Has he changed? Is he really as dangerous as Bray says he is?" Tara knew there was no way that she could answer everything that was running through her head, but it seemed like there was no way to stop it. She had tried to talk to Jack a few times over the past two days, thinking that talking to him would make the thoughts go away, but Bray had told her not to tell him anything about Martin, and that's exactly what she wanted to talk to him about.
Every time she started to talk to Jack about anything important Bray would come into the room, and they would have to change subjects. She had even tried to talk to him about the dream that she had had, but that wasn't working out either. It was obvious that Bray had told him, and it seemed like Jack didn't want to talk about it again. Suddenly a sharp pain short through Tara's leg, "cramp, cramp!" She shouted to herself, as she massaged it out. Once the muscle was relaxed again Tara decided that she needed to take a walk to Jack's room, "I have to talk to him" she whispered in desperation to herself, "I need to get this off my back".
As Tara was getting dressed she was completely unaware of the guard that was sitting out side her room, listening to every move she made. "Don't I look fabulous?" Tara asked her reflection in the mirror. Her shoulder length hair was so knotted up and frizzy that she decided that it would be easier just to put in up in a pony tail rather than try to comb it out. Next was her make up. All of her tribal markings were either gone, or so smudged that you couldn't tell if she belonged in the mall, or the sewers. "This just will not do" Tara said as she started to redo her markings.
She took the red liner and replaced the mallrat sign on her right cheek, next was the silver squiggle mark that belonged next to her left eye. Then the last thing she added was the three small ovals that went horizontal across her forehead right above her nose. The two on the out side were golden, and the one in the middle was silver. "Now I'm ready," Tara said to her reflection once again as she started to leave the room.
Once she stepped through the doorway out into the mall it's self she was stopped by Pride. "Where do you think your going?" "I don't think you need to know" Tara snapped back, he had only said one sentence to her, but already she didn't like the direction this conversation was heading. Pride put his hand up to stop her and answered back "Bray asked me to wait here until he got back, and make sure that you didn't go anywhere while he was gone. So just turn around and go back to bed. You still don't look too good." "For your information, I'm not leaving the mall; I'm just going to talk to Jack. And I'm feeling fine! So, just get out of my way." Tara's tried to enforce her last comment by pushing Pride out of the way, but he only grabbed her hands and turned her around so she could walk back into the room. "I'm sorry Tara, you're going to have to wait till Bray gets back to talk to Jack, because he told me not to let you go anywhere, so you are going to stay in this room and sit tight."
As Pride finished his sentence Tara ripped her hands away from his and pushed her body into his as hard as she could, making him stumble backwards. She was going to talk to Jack; she didn't care what anybody said otherwise. As she was walking rather quickly out the door she felt Pride grab her around the waist and lift her up, the next thing she knew she was on her bed and he was yelling at her. "You are going to stay in this room! I do not care if that is what you had planned for this afternoon, but your planes have changed. You are in no condition to be fighting me right now, you are too weak. So just sit down and shut up, and take it up with your brother when he gets back, because I am only doing what I've been told to do." Pride started to walk away and Tara just sat there, she didn't know what to say.
Pride had never yelled at her like this before, it was quite a shock. Almost instantly Tara' s confusion turned into anger, and she opened her mouth to say something. But as she did Pride turned around "And don't even think about trying to leave again, because I'll be sitting right out side this door, waiting for you". At his last sentence he turned around and was gone. When Tara thought Pride was out of hearing range she yelled at the spot where he was just standing "TREE HUGGER!" and to her surprise a response came back "I heard that! And don't say it again!
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