Mayu looks at me while I panic. I stare at the blank white wall with wide eyes.
"Hey," she calls. "Hey, what's wrong?"
She's finished eating, now. She sets the tray on the floor next to her before she stands up and walks silently to her mat, next to mine. "Len won't turn you in," she says in a monotone voice, not sounding reassuring. She sighs and taps my shoulder. "Really… wait, what is your name?"
"Rin," I say, looking at her. She smiles. "What does that have to do with anything?"
"It took your mind of Len, didn't it?"
I scowl and close my eyes. "I'm sleeping." But I'm not going to actually sleep.
When I wake up in the morning, clothes lay on the floor next to my face. I pick them up and look at them. It's a white dress to match Mayu's, but mine has shorter sleeves. "Good morning, Rin," I hear Mayu behind me. "Len brought you those."
"Why?"
"He said you didn't look comfortable in the clothes you're wearing, so he brought you something else. He should be here in a few minutes with the morning meal." She pushes herself off of the ground and walks to the bathroom. "Wait, I need-"
She shuts the door.
"-the bathroom." I sigh and walk to the corner of the room and start to unlace the corset, facing the corner. But just as I'm slipping the dress over my head, Len knocks on the door, making me jump and fall on the floor.
I shove the dress over my frail body and lay on the floor with my back to him, blushing uncontrollably.
"I see you got the clothes,"
"Y-yeah, I did, uh, did you?" I ask, without looking at him. "Did you see?"
"I saw nothing," He reassures me, as I let out a sigh of relief. "But scars."
"Oh," I mumble. I look over my shoulder are him. He stares at me with sadness. As we look at each other, Mayu walks out of the bathroom. "Wait, what happened?" She asks.
I stand up. "I tripped," Len doesn't deny it. He smiles and puts the trays of food under the door. Today, we have biscuits with gravy and a glass of water. I smile and crawl over to the food.
I eat slowly this time, resisting the urge to shovel it down. Mayu continues to eat daintily like before, which I try to imitate. I pick pieces off of the biscuit and eat them, but I give up and eat it quickly.
"I didn't tell my father," We both look at him. He keeps his eyes on me.