Breaking in a Toy — 4
#4 of Breaking in a Toy
Disposing of the evidence is exactly what I did. I put all the cloth in the dryer, Scrubbed things down, wiped off the door handle. His boots and jeans and socks were safely back at my home in the basement, everything was bleached, the scent was covered up, etc etc. All I could do was prepare my mind, breathe, eat a little bit and drink water and wait for the sun to rise. For Jesse's absence to be noted.
My alarm went off to go rouse the kids as the sun was coming up. I combed my black hair and slipped on my heavy duty jeans and flannel and boots and strode out of my house, across the field. We started every morning with breakfast, and I would enter the hub and stir everyone. There was a rotation of platoons and leaders. I wasn't with Jesse's platoon today, so I went to go stir another one. This one was entirely little girls. As cute as they were I liked the boys more. Maybe if I ever have the luck to snag one, away from here.
It was a crisp morning that I didn't really have the mindspace to dwell on. My head was too crammed with other things, but it did smell nice, I noticed this.
Cracking open the door to the hub, I immediately smelt the scent of young girls. This platoon had a beaver, a lion, some racoons who were all related and I think a bear and a few other species. The girls in this platoon were around the age where'd they'd be approaching heat. I'd never had to deal with it thank god, but I had something similar. For several days every few months I'd get unrealistically horny, to where even If I came buckets I would still be hard. Couldn't wait to take that out on Jesse's little hole.
It was dark inside the hub, I snapped twice and the lights came on. They were faint, and the grew slowly to brightness and I opened up the blinds. One of the girls jumped out of bed in her pajamas almost immediately. Light sleeper, but most of the others weren't. "C'mon ladies, up and at em." I said at a level volume, nudging awake those who needed to be nudged awake. They were all in their pajamas, and they all took turns going to the bathroom. Little commune, I guess.
There was supposed to be an activity today, learning about wood carving or something. Didn't matter. While they all proceeded with talking about their dreams and what they wanted to do today and even teasing each other about what boys were the cutest, I participated and observed them getting ready. When everyone was ready, we started heading out of the hub in a little file, and one of the other adults approached with me with a concerned look. She was walking quickly. I put on my game face and
"Hey, uhh, Anais? Can I talk to you for a second?"
"Yeah sure. What's going on?" She gave a look to the kids, they looked intrigued and worried, in equal measure. I told them to run ahead, that they knew where the mess hall was and they could get there fine on their own.
"Yeah actually no you guys are staying by our side. Leah what did I just tell you?" She said after one tried to ignore her.
"Why? What's going on?" I repeated.
"You know Jesse Whitetail? You had him yesterday. Well when Darren went to go wake his platoon up he wasn't in his bunk, Anais. We have no idea where he could be." Her big blue eyes bugged with anxiety. "None of the kids saw him leave during the night. Everyone is worried."
"Oh shit," I said, feigning surprise and shock.
"Yeah, yeah I know oh shit. The alarm didn't go off. Get the kids to the mess hall and drive immediately over to the Main Hall."