9 Chapter 9 | Escape Plan

"An escape plan?" Joseph asked. We had decided it best if we got other people on board instead of trying to do this ourselves. The only issue I had with the shower rooms so far was that we were all in our underwear, and I only had the one pair for now. "Right. We'll need an inside person. So we were wondering if you could convince your sister to be human?" Max asked. Joseph only looked at him. "My sister is not human, Lily won't help us, trust me." Joseph looked out of the showers. I looked as well and saw his sister crying. "What's wrong with her?" I asked. "She's probably crying because she didn't get her way. For a fourteen year old, she acts like a five year old." Max looked shocked. "Wait.. she's fourteen!? I thought she was nine!" Max said, and Joseph laughed. It was the first time any of us had heard him laugh, but it sounded like a dying goat chocking on food. "You're an idiot. But yeah, she doesn't look like my older sister, does she?" Joseph sighed and stood up. "I'll help." He said, then walked off.

Robyn looked at the girl for a moment then to me. "Go use your manly charms on her." She said. "What?" I asked. "Why not Max?" She turned to Max and studied him for a moment. "Nah, he's too old and ugly. At the very least, you're kinda cute." She said, pinching my cheeks. I held back my blush and stood up. "Ok fine, I'll do it." I started to walk over to where Lily sat. "Hello um.. Miss Lily." As soon as the words came out of my mouth, she gave me a death glare. "What do you want?" She said, still looking at me all deadly like. "I just wanted to say that... uh... You guys...er... girls are right! Men should be ruled by uh... beautiful goddesses such as yourself." After the last word, I felt like throwing up. I thought this was dumb, and didn't understand why Max couldn't have done this. Somehow miraculously, instead of slapping me, she smiled and leaned closer to me. I blushed a little bit, but then remembering that this girl only thought of me as a dumb slave and my embarrassment faded. "You're not so bad yourself... maybe I could ask Izzy if you could become my personal assistant..." She said. I thought it was good that I had least learned a name. "Come with me." She said, grabbing my hand and pulling me up. She looked down and blushed. "Put some clothes on..." She said, and I looked down and noticed that I was still in my underwear. I also blushed and hurried up to get changed. Before I left the shower rooms, Robyn grabbed my arm. "Good luck." She told me. "Here." She said, handing me a walkie talkie. "Max smuggled them from the place where Group A works." She let her hand linger on mine for a moment before letting go and walking away.

I put the walkie talkie in my pocket and walked towards Lily. When I was close enough, she grabbed my hand and started walking with me towards a large black building. "Why did you call your brother a traitor?" I asked Lily as we were walking, and she stopped for a moment. "He was my personal assistant before, but he tried to escape. They were going to kill him, but I managed to stop them." She said. "Now enough, come on." She tugged on my hand and kept walking. As soon as I got inside I saw a group of women. They all looked at me. I gulped and wondered if I could just go back to the showers.